Quote Originally Posted by Biciclista View Post
not everyone in every climate needs sunscreen. A little sun is good for you. I might have actually absorbed a little vitamin D yesterday!
I wonder about how many problems (osteoporosis, for one) that we have because we don't get enough sun.
True on all counts; I stand corrected(ish). When people ask what I do for vitamin D since I don't drink milk (which doesn't have vitamin D naturally, it should be noted) or take vitamins, I always point to the sky. I suspect that the lack of vitamin D is actually coming from a life spent too much indoors or behind glass, rather than too many slatherings of sunscreen. I still wear sunscreen 90% of the time, even on cloudy days.

(Oh, but you don't absorb vitamin D; your body is able to generate its own vitamin D with sunlight.)