Stay Out of the Sun Day! July 3, 2020

Happy Stay Out of the Sun Day!

This day reminds us to protect ourselves from the damaging rays of the sun by staying in the shade.

Everybody loves a sunny day, but in the height of summer it’s easy to get dehydrated, sunburnt, and worse. Stay Out Of The Sun Day is about looking after yourself by taking a day away from the sun and finding some nice, relaxing shade – and if you are out and about, make sure you’ve got sun cream, plenty of water and some shade!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/stay-out-of-the-sun-day/

Do you have some fun activities that you do in the shade?

Sit in the shade of an umbrella:




Sit in the shade of a canopy:




Go on a picnic:




Wade in a shady creek:




Let the kids find some shade loving bugs:

This is so important! My approach is to double up with hats and sunscreen, avoid the hottest hours, seek shade whenever possible, and take breaks. And I've just planted a small forest, so that will help out so much in years to come--for now they're just a foot or two tall :)

Hmmm, I don't know... a healthy, clean body thrives with sun. We should have a minimum of 20 minutes exposure to sun on a daily basis to get our Vitamin D needs. Vitamin D is called the sunshine vitamin with good reason. With the large amount of people with Vitamin D deficiencies, and the sun providing the impetus to cause Vit. D in our bodies, a source that is both free and causing the best Vitamin D uptake for us, I don't think we should make sunshine our enemy, but perhaps take a look at our diet if we are not able to tolerate sun very well. With a cleaned up body (internally), daily sunshine becomes our friend (with reasonable exposure).

Yay!!
I've been living with melanoma for 31 years now, and every day is stay out of the sun day. I also double up as much as possible (even here in winter, today was amazingly sunny and I was driving the car without tinted windows. I would have gotten badly burned just on the 20 minutes it took me to pick up my kid).
A little sun is wonderful, I definitely agree, but I am very, very careful now about any more than a little.

I'm more than a little worried about many of the ingredients in sunscreen, so I try to save it for days when I know I'll get more sun than is safe and use clothing the rest of the time. I totally agree that a little is important for natural Vit D for anyone who hasn't reason to fear the sun. It's like so many things in our lives - common sense and moderation is my goal.