Read more. (Ref: Mercola.com)If vitamin D3 levels among populations worldwide were increased, 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancers could be prevented each year, according to researchers from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
And Dr Mercola's comments:
Further comments by Dr Mercola in above link.The dangers of sun exposure have been greatly exaggerated, and the benefits highly underestimated. Sun exposure is not the major reason people develop skin cancer. I know many of you might be surprised by this, but this is simply not the truth, and buying into this lie will most assuredly deprive you of the vital benefits the sun can provide.
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That is absolutely extraordinary, and NO ONE is making a penny from this recommendation, which is one of the primary reasons why this is not being more widely promoted.
I remember reading about five years ago in one of the alternative health magazines about a baby here in Australia that was born with a malignant melanoma. I never saw reference to this in any newspapers or news reports. That certainly put paid to the concept that malignant melanomas result only from sun exposure!