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Ok so as Stam pointed out on the vaccine thread (this one: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/letter-from-rabbonim-that-schools-must-accept-non-vaccinated-children) I readily admit I dont know much about “natural health” TM.
So here is my question:
The Sun is as natural as it gets, sunscreen is pretty artificial and full of “toxic” substances. Do adherents of the “natural health” TM philosophy believe it is safer to hang out in the sun with or without sunscreen?
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People say (not me) that the sun naturally causes no harm. But mankind with the explosion of the use of toxic airborne substances such as CFCs has damaged the natural atmospheric filtering of the UV light produced by the sun, artificially raising the amount reaching the earths surface. Possibly requiring an artificial response of sunscreens as the lesser of two evils.
I use natural sunscreen.
Organic bamboo parasol.
feivel: Both are true. UV rays do naturally filter through at unhealthy rates in many places during certain times of the year. Our poisoning of the atmosphere and ozone layers has exacerbated the problem, but the problem was always there. There are many studies on this.
Interesting. These are studies done before the Industrial Age that measured uv levels in various locations? I’d love to look over those studies. I couldn’t find them on Google. Maybe you could guide me in the right direction without posting a link?
feivel: When I have time I’ll try to dig them up B”N. But they can do studies about UV radiation in locations that haven’t been (as) affected by human pollution (e.g. above very remote areas in the Pacific) and they can calculate how strong the ozone layer was by reverse-engineering how much damage was done and things like that. This was one of the paragraphs we had to read in a practice SAT and the topic interested me so much that my teacher gave me lots of reading on it. I just have to find my high school notebooks…
Organic bamboo parasol.
No, a hat, but you have the right idea. Parasol better than aeresol.
There are always natural options for this stuff. Hashem created an amazing world with most remedies found in plants, and in other natural places. I certainly suggest you DO use sunscreen. I don’t know about you, but if I miss 2 days in the summer without sunscreen I WILL get burned.
Light skinned people should not go without, particularity redheads who are 50 percent more prone to getting many different types of skin issues.
That’s ok. You don’t have to bother.
As to your proposal for current locational studies, great idea, if you ignore the gaseous properties such as diffusion and susceptibility to convection.
As to the “reverse engineering” idea, well that should be easy and reliable enough. I say they should go for it.
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