Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

zagubov

fc123 wrote: »

I read this too.....I don't think you can get it from food...but could be wrong.

UK doesn't get much sun and use of high factor creams when it is out affects absorption....but then I read that 10 mins a day is enough....but that could only be for 4 months over a year.

You get it in liver (or pate). You can get too much. Apparently polar bear liver is the only part of any mammal you mustn't eat. There's enough vitamin D in it to cause hallucinations, convulsions and eventually death.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I think I've very, very little sun damage to my skin, because my mother was always very careful with us all as children, and I've carried the habit on. My mother also looks quite a bit younger than her age, with very little in the way of wrinkles or sun spots, so I'm hoping I've inherited those genes.

Because my sisters are outside so much more, with the nags, they probably have more to worry about in a few decades' time than I do.

I get my hair colour from my mother and her mother, as do my sisters and brother (we've all pretty much the same hair colour) but I have my Dad's red-head skin, and my sisters and brother have my mother's slightly less pale skin, the fair-haired sort.

My mother, apart from the age spots, looks really good for her age. Younger than my dad who is much younger than her but has no age marks. I think I got his genes for aging and hers for darkening:(

My parents like to claim they didn't know there was sun risk 'back then'. I ran wild much of the time, spraying a pair of bikini pants only. I even tried to do that in the uk in winter. I seen to remember horrifying someone we were staying with by behaving like an untamed female Tarzan in a cobbled mews when it hailed. I always liked weather.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

You get it in liver (or pate). You can get too much. Apparently polar bear liver is the only part of any mammal you mustn't eat. There's enough vitamin D in it to cause hallucinations, convulsions and eventually death.

It's not totally unheard of for cats to be over fed liver. They go stiff. Rigid.

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't really tan at all. The bits of me that get the most sun, such as my hands, go a very pale beige, and the rest of me just gets pink with freckles.

I go brown but I choose not to overdo it in the sun.

But I'm also quite lucky as my kind of people age well with less wrinkles. I'm 33.33333333 but no lines

Nikkster

I've just realised that Question Time isn't live. I always assumed that it is, but they are at City Hall and the London skyline isn't dark. Now I think about it, of course they wouldn't be filming it at 10.30 at night, but I guess I figured that the panellists would go there 'after work' :rotfl:

Nikkster

fc123 wrote: »

Wrinkles or Rickets...mmm it's a hard one.
I wonder if we get less from food due to the soil (like magnesium is no longer in soil). It's the fault of Tesco et al.

Probably more likely that we just don't tend to work outside so much.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

In here, for most of the day (even in high summer), it's too dark to take photos, or even read food packets (have to take them to the patio doors to read them. Then, come evening time, the low energy lightbulbs aren't enough to see anything either.... so no evening/night photos either.

I don't think most rental agreements preclude the fitting of decent brightness bulbs - you can get 100w eqiv energy savers.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Doesn't sunlight lead to your body producing vitamin D all on its own?

Our doctor is also always banging on about vitamin D - apparently without it you can't absorb calcium properly. DW and DKs are at risk because of their colour, I am at risk because I try and avoid the sun as much as possible because of my colour and also my bad has osteoporosis (even though he has never avoided the sun), however I find the supplements give me intestinal cramps which is a common side effect.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's one of my major issues with "getting a job". As an office-type of worker, I've spent my life never seeing the sun .... being in an office, knowing it's out there, and always missing it as it's cooled down by the time it's home time. Then, at weekends, it rains ....

A month or so ago I was complaining about how miserable the weather was then 2 weeks ago when it was really nice I was complaining I preferred the bad weather as when it was so nice out it made being at work unbearable.

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

I've just realised that Question Time isn't live. I always assumed that it is, but they are at City Hall and the London skyline isn't dark. Now I think about it, of course they wouldn't be filming it at 10.30 at night, but I guess I figured that the panellists would go there 'after work' :rotfl:

It's the longest day tomorrow, though!

misskool wrote: »

I go brown but I choose not to overdo it in the sun.

But I'm also quite lucky as my kind of people age well with less wrinkles. I'm 33.33333333 but no lines

Lucky you! But I think that genes and sun exposure are both important, so you're on to a winner both ways (-:

michaels wrote: »

A month or so ago I was complaining about how miserable the weather was then 2 weeks ago when it was really nice I was complaining I preferred the bad weather as when it was so nice out it made being at work unbearable.

That just means you're British - never without a weather-related whinge!

lostinrates wrote: »

My parents like to claim they didn't know there was sun risk 'back then'. I ran wild much of the time, spraying a pair of bikini pants only. I even tried to do that in the uk in winter. I seen to remember horrifying someone we were staying with by behaving like an untamed female Tarzan in a cobbled mews when it hailed. I always liked weather.

My Granny used to talk about coating my fair-skinned mother and uncle with sun cream in the 1950s, so I think your parents weren't paying attention (-:

michaels

misskool wrote: »

I'm 33.33333333 but no lines

Ahh but do you have any grooves?

Patricia the Spanish girl is coming in a week - her room is nowhere near ready so a weekend of flat out decorating beckons.

I will need to remember I am ancient (and married)


Please don't quote the picture as I will take it down shortly.

misskool

No photo anyways