Sun prevents cancer?

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Someone here said it first, that someday they'll discover sunscreen
gives you cancer, and sun doesn't. The latest says a moderate amount of
sun may actually prevent cancer.

Its like that Woody Allen movie Sleeper where he wakes up in the future
and finds out that eating fatty food is good for you. Didn't Dr.
Atkin's claim
this too?

The claim is vitamin D lowers breast, colon, and prostate cancer.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/health/12112345.htm
And that sun-derived vitamin D is superior to ingesting it, but not
much
is needed.

"rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The claim is vitamin D lowers breast, colon, and prostate cancer.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/health/12112345.htm

Yes, Everything You Know Is Wrong (remember the Firesign Theatre?).
I believe sunnier areas (eg, L.A) have lower cancer death rates than, say
Seattle does. (Sun on the skin creates Vitamin D)

That factoid and this are two of my favorites:

Low doses of ionizing radiation may be cancer-protective:

http://www.angelfire.com/mo/radioadaptive/inthorm.html

I've read that cancer deaths are lower in areas with relatively high
background radiation.

Then, of course there's the Chocolate Effect: it may reduce tooth decay
and lower cancer risk:

http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=59448-chocolate-cancer-fighting

-- Dan

Get a little sun, get a little tan. Tan blocks sun. QED.

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Get a little sun, get a little tan. Tan blocks sun.>

Pretty much what they said on the news.

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Get a little sun, get a little tan. Tan blocks sun.>

Pretty much what they said on the news.

Well, what do you expect? -- I'm a genius.

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Well, what do you expect? -- I'm a genius.>

Oh, ok, I'll keep that in mind the next time I reply. I'll be sure to
"talk up" to you.

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Well, what do you expect? -- I'm a genius.>

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Oh, ok, I'll keep that in mind the next time I reply. I'll be sure to

"talk up" to you.

But I had assumed you were a genius, too, no?

There was a story in the paper sometime in the past week showing that
preliminary studies are often wrong and that later studies that are usually
larger in scale contradict them or the preponderance of follow up studies
contradict it.

It might be the same case here.
"Dan Stumpus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The claim is vitamin D lowers breast, colon, and prostate cancer.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/health/12112345.htm

Yes, Everything You Know Is Wrong (remember the Firesign Theatre?).
I believe sunnier areas (eg, L.A) have lower cancer death rates than, say
Seattle does. (Sun on the skin creates Vitamin D)

That factoid and this are two of my favorites:

Low doses of ionizing radiation may be cancer-protective:

http://www.angelfire.com/mo/radioadaptive/inthorm.html

I've read that cancer deaths are lower in areas with relatively high
background radiation.

Then, of course there's the Chocolate Effect: it may reduce tooth decay
and lower cancer risk:

http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=59448-chocolate-cancer-fighting

-- Dan

"Sam" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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There was a story in the paper sometime in the past week showing that
preliminary studies are often wrong and that later studies that are
usually larger in scale contradict them or the preponderance of follow up
studies contradict it.

It might be the same case here.

The sun, chocolate, and radiation research is pretty seasoned, all years
old.

-- Dan