Be sure you get the D after clocks go back

With winter fast approaching and our hours of daylight getting shorter Brits are being urged to take a supplement of sunshine Vitamin D – especially those north of the border in Scotland.

The Department of Health recommends taking a supplement during autumn and winter when sunlight hours are limited and our bodies are unable to make enough of the vitamin which is essential for healthy bones and general wellbeing.

Those over 60 are particularly vulnerable to the ‘winter blues’ as well as those who happen to live in the north of England or in Scotland where daylight hours are most limited.

With average sunlight dropping to less than six hours in some parts of UK experts at Innopure.com say that upping your dose of vitamins D and K can give you the boost you need to get you through the dark winter.

The further north you travel the less daylight hours there are with people living in Scotland getting almost two hours less sun than those living in Cornwall during the colder months.

On the shortest day of this year, 21st December, Land’s End will enjoy over eight hours of sunlight yet at the northern tip of the UK in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, there will be only five hours 49 minutes.