Ra

This from recent medical findings: Concerning the exploding incidence of Parkinson's, Alzheimers, cancers, autism, and other diseases. I'm quoting a neurologist:

"In the 1970s and '80s, the medical establishment, led by dermatologists, sounded an alarm over the rising number of malignant melanomas in the United States. It was believed that most skin cancers were the result of too much exposure to UVB rays from the sun, and a campaign to persuade people to use sun blockers and stay out of the sun was on. Skin cancer, however, is also is caused by UVA rays, which most sun blocks don't block.
There were other consequences to a growing number of people using sunblocks and staying away from the sun: By making people vitamin D deficient, they were deprived of a powerful inhibitor of cancer development and growth, including the deadly malignant melanoma. Vitamin D is produced almost entirely by exposure to the sun--just 30 minutes of direct sunlight produces up to 50,000 international units (IU) of vitamin D."

He goes on to point out studies that show a correlation between lack of sun exposure and, among other things: osteoporosis (everyone knows that), neurological diseases like Parkinsons, Alzheimers, autism, and loss of memory, and other conditions, like growing susceptibility to influenza.

Dolores

ps. It may be just the cyclic research that proves all previous research wrong to generate new grants, but the way I see it: The sun gives life, and the lack of it can take it away.

Ra... CLL