A Yale skin cancer expert says the popular notion that you need to soak up Vitamin D from the sun is a total myth

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• The body needs to produce or consume Vitamin D to stay healthy and grow strong bones.
• You can get Vitamin D from food, supplements, or produce it yourself by soaking up some sun.
• But a multi-disciplined cohort of doctors from the Yale School of Medicine say most of us get more than enough bone-growing Vitamin D just by eating vitamin-rich foods like salmon, tuna, milk and oranges, plus seeing the sun on a regular basis.
• There's no need to tan or forgo sunscreen to keep your body strong, even if you live on a northern latitude.

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No doubt about it: your body needs Vitamin D to stay strong and healthy. The naturally occurring steroid helps our bodies absorb calcium and build bones.

Without enough of the vitamin, kids can develop a brittle bone condition called rickets, and adults can suffer from a similar condition called osteomalacia.

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