Sunshine

I am lucky that I have my parents living in Italy, when I go there during the summer, I can also go to the beach and get some sunshine. Naturally you need to be carefull nowdays when you go to the beach as unless you go early you will get burned even with a 50 protective sun cream. Especially if your skin is pale white. I usually go early in the morning and by 10.30am I want to go out of the sun and get into the shade. Especially if you have children that is the ideal time. But unfortunately I saw plenty of children coming with their parents or grandparents at that time of the day and staying the hottest hours till 4 o'clock. There are many people concern about not getting tunned enough. I put a suncream of 50 to my child and he still got brown, but luckly not burned.
I think if you live in England you do need to get some strong sunshine sometimes, if you like the sun. For healthy reason, during the summer you should be out and about in the sun for about 10 minutes a day and 20 in a cloudy day. During the winter at least 20 minutes to 30 minutes. I know of many elderly people that do not get even one minute in the sun, as they do not go out much during the summer and winter, which it means their chance of worsening their osteoporosis is greater, as they do not get much of vitamin D. Especially the vegans or the elderly that do not eat any vitamin D containing food.
Anyway the best way of getting vitamin D is with the sun (unless your kidney or liver does not work well, than you do need to get it from either the diet or supplements).

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