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The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

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279 points petethomas | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 04:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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wewxjfq ◴[19 Sep 25 07:50 UTC] No.45299013[source]▶
The way I see it: If you live where your ancestors lived for thousands of years and if you make sure your skin gets gradually attuned to the sun each year, you probably get more health benefits. But beware if you're of Northern European ancestry living in Southern USA or Australia or if you work an office job and only seek the summer sun with pale skin.
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1. whatevertrevor ◴[19 Sep 25 20:56 UTC] No.45306471[source]▶
I have no reliable and in-depth data on how many of my ancestors died of skin cancer, or how many hours they exposed themselves to sunlight, and what kind of sunlight, or what clothes they wore over those thousands of years.

Using this line of thinking is at best an attempt at rationalizing what lifestyle you wanted to live anyway.