If you love sunbathing, then you are less likely to get type 2 diabetes / adult diabetes associated with obesity, or insulin independent /. However, one more condition - you should not have excess weight.

Reports on the harmful effects of sun on the skin have recently appeared on the pages of popular science journals. However, a joint study of scientists at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and their colleagues from Lund in the south of the kingdom, on the contrary, speaks of the positive effect of sunlight.

The experiment involved 40 thousand women aged 25 to 64 years. Physicians conducted questionnaires and monitored their habits for 11 years. The results of the study suggest that in tan lovers, the risk of getting type 2 diabetes was 30% less than those who avoided the sun.

One explanation for this conclusion of physicians is the need of the human body in the sun to replenish the reserves of vitamin D. This is especially important for Scandinavians, whom the weather does not indulge in cloudless days. It is known that the lack of vitamin D worsens the exchange of blood sugar. Therefore, scientists advise to be in the sun a little more, but at the same time be careful of the burns.

"Together with physical activity and maintaining weight in the norm, the sun is one of the most important factors in the prevention of diabetes in adults," said the associate professor of the Karolinska Institute and one of the authors of the study Pellet Lindqvist.

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