Health and Fitness Tip of the Week: Bring on the sunshine!

Did You Know sunshine directly onto your skin helps you produce vitamin D, which fights depression, heart disease & osteoporosis? Sunlight has all sorts of health benefits such as; reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, strengthening bones, lowering blood pressure and helping you sleep better.

Although sunshine is great for increasing our mood and has good benefits for our health, it can also be very bad for our skin. Every time you are burned by the sun protein and genetic tissues are damaged; increasing your chances of skin cancer. This is why it is important to cover your skin/put on sun cream.

“Sunshine is the best medicine”