If you look closely at your dinner plate or for that matter any food that you eat during the day, hardly anything in it contains Vitamin D. And the best source of this vitamin is free and abundant in nature. Sunlight is the best source of Vitamin D and adequate exposure to sunlight is sufficient to provide the body with its optimum requirement of the Vitamin.

Vitamin deficiency results in some serious and chronic health problems. Weak bones, Alzheimer, Parkinson’s, influenza and some forms of cancer are associated with Vitamin D deficiency. Some foods such as cereals are available fortified with Vitamin D to address this problem for those who are suffering from lack of it, but this alone may not be enough or regulated to make up for the deficiency. An all cause mortality rate has been observed by a comprehensive study focusing on Vitamin D deficiency and large scale studies also link the deficiency to be one of the major causes of terminal diseases like peripheral artery disease, high blood pressure leading to cardiovascular arrest. Babies born with Vitamin D deficiency are at high risk of developing schizophrenia.

The skin containing epidermis which is layered from outer to inner surface of the skin is responsible for producing Vitamin D by reacting with the ultraviolet spectrum of sunlight. People in all regions of the world can get sufficient supply of Vitamin D from sunlight which is available throughout the year in Tropics and during summers in cold temperate regions except the arctic’s, where sunlight is very low and insufficient.

In earlier times before the advent of computer age, dense industrialization and urban living, the great outdoors was the playground of mankind. Work and play, celebrations and events were mostly held during the day under the sun and the population got its supply of the vitamin without raising a finger. In fact being out in the sun for far too long exposed them to the risk of skin cancer, but that was a small risk compared to what we have done to ourselves by confining to enclosed spaces, darkened interiors and invited a menu of diseases that will put a horror story to shame.

The present sedentary lifestyle which we call modern living is paved with health hazards. Life has become a spectator sport and most people are content watching others live and play on their television screens and not budge an inch out of their couches. An average city dweller spends roughly thirty to thirty five hours a week ogling the idiot box like a couch potato, unexposed to nature’s elements, living in a controlled artificial environment.

Kids stay indoors playing on their game consoles for hours on end, or spend hours on computer terminals surfing and chatting the day away. At an age when they should go out more often to play and explore the natural world, they are confined to stifling stuffy homes where they watch the sun out of their windows and miss the beauty of a rising sun in the morning.

Working class leave homes to again park themselves in enclosed spaces of the offices and workplaces and by the time they leave, the sun is already gone. Elderly people because of their physical condition are mostly confined to old age homes, whiling the time away in the depressing indoors, rarely going out to catch sunlight. People from all age groups are prone to Vitamin D deficiency and their lifestyle is responsible for all the diseases that follow from it.

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