Vitamin D

Having a lazy Saturday. Listening to music, browsing the web, catching up on email, sipping coffee, cat on my lap purring. The sun is coming out - birds are all out there wooing each other and in full song.

I am going to sea wall today - need to get a dose of Vitamin D.

Tons of new research coming out on the benefits of the sun and the fight against cancer. Funny we have been told for years to stay out of it due to the risks of skin cancer. Now they are saying that the lack of vitamin D, especially in Northern countries like Canada and the northern US, and the increase instances of Breast Cancer could be linked.

Dermatologists are probably freak'n' and peak'n at the recommendations of researchers to expose our unprotected skin to the sun. Sun and skin still posses a risk of skin cancer.

Now the experts are not telling us to torch ourselves so that we look like poster models for cooked Atlantic lobsters. It is more like 10 minutes before we run screaming into the shade.

I think the best advice came from my old county doctor, "everything in moderation"