Oh, That Summer Glow: Healthy or Harmful?

Barbara Gilchrest, a MED professor and former chair of dermatology, and Michael Holick, a School of Medicine professor of medicine, physiology, and biophysics, discuss the risks and benefits of the sun.

Read the full article at BU Today, http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2009/07/14/oh-summer-glow-healthy-or-harmful

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[JoshuaEvanPowell]

It'd be nice if she let him speak and didn't interrupt, as he does for her.

[shreivox]

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[shreivox]

I only know that if the sun was not harmful, there would not need for lotions and the firms would lost a lot of money. And what before hundreds of years? Does it have to do with the nowadays problem of ozon? Is it that serious? Are truly some kinds of cancers have to do particularly with the sun? What if it has to do with combining some products such as sunglasses wich affect on the body in order not to feel in the right climate conditions, produce hormones and protect skin in the right way?

[gledalac1979]

@somelikeithotornotly

that would mean that if you raise vitamin D then the disease would end and it's easy to raise vitamin D with supplements

[somelikeithotornotly]

Uhm, I am wondering .... why would LACK of Vitamin D CAUSE loss of bone density, when the only active ingredient in organic rodenticides (Vitamin D) CAUSES the animals to die by resorping calcium FROM the bones into soft tissue? I submit that low Vitamin D is the RESULT of disease and not the CAUSE.