Posted on 05/23/2005 8:14:31 AM PDT by mlc9852
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Yeah, I hadn't seen it either though apparently some had. Thought it was interesting.
They're also linking the lack of sun/vitamin D to osteoporosis. Especially nowdays, kids don't seem to play outside as much, and they're frequently drinking more soft drinks than milk.
Oklahoma. And yes, short sleeves or sleeveless shirts are often worn--younger guys sometimes wear cutoffs and go shirtless, but most folks don't wear shorts to work the fields. You mostly want to wear jeans and good heavy shoes or boots, as you would around any kind of machinery. It gets hot here--long sleeves aren't that comfortable. You see a lot of the "farmers tans"--from short sleeved shirts.
Some studies are saying just that--but I'll wait to see if it's really true. I don't like to wear it myself, most of it gives me a rash. I burn easily, so I'm careful not to stay in the sun too long at a time.
First, there's a study that says all our kids do is lay around all day watching TV.
Then there's a study that says that kids are getting melanoma in greater and greater numbers, despite the fact that they're inside all the time (according to study number one.)
What's the deal? Is it the sunscreen that's causing the cancer? After all, there's more melanoma now than before sunscreen.
I think we need a study. :)
Skin cancer or no, the sun will still prematurely age your skin.
Oh, yeah. All these ranchers and farmers around here really worry about their skin "aging prematurely"--NOT. (guffaw)
Well, I gather that sunscreen is generally thought necessary to some extent in Oklahoma these days. I agree that it probably generally is not particularly necessary, just as it was not in the rural VA where I was raised. It didn't exist when I was a kid, even for people in the tropics. Oklahoma and VA are rather higher latitudes, though. Now I am wondering if Virginians routinely use it?
I live in So Florida these days, though, 25 degrees North, and will say that even slightly prolonged activity outdoors here, especially near something reflective like the ocean, does require strong sun protection for whiter people. Those of us who worked on the sea down here used suncscreen and hats, but still developed very brown leathery and wrinkled skin over the years. If I had to do it over again, I'd have just worn long sleeves while at sea.
My opinion is that the skin of black people, who are I think originally native to these latitudes, is much better protected from the sun. But I will admit that black Americans who have been aboard with me did use sunscreen. OTOH, I think that Bahamians tend to ignore the stuff.
Of course, there were white people sailing all through the tropics during the 18th and especially 19th centuries. All I can say is that if they didn't find a way to protect themselves, they must have suffered. Alexander Hamilton grew up in the tropics I believe. It's an interesting question.
I think you may be onto something there...
If you eat carrots or applesauce, you WILL die.
Of course you will die if you never eat them.
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