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I just got the following information in an email: You’ve been told to avoid sunshine… keep indoors during peak sun hours… cover yourself with sunscreen if you go outside… wear long-sleeved shirts and sunglasses even when it’s not sunny… and limit your direct contact with the sun’s rays to zero.

Yet, there’s not a shred of real evidence that spending time in the sun actually causes deadly skin cancer. In fact, clinical evidence shows that sunlight prevents 17 different kinds of cancer.But our fear of the sun has kept us indoors and slathered with sunscreen. And that’s bad news… Turns out, a lack of sunshine can trigger deadly cancers, depression, bone loss, heart disease and more…

Sunlight is also essential for making a critical vitamin and hormone that protects you from disease and carries out thousands of major functions in your body every day. Have you ever noticed how you feel happier sitting or walking in the sun? Doesn’t just going outside in the sun calm your nerves and lift your spirits?

There’s a reason for this. Your body needs sunlight in the same way it needs nutrients. In addition to the noticeable lift it gives your mood, it also helps lower your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, improve your immunity, regulate your weight, reverse many chronic diseases, protect you from many cancers and improve your overall health and happiness.

With no mention in the media, you may not have heard: Why Skin Cancer Was Virtually Unheard of Before 1930 – and the Chilling Clinical Studies Mainstream Medicine Has Hidden From Publication
Why Exposing Yourself to the Sun Actually Lowers Your Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer
The Truth about the “Sun Safety Alliance” and Why Their Backroom Deals Lead to the Death of Over 300,000 Americans Every Year
The Little-Known Secret About Sunlight That Relieves Depression, Strengthens Bones and Prevents Cancer
What the Ancient Greeks Knew about the Healing Power of the Sun – That We Don’t!
The 7 Dangerous Chemicals in Sunscreen That Increase Your Risk of Skin Cancer
Why Skin Cancer Rates Are Skyrocketing in Cities That Get the Least Amount of Sunshine
Why Men in Maine Are 50% More Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer Than Men in Florida
What You Should NEVER Do Before Spending Time in the Sun…
PLUS – Why Sunscreen Poisons Your Bloodstream and Shuts Down Your Body’s Natural Defenses

Since We’ve Been Avoiding the Sun Over the Last 30 Years,
The Death Rate From Skin Cancer Has Risen 400%...
In fact, skin cancer was a rare event before 1930 when most people worked outdoors and ignored the “risk” from the sun. Now it’s the most common cancer. And since our grandparent’s generation, the rate of melanoma (the deadly kind) is up 1,800%.

First, let me clarify. There are actually three kinds of skin cancer: Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and melanoma. Cumulative sun exposure is linked to BCC and SCC. With early detection, these are rarely fatal. But melanoma is a different story… this deadly form actually has an inverse relationship to sunshine.

So is the sun really responsible? Think about it. The sun is five billion years old. It hasn’t changed in recent times. And, our sun exposure has dramatically decreased over the last seven decades.If sunshine were deadly, people who live in sunny climates would suffer the most deaths from skin cancer.

But the opposite is true. Those who live in cold, damp climates with little sunshine – like London or Minnesota – have higher rates than those who live in sun-drenched areas like Arizona, New Mexico and Florida.

“Ask anyone in America if the sun causes cancer and they will quickly answer yes. Ask them if the sun prevents cancer and they will tell you to see a psychiatrist.”
– John Cannell, MD
And today, just 10 percent of people work outdoors – compared with 75 percent a hundred years ago. But these facts are routinely ignored by dermatologists and the sunscreen industry…

The Sun is NOT Your Enemy…

Corporations with a vested interest benefit from the belief that sunlight in any amount is dangerous—even deadly. Every year, these groups spend millions of dollars to sell you their products and services. And their financial rewards are clear: $30 billion worth of products every year with $6 billion in annual sales of sunscreens alone.

But to convince you that you need their products, they must first convince you that the sun is dangerous.In just a few short decades, our perception of the sun changed from miracle healer to predatory menace. Scientists, physicians, and journalists focused entirely on risks, completely forgetting the well-documented benefits.
Before long, very few remembered what our ancestors knew instinctively: The sun gives you vital nutrients and remarkable disease-fighting power. But the consensus became nearly universal that sunlight is a dangerous killer.

Here’s what the studies really say about the deadliest of all skin cancers: Those working outdoors have the lowest risk of skin cancer—In 1982, the British medical journal The Lancet reported on the relationship between skin cancer and sun exposure. The researchers found that those whose main activity was outdoors had the lowest risk of developing skin cancer. Other studies have yielded the same results. An overview of all of the published research reported in the International Journal of Cancer revealed that multiple studies show that people with “heavy occupational exposure” to the sun have significantly lower risk of melanoma.

High lifetime recreational sun exposure lowers your risk—Additional studies performed at the British Columbia Cancer Agency confirmed that the higher your lifetime recreational sun exposure, the lower your risk of skin cancer.
Lifeguards in Australia have the lowest rates of melanoma—In the February 2, 2005 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute a study confirmed that exposure to the sun reduces the risk of skin cancer.
Additional studies have shown that lifeguards in Australia have the lowest rates of melanoma, the people who bake all day in the hot sun. The incidence of malignant melanoma is twice as high in office workers—In another study published in Lancet, researchers at the University of Sydney’s Melanoma Clinic found the incidence of malignant melanoma was twice as high in office workers than those whose occupations or lifestyle kept them in the sun regularly. Those who had the lowest incidence were sunbathers!
Authors of this study concluded that in both Australia and Great Britain, professionals and office workers were at greater risk than people who worked outside. Another study showed that those who work under fluorescent light double their risk.

A tan can actually help prevent melanoma. Several studies conclude that a deep tan, particularly in childhood and the adolescent years, provides protection against melanoma. So what accounts for the sudden rise? My answer: we are exposing ourselves to new carcinogens, eating foods that promote skin cancer, and not getting enough of the nutrients that prevent it. Sun exposure produces one of the most potent health-boosting substances in your body. This amazing vitamin performs countless valuable functions for you. It’s also an essential hormone. It can:

Elevate your mood and boost your mental performance.
Prevent many types of cancers including prostate, breast and ovarian.
Prevent and treat the bone diseases of rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis.
Prevent depression and schizophrenia.
Enhance the function of your pancreas.
Increase insulin sensitivity and prevent diabetes.
Help you lose weight.
Make you sleep better.
Give you more energy and stamina during the day.
Significantly lower elevated blood pressure.
Lower abnormally high blood sugar.
Decrease bad cholesterol in your blood.
Increase lymphocytic white blood cells responsible for immunity.
This may be the single most important organic nutrient for your overall health. If it were a drug, it would be the discovery of the century.

This amazingly beneficial nutrient is vitamin D. Your body makes vitamin D when the sun’s ultraviolet rays strike your skin. And we can all get plenty of it free, just by spending enough time in the sun. But studies show that a widespread deficiency of vitamin D is rampant in America today. The average person today has lower vitamin D levels than their parents had just 30 years ago.

And that shouldn’t surprise you… If you’re like most people, you probably spend 90% of your daylight hours indoors. And that can be downright dangerous. You see, there’s a direct link between low sunlight exposure and vitamin D deficiency. There’s also a link between low vitamin D levels and other diseases. Research shows that vitamin D reduces the risk of the three biggest killers of our generation – heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

If you’re deficient in vitamin D, genes designed to protect your health can’t work properly, because they need vitamin D to switch them on. One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the century was the role of vitamin D in health maintenance. This discovery alone will have a dramatic impact on disease prevention, including cancer.