Vitamin D Deficiency: Don’t Go There

I guess in this modern, medical age we sometimes get lulled into a false sense of security about our healthy and vitamin intake.  After all, we reason, even if we don’t eat right we are taking vitamins and other supplements, right?

You have to count the cost of everything and one thing that we don;t tend to count the cost of living our modern lifestyle is the fact that we often do so at our own expense healthwise.

Our lifestyles take a toll on our health in a number of ways.

• We don;t eat right
• Too many chemicals
• Too much stress
• Not enough real life exercise that our bodies were created to do..ie manual labor/work
• Too much time indoors

All of these things lead the the depletion of various vitamins in our bodies.

One of the vitamin deficiencies that is beginning to pop up everywhere is a vitamin D deficiency.    Vitamin D is available in a very FEW foods but the body makes it in response to …sunlight.  How about that? Getting outside is good for you.

Diseases linked to vitamin D deficiency are:

• Osteoporosis
• Cancer
• Diabetes
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Depression
• Hypertension
• Arthritis

There are a host of other diseases linked to deficiency. Because of this there are people who begin to take supplements like cod liver oil.  In normal doses this is acceptable but be careful.  You can end up with vitamin D toxicity if you take more than your body can handle.

The easiest way to get healthy amounts of vitamin D every day is to merely take a walk.  That’ s all..just a nice walk.  Spend more time outside and your body will thank you.

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