Better to get natural VitD from sun-light than taking minerals which may/not give the required amount. By mid-Feb., simply by walking or gardening, my hands and face are brown. The rest of my skin hardly gets to C the light of day
. It is said by dermatologists that we should get out B4 10.00 a.m. and after 4.30 p.m. when the sun is going down. This avoids the intensity of burning sunshine. Also we have to remember [I probably said already
] a drying wind. I have to remind DH to put lots of cream on when he's fishing: back of the neck, ears, face, scalp where he's thinning
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The last time that I got sun-burnt - in the early 1980s - I was laying under a brolly against sun and wind but my feet were outside the shade
I can remember how tight my ankles felt as I tried to walk the 2 miles back across the hard sand. NEVER again! It took a lot of water to rehydrate via the gut and lots of cooling cream with ankles elevated.
Yet my sister in Law can lay out in the hottest sunshine and never burns, never puts protective cream on
even when we have explained how awful skin cancer can be.
I don't like the 'only get vitamin D from sunlight between April and September' .......... has anyone actually measured this? What about people that are out doors most of the year, after all we get lovely sunshine earlier and later than expected across the UK.