Basic Pursuits

Do something nice for yourself.

Evidence grows daily that we moderns (or are we post-moderns) are suffering from a deficiency of Vitamin D.

Ordinarily, humans manufacture their own supply of Vitamin D with help from sunshine. It's been that way for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of year.

But we post moderns spend most of our time indoors. You can't get Vitamin D from florescent lights.

In the newest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a recent study concludes that people with the lowest levels of Vitamin D in their systems (lowest quartile) have a 26% increased rate of all-cause mortality than people with the most Vitamin D in their systems (highest quartile).

Sunshine is free. Vitamin D supplements are really cheap. For more information, check out the Vitamin D Council.

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