With busy schedules it is easy to forget some of the easy and most pleasurable things we can do to improve our health. In my announcement post some months ago now, Jennifer mentioned that she gets twenty minutes of sun every day. In those twenty minutes, she can grab a bit of relaxation but also her skin takes in the sun and makes vitamin D in her body. She make even get a wee bit of a tan. It is not enough sun to cause harm but is a good amount of sun to improve vitamin D stores. I need to make a habit of it myself rather than taking the “catch as catch can” approach, my approach pretty much all summer.
On a related matter, whenever I am outside and do not need sunglasses, I go without. If our eyes take in light (even in the shade), our bodies produce the hormone melatonin that help us sleep better at night. It works for me — no glasses to steam up when I’m working on a hot day.
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