The case that avoiding the sun could be as deadly as smoking, and why Australia disagrees (outsideonline.com)
The article's core finding is counterintuitive: across cohorts, more sun exposure tracked with lower blood pressure and lower all-cause mortality, and high blood pressure kills far more people than melanoma does. The implied driver isn't vitamin D the pill, but the sunlight itself.
An Australian in the thread cut it short: "the skin cancer capital of the world — no, no it is not." Another pointed to the ozone hole Stone Age humans never lived under, so sun exposure is simply more harmful now than the evolutionary argument assumes.
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