Scientists Reverse Stance on Sun & Cancer: Admitting Sunlight Can Prevent Skin Cancer

[ktlight]

FYI:


Since the 1980s, physicians and cancer groups have regularly warned the public against the potential health dangers of direct sunlight on skin. As a result, many people have stayed out of the sunlight completely, covered their limbs even in warm weather or slathered themselves with UV protection products, all in the interest of lowering their risk of melanomas.

However, more recent findings indicate that this kind of nearly vampiric avoidance of the sun may not benefit your cancer odds after all.

A 2009 study by a group of Leeds University researchers found that higher levels of Vitamin D were linked to improved skin cancer survival odds. Other studies have found that Vitamin D has a connection to a strong immune response in the body. In fact, Vitamin D may hasten the death of tumor cells.

Unfortunately, most people have low levels of Vitamin D, leaving them at higher risk for a host of diseases including breast cancer, prostate cancer, bowel cancer, cervical cancer, rickets and osteoporosis. (For more in-depth information on this, see this report: http://www.naturalnews.com/rr-sunli...)

source to read more
http://www.naturalnews.com/032533_sun_exposure_skin_cancer.html

[witchy1]

Bout time. NOW all they need to do is let everyone know that there are Nano-particles in sun screen and they dont actually know what effect that has on the body :-)

[astrid]

YES.... excellent news.

[markoid]

Bout time. NOW all they need to do is let everyone know that there are Nano-particles in sun screen and they dont actually know what effect that has on the body :-)

Exactly, and while they're about it, they could add the fact that sunscreen filters out UVB (and does not filter UV A which is the unhealthy element) which is the part of the spectrum that, when it interacts with cholesterol in the skin, produces vitamin D.
Vitamin D in turn being on of the best immune boosters to prevent all manner of cancers.
The word is also finally getting out that the rda for vitamin D is absurdly low, as to be essentially useless. The recommended dose is about 10% of that which is deemed to be actually effective in boosting immunity.

Some good info on vitamin D over at camelot
http://projectcamelot.org/brussels_10-11_october_2009.html#Gabriele_Staehler

[MariaDine]

Yes, Vitamine D...but ,more exactly...vitamine D3 from vegetable origin !!!
There is also another tipe of Vit D3 but is from animal origin. Check the diferences in articles on the Web.

Namasté

[1159]

We are also seeing an increase in rickets disease (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1244988/Victorian-disease-rickets-rise-poor-diet-lack-exercise-doctors-warn.html) due to lack od Vit D. and poor exercise. More worryingly, sunscreens have aluminum oxides and other dangerous chemicals that permeate the skin. Up to 60% of what we put on our skin goes into the bloodstream.

I'm not saying we should ignore the sun's UV effects and especially at this time when the atmosphere is being modified. The best advise anyone can take is 'a little sun in moderation' is healthy. I am personally looking into buying a personal UV meter, as this will show any UV increases from the sun.

[Lord Sidious]

I have to take it easy in the sun.
I have pale skin from my Irish background.
So pale, that I get burnt in the full moon. :p

[Revere]

LS
I have to take it easy in the sun.
I have pale skin from my Irish background.
So pale, that I get burnt in the full moon

How do you even tan in that hooded get up?:cool:

Peace,
-R-

[seko]

I have to take it easy in the sun.
I have pale skin from my Irish background.
So pale, that I get burnt in the full moon. :p

You have to receive sunlight, not much but enough and for short periods of time. It will do you more good than harm even if you are pale as a ghost Lord Sid.:cool: No sunblock screens as they do contain aluminum an sometimes Barium. I've friends which were very pale, and little by little they can feel better under the sunlight and getting darker skin and feeling better health wise.

[Lord Sidious]

The only sunblock I use is bandages, like a mummy! :p

[Fred Steeves]

"Physicians and cancer groups". There's a well informed couple. I could add my dentist who thinks I only have one oar in the water for refusing their flouride bombs being gushed through my mouth during cleanings.


Cheers,
Fred

[Cjay]

Who has the most to gain by telling us to use sunscreens? Well, duh! The companies that make sunscreens.

I love being outdoors. I love the feeling of sun on my skin, as long as it is not burning. The ONLY time I use sunscreen is if I am "stuck" in the sun for hours and I have no way to retreat indoors or into full shade, such as when I am on a boat in summer. My parents and 3 of my 4 siblings have had various skin cancers removed. I have my skin checked each year at a skin cancer clinic and I have never had a skin cancer.

In the words of the late, great, Professor Julius Sumner-Miller I ask, why is it so?