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Why’s The Sun Good For Your Body?

By Hello Beautiful July 10, 2009 2:00 pm

You’re not only getting a great tan from the sun! Yes, many believe the sunrays are harmful and cause aging with the fear of skin cancer, but really the UV rays have some benefits:

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1. Vitamin D: The Vitamin D your skin is exposed to from the sun is essential for your immune system to work and respond, mood stability, and bone health.

2. Hormones: Not only will your skin look better with a nice golden tan, your mental outlook and sense of well-being enhances simply by catching some rays.

3. Circulation and Heart Health: The sunrays increase the circulation in your body by dilating the blood vessels in the skin. Not only does the sun improve circulation but also it decreases blood pressure that promotes a healthy heart.

4. Detox: Do you need to cleanse your body? Lay out in the sun. The rays improve liver function, which is responsible for removing waste from your body.

5. Skin: Yes less is more when dealing with the sun. As we all know spending too much time in the sun can result in sunspots, aging, and a risk for skin cancer. But with the right protection and timing when being exposed to the rays it can actually increase the healing of skin diseases such as eczema and acne.

6. Metabolism: Yep! The sunshine can boost your metabolism ladies while maintaining blood sugar levels.

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7. Sleeping: there is something called Melatonin that is enhanced with sun exposure. It is a hormone that encourages sleep.

TAGS: dieting, Health, the sun
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  • jen_bunniie
    jen_bunniie
    7-14-2009 10:08 am

    wow no wonder im tired every friggin day i live in miami by the way 95 every summer day! grrrrr

  • true_loverboy_c
    true_loverboy_c
    7-13-2009 10:49 am

    Sunny Delight !!!! wassup yall get up

  • vasco5
    vasco5
    7-12-2009 9:07 pm

    your damn right,…ppl needs to wake up and see whats going om,they quick to say blk ppl has high risk of diabietes,blk have high risk of blood pressure,blk pl high risk of heart disease,but not say white folks has higher risk of skin cancer etc.

  • maatra
    maatra
    7-12-2009 11:09 am

    What the hell wrong wit sum negropeans. The sun has always been our (the black man and woman) friend.

    This wicked white beast is the only one that has problems wit the sun. The have a skin disease called melanoma.

    Y yall think they call us SOUL brothas and sistas. Cuz soul c**s from the latin word SOL which means SUN

    Our afrikan ancestors never had a problem we built the pyramids in the blazin hot sun we picked cotton and bannanas in the blazin hot sun and only until we start sayint that black and white are the same we wanna believe the sun is our enemy

    I spend all day in the sun trying to get black as a hundred and fifty thousand midnites and aint seen not one sun spot

    C** on yall quit wit this bullshyt and KNOW THY SELF

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