what these bumps were on my chest from the summer? 8)

Angharad

The UK papers having spent time telling us to avoid contact with sunshine for thirty years, are now telling us we all need more
sunshine 'cos we don't have enough Vit D. and will all die from umpteen other cancers instead of melanoma. (I actually eat loads of oily fish and take fish oil supplements) so will probably die from Vit D overdose. Must check my sun block cream.....

Thanks for sharing.

it seems we are all doomed to die.... a few years ago I read an aricle that claimed that water caused cancer.

damned it you do, damned if you don't.

I plan on partaking in the pleasures of living and die a horrible quick death from getting all of the cancers at one time. :)

A.A.

As Angharad hints, there's a plot-line here (Crystal used a variant - herbal tea - in in the early part of ICGHLT). But I'm not binning my sunblock just yet.

Sunlight is very destructive stuff - think of the damage to fabrics, building materials, vehicle components such as tyres...

The benefit (protection) currently outewaighs the danger, IMHO. That's based on something usually ignored by the doomsters: danger is the product of hazard and risk (ie multiply them together).

First there is no evidence - yet - of an efect in humans. (Note to flamers - I don't say 'there is no effect' just that so far there is nothing to indicate it.) But more important is the risk. We don't breathe water, and we don't bottom feed in the ocean or rivers (any readers who do either - tell me how you stop the water wrecking your mose/trackball, please?), so our exposure is probably a lot lower.

Then there is the question of relative bodyweight. I suspect that overall the 'risk' in the fish is several orders of magnitude higher than in man. Finally there is the very difficult question of susceptibility - the evidence cited may show a species-related variaton, and man (though ultimately from the same evolutionary tree) is a long way from fish (though not necessarily in this particular respect, of course. We just don't know enough).

I need to know more about that danger before I submit myself to the known danger of over-exposure to UV.

Xi

There was an episode of CSI this season which featured this phenomena. I was intrigued by its potential and discussed it with Amelia as a potential plot device, but she's dropped out of contact so it kinda fizzled. :(

Scott
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