Let the sun shine in

Too little sunshine can lead to a <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEDAR00000174" title="Vitamin D" href="/topic/health/dietary-supplements/vitamin-d-HEDAR00000174.topic">vitamin D</a> deficiency, and a 2008 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that vitamin D levels were 14 percent lower in depressed people. The sun on your skin needs exposure time to bring about the change that produces vitamin D, according to Reinhold Vieth, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Toronto's department of nutritional sciences.

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Too little sunshine can lead to a vitamin D deficiency, and a 2008 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that vitamin D levels were 14 percent lower in depressed people. The sun on your skin needs exposure time to bring about the change that produces vitamin D, according to Reinhold Vieth, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Toronto's department of nutritional sciences.

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