{"id":9003,"date":"2019-01-31T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9003"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:01:57","slug":"sunshite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9003\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshite"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting article highlighting yet another example of health advice promoted by governments worldwide which may turn out to be causing people harm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[W]e\u2019ve been taught to protect ourselves from dangerous UV rays, which can cause skin cancer. Sunscreen also blocks our skin from making vitamin D, but that\u2019s OK, says the American Academy of Dermatology, which takes a\u00a0zero-tolerance stance\u00a0on sun exposure: \u201cYou need to protect your skin from the sun every day, even when it\u2019s cloudy,\u201d it advises on its website. Better to slather on sunblock, we\u2019ve all been told, and compensate with vitamin D pills.<\/p>\n

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Yet vitamin D supplementation has failed spectacularly in clinical trials. Five years ago, researchers were already warning that\u00a0it showed zero benefit,\u00a0and the evidence has only grown stronger. In\u00a0November,\u00a0one of the\u00a0largest and most rigorous trials\u00a0of the vitamin ever conducted\u2014in which 25,871 participants received high doses for five years\u2014found no impact on cancer, heart disease, or stroke.<\/p>\n

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How did we get it so wrong? How could people with low vitamin D levels clearly suffer higher rates of so many diseases\u00a0and yet not be helped by supplementation?<\/p>\n

As it turns out, a rogue band of researchers has had an explanation all along. And if they\u2019re right, it means that once again we have been epically misled.<\/p>\n

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These rebels argue that what made the people with high vitamin D levels so healthy was not the vitamin itself. That was just a marker. Their vitamin D levels were high because they were getting plenty of exposure to the thing that was really responsible for their good health\u2014that big orange ball shining down from above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t help thinking we’d see less of this sort of thing if the health “experts” advising governments showed a little less gluttony for power and a lot more humility. The same goes for the politicians who listen to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting article highlighting yet another example of health advice promoted by governments worldwide which may turn out to be causing people harm: [W]e\u2019ve been taught to protect ourselves from dangerous UV rays, which can cause skin cancer. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9005,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}