Comment on Tanning apps that offer ‘safe’ sun routines undermining efforts to tackle skin cancer
dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoIn Australia, to get a sufficient amount of vitamin D you just need to be outside for a few minutes a day.
Incidental exposure is enough. No deliberate cooking or tanning or seeking out the sun is needed.
In Australia, to get a sufficient amount of vitamin D you just need to be outside for a few minutes a day.
Tasmania enters the chat. As repeated on The Health Report some podcats ago, you can lie naked outdoors for hours in winter and not get anough sun exposure to impact D levels.
Australia is a big place
ABC radio had o piece on this yesterday saying our multiple sclerosis rates are rising from sun avoidance
Any more than 5 minutes results in third degree burns.
Maybe for rangas
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
That’s the claim atd I used to echo it, but with near daily walks (weather permitting) plus hikes when weekends permit, plus gardening, I’m still deficient. Same story for almost everyone I work and exercise with.
There’s either more to it or the claim doesn’t hold up empirically
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I dunno about you, but I’d much rather take a vitamin D supplement/vitamin E fortified foods, than get skin cancer
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Make sure you take vitamin k mix or vit d supplement can calcify arteries