Sunshine Beats Cancer, Mangoes Beat Sun Damage

This vitamin-beats-cancer thing is getting to be like the "rocks-scissors-paper" game, in which rocks beat scissors but paper beats rocks, and scissors beats paper. In this case, as reported in the item below, while sunshine can help us beat some cancers, it can also cause skin cancer, but skin cancer can be prevented, to some extent, by beta-carotene, which is found in spades in mangoes. Sure, it’s confusing, but after reading this piece in the London Times, we’ve concluded that we should get more sunshine, but only after eating more mangoes. That’s because mangoes have 682 micrograms of beta-carotene per 100 grams, and the National Cancer Institute recommends a daily intake of 6,000 micrograms, to protect us, naturally, from one of the cancers that sunshine has not been shown to prevent. Yet.