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artificial light during most of their working hours had the highest risk of developing melanomas. She also
discovered that fluorescent lights cause mutations in cultures of animal cells.
Dr. Shaw’s research led to the conclusion that both in Australia and Great Britain, melanoma rates
were high among professional and office workers and low in people working outdoors. In other words,
the Australians and British (and the rest of us) would be better off spending more time outside where there
is plenty of UV light! Similar controlled studies were conducted at the New York University School of
Medicine, which confirmed and substantiated Dr. Shaw’s research results.
People with brown to black Afro-Caribbean skin and hair can spend long periods in the sun without
burning. They rarely suffer from skin cancer while living in their native lands where sunshine is plentiful.
Their skins’ high melanin level filters out a lot of UV but still provides them with enough of the beneficial
rays. The problem arises once they move to more moderate or colder climates, like the U.K. or Sweden.
This requires that they get extra exposure to the sun to maintain normal vitamin D levels. In the U.S. 42
percent of African-American women of childbearing age are deficient in vitamin D. If the darker races
don’t get these extra amounts of sunlight, they are the ones who are most likely to develop skin cancer.
The reason for their higher cancer risk is not too much sunlight, but too little of it.
In support of previous findings that Vitamin D prevents cancer, the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, in its June 2007 issue [85(6):1586-91, published the first large-scale, randomized, placebo-
controlled study on vitamin D and cancer. It showed that vitamin D can cut cancer risks by as much as 60
percent. The study observed nearly 1,200 women, aged 55 and older, over the course of four years. The
women were divided into two groups. One group was given supplemental calcium and vitamin D, the
other group received a placebo. Those in the first group had a 60 percent lower risk for all cancers
compared with those who were in the placebo group.
This previous study was further substantiated by research from Stanford University. Exposure to
sunlight may reduce your risk of advanced breast cancer, according to a new study published in the
American Journal of Epidemiology October 12, 2007. The study followed 4,000 women between the ages
of 35 and 79, and evaluated the effects of long-term sun exposure. It found that women with a light skin
color who had high sun exposure had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer (cancer that has
spread beyond the breast) as women with low sun exposure. In other words, the more regularly you
expose your skin to the sun, the less likely will you develop cancer of the breast or other types of cancer.
In response to these most recent cancer-breakthrough studies, the Canadian Cancer Society is now
recommending vitamin D for all adults, the first time a major public-health organization has endorsed the
vitamin as a cancer-prevention therapy. Although Vitamin D is available in some food sources and
supplements, about 90 percent of the vitamin is produced by the body in direct response to sun exposure.
In fact, the quickest and most efficient way top obtain enough cancer-preventing Vitamin D is sun
exposure. Although direct contact with sunlight has prevented cancer and many other diseases for
thousands of years, it is discouraged and even warned against by today’s health care industry.
As is so often the case, the purely symptom-oriented medical theories fall short in explaining the
causes of disease. In fact, they are likely to make you ill. Beware of any advice given to you by any
doctor, company, or organization who wants to protect you against a supposed threat while at the same
time trying to sell you something else, such as sunscreen lotions.