Re: GL: Casting Wishes

KC wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:33:26 -0400, Dana Carpender
<dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

KC wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:10:15 -0400, Dana Carpender
<dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pidge wrote:
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:51:11 -0400, Dana Carpender <dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

God, The Doctors is a piece of crap.

Dana
I stopped watching it because it was always sex, sex, sex.
That's really saying something.

Well, and all the doctors strike me as considerably stupider than me. Not a good sign for someone to take medical advice from.

Dana
I've heard the female doctor advising women that getting Brazilians is
better for hygiene and mention that some tanning is good, because we
need to make sure we get enough Vitamin D.

I have to agree with the latter. I think we've been sold a serious bill of goods about staying out of the sun and wearing sunscreen all the time. Indeed, I think it's making people sick.

But how do you account for the skin cancer numbers? I don't hear about
increased rates of people having Vitamin D deficiency, but skin cancer
continues to be on the rise, ever since our society began to value the
look of tanned skin.

I don't doubt that sun*burn* can be a cause of skin cancer, and I'm not advocating lying out for hours, but I'm unconvinced of the dangers of simple day-to-day sun exposure. And I've read more than one article suggesting that sun *screen* is carcinogenic, which would be a supreme irony. Too, I've known a number of people to get skin cancers on places that don't get a lot of sun exposure -- one friend who slathers on the sun screen and wears a huge hat -- because she had a skin cancer on the inner part of her upper arm, hardly a place that sees a lot of sun.

But the big problem is that it is now estimated that for every case of skin cancer we prevent by shunning the sun, we *cause* ten cases of breast, prostate, and colon cancer from vitamin D deficiency. It's a whole lot easier to get to a skin cancer.

Too, there are other health problems that aren't even talked about. I am *very* sensitive to sunlight; I get nasty SAD, to the point where my doctor treats me for it. And I've found that an hour's sun exposure first thing in the morning (using a phototherapy light when it's gloomy, though it's a distant second-best) is what lets this lifelong chronic insomniac sleep at night. I've wondered how much of what seems an epidemic of mental problems, from depression to ADHD, stem from living under artificial light, rather than sunlight.

We evolved getting up at sunrise, spending most of our time outdoors, and going to bed at sundown or shortly thereafter. It's hard for me to believe that we don't have numerous physiological uses for sunlight.

Dana
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