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This book is a MAJOR eye opener. After all of the "doctor's orders" over the past decade to stay out of the sun because of skin cancer, this book gives you a 180 degree different perspective and led me on a quest to learn more about the benefits of Vitamin D -and the lack of it- on our health. If you are struggling with ANY form of chronic health problems, you may just be surprised that following the guidelines in this book just may seriously improve your health!! Having been a Registered Nurse for over 14 years, a lot of the information in this book goes against EVERYTHING that I had been taught. But in a nation of increasing antibiotic resistant infections, we just may be forced to return to whatever works for good health- and it's contained in this book. Learn these principles now and when antibiotics are useless, you'll have free medicine in your toolkit that you can use anytime. - Kerri Knox, RN http://www.easy-immune-health.com
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Explaining how and why we should get sunlight back into our lives - safely - this book shows how sunlight was used to prevent and cure diseases in the past, and how it can heal and help us in the future. Over the last 40 years, there has been a complete reversal in medical thinking on sunlight. Sunbathing is regarded by the experts to be a dangerous pastime which should be actively discouraged, yet little more than 50 years ago doctors in Europe and North America were using sunlight to treat potentially fatal diseases on a routine basis, and a number of hospitals were built specifically for sunlight treatment. The human race evolved under the sun and for thousands of years lived in close harmony with its heat and light. Many of us have lost this close contact with the sun and its healing powers.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is a "must read book" if you want to be healthy. Why? Because it brings the balance back into the unbalanced argument that the sun is dangerous to our health and should be avoided or blocked at all costs.
Perhaps for the first time, all the most important results of research in the field of health and the sun have been brought together into one document and the conclusions are startling.
Lack of sunlight can increase your chances of getting heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, decaying teeth, psoriasis and cancer (breast, colon, ovarian and prostate).
Sun bathing safely allows your body to generate vitamin D - crucial to a healthy immune system.
Long term exposure to artificial lighting can have potentially harmful health effects. Office workers who spend most of their year under artificial light and then have short periods of intense sunlight when they go on holiday can be at particular risk.
Use of sunscreens and lack of respect for the sun can leave you open to health problems.
Sunlight kills bacteria - even through glass.
You are more likely to recover from a heart attack in a sunlit hospital ward.
Moderate and controlled sunbathing should be part of a beneficial health regime, acting as a preventative medicine. Knowing when and how to sunbathe is the key.
This book tells you how to sunbathe safely and get maximum benefit.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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At long last! An intelligently researched and cogently presented argument which systematically challenges the often questionable propaganda of the vested-interests-based cosmetics industry - responsible for distorting the general public's attitude to the sun and its health-giving poweers for far too long.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.
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87 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Highly recommended for alternative medicine enthusiasts.
3 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
In The Healing Sun: Sunlight And Health In The 21st Century, Richard Hobday shows how the sun is central to human health and well-being. He explains that sunlit houses can help prevent disease, make us feel happier, and save energy; that sunlight can help prevent and heal many common (and often fatal) disease like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis; that sunlight was used successfully to speed up the healing of wounds before the invention of antibiotics; tanning moderately throughout the year is better than avoiding the sun altogether; sudden bursts of strong solar radiation are unnatural and dangerous, protection needs to be built up slowly, early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is particular beneficial to the body; sunlight hospital rooms provide a better environment for the treatment of clinically depressed people; prolonged exposure to artificial light puts the body under great stress; and much, much more. The Healing Sun is a unique and invaluable contribution to personal and professional alternative health and medical reference collections.
40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
The Truth About Sunlight
13 Nov 2006
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Many ancient cultures worshipped the sun, which is understandable given the healing power it contains. While I don't worship the sun, but rather it's Creator, I am truly grateful for the healing power it contains. For years sunlight has been put down as unhealthy by the mainline medical establishment. In his well researched, most imterestingly written book, "The Healing Sun," Richard Hobday not only gives you the history of sunlight theraphy, but also the facts concerning the health benfefits of sunlight.
Did you know that:
-Sunlight can prevent and heal many common and often fatal diseases like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and osteoporosis?
-Before antibiotics, sunlight was used successfully to spped up helaing of wounds?
-Prolonged exposure to artifical light puts the body under great stress?
-Early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is especially benificial to the body?
Read this well written, informative book for the details concerning all these facts and much more.
Did you know that:
-Sunlight can prevent and heal many common and often fatal diseases like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, and osteoporosis?
-Before antibiotics, sunlight was used successfully to spped up helaing of wounds?
-Prolonged exposure to artifical light puts the body under great stress?
-Early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is especially benificial to the body?
Read this well written, informative book for the details concerning all these facts and much more.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Valuable Information YOU NEED TO KNOW!
23 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have always known the sun was my friend. I never cowered to the medical fanatics who warn against allowing sunshine to touch my skin. Now I finally found a book that reveals the studies to prove that not only is the sun NOT the evil monster in the sky, but indeed it's warming rays are extremely important to the health and well-being of humans on earth. Read how it appears that sunshine can convert a substance called squalene (which would otherwise turn to cholesterol) to much needed vitamin D when skin is exposed to sunlight and thus lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, strengthen bones and even help in lowering incidents of various diseases (cancer, heart disease and more). This book also tells us why we should be very skeptical of sunscreens. This little book is packed with critical information and the studies to back it up. I even bought a second book to give to my parents who live in Florida but never allow the sunlight to touch their bodies. Both of them suffer from high blood pressure and too much cholesterol, and mom has already broken a hip.
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