According to a new report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, us Brits are not getting the Vitamin D we need from the sun - especially during the winter months.
To get round this, experts have recommended that we all take supplements to top our levels up, as Vitamin D helps to prevent cancer, MS, asthma and type 2 diabetes.
Public Health England also recently released data that showed one in five people have an unrealthily low concentration of Vitamin D in their blood.
And although generally summer is sunny enough to top up of Vitamin levels, experts recommend taking the supplements throughout the year to counteract those dark and gloomy winter months.
‘It is proposed that the intake is applicable throughout the year, as a precautionary measure, to cover population groups in the UK identified to be at risk of minimal sunshine exposure as well as unidentified individuals in the population with minimal sunshine exposure who would be at risk of low concentrations in summer,’ the report says.
According to experts everyone between the ages of 11 and 64 should take 10 micrograms of Vitamin D each day.