BODY BENEFITS AND SAFE TANNING, THANKS TO SUNLAMPS
The recent debate about sun and UV rays benefits redeems the role of tanning equipments, already well-established for the cure of several diseases such as psoriasis and eczema. It is important to keep in mind that activating principles produced by artificial rays are the same as those naturally created by the sun. It is for these reasons that verified vitamin D benefits have led several scholars, including Dr. Michael Holick – a true reference point of this field – to sustain sun sessions with tanning units.
Indeed, it is very difficult to keep high levels of vitamin D, especially during the winter when daylight is reduced and the majority of the time is spent indoor.
So, many scholars suggest the integration of a healthy diet with a responsible exposure to UV rays, both the sun and the tanning beds.
The only recommendation is to be aware of its own kind of skin in order to take necessary precautions to avoid sunburn, the only cause of skin pathologies.
Thus, it is essential to refer to qualified centres with certified and high-quality tanning equipments, such as Sportarredo equipments, and with qualified staff to reset any risk, in order to totally enjoy the benefits of a safe tanning on the body and on the mood. By now it is official that tanning makes us more beautiful and really helps us being healthy.
VITAMIN D DAILY REQUIREMENTS
According to the optimal level of vitamin D, experts agree on the importance in keeping at least the values set by the scientific community.
However, the argue is anything but finished about the possibility to increase those limits – even considerably. Indeed, some researchers suggest to reassess the existent parameters, given the self-evident beneficial powers of the vitamin D.
To this day, the MINIMUM levels suggested of vitamin D are the following (in IU International Unit):
Until 50 years: 200 IU
From 50 to 70 years: 400 IU
From 70 years on: 700 IU
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VITAMIN D: FROM THE SUN AND FROM THE TANNING EQUIPMENT
A REMEDY FOR BONES HEALTH, AND EVEN MORE!
It is known that vitamin D has extraordinary beneficial powers, but the scientific debate has never been so heated, as vitamin D, fundamental for bone tissues and for teeth, is becoming miraculous for other several aspects of our wellness.
We can find vitamin D in some food, and it is activated during sun exposure and during sunlamp UV rays exposure.
In recent studies Vitamin D, all along known for its role in rickets’ prevention, has revealed itself as cure-all for cardiac pathologies, osteoporosis, and colon cancer. Further, among other positive effects it contributes to a remarkable improvement of problems related to menopause.
Researchers of the Creighton University, USA, demonstrated that a group of women from Nebraska assumed for 4 years 1.100 IU vitamin D, and it managed to reduce the risk of any cancer by 70%. Another study run by researchers of the Auckland University, New Zealand, highlighted that there is a close relation between the level of vitamin D in the blood and the good state of lungs’ health, even for people with the habit of smoking.
Good news for the health: due to its spread action in the body, symptoms of vitamin D deficiency are many and often they are related to other factors, thus misleading the diagnosis. The main symptoms are: muscle weakening, mouth and throat irritation, intestinal diseases, insomnia, myopia, several periodontal diseases, mood swings, abdominal pains.
Unfortunately it is not so easy to take the right daily quantity of vitamin D, as food containing it is few and often it is not present in everyday diet. We are talking about liver, cod-liver oil (fish-oil in general), some types of fish such as herring, salmon, sardine, and eggs, butter, milk.
Nevertheless we can count on the sun help. It is worth noting that during the summer, a 12 minute-sun exposure is enough to allow the body to produce 2000 IU of vitamin D in a natural way and with no damage for the body, thus confuting rooted and wrong beliefs, which unfortunately have led to damages instead of benefits.
A recent research directed by Dr. Oliver Gillie of the Health Research Forum, London, is drawing the attention of the scientific community and of media on problems arisen by the lack of vitamin D in Scottish people. In this research it is underlined that the enacted anti-sun campaign contributed to the increasing of the pathologies linked to the lack of vitamin D, and also several types of cancer.
HERE IS WHY UV RAYS ARE IMPORTANT
Sun benefits derive from the presence of a provitamin in the skin, the cholecalciferol that allows the absorption of UV rays, sparking off a chain of chemical transformations which lead to the activation of the vitamin D already present in the body. It is for these reasons that a responsible exposure of the body to UV rays has positive effects for the health. Instead, it is demonstrated that people living where the sun lacks all the year round are subject to the shortage of vitamin D, and similarly Afro-American people, though living in hot and sunny areas, have a deep skin pigmentation, thus needing longer sun exposure in order to take benefits.
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