What is Vitamin D, and why is it so important?
Vitamin D, “the sunshine Vitamin”, is linked to lowering your risk of several forms of cancer and many other diseases. Exposure to UVB present in sunshine and in all our tanning beds is the body’s natural way to produce vitamin D, accounting for 90 percent of vitamin D production. Studies have shown that indoor tanning patrons have higher vitamin D blood levels than non-tanners. New research has shown that vitamin D deficiency is an epidemic in American adults today, suggesting that up to 90 percent of North Americans are vitamin D deficient and that vitamin D deficiency has significant implications on human health. A 2006 systematic review of 63 studies on vitamin D status in relation to cancer risk has shown that vitamin D sufficiency may reduce one’s risk of colon, breast and ovarian cancers by up to 50 percent. Vitamin D is necessary for the body to properly process calcium, and its deficiency is a leading cause of osteoporosis, a disease affecting 25 million Americans which leads
