The Vegetarian Society of Ireland would like to extend a warm welcome to Our Glorious Guest, the Blinding D3 generator from Outer Space, and wish to offer our bare arms (necks, faces, knobbly knees) as a sign of friendship!

So that's how we get our essential intake of vitamin D when the summer sun finally shines on Ireland. In winter time, though, the sun is too low in the sky, at our latitude, to generate vitamin D in our skin. That's important because recent research has linked deficiencies of vitamin D to a whole host of nasties such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, upper respiratory tract infections, premenstrual syndrome, polycystic ovary disease, psoriasis, muscle weakness, lower back pain, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer.