Sunshine Beats Four Cancers

You read it here second: Vitamin D, which is made our the skin from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, appears to help prevent several types of cancer. Now you can read it here fourth, as we cite a Los Angeles Times’ story reporting that in the last three months, four separate studies have suggested that vitamin D helps protect us from lymphoma, as well as cancers of the colon, prostate, and lung.  The paper quotes Dr. Edward Giovanucci, a Harvard professor of medicine, challenging "anyone to find any factor that has such consistent anti-cancer benefits as vitamin D." The next problem, the Times writes, if figuring out how much vitamin D, and how much sunshine, we need. The government recommends 200 International Units a day for people up to age 50, and 400 for people 50 to 70. Giovanucci, on the other hand, is recommending 1500. More research to come.