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  1. After thousands of years of being the source of life on this planet, all of a sudden the sun is an evil monster? Maybe the chemicals in processed "food" that people eat is what's causing skin cancer as the sun draws toxin-laden perspiration to the surface of your skin. Heaven forbid something should be simple to figure out and the chemical/drug industry not get involved in poisoning us even further.

  2. Missed out on 30 years of sun and now have osteoporosis. God made the sun for a reason and it s rays are good for us. Am african american and need much more sun than caucasians: couple hours per day. Now having to get massive doses of the vitamin d, vitamin d3, calcium….and of course, extremely expensive prescription bone building drugs…

    1. Eliot W. Collins says:

      Instead of Fosamax, Boniva, Reclast, etc., try Strontium Citrate for your osteoporosis. It is a non-prescription "version" of Stontium Ranelate (which is approved most everywhere except in the U.S.) At least investigate Strontium Citrate. It is relatively inexpensive, and has few side-effects.

    2. Clara Gibson says:

      Read Michael Hollick's 'Vitamin D solution' – vitamin D is so crucial to our well being – it is interesting to note that skin cancer rates have not decreased but increased since we have been advised to slather our largest organ with awful toxicity, which was supposedly to protect us. But it did make a fortune for the pharmaceutical and beauty products industries.

  3. Eliot W. Collins says:

    In my opinion, everyone should see a dermatologist at least once a year and get a vitamin D 25-OH test.

    From years of being out in the sun I got squamous cell carcinoma.

    Despite all this sun exposure, I still had a vitamin D 25-OH level of 26 ng/mL (insufficient).

    I currently take 5950 I.U. of supplemental Vitamin D3 each day, and my most recent level was 52 ng/mL (reference range – 30-100 ng/mL).

    Once again, everyone should see a dermatologist every year and get a vitamin D test.

  4. My entire family spend hours in the sun and have never had sin cancer, they just get a bit of sunburn then go brown. However I have very fair skin so I cover up and spend most of my time sitting in the shade. I am the only person in my family who has ever been diagnosed and treated for skin cancer. Fortunately for me I had a BCC (which is the mildest form of skin cancer) because doctors fobbed it of as a pimple gone wrong for almost 6 years. If it had been a SCC or melanoma I would probably be dead by now. These days I spend a lot more time in the sun (though I avoid it between 11am and 3pm) and I feel a lot better. When I avoided the sun I got hip and back pain, but now that I get more sun it has subsided.

    1. Alas, you will not be getting any UVB rays (the ones that make vit D) unless you go out in the middle of the day – specifically when your shadow is shorter than you are!

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