R U getting enough vit D?

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Wait! Before You Bathe… By Hal Ewing, B.Sc. in Nutrition Abstract Most medical textbooks say that vitamin D is formed by sunlight on the oils in the skin although it was proved years ago that the oils must first be on the skin, then exposed to ultraviolet light, and later absorbed back into the body. If persons take a bath before going into the sunshine, the oils are washed off, and no vitamin D is formed: if they do not bathe before exposure to sunshine but bathe immediately afterward, the oils are removed before the vitamin can be absorbed into the body. Most of the oils appear to be washed off by cold water, and still larger quantities by warm water; warm soapy water does the job thoroughly. Time was when wood was hard to split, water hard to carry, and soap hard to make (and smelled too bad to use anyway); the Saturday night bath was then a family institution. During the remainder of the week the oils stayed on the skin and absorbed any ultraviolet rays, which reached them. The early settlers described the Indians as being great of stature with teeth “as even as piano keys,” both the advantages of having no hot-water heaters and no soap. Sunshine would be an excellent source of vitamin D if it were not for the facts that people are surrounded by smog, wear clothes, live in houses and have bathtubs and hot-water heaters. Vitamin D is scantily distributed in foods. There is some in egg yolks provided the hens sat in the sunshine and preened their feathers well; 50 to 200 eggs daily might supply your needs quite adequately if modern hens were not forced to live in shaded cages. Caviar contains some vitamin D; there is a little in the milk from cows pastured on high mountain slopes. Dr. Johnston1 of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit studied the needs of women. He found that even though a generous amount of calcium was supplied by the diet, if no vitamin D was taken, the calcium was excreted. When food source vitamin D was supplied, the amount of calcium absorbed into the blood paralleled the vitamin D intake. For example, when 650 units of vitamin D were given daily for a time, and later 3,900 units were given, the quantity of calcium absorbed was increased six-fold. Fish liver oils are the only natural foods containing sufficient quantities of this vitamin to promote health. Food Source Cod Liver Oil The name “cod” refers to quite a few different fishes from quite a few different parts of the world. The fish from which the finest cod liver oil is derived, however, are those found in the northernmost waters. Cod generally like to feed along ocean shores in relatively shallow water. In the Atlantic, they are caught as far south as the coast of North Carolina and southern France. As a result of modern technology, the shallow coastal waters near major population and industrial areas in the U. S. and Europe can contain high levels of toxins from sources such as pesticides, industrial wastes or sewage, Thus, the area from which cod is harvested can influence it’s ultimate quality. Northern waters are the cleanest