The sunlight crowd - (we don't fear no stinkin' skin cancer!)

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You might be interested in the following links that I found:

http://www.uvadvantage.org

Holick book on UV

http://www.sperti.com

Makes sunlamps and a " vitamin D lamp " .

Dermatologists are rolling over in their graves, but it may make sense

to expose a small, controlled area of the body that you can check for

skin lesions (like your tummy) to a UV lamp for a few minutes each

day, as opposed to having to take vitamin D supplements. Of course

you have to protect your eyes, etc.

Alternatively, you can spend time at the pool, but don't get me

started on swimming pools and hot tubs: (oh, the chlorine free

radical load, right up the nose or through the eye sockets or lungs

and right into the brain!).

:-)

Anyway, I NEVER KNEW why the skin of Northern Europeans was white.

Have you every thought of this? We all began in Africa with dark

skin. Those of us who are Northern European - our skin became white.

Why? To hide better from polar bears?

It seems that the answer has to do with the much higher efficiency of

white skin to convert sunlight into vitamin D. So vitamin D must be

quite important.

Anyway, I just found these sites - I don't recommend them, but I think

it's interesting to read a point of view about the importance of

sunlight (I just ordered a copy of Holick's book).