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To: Scotswife
We’re supposed to be afraid of fresh air and sunshine? We’re supposed to coat ourselves with manmade chemicals (sunscreen) the instant we step foot outside? That way, even when we do get outside, our skin will not absorb the necessary ingredients for vitamin D production.

None of that advise ever made sense to me.

I don’t burn easily, so I rarely put on sunscreen. 2 of children have fair skin, so I let them go 1/2 hr to 1 hr without sunscreen and then apply it so they don’t burn.

Everything in moderation - that goes for the sun too.

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Exactly! I'm out in the sun gardening during Spring, Summer and Fall. I don't usually use a sunscreen except when I go south of New England, where I will burn to a crisp within an hour. There may be a correlation between increased use of sunscreen and all of these autoimmune diseases.

34 posted on 01/27/2008 7:33:20 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

“There may be a correlation between increased use of sunscreen and all of these autoimmune diseases.”

yes...there was a recent finding about MS that suggested that very thing.


35 posted on 01/27/2008 7:35:42 AM PST by Scotswife
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