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Healing Sun: Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century »

Authors: Richard Hobday
ISBN-13: 9781899171972, ISBN-10: 1899171975
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Findhorn Press
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Richard Hobday

Book Synopsis

This look at the benefits of sunlight looks at how the sun can prevent and cure diseases, as well as help us in the future.

	Acknowledgements	7
	Introduction	11
1.	Your Body and Mind in the Sun	17
	Vitamin D and 'The Vitamin D Winter'	18
	Deficiency, or Insufficiency?	20
	Sunlight, Cholesterol and Vitamin D	22
	Sunlight and Skin Type	24
	Sunlight and the Blood	27
	Sunlight and Growth	28
	The Psychology of the Sun	30
	Winter Blues and Light Hunger	35
2.	The Decline of the Sun	37
	Artificial Indoor Light	38
	Comfort and Health	41
	Ozone Depletion and Sunbathing	42
	Sunlight and Cataracts	43
	Skin Cancer	45
	Sunscreens and the Sun	48
	Sunlight, Free Radicals and Vitamins	51
3.	How Sunlight can Prevent Serious Health Problems	55
	How Common is Vitamin D Deficiency?	56
	Sunlight and Brittle Bones	58
	Osteoporosis, the 'Silent Epidemic'	59
	Rickets and Osteomalacia -- the 'Diseases of Darkness'	62
	Tuberculosis and the Sun	63
	'Surgical Tuberculosis'	65
	Sunlight and Cancer Prevention	66
	Colon Cancer and the Sun	69
	Breast Cancer and the Sun	70
	Prostate Cancer and the Sun	74
	Ovarian Cancer and the Sun	74
	Sunlight Therapy and Cancer	75
	Sunlight and the Heart	76
	Sunlight and Diabetes	78
	Multiple Sclerosis	79
	Sunlight and Tooth Decay	80
	Psoriasis	80
4.	Sunlight: A Medicine for Diseases of the Past, Present and Future	83
	The Open-Air Treatment of Infection Diseases	87
	The Open-Air Treatment of Tuberculosis	87
	Sunlight Therapy in the Ancient World	90
	The Rediscovery of Sunlight as a Medicine	91
	Sunlight and Smallpox	93
	War Wounds, Sunlight and Open Air	95
	Dr Oskar Bernhard (1861-1939): The Healer of Wounds	96
	Bernhard's Heliotherapy of War Wounds	98
	Dr Auguste Rollier, the 'High Priest' of Sunlight Therapy	99
	The 'Rollier Method' of Sunbathing for Health	104
	Making the Most of Sunlight	107
	Sunlight and Sea Bathing	107
	Then and Now	110
5.	How to Sunbathe Safely	111
	Vitamin D, Health and the Ageing Process	113
	Time of Day and Time of Year	114
	The Solar Calendar	115
	The Solar Year	115
	Latitude and Altitude	117
	Air Pollution	118
	Surroundings	119
	Ambient Temperature	119
	Diet and the Sun	119
	Is Fat a Sunbathing Issue?	121
	Diet and Skin Cancer	122
	Sunbathing for Health: Which Diet?	124
	Sunlamps and Solaria	127
6.	Indoors, Outdoors	129
	Buildings and Bacteria	132
	Sir Leonard Hill: Comfort or Health?	134
	The Nightingale Ward	138
	The Fireplace and the Chimney	139
	Indoor Health Today	141
	Sunlight Outdoors	142
	The Orientation of Cities	144
	Indoor Light	144
7.	Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century	149
	Sunlight and an Ageing Population	151
	Ozone Depletion and Sunscreens	155
	Buildings, Bacteria and Sunlight	157
	References	159
	Recommended reading	173
	Index	174