Morning sunlight was not only good for bone health, but also useful for diabetics. Vitamin D in sunshine may help improve blood sugar levels.
Recent studies have found that vitamin D that found in the body when exposed to sunlight in the morning can help people with type 2 diabetes improve their blood sugar levels.
Enough vitamin D could actually help the cells in your body that produce insulin works well, as quoted from Menshealth.com, Saturday (03/26/2011).
Researchers from Iran involving 90 people with type 2 diabetes to do the research for 12 weeks by giving vitamin D to one group and another group given a vitamin D added calcium.
Researchers find participants who took vitamin D plus calcium or vitamin D that is not added with calcium did not have blood sugar levels that are significantly better.
The same thing also expressed by Esther Krug, MD, a endrokrinologi of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, said that vitamin D has an active role in regulating pancreatic beta cells, pancreatic beta cells where functions to make insulin.
In fact, another study published in Diabetes Care showed low levels of vitamin D can make adults at risk for prediabetes and prehypertension.
Besides taking supplements containing vitamin D and calcium can slow the progression of type 2 diabetes because of this connection that allows then screening of vitamin D deficiency in people with type 2 diabetes could have been done.
Sunlight before 9 am can provide many benefits for health such as reducing blood cholesterol levels, improve the quality of breathing, making the body becomes fresher and can be healthy bones.
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