“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Quote of the week: Derm:UV Benefits More Important than Risks
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“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
“I’m a dermatologist. My day job is telling people ‘You’ve got skin cancer. It’s caused by sunlight. Don’t go into the sun.’ I actually think a far-more-important message is that there are benefits as well as risks to sunlight. Yes, sunlight is the major alterable risk factor for skin cancer. But deaths from heart disease are 100 times higher than deaths from skin cancer. And I think that we need to be more aware of, and we need to find the risk benefit ratio: How much sunlight is safe and how can we finesse this best for our general health.” — British Dermatologist and researcher Dr. Richard Weller, whose Ted.com viral video is promoting a new potential benefit of regular UV exposure: natural Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the skin, which some are crediting as a mechanism of why heart disease is less common in sunny climates.
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