The Other Benefits of Sunbathing Sun Can Make Your Life Longer

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - The rainy season will soon be over and start to re-emerge scorching sun with its rays. When you include the likes sunbathing on the beach when the weekend, maybe you'll be happy to know that people who love to sunbathe have a chance to live longer.

In a study conducted by the Karolinska University Hospital and Lund University in Sweden found that women who avoid the sun lived 0.6 to 2.1 years shorter than women who regularly bathed in sunlight.

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The study involved more than 29 thousand women and performed for 20 years. The results of the study reveal that sun exposure may reduce the risk of heart disease and diseases that are not associated with cancer.

However, the present invention is still not equipped with the reasons why people with routine bathed in light has the risk of heart disease is lower.

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"We found that smokers with high exposure to sunlight is the same risk with nonsmokers but avoidance of sunlight. We suspect avoid sun exposure risk factors that had an impact as great as smoking," said Pelle Lindqvist who lead the research.

Although these studies suggest that exposure to the sun can be very beneficial for health, but the link between sunlight containing ultraviolet (UV) with the potential for skin cancer can not be refuted.

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Experts give a recommendation to use sunscreen with at least SPF 15 on 30 minutes before sun exposure under the sun. In addition, the better to avoid the sun at 11 am until 3 pm because of high UV exposure.

Exposure to sunlight, especially UV can cause skin cancer such as basal cell cancer and squamous cell. Other skin cancers such as melanoma is also associated with the activity of high sun exposure.

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer as a whole, which involves 40 percent, and is common in people with fair skin. Noted, as many as 2-3 million people affected by melanoma every year in the world.

While non-melanoma skin cancers such as basal occurred around 80 percent and squamous cancer by 20 percent. Both rarely causes death.