Posted on 10/21/2007 7:24:44 PM PDT by blam
I heard you also needed it fight immune disorders such as MS.
I am so pale that, on a southern beach, I am covered in freckles in ten minutes, wearing SPF 50 and a hat.
When I did try to tan, people always asked when I was going to tan. I am tan, I said, showing the underside of my arm. You are a ghost, they said.
A few hours of sun and wind puts 15 years on me.
I get my Vitamin D from pills, thank you very much. Family history of breast cancer, but I figure 10+ years of breastfeeding is good for something.
Here’s what I don’t understand: if this is true, then why didn’t every single Victorian lady get breast cancer? Because of course they covered themselves from head to toe, never sunbathed, rarely engaged in outdoors sports, and kept even their arms and hands white by covering them with long sleeves and gloves. Doubt they could have eaten much salmon to get Vitamin D, either. This study would have been more interesting if the results had been cross-correlated with the number of abortions each woman had.
They probably ingested cod liver oil.....or an equivalent....
You don’t need high dosages.
Colon cancer also linked to sunlight/Vitamin D deficiency:
“The geographic distribution of colon cancer is similar to the historical geographic distribution of rickets. The highest death rates from colon cancer occur in areas that had high prevalence rates of rickets—regions with winter ultraviolet radiation deficiency,”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=10668487&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
You beat me to it.
Yup. I remember my mom taking it when I was a kid, and, giving it to me when I got the sniffles.
I’ve read that people with skin cancer don’t usually get other types of cancers.
I could guess and say that even if they never went outside, women living then were exposed to more sunlight than you might think.
Houses built back then had many more windows than they do now, to admit air and light from outside. Houses built now have fewer windows, for reasons of security, cost, and energy efficiency. Ventilation and lighting are electric now, so windows are unnecessary.
i don’t believe you, you must post pics.
on a less serious note, are you British or from the Irish Isles? many of the ladies from those regions have absolutely no tolerensce for exposure to sunlight. my lite skinned slavic friends in similar areas have few such problems.
The average age of menarche for that era was 17. Childbearing was likely to start within a couple years, with most women having many babies. And the average age of death was much lower. Women didn’t have time to get cancer.
That still doesn’t explain why ancient maiden ladies then didn’t have high BRCA rates, and ancient nuns now do.
The author Fanny Burney endured a total mastectomy in 1811, and survived another 29 years.
...and what other such areas are you suggesting be exposed, eh MOON MAN?
American mutt here - British, German and Swedish mixed. I’ve been to Sweden - was lighter than most.
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