Oh Sun We Praise Thee, Just Not Too Much.

Yesterday on the web and on the national news ran the story that health experts are afraid that our kids don’t have enough Vitamin D. The principle source of this wonderful vitamin comes from the sun. The importance of the big D is that it helps fight heart disease or other heart related problems. So that means we need to get out more.

“NOOO! The sun is a killer you’ll get skin cancer and die!” Shut up and drive your Prius, and take your visceral contempt for anything remotely fun. There’s no need to lather the kids and yourself in spf 200 before exiting the house. Experts say that 15 minutes of good sunlight is sufficient to combat this deficiency. This time might be extended by a few minutes if you have darker skin, since the darker the skin color the more it filters out the sun’s rays.

The idea that nearly 8 million of our youth in the U.S.A are deficient and nearly 50 million kids are estimated at being “insufficient” in their Vitamin D intake is a sad consequence of our society. We live in a society of excess. The current economic crisis is due to people who have bought houses well outside of their means, and then the banks had to foreclose on them. We’ve all raced inside and have been fearful of the sun since it was made clear that those that worshipped the sun would develop cancer for their heresy.

You know just a little bit of common sense and some moderation would go a long way. A life balanced would be good. Kick the kids out of the house, make them make friends elsewhere than networking or on online video game sites. Then after your skin absorbs some sun then put on the sunscreen, and really is spf 200 really necessary? Jeez, that’s the equivalent of putting on a Cliff Huxtable sweater. Come on now.

And in the age of a society that resembles a herd of cattle as we mosie through life, some cut back in the calorie and fat intake will do us some good. No wonder the rest of the world hates us and at the same time wants to be just like us. We might be the largest consumers of whatever this wonderful Earth can provide, and it’s our nature as humans to do it, we here in the U.S.A have the greatest ability to consume how, when and what we like, to what ridiculous quantities and excess our heart seems fit.