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Is it the Mediterranean diet that makes them healthy?
Doctors for years have told us that the Mediterranean diet is a healthy diet, and that's why people adopting this diet have fewer heart problems and cancers than people in other developed countries. What if this is not quite true?
What if one of the main differentiating factors is the amount of sunshine people are exposed to? Sunshine on the skin in moderation provides us with our daily vitamin D intake. Vitamin D strengthens our immune system and helps ward off colds and flu. It also helps keep the body healthy in its fight against cancers, particularly breast and colon cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis as well as being essential for bone health. If you think about these facts and consider how much sunshine people in each country can be exposed to, maybe the Mediterranean diet, whilst being a contributing factor, is not the total answer to why people in these climates are more healthy. Maybe, just maybe, part of the answer is the amount of vitamin D their bodies produce because of exposure to the sun. Vitamin D is made by the body after exposure to the sun, but if there is not enough sunshine where you live, think about taking a vitamin D supplement, as this vitamin is very important to your health.
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Contributor's Note
Please keep in mind that exposure to sunshine needs to be carried out in moderation. That means not staying in the sun long enough to get sunburnt. You will need to decide how much you need according to where you live, with the higher lattitudes needing to stay in the sun longer than the lattitudes nearer the Equator. Another thing to consider is that dark-skinned people need to stay in the sun a lot longer than fair-skinned people in order for the body to make the same amount of vitamin D.
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This intel was contributed by Maggie
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