Here’s how much time you need to spend outside on winter days to stock up on vitamin D

If it brought us a new year, this month of January did not think of taking the light with it. In Belgium, the brightness is unsatisfactory, and has been for several months. Already, winter generally plunges us into a gloomy atmosphere, this factor is far from helping things. Between December 1st and 31st, we were only allowed twelve hours of sunshine in Belgium!

And yet, the sun is the main source of vitamin D for our body, as Le journal des femmes reminds us. 70% of this vitamin comes from the sun, compared to only 30% from our diet. “The light is weak and short-lived compared to the spring/summer season. Furthermore, in winter, we are more covered and therefore, we are less exposed and the synthesis of vitamin D is less good. explains dietitian nutritionist Florence Foucault to the same media.