SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
Don't get fried, but a little sun...


...is turning out to be a very good thing. We always said that anything that feels so good (a little sun on the skin) can't be all bad, and turns out it probably is very good for you. Excerpt from an Associated Press wire story today:

Scientists are excited about a vitamin again.

But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing.

If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine's most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think.

The vitamin is D, nicknamed the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin makes it from ultraviolet rays. Because sunscreen blocks vitamin D's production, some scientists are questioning the long-standing advice to always use it.

Full article is available here. Sunny Spain, here we come!