Thursday, May 28, 2009

Healthy sunshine

When you talk about sunshine, people will regard it as bright, hope, energetic, happy, smiles and even link it to power or success. But do you know that we do need sunshine for our healthy body.

Medical research has revealed that sunshine falling on our skin produces vitamin D and vitamin D is capable to protect us against heart disease.

Vitamin D can help to regulate calcium metabolism and thus it assist to harden our teeth, having teeth in your mouth will make you look good, right. Teeth is important to chew the food into smaller element and will increase the digestion to the maximum.

Sunshine which provides us vitamin D is believed to protect us against breast cancer. Besides, sunshine also helps to lower blood cholesterol levels, and assist in healthy sugar metabolism.

Sufficient sunshine exposure also contribute to lowering blood pressure and to some extent, it is believed it can cure for certain types of depression, known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

Morning sunshine is the best but remember even though we have this natural gift, do not expose your body whole day long just to get vitamin D, heard of ‘sunburn’, it might damage your skin and worst case is you might skin cancer.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i always stand under the sun when i was in the marching band back in high school.. very dark that time.. haha..

but i guess mine wasnt healthy at all.. lol.. =D

Samuel Goh Kim Eng said...

If I remember correctly, the late afternoon (after 5pm) sun can also be of some benefit as well, if it is not blazing hot by then.

Samuel Goh Kim Eng
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
Sun. 31st May 2009.