Ravenwood - 05/23/05 06:15 AM
Here is more proof that scientists really don't know anything (except how to get more funding).
Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.So not using sunscreen causes cancer. Now, using sunscreen causes cancer. It sounds to me that the only thing researchers do know is that they need more money. (preferrably the taxpayer's money)The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Sunscreen blocks its production, but dermatologists and health agencies have long preached that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer. Now some scientists are questioning that advice. The reason is that vitamin D increasingly seems important for preventing and even treating many types of cancer.
Category: Everything Causes Cancer
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The only surefire prevention of cancer is early suicide.
Posted by: Brian J. at May 23, 2005 6:58 AMThey allow you up to 15 minutes of sun 3 times a week, now.
That's getting up to my own daily 3 hours in the noonday sun.
You wait, it will get there. I'm a trend-setter.
It's a matter of getting the right amount of sun. No more, no less. Of course, what is the right amount depends on your skin color (not just black/brown/white, but also shades of white), latitude, how much dust is out there absorbing sunlight, ...
So in conclusion: We're all going to die.
Seriously, different skin colors exist to regulate the amount of UV sunlight that gets through, hopefully keeping it somewhere between severe sunburn and developing rickets from vitamin D deficiency. The problems arise when people migrate to areas their skin color didn't evolve for, and go to extremes of exposure (northern Europeans sunbathing in Tucson) and nonexposure (most any office worker who doesn't make a point of getting outdoors).
On the other hand, you could live in a cave and get your vitamin D in your diet. It occurs naturally in some kinds of fish, and is added to milk.
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