Sunshine and tanning?!?!

[Texas Diesel]

http://www.mercola.com/2004/jul/24/sunlight_blood_pressure.htm

 

[Jeff Clark]

I don't know about that. My blood pressure is usually up for a little while when I get out of one of those.

 

[merryman]

Sunshine is allso the best source of vit. D.

Dr. Mercola is a regular read in our house.



Vaughn

 

[Deezul1]

I have a friend that has suffered multiple skin surgeries with potential to be fatal that will tell you all about getting a "Good" tan.

 

[Mike Ellis]

Watch out for tanning boys, it is the skin's response to *damage*. Realistically, if you tan and don't get burnt you are probably not going to have any long term problems unless you routinely cook yourself. Folks who do not tan, only burn and peel are at highest risk. However if you have a lot of dark-pigmented moles you are at risk even if you do tan, damage to them can result in melanoma which is very aggressive and deadly. Watch them closely for changes in color, size, or symmetry - any of which can signal bad juju.

Watch your kids close, severe sunburn damage in youth can cause bigger problems down the road than routine exposure in adulthood.

 

[merryman]

Suggesting that Sunshine is the best source of vit. D, is not to suggest that one get sunshine to the point of burning or skin damage. When one has become only slightly pink is the time to quite, not when you are lobster red.



Vaughn

 

[lschultz]

Thats why they call us rednecks.

 

[KBennett]

The study may be true but I would not trust everything he says.

Kind of like Turbo dawg's current thread.



Dr. Mercola was our family doctor in Illinois 15 years ago. He mis-diagnosed my Dad when he was having chest pains. His diagnosis was pneumonia but it turned out it to be small heart attacks. After two weeks of antibiotics my Dad went to the hospital via an ambulance because he could not breath. His heart actually stopped for a while and we almost lost him.

My Dad had complete grounds for a lawsuit and if he had died my Mom would have been left with very little due to the financial problems they were having.

 

[Texas Diesel]

ouch.