Herbs and Cures - sunscreens--help or hindrance?

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Herbs and Cures - sunscreens--help or hindrance? JoAnn Guest

Mar 27, 2005 09:49 PST

Joseph Mar-22 8:05 pm

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I have always been keenly aware of the dangers of too much sun

exposure, especially during spring and summer, and have faithfully

used a sunscreen with SPF of at least 20. Then about a month ago, I

read a book by Kevin Turdeau titled " Natural Cures They Don't Want

You to Know About " in which he makes a convincing argument about how

sunscreens actually INCREASE your chances of sun-related disease.

The dramatic rise in skin melonomas is, he argues, due to the use of

these " chemical " substances on skin rather than the increased

intensity of the sun due to erosion of the ozone layer and over-

abundant sun worship.

 

Do sunscreens actually help protect the skin? or are they only a

pharmaceutical hype to ploy us into using them under the guise

of " safety? "

 

Thank you,

 

Joseph

 

 

 

 

JamesTheLoafer Mar-23 10:12 pm

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1733.2 in reply to 1733.1

 

Joseph,

Throughout the 1800's, the United States was a rural farming society

and most people spent large portions of their day outside in natural

sunlight. During the 1920's, however, more people started living in

cities, underneath electrical lights. The American Academy of

Dermatology formed in 1938, as skin cancers started becoming

prevalent. The logical conclusion is that avoiding natural outdoor

light--especially in favor of indoor electrical light--causes skin

cancer in humans.

 

You might be interested to know that Coppertone released the SPF

system of sunscreen lotions in 1972, and melanoma rates increased

the very next year, in 1973, growing steadily during the subsequent

decades.

 

Those sunscreens of the 1970's typically blocked the UVB

component of light--that is the component responsible for

photosynthesis of vitamin D in the skin.

 

This indicates that

melanoma is a vitamin D deficiency disease of the skin, and that

sunbathing is actually beneficial for prevention of skin cancer.

 

james

 

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