Posted on 07/11/2013 3:11:11 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t a doctor — but it seems she occasionally pretends to be one in real life.
In the most recent issue of British Cosmopolitan, the 40-year-old star of Iron Man 3 shared her thoughts on beauty and aging.
(Excerpt) Read more at life.nationalpost.com ...
Hemlock, sweetie. Carbon monoxide.
it’s really good to have at least 15 minutes of sun a day.”
And at most 30 minutes (without sunscreen), and not at noon.
Belladonna, mosquitoes, black mambas, botulism, euphorbia sap, poison ivy, (”but it’s NATURAL and ORGANIC!”)
“If you think nature is your friend, you don’t need enemies.” -Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Well, she did say getting 15 minutes of sun exposure was good, that’s not a lot.
We once had a largely rural population, many of whom worked in the fields for a large part of the day during summertime. I wonder what the overall cancer rates were like a hundred years ago compared to today? I’m guessing those folks had no problem with Vitamin D levels.
Here’s the thing:
I don’t care anything about Gwyneth Paltrow and I wish entertainers would stick to entertaining.
That being said, 15 minutes of Sun a day? That’s deadly? Get the hell out of here. Better not tell that to anyone who has to walk to the mailbox or cut their grass. Wusses.
Being retarded is natural, and that's bad for you. Sorry, but Gwyneth Paltrow is being retarded about everything natural being good, as are those who panic over 30 minutes in the sun.
“We once had a largely rural population, many of whom worked in the fields for a large part of the day during summertime. I wonder what the overall cancer rates were like a hundred years ago compared to today? I’m guessing those folks had no problem with Vitamin D levels.”
100 years ago people didn’t live as long. Melanoma and other skin cancers rocket up in incidence after age 60, an age far fewer people reached before the 20th century. The vitamin D myth as it relates to sun exposure is promulgated by a multi billion dollar vitamin supplement industry. Skin cancer is an enormous cost and morbidity problem now in the US. Asking people to sun for 15 minutes leads to most doing it for far longer. Better to take an oral Vitamin D supplement. Living in a dermatologist’s office after the age of 60 having repeated surgical procedures is a terrible fate, but it is becoming a common one. This puts aside invasive melanoma, which often kills the patient very unpleasantly.
Fifteen minutes per day is almost nothing. The doctors are just trying to sound smart, as if nothing an actress could say regarding health is liable to be correct. If she said that drinking water was good for you, they’d find a way to qualify it.
Exactly.
Sorry. I meant tanning booth industry, not vitamin industry.
Yes it is dumb to always equate natural with good for you. However she is right about the 15 minutes of daily sun exposure. We need that exposure for our bodies to synthesize vitamin D. The other part of this that many medical professionals usually don’t want to hear is that whole milk (clean raw milk if available) also is needed to absorb vitamin D because it is a fat soluble vitamin.
Yet we are still being told we should only drink low fat milks and that we should always wear sunscreen when outdoors.
You know I wouldn’t be half bad looking if I had a cadre of trained professionals building a handsome mask for me each day.
That young lady is not the product of nature, but the produce of a hothouse culture that indulges but does not educate. She is the a tomato rotting on the vine called the Great Society.
I think it is a lot better for you than rubbing chemicals on your armpits everyday... though I still use deodorant
Does she have a goiter problem in the neck, or is that just plain old fat? Goiter pics are nasty, so I won’t post one.
Safe to assume you’re referring to reply #8 as opposed to reply #2?
I vote for F.A.T.
Being a S. Fla boy, one of the things that struck me most on my first trip to Canada was the beautiful complexions of older women.
Not the alligators skin types I was used to seeing in Miami.
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