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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARcH 11, 2019
Vitamin D quandary
Dear Annie: Lately,
Fortunately, there are
I’ve been reading that peo- other options. There are a
ple aren’t getting enough few things you can eat that
vitamin D. But I also hear naturally contain vitamin D
that people should wear — mostly seafood, such as
sunscreen
more
regu- salmon and trout, but also
larly. Doesn’t wear-
portobello mush-
DEAR
ing sunscreen limit
rooms that have
ANNIE
the amount of vita-
been grown outside.
min D absorbed by
More likely than
your skin? How can
not, you’ll need to
we get more vitamin
rely on foods that
D while still wear-
have been fortified
ing sunscreen every
with vitamin D or
day? I hear that sup-
take a supplement
plements are never ANNIE LANE to meet your daily
Creators
as good as naturally
nutritional needs.
Syndicate Inc.
occurring vitamins
You are correct that
(in food, from the
naturally occurring
sun, etc.). I don’t want vita- sources of vitamins and min-
min D deficiency! — Dis- erals are preferable to sup-
plements, but something is
concerted About Vitamin D
Dear
Disconcerted: better than nothing. In the
Vitamin D is indeed import- U.S., milks (including most
ant. It’s one component of nondairy milks) are forti-
good bone health, as it helps fied with vitamin D, as are
our bodies absorb calcium. many orange juices and cere-
Humans evolved to be able als. You may also want to
to get all the vitamin D we take a vitamin D supplement
need from the sun. But these with your largest meal of the
days, we aren’t out in the sun day — but don’t overdo it.
long enough for that to be According to Harvard Wom-
sufficient — and if we were, en’s Health Watch, some
we’d be exposing ourselves recent studies have suggested
to damaging, cancer-causing that taking too much vitamin
D can be harmful.
UV rays.
Keep wearing sunscreen.
Harvard Health notes that
“very few people put on
enough sunscreen to block
all UVB light.” The bene-
fits you stand to gain from
blocking out the sun’s UV
rays are worth risking get-
ting less vitamin D.
Dear Annie: This is in
response to “To Go or Not
to Go,” who is refusing to
attend her son’s wedding
because she doesn’t approve
of his bride. First she has no
contact with the bride-to-be
for months, and then she
buys her a diamond bracelet
to make amends when her
emotional blackmail doesn’t
work. And now she refuses
to go to the wedding because
it’s not on a convenient date
for her and her husband. The
date is none of their busi-
ness. — Been on the Other
Side
Dear Been on the Other
Side: And thank you for
writing. You make an excel-
lent point — that even if
this young man is making
a mistake, it’s his mistake
to make, and family should
not interfere unless there is
abuse.
TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). A foreign place intrigues
you. What’s so appealing? Which element of your
personality is hooked into this fantasy? The answer to
these questions will help you make yourself happy in
the here and now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Powerful internal forces
can be resistant to progress. Put another way, in the zoo
of your mind you are both the elephant and the animal
trainer. Use treats. All moves, however slow, should be
taken as progress.
all subsequent references will be compared.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Because you sense that
people will act illogically and unpredictably, you’ll
stand back and watch what’s going on for a while. This
information-gathering moment will be your ticket to
success — or at least your way of avoiding trouble.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Do not doubt that
practice will make you better. The slow, deliberate,
consistent kind will, in fact, take you beyond where you
ever thought you’d be.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Remember when you felt
in sync with the world and excited by the challenge
before you? That had something to do with the people
around you offering the same kind of camaraderie and
encouragement you’ll receive today.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Apply that massive
creativity that’s running through your veins today to
your own scene. If you can somehow align your more
serious goals to what you’re doing for fun, two areas of
your life will improve at once.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). How you got caught
up in a particular belief system is a long and perhaps
currently irrelevant story. You’re caught in its net. To
get free, take out your mental scissors and snip away at
everything that’s not freedom.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s not that you’re overly
afraid what people think of you; it’s that you really
want to do what’s most respectful and appropriate to
the situation. There’s something beyond just you that
depends on it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Though the gentle way is, over
time, the most powerful, some projects and relation-
ships are so brief that unless you exert yourself in
powerful bursts you’re not going to get the chance to
make a change or even an impression.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Habits get established
without regard to health or effectiveness in solving a
problem. Instead, they are created because the logistics
have aligned in such a way to make them the easiest
sequence to follow.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Lead with your warmth.
Your warmth will relax the socially rigid. You’ll connect
with people who aren’t easy. Your emotional sunshine
will melt away the fear people have about letting down
their guard.
TOMORROW’S BIRTHDAY (March 12). Some of your
closest loved ones come from a worldview very differ-
ent from your own, a dynamic that creates good for-
tune, amusement, adventure, education and pleasure.
In the spirit of tolerance, together you’ll do something
important for the world. A financial boon comes in
the next 10 weeks. Virgo and Aquarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 9, 50, 5, 18 and 41.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Think carefully about how
you’re positioning your ideas. The first thing you pres-
ent to people will put a thought in their mind by which
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