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Posted on 11/07/2007 6:54:26 PM PST by blam
Edited on 11/07/2007 8:52:38 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sunbathing 'slows ageing process'
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 08/11/2007
Sunbathing can slow the ageing process by up to five years, according to new research.
Scientists have found that people who avoid the sun, or have inadequate vitamin D in their diet, are subject to genetic damage associated with ageing and age-related illnesses.
The effect of the damage is so great that those who lack vitamin D - often called the "sunshine vitamin" because 90 per cent of the body's intake is created by exposure to the sun - were biologically five years older than those with the highest levels.
Lead researcher Dr Brent Richards, from King's College, London said: "These results are exciting because they demonstrate for the first time that people with high levels of vitamin D may age more slowly than people with lower levels.
"This helps to explain how vitamin D has a protective effect on age-related illnesses such as heart disease."
Co-author Prof Tim Spector, also of King's College, said the study showed people should spend more time in the sun and eat more foods rich in vitamin D such as fish, eggs, fortified milk and breakfast cereals, or take supplements.
About one-third of the population is thought to be vitamin D deficient. Prof Spector said: "There are scares about melanomas, which do affect several thousand people per year.
"But vitamin D deficiency is making hundreds of thousands of people ill with potentially fatal diseases."
Cancer campaigners pointed out that too much exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer, which kills about 1,800 people in the UK each year.
Henry Scowcroft, of Cancer Research UK, said: "It doesn't take much time in the sun to make vitamin D, and always less time than it takes to redden or burn."
The darker skinned you are, the more vitamin D defecient you're likely to be.
BUMP!
Interesting stuff...
Sunbathing causes global warming, too, I bet.
Yeah...
Does this mean that clouds kill people?
The sunbather on the right could certainly slow my ageing process!
Wow, I bet she really feels hot under that leather suit...
This is why sun-blockers should be used only for extended exposure, otherwise they do more harm than good.
Try this one on for size...
My eyes! My eyes! Somebody post the eyefloss and the mindfloss!
Yes but what it doesn’t say is that you get a sufficient amount of Vitamin C in just a few minutes each day (like walking to your car or across the parking lot). Sunbathing for hours isn’t necessary to obtain it.
I am a massage practitioner and an aesthetician and believe me, sun damage to the human body isn’t pretty. And it *will* age your skin because it breaks down the collagen and elastin fibers beneath the skin, the things that give skin a youthful, smooth appearance. There’s even a difference between skin that has sunned and skin that has tanned in a bed (with the sunbed skin being *really* bad). Reports like this are going to cause people to justify baking themselves. And then we have the whole melanoma thing and that’s another whole ballgame altogether.
Just Damn.
You obviously aren't fair skinned. Extended exposure for me is any time greater than 30 minutes.
There’s been plenty of studies that show that people who live in areas like Arizona with lot’s of sun - and in the country - more peaceful - can live an average of 19 years longer..
It used to be the rule: “At least 2 hours of sun/fresh air a day...
They gradually relearning this...
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Yes and she’s only 30. LOL
The one in #10 is 13. ;-D
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