Sun exposure (WAS: More backpacking ?'s - natural sunscreen & bug repellant???)

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rawfood [ <rawfood >

rawfood ]

On Behalf Of SV

Friday, August 18, 2006 3:56 AM

Re: [Raw Food] More backpacking ?'s - natural sunscreen & bug

repellant???

 

When you eat all raw you won't need sunscreen, but in the mean time try wearing

a hat, not being

out in the midday heat and use coconut oil, not cacao butter. Avocados work if

you don't mind

the green tinge.

 

I bought lavendar spray for my kids when they went to camp and it worked. In

later years we

found a spray with citronella that works even better.

 

Shari

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I rarely write saying that something is just plain wrong, but this teaching that

once one eats a

raw diet, one somehow becomes magically immune to sun exposure is not only

incorrect, but

downright dangerous.

 

While it is correct to say that raw food favorably influences our capacity to

integrate

sunlight, our relationship with the sun is also reasonably independent, as well.

If one is

habitually out of the sun, for example, then eats raw food for a year, then goes

out into the

midsummer, midday sun for a few hours, one will undoubtedly get fried.

 

Reentry into the sun is a process, a relearning process for the body, as is any

other adaptive

shift. When we reenter the sun's light slowly, over time, we allow a type of

cells in our skin,

called melanocytes, to " come back to life " , to begin producing melanin in

increasing quantities.

Melanin is the pigment that darkens the skin in response to sun (specifically

ultraviolet)

exposure, resulting in " sun tan " . As the quantity of melanin resident in the

skin increases over

time, our capacity for sun exposure increases, as well.

 

This process is fundamentally the same, regardless of one's diet. The raw food

diet, by

providing better building material, consuming less energy, etc., simply allow

the process of

reacclimation to proceed more easily, quickly, and safely. But raw food is no

substitute for

either melanin or for common sense!

 

Best to all,

 

Elchanan

 

 

 

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Well, I must say, and this is only MY experience because that is all I can

relate; but I could never tolerate the sun prior to being raw. I was born a

fair skinned, redhead with green eyes and freckles. Sun was not my friend. I

used to slather every sort of sunscreen on my body and I would break out in what

they called " sun poisoning " . It probably was poisoning, but not from the sun

from the lotions.

 

Fast forward and I'm in my 50's with blonde hair (tain't grey) and I am eating a

raw food diet. Now I can tolerate the sun and even get a bit of a tan. I do

not go out between 10 - 2 and if I do I wear a hat. I sit in shorts and tank

top between 3 - 5 p.m. and do not burn and am not bothered by the hot afternoon

temperatures.

 

Maybe it is bad " advice " to say raw fooders can take the sun. But like I stated

before, it is my experience that I can tolerate the sun much better than before

changing my eating habits. I'm not one to just lay in the sun for a tan. I'm

either gardening, walking the dog or reading. I look to the sun as part of my

health regimen nowadays.

 

Shari

 

 

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of SV

Friday, August 18, 2006 9:17 AM

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Sun exposure (WAS: More backpacking ?'s - natural

sunscreen & bug

repellant???)

 

Well, I must say, and this is only MY experience because that is all I can

relate; but I could

never tolerate the sun prior to being raw. I was born a fair skinned, redhead

with green eyes

and freckles. Sun was not my friend. I used to slather every sort of sunscreen

on my body and

I would break out in what they called " sun poisoning " . It probably was

poisoning, but not from

the sun from the lotions.

 

Fast forward and I'm in my 50's with blonde hair (tain't grey) and I am eating a

raw food diet.

Now I can tolerate the sun and even get a bit of a tan. I do not go out between

10 - 2 and if I

do I wear a hat. I sit in shorts and tank top between 3 - 5 p.m. and do not

burn and am not

bothered by the hot afternoon temperatures.

 

Maybe it is bad " advice " to say raw fooders can take the sun. But like I stated

before, it is

my experience that I can tolerate the sun much better than before changing my

eating habits.

I'm not one to just lay in the sun for a tan. I'm either gardening, walking the

dog or reading.

I look to the sun as part of my health regimen nowadays.

 

Shari

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Sorry if I miscommunicated my intent here. Of courser, Shari, your experience is

real, and

shared by many. My concern is that an experienced RF share something with a

relatively new RF,

and the new RF burns up because his/her system isn't ready yet. There is still a

process of

acclimation, which I imagine you've undergone, perhaps without even thinking

much about it.

 

Elchanan