I have noticed that my skin will adapt to the sun.  At the begenning of the season I might get a burn (granted these trips are not me spending hours and hours in direct sunlight) but after one or two I am fine.  I have purchased the expensive, natrual, lotion just in case I have an activity with long hours of direct exposure. 

I’m glad I learned about the sunscreen issue now, while my son is young since it is tempting to follow your parents example at times and there have been a few occasions where I sheilded him well.  They require sunscreen at his daycare so I bought him the natural stuff for that as well.  He doesn’t wear it outside of daycare though.

Feel free to show me credible studies that prove sunlight exposure is dangerous to our health. I haven’t seen any. Believing something simply because that’s what everyone else believes is not wisdom – it’s folly. As Anatole France said, “Even if 50 million people say a foolish thing, it’s still a foolish thing.”

You also say in passing that the sun is good for our health in other ways – could you elaborate on this? Besides avoiding seasonal affective disorder, I can’t think of any other reason to go in the sun for the sake for getting the sun’s ‘goodness’.

And sure, people are deficient in vitamin D, but that’s why supplements exist. I was vitamin D deficient well before I started avoiding excess sun exposure (for superficial reasons, I was getting too many sunspots).

Congratulations on being so much smarter than the rest of us.

Thanks for your comment. Try to find a sunscreen that is primarily zinc oxide at a health food store. The fewer ingredients you don’t recognize the better.

PUFA is the acronym for polyunsaturated oils, which should be dramatically reduced in the diet. They cause oxidative damage and inflammation, both of which are major risk factors for several diseases.

There are three basic problems with the chemicals in sunscreen:

1. They are powerful free radical generators.

2. They can have strong estrogenic activity.

3. They are synthetic chemicals that are difficult for the body to eliminate, and they accumulate in fat stores.

Research has shown that sunscreens containing PABA, Padimate-O or other PABA derivatives can damage DNA and cause changes that induce carcinogenic changes.

For an in-depth article on this subject, follow this link.

I still think you should try wearing glasses less, esp when outdors in sun. Exposure to sunlight may improve your vision, along with good nutrition. Some people benefit from raw milk, cheese, and meat.