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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
“Sunlight is like a good champagne,” wrote Sir Henry Gauvain, an eminent British surgeon in the 1920s. “It invigorates and stimulates; indulged in to excess, it intoxicates and poisons.”
Sadly in the UK in recent years our attitude to the sun has leant distinctly towards the latter state.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
SmartTan.com
“Excessive (sun) avoidance and UV screening is a danger because it does not allow a tan, nature’s own sun block, to develop and as a result exposure is likely to cause sun-burn. The dogma, now fossilised in print, is that any tan is a sign of skin damage. …
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Experts agree ? America needs more vitamin D. It’s one more reason to grab another glass of milk, according to new research presented at the Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, California. Milk is the primary source of vitamin D in the American diet, supplying nearly half of all of the much-needed vitamin D. | |
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
By MELINDA BECK
It all goes back to my childhood freckles. The grown-ups told me they were cute, and I believed them. And when they kept sprouting, I didn’t mind. I figured I was getting cuter.
Like millions of middle-aged Americans, I spent youthful summers basted with baby oil, hoping the Midwestern sun would bake me into a California girl.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
SmartTan.com
“We need the sun in moderation, too — for sun exposure is our best source of vitamin D. It’s a well-documented fact that sunlight is necessary for human survival but we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that any exposure to sunlight is bad. …
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