Enhance Your Life With Sunshine

We tend to take sunlight for granted. However, there are health benefits & cautions that we need to talk about.

Plants, animals, & human beings all depend on sunlight. The actions of snow & rain, even the temperature & humidity of earth’s atmosphere are related to the sun.

The sun works on all these things to keep life supported. Green plants grow by a process called photosynthesis this is where Sunlight acts on the Chlorophyll in the leaves, this is the green pigment. Carbon dioxide is absorbed from the air, the rain adds water all this combines to form sugar atoms which in turn combine with minerals from the soil to make starch, protein, oil, vitamins or the food for man & animals.

Benefits of the Sun

– Produces Vitamin D

– Decreases Blood Cholesterol

– Decreases Blood Sugar

– Kills Germs – Disinfects

– Increases Aerobic Fitness

– Promotes Mental Health

Vitamin D — The Sunshine Vitamin

This Vitamin is formed when Sunshine (ultraviolet rays) reacts with Cholesterol (under the skin). This is the only vitamin that we don’t get from food.

However this vitamin is vital to our health because it helps our system absorb calcium, thus preventing bone diseases like rickets and osteomalacia (general term for the softening of the bones due to defective bone mineralization)

Just half of your face in the sunshine for 5 minutes provides 400 units of Vitamin D .which is our daily need.

A side note about cholesterol:

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that occurs naturally in all parts of the body and that your body needs to function normally. It is present in cell walls or membranes everywhere in the body, including the brain, nerves, muscle, skin, liver, intestines, and heart. Your body uses cholesterol to produce many hormones, vitamin D, and the bile acids that help to digest fat. It takes only a small amount of cholesterol in the blood to meet these needs. If you have too much cholesterol in your bloodstream, the excess is deposited in arteries, including the coronary arteries, where it contributes to the narrowing and blockages that cause the signs and symptoms of heart disease. National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute

Too much cholesterol is bad for you. That’s why getting your Vitamin D from the sunshine’s action on the Cholesterol under your skin is better for you than a synthetic vitamin added to food, sunlight action leaves less to be deposited on artery walls which is an added benefit.

What about Blood Sugar

Sunlight acts like insulin by facilitating the absorption of glucose into the cells of the body. This stimulates the body to convert its blood sugar (glucose) into stored sugar (glycogen), within the liver & muscles, thus decreasing sugar in our blood & providing us with a source of energy

Kills Germs – Disinfects

We need Sunlight for every room in our house.

“If all would appreciate the sunshine, and expose every article of clothing to its drying, purifying rays, mildew and mold would be prevented. This is the only way rooms can be kept from impurities…Every room in our dwelling should be daily thrown open to the healthful rays of the sun, and the purifying air should be invited in. This will be a preventive of disease. “Healthful Living” p 142-143 by EG White

Increases Aerobic Fitness

Sunlight is able to increase the blood’s capacity to carry oxygen and deliver it to the tissues of the body. The more oxygen that is available for delivery to the muscles while exercising the easier it is to exercise!!

Glycogen is increased in the liver and the muscles as a source of energy for aerobic fitness.

Besides, a sunlight day always makes us feel better than when there is no sun. Unfortunately, our outlook on life tends to get gray when the days are gray!!

Can We Get Too Much Sun? Definitely!!!  One Problem is Sunstroke

Working or playing to long or hard in the sun can

1. Increase body temperature
2. Headache
3. Feel Weak
4. Nauseated
5. Confused
6. Pass Out
7. Even Die

Sunstroke can be a problem regardless of the color of your skin.

So use good judgment!

The more melanin in the skin the better you are protected from burning.

It is the ultraviolet radiation that burns the skin. Many of us don’t realize that even on cloudy days 80% of the ultraviolet rays get through so it pays to remember you really only need 5 minutes of sun!!

Over exposure without protection is why you will find more skin cancers in countries where people have predominantly white skin.

Yes, this natural physician is vital, but must be used with caution.

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