Vitamin D - are you getting enough?

Medical science is a marvellous thing. It is thanks to scientists and researchers that we have had medical breakthroughs that accomplish such wonders as curing diseases, providing immunisations against infectious diseases, and technology and medicine to save lives. Medical science and research is continually striving to provides cures, understand in greater depth diseases and illnesses, and look at how our health can be improved.

In recent news it has been reported that the Government have recommended that everyone in the UK should consider taking vitamin D Supplements. According to officials getting the recommended amount of vitamin D a day is not doable through diet alone, especially when sunlight which helps in vitamin D production is rare.

According to a BBC news article officials think that 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 children in England have low levels of vitamin D. Whilst vitamin D can be found in foods such as eggs, oily fish, and fortified cereals, most people get their bulk of the vitamin thanks to the action of the sun on their skin which when limited especially during winter months causing a deficiency in vitamin D.

Benefit cuts.

The UK benefit system is a highly talked about topic, with arguments on both side of the fence being hotly voiced.

As benefit cuts are on the forefront of people’s minds of late being widely spoken and written about in the press, My Voucher Codes recently conducted a survey to see what people really think about Benefits Britain.

I agree with the 51% of the 2,158 UK adults surveyed who said they believe that the UK benefit system is NOT too generous.

Yes there are cases and negative news stories of benefit scroungers and people who take advantage of the system which frankly blemish the view of benefits Britain and encourage people to judge those on benefits. But I believe these are in the minority, with the majority of people on benefits being genuine cases who struggle to survive on the benefits they are eligible for.

Being personally worried about cuts to child tax credits I can also see how 29% of those surveyed believe that cuts to child tax credits will affect people in the UK the most from all the government welfare changes.

Surviving on benefits or relying on tax credits to boost your income from work just is a hard life to live and the government welfare cuts are in my opinion only going to make it harder.

We depend on tax credits to back up our wages and help us survive the frugal life we live on the breadline and dread how cuts will affect us and make a hard life financially even harder. And what about if we fall on hard times, will there be benefits available to help us?

What are your thoughts on benefits?