Science Behind Sunbathing: How Booking a Beach Vacation Can Help You Live Longer Jessica Brown - AskMen
go to original March 23, 2016

The sun is confusing stuff. We’re told to stay out of it to avoid increasing our risk of skin cancer, yet we know that those in sunnier climates tend to be healthier and happier. That glorious ball of fire might just not be the enemy we’ve been painting it to be.

New research in the Journal of Internal Medicine has finally answered the question: do sun worshippers really live longer? Researchers collected data from almost 30,000 women over a period of 20 years, and confirmed that they were less likely to die young.

They found that the longer life expectancy among women who sunbathed regularly was because of a lower risk of heart disease and non-cancer-related deaths.

And the only reason sun-worshipping women were likely to develop skin cancer was because they lived longer.

If that isn’t enough to persuade you to book a beach vacation pronto, the findings also revealed that avoiding the sun can be as bad for your health as smoking.

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