by Geoffrey Leigh

Created on: September 17, 2008

Slip, Slap, Slop, is certainly not the way to prevent skin cancer. Contrary to the best dermatological advice it is now well documented that a lack of sunlight or more precisely appropriate exposure to "Ultraviolet B" rays is the preventive and treatment for a host of diseases, some of which are potential "killer" diseases including skin cancer and melanoma. Sunscreens not only inhibit the vital ultra B rays, but the majority contain at least one chemical substance show to have carcinogenic (cancer causing) potential.

No health-oriented subject today is receiving more attention than vitamin D.

Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as an epidemic in most of the industrialized world. The major source of vitamin D for both children and adults is from sensible sun exposure. In the past the RDA or RDI for Australia was 400 IU. Today research is pointing to a massive 1000 IU of cholecalciferol (Vit. D3) being required daily for both children and adults, and in extremis from 2000 IU to 4000 IU to rebuild and maintain health.

Vitamin D deficiency causes poor mineralization of the collagen matrix in young children's bones leading to growth retardation and bone deformities known as rickets. In adults, vitamin D deficiency induces secondary hyperparathyroidism, which causes a loss of matrix and minerals, thus increasing the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. In addition, the poor mineralization of newly laid down bone matrix in adult bone results in the painful bone disease of osteomalacia.

Vitamin D deficiency can also contribute to or cause muscle weakness, increasing the risk of falling and fractures.

There is mounting scientific evidence that implicates vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, cardiovascular heart disease, and many common deadly cancers. Australian doctors have recognized that 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency Is Common in a Prevalent Australian Haemodialysis Population, that is in kidney function failure.

Personally as a clinician, one has good reason to believe that in the nature of skin cancer, over-exposure to sunlight (ultra A rays)and an Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency is more likely the totality of the problem.

In their book The Calcium Connection: A Revolutionary Diet and Health Program to Reduce Hypertension, Prevent Osteoporosis, and Lower the Risk of Cancer the authors Drs. Cedric and Frank Garland (1989) proved conclusively a link between calcium deficiency as a consequence of a lack of exposure to ultraviolet B rays, and cancer of epithelial tissue, that is breast, skin and intestinal tissue. It is due to the refusal of the medical profession at large to accept this thesis until just a few years back that there has been an uncontrolled escalation of cancers of epithelial tissue to the present day.

Annual measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D should be part of an annual physical examination.

However, if the so-called health-authorities (National Academy of Science, USA, and National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia) have been so much in error with the RDA/Is for Vitamin D. How do they fare for the other 35 or more essential vitamins and minerals, to say naught about the "Mythical Balanced Diet"?

Surely [they] and their followers; the medical profession, university trained dieticians and some nutritionists, stand indicted for innumerable premature deaths due to false and misleading dietary and nutritional information, especially the "Big Fat Lie" and their kowtowing to "Big Pharma" ably abetted by the corrupt FDA and TGA.

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