{"id":19037,"date":"2017-01-03T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=19037"},"modified":"2017-01-03T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:28:09","slug":"vitamin-d-from-sun-is-better-nutrition-professor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/vitamin-d-from-sun-is-better-nutrition-professor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D from Sun is Better: Nutrition Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get outside and get your vitamin D the natural way, New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle advised NPR listeners, also explaining that obtaining vitamin D through supplementation can be confusing and risky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s much better to go out in the sun because if you&#8217;re out in the sun, you&#8217;re creating the hormone in the way that it&#8217;s supposed to be created. And you have to think of [supplementation] as hormone replacement therapy, with all of the confusing and unknown and risks associated with hormone replacement therapy,\u201d Nestle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn&#8217;t something that you want to do lightly. It&#8217;s not really a vitamin in the sense that we get vitamins from food. It&#8217;s much more complicated than that. So I would say get outside, be active, eat a healthy diet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nestle went on to explain some of the misunderstandings involving the role of vitamin D in the body and the inconsistency of research on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other problem about it is that it&#8217;s very difficult to measure the active hormone,\u201d she said. \u201cSo instead, doctors measure an intermediate and synthesis of the hormone, which may or may not be related to actual hormone activity. So it&#8217;s a mess, and it&#8217;s complicated. And it&#8217;s not surprising that studies come out with lots and lots of different results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/04\/14\/302906842\/getting-enough-vitamin-d-more-than-milk-and-sunshine\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more from NPR.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can\u2019t say in your tanning salon business.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a9 2017 International Smart Tan Network. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get outside and get your vitamin D the natural way, New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle advised NPR listeners, also explaining that obtaining vitamin D through supplementation can be confusing and risky. \u201cIt&#8217;s much better to go out in the sun because if you&#8217;re out in the sun, you&#8217;re creating the hormone in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vitamin D from Sun is Better: Nutrition Professor - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get outside and get your vitamin D the natural way, New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle advised NPR listeners, also explaining that obtaining vitamin D through supplementation can be confusing and risky.  \u201cIt&#039;s much better to go out in the sun because if you&#039;re out in the sun, you&#039;re creating the hormone in the way that it&#039;s supposed to be created. And you have to think of as hormone replacement therapy, with all of the confusing and unknown and risks associated with hormone replacement therapy,\u201d Nestle said.  \u201cThis isn&#039;t something that you want to do lightly. It&#039;s not really a vitamin in the sense that we get vitamins from food. It&#039;s much more complicated than that. So I would say get outside, be active, eat a healthy diet.\u201d  Nestle went on to explain some of the misunderstandings involving the role of vitamin D in the body and the inconsistency of research on the subject.  \u201cThe other problem about it is that it&#039;s very difficult to measure the active hormone,\u201d she said. \u201cSo instead, doctors measure an intermediate and synthesis of the hormone, which may or may not be related to actual hormone activity. So it&#039;s a mess, and it&#039;s complicated. And it&#039;s not surprising that studies come out with lots and lots of different results.\u201d  Click here for more from NPR.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can\u2019t say in your tanning salon business.  \u00a9 2017 International Smart Tan Network. 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And you have to think of as hormone replacement therapy, with all of the confusing and unknown and risks associated with hormone replacement therapy,\u201d Nestle said.  \u201cThis isn&#039;t something that you want to do lightly. It&#039;s not really a vitamin in the sense that we get vitamins from food. It&#039;s much more complicated than that. So I would say get outside, be active, eat a healthy diet.\u201d  Nestle went on to explain some of the misunderstandings involving the role of vitamin D in the body and the inconsistency of research on the subject.  \u201cThe other problem about it is that it&#039;s very difficult to measure the active hormone,\u201d she said. \u201cSo instead, doctors measure an intermediate and synthesis of the hormone, which may or may not be related to actual hormone activity. So it&#039;s a mess, and it&#039;s complicated. 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And it's not surprising that studies come out with lots and lots of different results.\u201d  Click here for more from NPR.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can\u2019t say in your tanning salon business.  \u00a9 2017 International Smart Tan Network. 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And you have to think of as hormone replacement therapy, with all of the confusing and unknown and risks associated with hormone replacement therapy,\u201d Nestle said. \u201cThis isn't something that you want to do lightly. It's not really a vitamin in the sense that we get vitamins from food. It's much more complicated than that. So I would say get outside, be active, eat a healthy diet.\u201d Nestle went on to explain some of the misunderstandings involving the role of vitamin D in the body and the inconsistency of research on the subject. \u201cThe other problem about it is that it's very difficult to measure the active hormone,\u201d she said. \u201cSo instead, doctors measure an intermediate and synthesis of the hormone, which may or may not be related to actual hormone activity. So it's a mess, and it's complicated. And it's not surprising that studies come out with lots and lots of different results.\u201d Click here for more from NPR. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can\u2019t say in your tanning salon business. \u00a9 2017 International Smart Tan Network. 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