Study shows Vitamin D reduces cancer risk by 60% - if you take 3 times the FDA’s recommended dose.
Shane December 31st, 2007
I have read about this a few times, here is the study to show this is legitimate.
Our skin makes Vitamin D when are exposed to the sun. Sunscreen stops this.
More people are Vitamin D deficient. We do not get enough exposure to the sun.
“But the Sun is bad bad bad!” you say. Ahh, no, it is not. If I wanted to veer off into conspiracy land, I would say that the entire thing is dreamed up by people who *want* us to die early. A lot of companies, actually every company, does not want us to really live too long. But that is just speculation… I just feel it is interesting to note where people’s motives are. The government does not want to pay out Social Security, big companies do not want to pay out on retirements to employees for 30 years after they retire…
Luckily, no one’s morals are that bad right? I mean, we wouldn’t have government or rich jerk offs that would actually want people to die early right? They have consciences. Everything is fine, the *really really* bad people only exist in other countries. Here in the US, we have some greedy people like Martha Stewart or Kenneth Lay the former CEO of Enron, but nobody really evil in politics or high up on the corporate ladder in the health care or pharmaceutical world, right?
Right?
So. Vitamin D.
Your skin makes it. The study shows it helps prevent cancer. By 60%! And the kicker? You have to take 3 times the dose the FDA recommends.
A personal anecdote to make my point: Growing up I worked on a farm. The farmers all go outside, all day, most days of the week. They do not wear sunscreen. At the farm I worked at, the owner was super tanned (at least on his arms) all summer, every summer, for 80 odd years. He died of natural causes.
No skin cancer. He worked on a farm all his life. His sons, in their 60s now. No skin cancer.
Why? From what I have read, skin cancer is likely when the skin *burns*, not just from exposure to the sun. Thousands of years of evolution and we think our bodies would not have evolved a way to get nutrients and health from the sunlight we are in every day?
The problem is that people are inside all spring, then on a hot sunday afternoon in July, they have a picnic, and get burned. If they had been outside all spring, they would have a safe healthy tan, and not get burned. Your skin tans to protect you. If you think about people thousands of years ago, they would never be white skinned in July - they would have had exposure all summer, and as the sun increased in intensity, they would have gotten darker and darker tans - to match the sun’s intensity and protect them.
Civilization. Its a bitch. We work all day so we can sit around and… write blog articles at 1:41 in the morning, then we spend more money to put chemicals on our skin to protect us since we are screwing up our bodies’ normal defense mechanism… which causes us to have a vitamin deficiency, and we are more likely to die from cancer… caused mostly by crap chemicals that ‘make our life easier.’
These conveniences make previously time consuming jobs (like say… making a loaf of bread) easy, or we just spend some of our time (wages) to buy a loaf of bread.
And what do we do with this extra time? We work! To make OTHER PEOPLE rich. 
Odd that 30 years ago the average American could support a family with only one parent working, now both must work to survive. Fire up the leaf blower though, to make the job faster so you can get a few extra minutes with your family, since you both work all day, often overtime now that paying overtime is cheaper than hiring more employees. Inflation catches us all. Do some research on Ron Paul and ‘the inflation tax’ - the more you learn, the angrier you get. Really, really angry.
“Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.”
PS: get some vitamin D supplements.
