Vitamin D: What Happens When Your Body Does Not Have Enough Of It?

By Shweta Srivastava

The Difficulty

These diverse factors make it tough to recommend the correct amount of sunlight for vitamin D to a person. To prove this the Vitamin D council gives a few examples-

“At noon during summer in Miami, someone with a medium skin tone would need to expose one-quarter of their skin to sunlight for 6 minutes.”

“At noon during summer in Boston, someone with a darker skin tone would need to expose one-quarter of their skin to sunlight for 2 hours.”