Yet another reason to get outside today.

There are a handful of things you probably associate with better heart health: regular exercise, a healthy diet and quitting smoking being some of them.

But did you know that getting out in the sunlight, and taking a daily vitamin D supplement in winter, could also work wonders for your ticker?

One study, using data from almost 300,000 UK citizens and published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, suggested having a vitamin D deficiency can cause inflammation in the body, which could then contribute to heart and circulatory disease.

And another,

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