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		The Healing Sun – Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century by Richard Hobday 178 pages, black & white photographs, paperback: 1-899171-97-5, price: £ 9.95 The human race evolved under the sun, and for thousands of years lived in harmony with its heat and light. Yet over the last fifty years we have lost this close contact with the sun and its healing powers. We have become afraid of it. However the sun is central to our well being and health. Did you know that: designing and building sunlit houses can help prevent disease, make us feel happier and save energy sunlight can help 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 speed up the healing of wounds 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 particularly beneficial to the body sunlit hospital rooms provide a better environment for the treatment of clinically depressed people prolonged exposure to artificial light puts the body under great stress large numbers of people may be compromising their health through sunlight deficiency there is a substantial body of historical and contemporary evidence that suggests moderate sunbathing is far more beneficial than we are currently led to believe The light and heat from the sun are indispensable to all nature. Humanity is also part of nature and needs sunlight for health and well being, for vitality and happiness. This book explains how and why we should welcome sunlight back into our lives – safely! It shows how sunlight was used to prevent and cure diseases in the past, and how it can heal us and help us in the future. Reviews and endorsements "We naturists, and the rest of the world as well, have been told by the experts for the last ten years or so that sunbathing can cause skin cancer and ageing, and it is dangerous to get a suntan. "You may be completely unaware," say the publishers, "as Richard was when he began the research for this book, that in the right hands sunshine is a medicine. Throughout history it has been used to prevent and cure a wide range of diseases, and a few doctors still use its therapeutic effects to good value." So we naturists were right all the time! Although its not a simple as that. "The Healing Sun" does propose that sunlight can alleviate diseases such as cancers of the breast, colon, prostate and ovaries; heart disease and multiple sclerosis; and osteoporosis. It also states quite clearly that the risks of these diseases are actually far greater than the risk of skin cancer because of too much sunlight. We already know to our cost that modern people live in smoky cities, in artificially heated houses, and that, as a nation we suffer badly from SAD a winter depression caused by lack of sun. So every naturist should read this book, and with a minimum of care, enjoy the sunshine, with its health giving properties for the rest of his or natural life." — Sunlovers (Great Britain Naturist Publication) Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Your Body and Mind in the Sun 2. The Decline of the Sun 3. How Sunlight can Prevent Serious Health Problems 4. Sunlight: A Medicine for Diseases of the Past, Present and Future 5. How to Sunbathe Safely 6. Indoors, Outdoors 7. Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century