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Tanning apps that offer ‘safe’ sun routines undermining efforts to tackle skin cancer
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Article suggesting that the body should never have any sort of tan because that's dangerous
Meanwhile everyone is vitamin d deficient, developing auto immune diseases from low levels
Animals seek out sunlight to sit in, look at your cat or dog
You don't need to go overboard cooking yourself for more than a few minutes but advocating for literally no sun exposure is so stupid?
In Australia, to get a sufficient amount of vitamin D you just need to be outside for a few minutes a day.
Incidental exposure is enough. No deliberate cooking or tanning or seeking out the sun is needed.
ABC radio had a piece on this yesterday saying our multiple sclerosis rates are rising from sun avoidance
Tasmania enters the chat. As repeated on The Health Report some podcats ago, you can lie naked outdoors for hours in winter and not get anough sun exposure to impact D levels.
Australia is a big place
That's the claim and I used to echo it, but with near daily walks (weather permitting) plus hikes when weekends permit, plus gardening, I'm still deficient. Same story for almost everyone I work and exercise with.
There's either more to it or the claim doesn't hold up empirically
I dunno about you, but I'd much rather take a vitamin D supplement/vitamin E fortified foods, than get skin cancer
Make sure you take vitamin k mix or vit d supplement can calcify arteries
Also I think E causes lung cancer in supplement form
Any more than 5 minutes results in third degree burns.
Maybe for rangas