A University of Miami study released today shows that blacks are more than three times as likely to be diagnosed with late-stage melanoma than whites. The study, published in the Archives of Dermatology, reviewed 1,690 melanoma cases to reach the conclusion.
Researchers are not able to fully explain the disparity, but suggested that because skin cancer is more likely to occur in light-skinned people, whites tend to receive more attention and earlier diagnosis. The main challenge in blacks is that melanoma is not detected in its early stages and is allowed to progress to a point where it may become life threatening.
Nowhere in scientific discussions of skin cancer is there any rational evaluation of the role of sunlight as a healing therapy. A growing collection of scientific evidence shows that sensible sunlight exposure produces vitamin D, which acts as powerful anti-cancer medicine and halts the growth of cancer tumors. Vitamin D therapy, research shows, slashes the risk of breast cancer by over 50 percent while also reducing skin cancer risk.
In other words, sensible sunlight actually prevents skin cancer, while sunscreen products promote cancer by infusing the skin with carcinogenic chemicals and fragrance synthetics commonly used in sunscreen products. Sunscreen is not a cancer prevention product, and sunscreen manufacturers are now engaged in class action lawsuits that claim many sunscreen products offer little or no real protection against skin cancer in the first place, or that such products mislead consumers regarding the degree of protection.
The dermatology industry, however, maintains strong financial ties to sunscreen manufacturers, and the position of dermatology continues to be based on the now-outdated idea that all sun is bad for you, and all sunscreen ingredients and chemicals are harmless.
Even the American Cancer Society, which promotes sunscreen use, maintains strong financial ties to sunscreen manufacturers and other consumer products companies that sell products containing synthetic chemicals to the public. A new book to be released tomorrow, The Hundred-Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald, exposes many of the deceptions and distortions used to promote personal care products.
The real reason why blacks are more likely to be diganosed with late-stage melanoma is because people with black skin need more sunlight exposure than those with white skin in order to generate the same amount of vitamin D. That's because dark skin pigmentation blocks ultraviolet light, which is used by the body to produce vitamin D. Accordingly, most people with dark skin living in North America suffer from chronic vitamin D deficiencies that predispose them to many types of cancer, including melanoma. See The Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D for more information.
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email mail merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,' currently runs the NaturalNews email subscriptions. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org
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