by Jane Allyson

Created on: November 05, 2008

In recent years we have been taught to be wary of too much exposure to sunlight. Modern scientific study has suggested that exposing our bodies to the detrimental effects of too much U.V. radiation could cause complications such as cancer and skin blemishes.

Now experts are arguing that nothing could be further from the truth. The National Cancer Institute have concluded after extensive research, that a lifelong exposure to sunlight is not only beneficial, it is also an essential ingredient in life that will actually help ward off both breast and colon cancer.

Researchers from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego have found that 600,000 worldwide cases of breast and colorectal cancers could be prevented each year, if vitamin D3 levels were increased,

Jacob Liberman, ( "Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves Now") reminds us that humans evolved under the light that is put out by our sun. He asserts that by hiding from the very sunlight that we evolved to thrive under, we harm ourselves by now hiding away from it. He explains that "light is the basic component from which all life originates, develops, heals, and evolves."

Although Jacob Liberman advocates sunshine as a beneficial component for good health he also warns us that we must still be sensible to the effects that the sun can have. He warns against looking at the sun directly or overexposure during the hottest part of the day, which is between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00, and emphasizing that the body needs a mere hour a day, in natural light, without sun block or sunglasses, to gain full benefit.

Allowing ourselves sensible exposure to the healing rays of our sun gives us immeasurable benefits and affects us in a number of ways:

HEAT AND LIGHT

Without the sun, life would not have evolved. It gives us energy and heats our world by using the effects of thermal energy. The sun gives us light and thus in turn we are able to see the beautiful colors in our world. It revitalizes us and makes us feel good when we feel the warmth of its rays on our shoulders. We store the energy from the sun to help build and heat our houses.

FOOD

Without sunlight we would not be able to sustain ourselves. Sunlight gives balance. All living things live in a food chain and at the beginning of the food chain come the humble plant which absorbs sunlight and convert its cells into energy, which will then be absorbed by another life to be converted into a new kind of energy and so on...

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