Health and Nutrition Letter

Vitamin D Gets Its Day in the Sun
Researchers struggle to balance the potential benefits of the “sunshine vitamin” with proven skin cancer risks.

August 2005

Abstract

Recently, the scientific community has been split by a debate over a startling claim: Maybe a little sunshine is good for us, because those same ultraviolet rays we’ve been warned against also enable the skin to make Vitamin D, nicknamed the “sunshine vitamin.”

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