22 Habits That Harm Your Spine
Your obsessive use of sunscreen
Just a minute: Sunscreen is still the best way to reduce the risk of skin cancer and prevent premature lines and wrinkles. But the only way our body makes life-saving vitamin D is when it’s exposed to sunlight. You can’t get all that you need from food, yet your body requires vitamin D to absorb calcium. “Don’t get sunburnt. Ever,” Pisetsky warns. But allowing yourself 15 minutes of sunlight to help boost D production in the morning before slathering on the screen is absolutely fine. Or you could get your own growlight: New research in Scientific Reports suggests that light from digital ultraviolet (UV) light may be more efficient than sunlight at producing vitamin D in skin.
