Natural sunlight’s potential to harm you has really been blown out of proportion by doctors, corporations, advertisements, beauty experts, and health officials. You have probably heard these people say that you need to stay out of the sun because the sun can kill you. This simply isn’t true.

First of all there is not any scientific evidence whatsoever to prove that any type of sunscreen prevents skin cancer, or that the sun causes skin cancer, or why you should avoid the sun. Avoiding the sun just doesn’t make sense. People that live in island nations, such as the Philippines, don’t have any sunscreen and are in the hot sun everyday, yet there has not been one single case of skin cancer. The same is true for many countries in Africa where people don’t have access to any commercial sunscreens.

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