- What If Avoiding the Sun Is Bad for You? July 2019
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What If Avoiding the Sun Is Bad for You? July 2019
- “If that study’s findings are correct,” Zirwas says, “that means protecting yourself from ultraviolet light could have the same effect on your mortality as deciding to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day.”
The study: Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for all‐cause mortality: results from the Melanoma in Southern Sweden cohort - 2014
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127 studies referemces the 2014 study as of April 2023
See also VitaminDWiki - 2019
- Which Is Worse - Avoiding Sunlight or Vitamin D Deficiency – April 2019
- Have We Gotten Sunscreen Totally Wrong - Jan 2019
- Sunscreen (SPF-30) slightly increased the vitamin D from UVB – RCT Jan 2019
- Parkinson’s patients 50X less likely to get even a little sun– meta-analysis Jan 2019
- Nature deficiency leads to disease (less sun, less Vitamin d) – Feb 2019
See also VitaminDWiki - 2018
- Dermatologists use sun block, stay indoors, and have low vitamin D (Thai in this study) – Dec 2018
- Embrace the Sun – benefits of the sun (Nitric Oxide etc.) – book June 2018
- Widespread regular sunscreen application deemed not useful in the US – April 2018
See also VitaminDWiki - 2017
- The Greatest Public Health Mistake of the 20th Century (sunscreen block Vitamin D) - 2017
- Health benefits of non-burning exposure to UV light – Jan 2017
See also VitaminDWiki - 2016
- Low UVB (thus low Vitamin D) is linked to many diseases – Grant Jan 2016
- Avoiding the sun reduces lifespan by 2 years (smoking reduces lifespan by 10 years) – March 2016
- Sunbathing (vitamin D) increases lifespan in Sweden by about 1 year – March 2016
- The risks and benefits of sun exposure – Holick Oct 2016
- Low UVB (thus low Vitamin D) is linked to many diseases – Grant Jan 2016
- Many wavelengths of light provide health benefits, not just UV – March 2016
See also VitaminDWiki - 2015
- Less sun means more disease -Grant, Holick, Cannell, et al Feb 2015
- The sun provides more health benefit than vitamin D – Dr. Lucas podcast – May 2015
- Less sun means more disease -Grant, Holick, Cannell, et al Feb 2015
- Go ahead, soak up some sun (but don’t burn) – Holick July 2015
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- Sun avoidance increases risk of death by 2X – April 2014 referenced by the article
- Based on 30,000 Swedish women
- Fewer heart attacks, hip fractures and deaths if more skin cancer – Sept 2013
- Air conditioning has not totally canceled the latitude effective in the US yet – July 2013
- Melanoma is 44 percent LESS LIKELY if get sun on the job – Nov 2013
- UV, sunshine, and vitamin D (87 charts) - Holick March 2013
- New Zealand doctors are starting to prescribe more sunshine – Aug 2012
- 2200X more problems from no UVB than too much UVB - WHO 2006
- Overview Skin and vitamin D
- Why do gardeners live longer (vitamin D, etc.)
- Overview Suntan, melanoma and vitamin D
- Less Solar Radiation was associated with more Cancer - 1941
- Sunny side of the hill is the healthiest – 400BC
Smoking reduces vitamin D - many studies
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