{"id":9538,"date":"2012-07-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2012-07-12T01:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T05:58:25","slug":"adults-get-vitamin-d-message-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/adults-get-vitamin-d-message-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults Get Vitamin D Message: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-third of adults in a recent study know that sun exposure without sunscreen increases vitamin D levels, with 42 percent of those adults turning to the sun to get \u201cthe sunshine vitamin\u201d according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Public Health Reports, the survey of 8,000 adults in Maryland suggests that vitamin D awareness is increasing. Five years ago, surveys suggested almost no one knew their vitamin D blood levels \u2014 or even that they even had one. Encouraging was the fact that the more education respondents had, the more likely they were to understand that sunlight is the best source vitamin D.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public has long been encouraged to engage in sun-safe practices to minimize exposure to sunlight, the major cause of nonmelanoma skin cancer,\u201d the authors wrote. \u201cMore recently, some have advocated unprotected sun exposure to increase cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D as a way to promote health. We assessed the net result of these conflicting messages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors are worried that telling the public to get unprotected sun exposure will undermine skin cancer prevention strategies. Smart Tan disagrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to be counseled to prevent sunburn \u2014 but not to simply avoid the sun. You can\u2019t just lie to people and tell them that sun isn\u2019t the best way to get vitamin D because you think that any and all sun exposure is harmful,\u201d Smart Tan Executive Director Joseph Levy said. \u201cThe public is figuring this out. The message needs to be balanced \u2014 understanding the proper context of the risks of overexposure but respecting the whole truth. Sun Scare messengers continue to foster a giant deception \u2014 telling people that nature was wrong and that pills are a better way to get the sunshine vitamin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21800747\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read the study click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vitamindcouncil.org\/2012\/07\/07\/how-many-people-know-about-vitamin-d\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>To read The Vitamin D Council\u2019s interpretation of the study click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one-third of adults in a recent study know that sun exposure without sunscreen increases vitamin D levels, with 42 percent of those adults turning to the sun to get \u201cthe sunshine vitamin\u201d according to a new study. 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