RE: Hey Wibs - didn't we have an argument about sun and skin cancer?

[Grim]

vampires dont like the sun and they are kinda scary and stuff.

[ogt]

Be damned if I can find it, but here:

Scientists Say Sunshine May Prevent Cancer

May 21, 1:15 PM (ET)

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

AP

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.

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.

In the last three months alone, four separate studies found it helped protect against lymphoma and cancers of the prostate, lung and, ironically, the skin. The strongest evidence is for colon cancer.

Many people aren't getting enough vitamin D. It's hard to do from food and fortified milk alone, and supplements are problematic.

So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.

No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that "safe sun" - 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen - is not only possible but helpful to health.

One is Dr. Edward Giovannucci, a Harvard University professor of medicine and nutrition who laid out his case in a keynote lecture at a recent American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

The full article (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050521/D8A7MPFG0.html)

[DammitBoy!]

The kids and I spent most of the day at the pool today - 90 degrees in the shade.

Zak and I don't need sunscreen at all - we're toasty brown. Jesse and Lincoln Mercury are the color of paper and burn even while using 50spf sunblock.

YeeHaw!

[David Dukes of Hazzard]

The kids and I spent most of the day at the pool today - 90 degrees in the shade.

Zak and I don't need sunscreen at all - we're toasty brown. Jesse and Lincoln Mercury are the color of paper and burn even while using 50spf sunblock.

YeeHaw!


you should breed within your own race.

[noteom]

But many scientists believe that "safe sun" - 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen - is not only possible but helpful to health.




dude, even bullock will get that this week and revenge of the sith* just opened.














*who the fuck are the sith??

[wibbly pig]

Actually, we never did, but I've talked about it, my advice being everything in moderation. I only advised against getting nasty burns. That or staying hours and hours under the sun.

I'd never recommended that anyone go goth.