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Skin cancer more deadly in blacks while dermatology pushes more sunscreen products onto people who actually need sunlight exposure

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: melanoma, sunscreen, dermatology


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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strong financial ties to sunscreen manufacturers, and the position of dermatology continues to be based on the now-outdated idea that all sun is bad for you, and all sunscreen ingredients and chemicals are harmless.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.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

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