HEALTH NEWS
THE SUNSHINE SUPPLEMENT
Usage of vitamin D, aka the sunshine vitamin, has risen seven per cent in the last year, according to Mintel, the world’s leading market intelligence agency. That means it’s now Britain’s most popular vitamin supplement (sorry, vitamin C, your glory days are over). It’s great news given that 74 per cent of us ‘hover in the lower quarter of the normal vitamin D range or below’, according to digital healthcare company Forth With Life. Even government guidelines have been updated to state that during gloomier months ‘everyone should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D’. That gloom is now lifting as spring kicks in, but as the best dietary sources of vitamin D are oily fish, red meat, liver and egg yolks, and we’re more conscious than ever of the importance of using SPF, many of us could still benefit from yearround supps. Shine on, people.