I have read that the number one suspected cause of melanoma is severe
sunburn as a child.

Tom Barber

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From: "Hilary McClure" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: letter to friend


> Check out the sunshine chapter in "Protein Power Lifeplan". If I
> remember correctly, sun-generated vitamin D in your skin has anti-cancer
> properties, and the cancer is more likely to have been caused by a lack
> of it, by sunscreens being converted by the sun into carcinogens, by
> having too many of the wrong fats (omega 6's) as structural fats in skin
> cells, and by insufficient levels of certain antioxidants.
>
> Hilary McClure
> Danville, Vermont
>