Daily Dose - A bright shining truth battles a cloak of darkness

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" WC Douglass " <realhealth A

Daily Dose - A bright shining truth battles a cloak of darkness

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:00:00 -0400

 

 

WHO casts a shadow over sunlight?

 

I swear, the World Health Organization is off its rocker lately.

Sometimes they're spot-on with their recommendations on problems

facing global health, but recently they just can't seem to get a thing

right. Their stance on H5N1 " bird flu " is way out of whack (don't get

me started on it), and then there's this latest gem of a headline, as

reported by Reuters...

 

Sun Kills 60,000 a Year, WHO says

 

Yes, according to that august advisory body, sixty thousand people

worldwide shuffle off their mortal coil at the hands of the sun,

mostly by malignant melanomas and other skin cancers. If the article

has it right, a new WHO report is also blaming the sun for skin aging,

cataracts, and cold sores, too.

 

The new report is being billed as the first ever to detail the effects

of global sun exposure (I assume they mean what they perceive as

negative effects). Among the document's recommendations are to stay in

the shade, use sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher, and avoid artificial

tanning salons.

 

Well, they got 1 out of 3, anyway. I'm no big fan of tanning beds

myself -- except perhaps for brief UV exposure for mine-workers who

never see the light of day, or for parts of Alaska, Canada, and

Iceland since there's very little daylight to be exposed to... But

your best bet is to use full-spectrum UV light -- not a tanning bed.

 

Hmmm. I wonder when the report on how many people would be killed

(everyone) if there were NO sun is coming out? And what about the WHO

report detailing the negative effects of having no (or too little)

sunlight exposure -- things like rickets, osteoporosis and other bone

and tissue diseases, autoimmune conditions and accelerated rates of

cancer? Can we expect to see that one soon?

 

I'll tell you, I wouldn't want to go without sunlight until the WHO

wises up and starts recommending what's best for people: Ample daily

sunlight exposure and the avoidance of any kind of commercial

sun-block. Some compelling evidence I've seen (you have, too, if

you've been a long-term reader of mine) indicates these goops CAUSE

cancer instead of preventing it!

 

But in some sunnier sunlight news...

 

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A million-subject study conducted in the UK shows that sunlight

exposure increases the survivability of cancer -- especially lung and

breast varieties.

 

The King's College London study examined data from approximately 1.5

million men and women diagnosed with various types of cancer between

1971 and 2002. Their finding: Those who were diagnosed during the

sunniest times of the year (summer and fall), had an average 6% lower

death rate...

 

Women with breast cancer showed a 14% lower death risk!

 

The study's conclusion, published in the International Journal of

Cancer, is that sunlight exposure at the time of cancer development

and diagnosis is a significant predictor of survivability.

 

The results add to a mounting pile of evidence pointing to sun-spurred

vitamin D as playing an important role in the body's resistance -- and

ultimate triumph -- over cancer...

 

Kind of like I've been saying for 30 years or so.

 

Taking on WHO maligns the sun,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

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