Sunscreen Not So Good for You?

j-beda writes "Don't like sunscreen? Maybe that tan is good for you. It looks like people are rethinking the common wisdom of avoiding sun exposure... "research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer". Maybe if Kurt Vonnegut ever does address MIT grads, he will say something else..."

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The answer, like almost every argument on health..

[3.5 stripes]

is, everything in moderation.

Too much sun = bad, too little sun = bad, some sun = just about right.

That wasn't hard now was it?

Re:alternate vitamin D sources

[kleinux]

But eating too much fish will give you too much Mercury in your diet, so I guess you really are screwed either way.