Enjoy The Winter Sun
Posted by Danielle on December 1, 2011
Sunbed Users Have Highest ‘D’ Levels
We’re doing a fabulous job with our Vitamin D levels especially in the summer months, that’s easy! But how about in the Winter? Are you getting enough D?
Vitamin D is called “The Sunshine Vitamin” for a good reason — getting a suntan is widely recognized as producing 100-200 times more vitamin D than what is fortified into an 8-ounce glass of whole milk. But what many people still don’t realize is that sunbed users have the highest vitamin D levels of any group.Vitamin D levels are measured by taking blood samples and measuring the concentration of ‘The Sunshine Vitamin’ in your bloodstream. Here are the vitamin D blood-level averages for different groups today in nanograms-per-milliliter (ng/ml), as identified in recent studies:
42.0 — Indoor Tanners
40.0 — Outdoor workers
23.0 — Non-tanners
13.8 — Dermatologists
How much vitamin D do you need? That depends who you ask. Recent government reports claim that 20 ng/ml is all you need for proper bone health, but virtually every ‘D’ researcher worldwide suggests that 30-50 ng/ml should be the target level for other functions of “the sunshine vitamin” in the body that the government does not yet officially recognize.
For more information on vitamin D visit www.GrassRootsHealth.org.