Healthy Living
Sunlight Cuts Cancer Risk by 47 Percent
The evidence keeps mounting that the sun is good for you. In the latest study, high levels of sun exposure were associated with a 47-percent reduced risk of advanced breast cancer in women with light skin pigmentation.
The study, of 4,000 women living in the San Francisco Bay area, was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
“We believe that sunlight helps reduce women’s risk of breast cancer because the body manufactures the active form of vitamin D from exposure to sunlight,” lead author Dr. Esther M. John said in a statement.
Other studies have shown that increasing vitamin D may lower the risk of prostate and colon cancers too. Sunlight is the best way to boost vitamin D levels.
[Ed. Note: Are you vitamin-D deficient? Most of the population is. Yet this powerful vitamin can help protect you from many of the life-threatening diseases that plague modern men and women. Fortunately, there's an easy way to up your vitamin D quotient. Better yet, it's free. To learn more, click here.]
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