Well, ok. I don't believe in sunscreen and love the sun. Am I wrong?
Nope! You are right no target
Despite the promotion of using gobs of sunscreen, people are still getting cancer. Skin cancer. In areas the sun DOES NOT shine!
Why? Looks like vitamin D FIGHTS cancer, but due to health official recommendations, for the most part Americans are chronically vitamin D deficient. The list of diseases either caused by or made worse by a vitamin D deficiency is huge. Cancer, heart disease, muscle and skeletal pain, autism...
I used to be a person that hid from the sun. I was, as Weird Al puts it, "whiter than sour cream". I only went out after slathering myself with SPF 50+ sunscreen and reapplied often. Unfortunately, I still burned anyway.
After learning about vitamin D, the unfounded fear of overdosing most people have (infants don't show signs of overdose until they have taken doses of 40,000 over a period of months), how much the body actually uses in a day (5,000-6,000 IU), how little we actually get from our food, and how the sun isn't our enemy, I gave up sun screen. I also started supplementing with vitamin D3 over the Winter. Later Summer, I stopped using sun screen. I DID use a clear titanium when I spent an entire day at the water park, but no sun screen. Instead of bursting in to flames after 10 minutes, I actually got a little tan. Not dark brown, not fried red, but a bit of a healthy glow. I did not burn ONCE. One day, I was out in the sun for several hours, and I did get a bit pink, but within hours after getting home, it was gone. No pain, no blisters. It was awesome. By getting my blood level of D up, my body no longer let through every single ray of sun in an attempt to make the D I so desperately needed.
My friend Abi recently lost a person very dear to her. She was only 35 and died of melanoma. She was very pale and always avoided the sun. The cause was most likely untreated type 2 diabetes brought on by a diet high in cheap processed foods.
Here is some reading material if you are interested. (You might want to wrap your head in duct tape to keep your head from asploding
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http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/2009/0...weight-on-in-the-winter-be-down-to-vitamin-d/
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311153406.htm