Something Interesting About Sun & Vitamin D  

The Dr Mercola newsletter is sometimes pretty enlightening.  I admit I don't always read it - just the titles - but today there was a video on exposure to the sun and vitamin D that was revealing.  He said that although we get vitamin D from sunshine - it takes a couple of days to absorb  and if we take showers after being in the sun (up to 48 hours after) we eliminate the advantage that we thought we were getting  if we use soap.

He says we shouldn't  use soap  after being in  the  sun except in the arm pits........etc.   It's better using just water when showering or we lose the vitamin D advantage because it's washed  away. He described it better on video. You can copy and paste to hear him tell about it.  It's interesting.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/05/12/Shocking-Update-Sunshine-Can-Actually-Decrease-Your-Vitamin-D-Levels.aspx