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DUTCH HEALTH COUNCIL CRITICIZES IARC

The Health Council expresses major reservations concerning the decision recently taken by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to raise the category of UV-radiation and solariums to cancer risk category one and says that the supporting scientific documents provide no basis for this.

The Council states that “sunbathe sensibly and in moderation. As yet, there is no justification for making a distinction between sunbathing and the use of sunbeds” and continues in its letter to the Dutch Ministry which deals with health and consumer protection, that “it is not possible to state with certainty that the use of sunbeds is responsible for an increased incidence of melanomas”.  In the statement the scientists belonging to the high-ranking panel also explain the positive effects of sufficiently supplying the human body with vitamin D pruduced in skin stimulated by UV radiation.

The Dutch Health Council is the Netherland’s most important scientific panel in the domain of health. Its studies, statements, and recommendations often form the basis for legislative proposals.

The letter from the Health Council of the Netherlands can be downloaded HERE

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Book recommendation for tanners: The Healing Sun – Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century by Richard Hobday

Anyone who still have any doubts of the healing and preventing powers of sunlight (inclusive UV-light) should read this book.

Reading this book will give another perspective to the present fanatic campaign against sunlight driven by the World Health Organisation and sponsored by large manufacturers of cosmetics for sun-protection.  It makes you wonder if this organisation really is serving us with the best advice on how to live a healthy life.

Here is an example of pictures from the book:
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Here is what it says on the backside:

The human race evolved under the sun, and for thousands of years lived in harmony with its heat and light. Yet over the last fifty years we have lost this close contact with the sun and its healing powers. We have become afraid of it.

However the sun is central to our well being and health. Did you know that:
• designing and building sunlit houses can help prevent disease, make us feel happier and save energy
• sunlight can help prevent and heal many common and often fatal diseases like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis
• before antibiotics, sunlight was used successfully to speed up the healing of wounds
• tanning moderately throughout the year is better than avoiding the sun altogether
• sudden bursts of strong solar radiation are unnatural and dangerous, protection needs to be built up slowly
• early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is particularly beneficial to the body
• sunlit hospital rooms provide a better environment for the treatment of clinically depressed people
• prolonged exposure to artificial light puts the body under great stress
• large numbers of people may be compromising their health through sunlight deficiency
• there is a substantial body of historical and contemporary evidence that suggests moderate sunbathing is far more beneficial than we are currently led to believe

The light and heat from the sun are indispensable to all nature. Humanity is also part of nature and needs sunlight for health and well being, for vitality and happiness. This book explains how and why we should welcome sunlight back into our lives — safely! It shows how sunlight was used to prevent and cure diseases in the past, and how it can heal us and help us in the future.

Richard Hobday, MSc, PhD is a member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners and has studied traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese exercise systems in China. Dr. Hobday has many years experience of solar design in buildings and is a leading authority on the history of sunlight therapy.

You can get it from Amazon through this link:

Healing Sun: Sunshine and Health in the 21st Century

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Is Sunlight The Best Medicine?

sunlight-the-best-medicineGiven the recent results from Vitamin D research, could it be so that sunlight is the best medicine there is?

What if a “WONDER-DRUG” existed, that would: ! Reduce the risk of getting more than 60 different kinds of diseases among them:

  • Most kind of cancers (inclusive skin-cancers)
  • Heart Disease
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Type 1 Diabetes
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Rickets (low bone-density)

! Be available free during at least 6 months and through safe technology the rest of the year

! Have serious side effects only if:

  • Overdosing or not following the recommendations “on the package”.
  • Taken by individuals with skin-type I or with a large amount (>100) of “liver-spots” on their body.

This “miracle-drug” would also:

  • Make calcification, hardening and stiffening of your blood vessels disappear.
  • Make your immune system work at optimal efficiency, enough to fight off infections like the common cold and seasonal flu-epidemics.
  • Strengthen your teeth
  • Raise your mood
  • Strengthen your muscles
  • Improve your metabolism
  • Enhance your sex-life
  • Make you loose weight

WOULDN’T EVERYONE WANT TO TAKE SUCH MEDICINE? Continue Reading →

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Secrets of tanning lotions revealed

Anybody else who wants to know the secrets of tanning lotions?

Of course you already  know that you will get a better color when tanning in a solarium (and also outdoors) if you use a lotion than if you are tanning without. But do you really know what you are putting on your skin and what makes a good lotion a good lotion?

Read on and I will reveal to you the secrets of tanning lotions hidden by most lotion-makers. Secrets that will guide you next time you are buying a lotion either for using yourself or for sale in your salon. Continue Reading →

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The most successful “black marketing” campaign in the world?

In July 2009 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an Agency organized within UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), announced through The Lancet Oncology medical journal and press-releases, the “breaking news”  about the classification of ‘the use of UV-emitting tanning devices to Group 1, “carcinogenic to humans”’.

This announcement created a new wave of articles and reports in many newspapers, magazines, journals and TV-channels around the world.  Many of the articles and reports went far beyond the original source in the reporters’ eagerness to create a “sensation” from this “news”.  None of the reporters seem to have bothered to go beyond the press-release, but if they would have done that they would have discovered the following facts: Continue Reading →

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Hello tanners!

It’s no use to deny it – I am devoted to tanning for health and Vitamin D.  Not only to my healthy tanning but mainly to yours.  Therefore I am starting this blog in order to share with you my thoughts about tanning and how you can get the most out of your time in the solarium or under the sun.  For more details about me, see my biography

Mostly I will write about Vitamin D and about tanning lotions.  Those subjects have become my specialty since a couple of years back.  I will write about how to tan for Vitamin D and about the ingredients and quality of tanning lotions. This will help every tanner to tan right and how to select the correct  lotion for every tanning purpose.

The “Black Marketing” campaign from dermatologists sponsored by large manufacturers of chemical sunscreen lotions is another topic which I will give my view on.

I will make no secret of my connection to Devoted Creations and their European web-shop at www.lotionsdirect.com.  For reasons that you soon will be aware of when you follow this blog, I consider the lotions from Devoted Creations superior to any others.

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