| Although research links skin cancer to ultraviolet light, the exact relationship is unclear and there are many important studies you need to consider.
According to new research, it may be riskier for most people to avoid sunlight than to to tan moderately.
1. Overall, cancer rates are higher in sun deprived areas of the world and decrease significantly as one gets closer to the equator.
2. Malignant Melanoma skin cancer is most common in people who do not receive regular sun exposure and most frequently develops on parts of the body that are not regularly exposed to the sunlight.
3. Several studies suggest that many types of cancer -( including breast, colon, prostate and ovarian) are slowed or inhibited by increased exposure to the sun.
4. Sunlight is the body's only natural and reliable source of vitamin D. Studies suggest that vitamin D is linked to the prevention of breast, colon, prostate and ovarian cancers- cannot be reliably supplemented in our diet.
5. More than 138,000 Americans die each year from breast, colon, prostate and ovarian cancers. Less than 2,200 die of non-melanoma skin cancer.
6. A 1994 study showed that Northern women have five times greater risk of ovarian cancer than Southern women who receive more direct sun exposure.
7. Four-and-a-half billion years of ongoing research have proven one thing conclusively: We would all be dead without sunlight-the source of all life on our planet.
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