Too much sun or not enough? How to get the balance right | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Beaches are one of the truest pleasures our world has to offer. There’s nothing quite like spending the day baking in the sun with the cool ocean just a few metres away. It’s bliss.
That is, of course, until you get sunburnt.
The sun is the source of a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, it’s the source of all life on Earth, and the main reason that ice cream is a delightful experience. On the other, spending too much time out in the sun not only causes painful burns, it causes cancer too.
But, despite the cancer risks associated with too much of it, there are increasingly calls for us to be spending. Apparently it increases life expectancy, reduces the risk of high blood pressure, reduces the risk of cancer (yes, you read that right), improves sleep, and a whole host of other claims.
