{"id":2546,"date":"2019-08-05T06:04:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.myhealthvectors.com\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:23:56","slug":"lacking-the-sunshine-vitamin-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/lacking-the-sunshine-vitamin-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacking the Sunshine Vitamin (Vitamin D)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Shantanu Moitra came up with the song \"Give me some sunshine...\" for the movie 3 Idiots, he perhaps didn't know what an important message this was giving to the whole of Indian population! Did you know, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinical-nutrition.imedpub.com\/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-indians-prevalence-and-the-way-ahead.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 70-100%<\/a> Indians suffer from Vitamin D deficiency!  There is a tendency to think of Vitamin deficiency as not a serious issue. But Vit D deficiency leads to several health issues which can affect the quality of life.   Most often the cause of deficiency is inadequate sunlight exposure. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Vitamin D is produced by our body in response to the skin being exposed to sunlight. Hence it is called the Sunshine Vitamin. It also occurs naturally in a few foods like some fish, fish oils and egg yolks. So a large number of people who are vegetarians end up being deficient.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> It affects young and old alike and here is what you can do to avoid Vitamin D Deficiency.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Firstly, eat a diet which is rich in Vitamin D like fish, eggs, dairy products, etc and if recommended by your doctor, then you can also take certain vitamin supplements if your condition is severe.<\/li><li>Try to stay under the sun for about half an hour at least thrice every week <\/li><li>Do not use sunscreens if you suffer from Vitamin D deficiency when you go out in the sun during summer <\/li><li>People with darker skin need more sunlight exposure to produce adequate Vitamin D<\/li><li> If you are Vitamin D deficient, try to maximize your exposure by getting directly below or at a right angle to the sun, with clothes which are not overly covering.<\/li><li>Avoid taking a bath right after exposure to the sun, but wait for some time as Vitamin D is being formed on your outermost skin layering.<\/li><li>During summer, even a short time spent under the sun would be particularly helpful in alleviating your Vitamin D problems. Try to exercise for some time every day in the sunlight &nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Never miss a chance to get out and get some sun! It does you a lot more good than you ever realize!&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\r\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Shantanu Moitra came up with the song \"Give me some sunshine...\" for the movie 3 Idiots, he perhaps didn't know what an important message this was giving to the whole of Indian population! Did you know, 70-100% Indians suffer from Vitamin D deficiency! There is a tendency to think of Vitamin deficiency as not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,65,66,36,55],"tags":[129,130,131,132],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disease-prevention","category-health","category-lifestyle","category-nutrition","category-physical-activity","tag-sunlight","tag-vitamind","tag-vitamind-deficiency","tag-vitd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}