Weekend Wrap-up Dec. 21: Finally!

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Weekend Wrap-up Dec. 21: Finally!

If you live above the Tropic of—Cancer. Yeah, I had to look it up. I never remember which one is which. Anyway, after six months of declining vitamin D opportunities, the days are finally going to get longer.

We won’t notice it for a while, though, and it only increases by a minute a day gradually adding a few seconds until the peak of three minutes by mid-February before slowing again until the summer solstice.

How much vitamin D can we get from the sun? According to facts:

“8 to 10 minutes of sun exposure at noon produces the recommended amount of vitamin D.”

That’s good for 6 months of the year, but in the winter when we are all bundled up with less that 5% of our skin exposed, we would have to be our in the sun for more than 2 hours. When it’s -30 C, that’s not going to happen.

Luckily, thanks to science, we have sunshine in pill form. How much should we take? I’m not a doctor, so…that’s on you.

-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/