In Winter Make Sure Your Child Gets Enough Sunlight

In next two to three months we are going to cover ourselves with woolens and jackets. Winters are, no doubt, an exciting time of the year for adults and as well as for children. Kids relate winters with Christmas, New Year celebrations and with their winter holidays. However this is also the time when dense cloud covers, fog and smog reduces the ultraviolet rays reaching the skin.

Hence parents should take extra care during winters that their kids get sufficient sunlight every day to produce Vitamin D in their body. Recent studies have found out that serotonin, oxytocin and vasopressin – three brain hormones that affect social behaviour – are all activated by Vitamin D.


These hormones help in shaping the structure and wiring of the brain - where it shapes the structure and wiring of the brains, acts as a neurotransmitter and affect the social behaviour.






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