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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Uhm

[Anonymous Coward]

Who the fuck is Kurt Vonnegut?

Re:Common sense

[CrackedButter]

Milk ISN'T good for you period, humans weren't supposed to drink another animals milk. We are the only species on the planet to do so, and to our detriment. This is ignoring the pitfalls falls of todays production techniques whereby they pump growth hormones into the cows so they produce milk far longer than they are normally capable of. Plus all the other shit they do in order to meet their quotas.

milksux.org

[cheekyboy]

makes you fat you turd

milk != normal

Re:Common sense

[SgtChaireBourne]

Milk ISN'T good for you period, humans weren't supposed to drink another animals milk

What are you racist? Many cultures have had milk and milk products as staples for thousands of years, many others have used them to supplement their diet. And that's not just Indo-European cultures. Finno-Ugric and some asiatic / siberian cultures depend on milk and milk products over the millenia. Get over it.

You may not like milk or may be allergic, but that's fine. It's not a one size-fits-all world.

However, if you were to be more specific and say perhaps that humans were not intended to drink processed milk (e.g. homogenized or powdered milk) then you may have a point.

...todays production techniques whereby they pump growth hormones into the cows so they produce milk far longer than they are normally capable of. Plus all the other shit they do in order to meet their quotas.

As far off as you were in the first part of your post, you're right on with this one. Most current production techniques are inhumane and in the long term inefficient, unhealthy and environmentally unsound. Going back to local production would give higher quality product in most cases as well.

Typical Bush propaganda

[lightspawn]

So suddenly "scientists" are claiming abstinence is the only safe method?

Re:Common sense

[Ucklak]

Name another continental race that has influenced planetary agriculture with an abundance that we have today.

I'd like to say the Chinese but the fact is that Eurpoeans beat everybody as seen from a historical perspective.

The Europeans were the first to have a global map.
The Europeans were the first to have global colonies.
The Europeans tamed the mighty continent of Africa in terms of agriculture (and had to give it back to the warlords only to be put back in poverty)
The Europeans came to and populated most of America and that culture is what got us to the moon.

Re:Common sense

[tabrnaker]

Which is why unlike westerners, large portions of the world don't drink cow's milk, which takes very long to digest.

They also tend not to kill everything in their milk. Which i never understood how they can do that. Lets kill off every single good bacteria in the food so that it can become rotten and populated with bad bacteria. Then again, westerners almost seem to have an innate fear of anything alive and so do their best to kill everything around them and everything they put into their bodies.

This is why cultures drink their milk cultured. haha, then again, westerners kill everything in their cultured products as well. Silly westerners, it's a suprise they've lasted so long. Though they should start exploding any time soon as their intestines get more impacted with dead stuff :)