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- Tanning beds and Vitamin D - many studies
- Your body needs sunshine for health - even Australia agrees
- Seniors get about 4X less vitamin D from the sun or UVB
- Lack of Vitamin D due to lack of Sun, global perspective - Grant Jan 2024
- Risk of Parkinson’s decreases with time in summer sun - Jan 2024
- 50 ng of Vitamin D - 100 hours of noon sunbathing OR 3 dollars of Vit D
- Sunscreen use is no longer associated with reduced skin cancer – meta-analysis April 2018
- Light improves health by more than just Vitamin D - April 2022
- Less vitamin D from the sun if it is too hot to be outside (now noticed in China) - March 2023
- Dark-skinned infants got minimal vitamin D from 4 minutes sunbathing daily – RCT Nov 2022
- 3.3 X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient if wear long-sleeves – Oct 2022
- How Sensible Sun Exposure Benefits Your Health -Holick interview May 2022
- 23 Cancers if little sun, 12 of which have been associated with low vitamin D – March 2022
- Skin Aging and Vitamin D - many studies
- Mutiple Sclerosis half as likely in children spending 30 to 60 minutes per day in the sun – Dec 2021
- Vitamin D from the sun reduces the risk of internal cancers, but increases some skin cancers – Nov 2021
- Challenges in Sun Protection - 233 dollar book - Oct 2021
- 340,000 US deaths annually due to insufficient sun (some due to low vitamin D) – July 2020
- Book: Sunlight, UV, Vitamin D and Receptor, Skin and other Cancers - Dec 2020
- Survey: Sunlight always bad (80 pcnt in Great Britain) - Sept 2020
- Health benefit of Sunlight is more than Vitamin D in the blood - many studies
- Polish children need 45 minutes of noon sun to get 800 IU of Vitamin D – July 2020
- Sunlight on skin has decreased 9X while melanoma has increased 30X – Feb 2020
- Low birth weight associated low Vitamin D (little sunshine in China in this case) - Dec 2019
- More Cancer if less sun – model adding climate helps (need additional factors) – Nov 2019
- Depression treatments: diet, exercise, bright light, Vitamin D, B12, Omega-3, Zinc, Music, etc. – May 2019
- Sunlight – a hero, then a villain, now a hero again – July 2019
- Sunlight, Vitamin D, Omega-3 and health – YouTube April 2019
- High levels of Vitamin D and low rates of skin cancer among commercial fishermen – July 2019
- Avoiding the sun may be as bad as smoking - many studies
- Sunniest cities in the world
- Kids play outdoors 12 minutes a day, outdoor play improves of health of child and later as adult– July 2019
- Little sun in first trimester, 2.9 X more likely to have learning disabilities – June 2019
- Less sun, more back pain (low vitamin D) – Sept 2018
- Fewer cognitive problems if more sun or Vitamin D
- 1,000 IU of vitamin D from the sun not available in the winter (Switzerland too) – April 2019
- Vitamin D Myths - SUN
- The sun appears to generate Co-Q10 in our bodies when we eat our greens – Greger April 2016
- Which Is Worse - Avoiding Sunlight or Vitamin D Deficiency – April 2019
- Vitamin D from sun - minutes for 1000 IU (wrong in many ways) – April 2019
- 25 minutes of daily sun provided less than half of the response as 500 IU of vitamin D (Korea) – RCT March 2019
- Nature deficiency leads to disease (less sun, less Vitamin d) – Feb 2019
- Get enough Vitamin D from UK winter sun (if white skin and believe that 10 ng is enough) - Aug 2018
- Prisoners Get More Time Outdoors Than Children - Feb 2019
- Parkinson’s patients 50X less likely to get even a little sun– meta-analysis Jan 2019
- Have We Gotten Sunscreen Totally Wrong - Jan 2019
- Have We Gotten Sunscreen Totally Wrong Jan 2019
- 85 ng of vitamin D in soldiers deployed to sunny Afghanistan – Jan 2019
- The Greatest Public Health Mistake of the 20th Century (sunscreen block Vitamin D) - 2017
- Alzheimer’s associated with low sun and low vitamin D – Sept 2018
- Vitamin D from safe sun: only 500 IU in 10 minutes when include windchill – Jan 2018
- 9 minutes of full noon sun daily is all you need (if have white skin and believe that 10 ng is enough) – Aug 2018
- Vitamin D needed for 12 ng in winter in Finland – Whites 320 IU, Blacks 720 IU – July 2018
- Vitamin D produced by hands and face is 8X more than elsewhere – Feb 2018
- Embrace the Sun – benefits of the sun throughout the day and year – book June 2018
- Light and Vitamins - D, A, C, B1, B2, B3, B9, B12, E – April 2018
- Widespread regular sunscreen application deemed not useful in the US – April 2018
- Spring sunshine in snowy Finland normalized Vitamin D levels to 36 nanograms – 2017
- 1400 IU of Vitamin D from Summer noonday German sun from a 10 minute walk – Feb 2018
- Indoor workers have lower vitamin D levels than outdoor workers, unless lead smelter – June 2017
- 2 cents of vitamin D far better than sunbathing for 30 minutes daily – Nov 2017
- Autism is the least in regions having the most sunshine (and vitamin D) – Nov 2017
- Infant sunbathing 30 minutes a week raises vitamin D levels to only 20 ng in 6 months – Sept 2017
- Making vitamin D from sunshine – 2 minute cartoon video by Vitamin D Society – June 2017
- Most exercise occurs in the evening (when there is little or no Vitamin D) – July 2017
- People who get little noon-day sun must supplement with Vitamin D – systematic review June 2017
- Avoiding the sun reduces lifespan by 2 years (smoking reduces lifespan by 10 years) – March 2016
- Vitamin D and Sun conference – Germany June 2017
- Each hour of outdoor work in India increased vitamin D levels by 2 nanograms – March 2017
- UVB annual US - 1978-2014
- Sunburning reduced by 200,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT April 2017
- Get your vitamin D from the sun – a single cartoon image
- Perhaps you get more health from the sun at 8 AM than noon
- Health benefits of non-burning exposure to UV light – Jan 2017
- Infants need more sun than 17 minutes per week on 6 percent of skin – Dec 2016
- Regular sun exposure benefits health – Dec 2016
- Nepalese infants who sunbathe, etc. have much higher levels of vitamin D than their mothers – Dec 2016
- The Healing Sun –1999 book highlights at Vitamin D Life
- The risks and benefits of sun exposure – Holick Oct 2016
- Sunscreen chemistry overview – 2015
- Vitamin D facts from Sunlight Institute - Nov 2016
- Parkinson’s disease 2 times less likely if get 2 hours of daily sun – Nov 2016
- Less vitamin D generated from sunlight by schizophrenia patients – 2016
- Time in sun (in Spain) to get 4,000 IU of vitamin D: half hour in July , 2 hours in October – Sept 2016
- Farmers in India have 2.5 times higher vitamin D than office workers – 2016
- Most S. Calif lifeguards have good level of vitamin D (above 40 ng) - Aug 2016
- Sunscreen used daily vs discretionary: no difference in skin cancer rate – RCT 2016
- 3 tanning sessions raised vitamin D levels about 4 nanograms for about 4 weeks – July 2016
- Large variability in response to UV (more than response to oral Vitamin D) – March 2016
- Sunlight - not too much and not too little - May 2016
- Sunshine is a cure for “weak and soft muscles” – 425 BC
- Dark-skinned hunter-gatherers may generate 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily - June 2016
- Diabetes 3X more likely if little aerobic exercise (perhaps low vitamin D) March 2016
- Sunbathing (vitamin D) increases lifespan in Sweden by about 1 year – March 2016
- Many wavelengths of light provide health benefits, not just UV – March 2016
- There’s a New Sunscreen That Boosts Vitamin D Production (a tiny amount) - Feb 2016
- Vitamin D from the sun during Northern winters – contrary to current belief – April 2015
- Fewer cognitive problems in regions with more sunshine (vitamin D) – April 2014
- Sunscreen cream (Photocil) which allows Vitamin D to be produced (not US) – Dec 2014
- Outdoor activities prescribed by 20 French doctors to treat diseases associated with low vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Tanning bed twice a month slightly increased vitamin D levels during the winter – RCT Nov 2015
- The Shadow Rule – you make more Vitamin D when you are taller than your shadow – 1992
- Little Vitamin D generated by face and hands - June 2015
- Sun is needed, but as with ice cream, getting too much can cause problems – Aug 2015
- Sun is better than UV, which is better than Vitamin D
- Go ahead, soak up some sun (but don’t burn) – Holick July 2015
- Canadians have a hard time getting 1,000 IU of vitamin D from the sun – July 2015
- Neighborhoods with more trees are healthier (vitamin D not mentioned) – July 2015
- Overly restrictive sun exposure warnings pose health risk - July 2015
- Cancer - far less for outdoor workers
- Low vitamin D in teens at 40 degrees North (Italy) due to not being outdoors, etc, May 2015
- The sun provides more health benefit than vitamin D – Dr. Lucas podcast – May 2015
- 3 primates have higher levels of vitamin D than clothed humans, level varies between individuals – April 2015
- Studying more results in less sun ,which results in less vitamin D – Jan 2015
- Is this better than Vitamin D - sunlight (Wunsch, Mercola) - March 2015
- People with health problems lacking noon sun (severe Multiple Sclerosis, etc.) have even lower levels of vitamin D – March 2015
- Low vitamin D in yet another sunny country-Thailand - March 2015
- Less sun means more disease -Grant, Holick, Cannell, et al Feb 2015
- Vitamin D from sun barely increased when lower half of body was also exposed – Jan 2015
- UV production of Vitamin D varies with the individual – 2010
- Outdoor exercise better than indoor for postmenopausal women (no mention of vitamin D) – Dec 2014
- SPF of Herbal Sunscreens - 2010
- How many minutes of sun do I need – age, skin color, UV index – Nov 2014
- Vitamin D from the sun while minimizing skin cancer - Interview by Dr. Mercolla of Dr. Cannell - Nov 2014
- Elite NZ Outdoor athletes fear skin cancer 10X more than fear low vitamin D – Sept 2014
- Farmers got lots of UVB, but have same level of vitamin D as indoor wives – Sept 2014
- Vitamin D levels do not vary much with minutes in the sun
- Heliotherapy treated children – 1926
- Egg-white omelets are now so 1995 – When will excessive sunscreen be so 2010
- Sunscreen in a pill (with low SPF)
- Getting Vitamin D into your body
- Moisterizers may limit vitamin D absorption – they can contain sunscreens – July 2014
- Sun holidays are an important, but expensive, source of vitamin D in Sweden - Sept 2013
- Far more hot days and air conditioning (and thus less vitamin D) later this century – June 2014
- A wrist-watch which measures UVA plus UVB - should NOT be used to increase vitamin D - June 2014
- Cancer Council of Australia recommends 30 minutes of daily sunshine – June 2014
- Sun vacations raise vitamin D levels, but too much sun per day caused DNA skin damage – May 2014
- Prescription: A walk in the park to improve your health (ParkRX) - May 2014
- Sun avoidance increases risk of death by 2X – April 2014
- Does Less Sun mean More Disease
- The happy Vitamin – Vitamin D – a 2 minute video March 2014
- 20 cent vitamin D pill similar to 2 hours sunbathing at 60 degree latitude – RCT Aug 2013
- Australian shade audits finds UV typically reduced by only 2X to 8X – Jan 2014
- Noon is not “high noon” in various places around the world
- Noontime sun and D
- Decreased risk of non-melanoma skin cancer by working outdoors in Europe – April 2013
- Vitamin D cartoons
- "No hat, no play" in Australian primary schools
- Two minutes sun is all you need for vitamin D (not) - Dec 2013
- Melanoma is 44 percent LESS LIKELY if get sun on the job – Nov 2013
- Melanoma not as thick if recently had a sunny vacation – Nov 2013
- UV, sunshine, and vitamin D (87 charts) - Holick March 2013
- Children in Australian Northern Territory have 38 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2013
- Walking an hour a day (more vitamin D) decreased chance of breast cancer by 14 percent – Oct 2013
- Fewer heart attacks, hip fractures and deaths if more skin cancer – Sept 2013
- Vitamin D may be lost by showering after sunbathing – 2009
- Suncation adds 12 ng of vitamin D to Sweden women – Sept 2013
- Why do gardeners live longer (vitamin D, etc.)
- Higher air pollution associated with 7 ng lower vitamin D levels – Aug 2013
- Air conditioning has not totally canceled the latitude effective in the US yet – July 2013
- Populations with more than 50 ng of vitamin D
- Equation of IU vs time in the sun - Jan 2012
- Cataract surgery may be another reason for low vitamin D levels in seniors
- Increase your vitamin D from the sun by wearing a tan-through instead of standard shirt
- Sunny vacations are one of the ways to raise vitamin D levels – June 2013
- Dermatologists view of UV radiation and the Skin – June 2013
- Only 1000 IU of vitamin D in 10 minutes at 36 degrees, nude, summer, noon – April 2013
- Australian dermatologists had lower vitamin D levels than elderly in hospitals – 2009
- Survey of attitudes of Outdoor workers about sun protection – New Zealand Feb 2013
- UV workshops in New Zealand
- Allergic to the sun (Polymorphic light eruption) – you may need UVB or vitamin D
- South Asians in UK get little vitamin D from 45 minutes of daily summer sun – RCT April 2013
- Less Solar Radiation was associated with more Cancer - 1941
- 60 minutes of sunlight needed to decrease vitamin D deficiency in sunny climate – Dec 2012
- Expert Review by Dermatologists: get more vitamin D but avoid the sun – Dec 2012
- Solar Radiation and Human Health: 35 page chapter in a book – Feb 2013
- Study of vitamin D level vs hours in the sun, etc. – Feb 2013
- Sunshine: Dangerous or Healthy – Schachter Center 2009
- Nitric oxide (from Sun, UVA, Vitamin D) reduces cardiovascular problems
- Kidney transplant patients advised to avoid the sun, then 90% have very low vitamin D levels – Sept 2012
- 5 Amazing Properties of Sunlight You've Never Heard About
- Contributions of Sunlight and Diet to Vitamin D Status - Sept 2012
- UVB has some association with cataracts
- Business opportunity: you can now make stuff which only passes vitamin D wavelength
- Do You need a Suncation or just vitamin D - Nov 2012
- High-level clouds decrease potential vitamin D by 40 percent – Oct 2012
- Vitamin D protects DNA against UV skin damage – 5 studies 2012-2013
- Benefits of sun are more than vitamin D – 2008
- Intense UV damages cadaver skin– Oct 2012
- Vitamin D vs angle of the sun
- New Zealand doctors are starting to prescribe more sunshine – Aug 2012
- Vitamin D from the sun without the heat (silver-coated plexiglass)
- 3X more vitamin D from the sun if take MS drug Interferon-β – July 2012
- Ways to block UVA but not the UVB which makes vitamin D
- Vitamin D from phototherapy lamps, tanning beds, and the sun – Jan 2012
- Seniors, like everyone else, need vitamin D and should avoid sunburns – 2011
- Survey finds that Non-Caucasians do not feel that people need sun exposure – July 2012
- Solar UV Doses of Adult Americans and Vitamin D3 Production – Dec 2011
- Hypothesis: Sun provides more than vitamin D – June 2012
- 400 iu of vitamin D is like 24 seconds of sun in a swimsuit in Los Angeles
- Sunny side of the hill is the healthiest – 400BC
- Whites were 2X more likely to be vitamin D deficient if wear long sleeves – Jan 2012
- Can I get vitamin D while wearing sunscreen: 94 pcnt yes in 2008, 63 pcnt yes in 2011
- Sunlight for babies – US Govt 1933
- People in Louisiana may be avoiding the hot sun like those in Middle East – May 2012
- Complex relationship between UVB and vitamin D – April 2012
- Possible DNA damage of skin if vitamin D levels less than 20 nanograms – April 2012
- Getting a tan does not mean that you are getting vitamin D
- Is the UVB action spectrum for vitamin D correct – no vitamin D winter - 2010
- Doctor survey: 64 pct feel 10 minutes of sun is enough, 33 pct say use sunscreen winter – May 2012
- Photosensitivity strongly associated with low vitamin D levels – March 2012
- More sunlight, more vitamin D, less hypertension - Feb 2012
- Even cows need more than 90 minutes in the sun each day – Feb 2012
- Dark skin does not generate as much vitamin D from the same amount of UV – Nov 2011
- Even young Caucasians do not get enough time in the sun – Oct 2011
- Avoid the hot sun and thus vitamin D in the Middle East – Oct 2011
- Problems with low UV and vitamin D in Scotland - Jan 2012
- Lets go to the sunny beach, it is just down the hall – Nov 2011
- Blacks living in urban area vs rural have less vitamin D if older than 50 – Oct 2011
- Metabolic Syndrome reduced 2X after one year of more sunlight - Nov 2011
- Being in shade or wearing long sleeves reduces vitamin D in blood – Nov 2011
- Use of tanning beds would reduce associated deaths by 10X – Oct 2011
- UV every two weeks maintains summer vitamin D level – RCT Oct 2011
- Modelling Vitamin D from the sun in Poland – 2011
- Military in hot climates and vitamin D deficiency - 2010
- Most young Americans not getting even 600 IU of vitamin D from the sun – FDA Aug 2011
- Excessive sun increases cancer all around the body – July 2011
- Photosensitivity (sun allergy) and vitamin D
- Natural ways to prevent a sunburn – 2011, 2016
- Hawaiians had 39 ng of vitamin D - July 2011
- Dark skinned teens use media much more - June 2011
- Hypothesis – you will get the most vitamin D from sun if you do not tan
- Sunscreen regulations in US improved somewhat – UVB and UVA both important – June 2011
- Wear glasses when getting vitamin D from the sun – June 2011
- Less UV: 2X more breast cancer – June 2011
- Low Vitamin D in Malay women –less time in sun –sun screen -obesity – May 2011
- Shade is better than sunscreen – does not eliminate the vitamin D – June 2011
- Most Australian GPs still believe the myth than 10 minutes of sun a day is enough – June 2011
- No – 10 minutes per day of sun-UVB is NOT enough
- Urban residents had 2X less vitamin D – 2008
- Perhaps not burn from the sun if have enough vitamin D
- For small amounts of sunshine the amount of skin exposed may not matter – Jan 2011
- 9 minutes a day of sun improved BMD Parkinsons disease patients – Jan 2011
- Difficult to get 1000 IU of vitamin D in 30 minutes If UVI less than 3 – April 2011
- Skin tone changes with season – high BMI different – Mar 2011
- Overview Suntan, melanoma and vitamin D
- Concealing clothing resulted in only 8 ng vitamin D – Feb 2011
- Scared Out of the Sun for Fifty Years – Jan 2011
- Whites with some sunshine can achieve more than 20 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2011
- Vitamin D from the sun 3 to 12 months of the year in the US
- Vitamin D and latitude Masterjohn - Dec 2010
- Vitamin D not change with latitude unless caucasian - 2009
- Consensus Vitamin D position statement – UK Dec 2010
- An overview analysis of the time people spend outdoors – Dec 2010
- 4X more suburban UV than urban UV – Nov 2010
- Lycopene blocks some UVA
- 80 percent of vitamin D from sun rather than from food – Nov 2010
- Moscow prison to install tanning beds - Nov 2010
- Increased UVB intensity did not increase vitamin D generated – Nov 2010
- Skin color and clothing but not sunscreens reduce vitamin D – Oct 2010
- Optimize vitamin D from the sun
- Indoor tanning neither reliable nor advisable source of vitamin D – Sept 2010
- Overweight and elderly both sunbathe less - 2009
- Overview Skin and vitamin D
- Opinion: sun better than UV better than vitamin D
- Teens increasingly indoors - especially if dark skin
- Dermatologists should not tan – June 2010
- China has documented that less UV results in more cancer – June 2010
- UK workshop on diet, sunlight, and vitamin D status – June 2010
- UV Winter in Northern but not Souther Europe - Jan 2010
- Study Suggests Indoor Tanning Boosts Chances of Melanoma
- People who avoid the sun for a medical reason were not vit D deficient – May 2010
- Suntan: Popularity is fading
- Most sunscreens actually increase the growth of skin cancer - May 2010
- Vitamin D and sunshine are two ways to reduce MS relapses - May 2010
- UPF = SPF for clothing
- Tanning from Wikipedia
- Sunlight robbery in the UK May 2010
- More people searching the web for "vitamin D" than for sunscreen - May 2010
- Decreased mortality with sun and or altitude
- Miss Ohio Teen USA on responsible tanning
- Vit D3 generated in spite of cow fur
- Minutes in the Sun for 1000 IU
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- Sunshine map.jpg
- Minutes of sun to get 40 ng of vitamin D
- teens and tanning - 2008.PDF
- AAP Policy statement on tanning beds - Feb 2011.PDF
- Systematic review of sunbeds and melanoma - 2006.PDF
- Vitamin D from sunbeds - 2009.pdf
- Cloudiness and Breast Cancer.PDF
- UV Index guide by US Weather Bureau - 2010
- Sunlight used to treat influenza - 1918
- not close to getting 2 hours of sun
- Not close to getting even 2 hours per week of sun in UK - July 2010
- Poor knowledge by office workers of vitamin D and sunscreen - July 2010
- 800 IU Vitamin D better than sun on arms with dark skin RCT- Aug 2010
- Map of minutes of sun to get 106 joules in July
- Map of minutes of sun to get 106 joules in Jan
- UV in North America with many maps - July 2010
- Sun added significant vitamin D levels only to white men in Brazil - June 2010
- Melanoma & sunscreen associated in 7 studies - chart 2010
- Graph on increasing melanoma with sunscreen
- Melanoma and suncreens Time line -2010
- Sunlight Robbery table 2: tanning suggestions
- PABA sunscreen does not absorb UVA which causes melanoma
- UV: The original Source! How to use it April 2010
- Sanatoriums did not provide UV - blocked by windows
- MS increased if low UV during first trimester -April 2010
- Sun exposure and vitamin D sufficiency
- gapminder breast cancer vs latitude 2002
- Suntan lotion UVA UVB
- No tan is a safe tan
- Showers and chlorine can reduce vitamin D
- Global increase in UV irradiance during the past 30 years in high latitudes
- UV exposure has increased over the last 30 years
- More summer sun accounts for 38% of vit D in blood in Italy
- UVB correlated with rate of bladder cancer in 174 countries
- Less renal cancer for men who get more sun while working
- UVB only in middle of the day
- UV causes temporary blindness