All Asians want to be gora. White skin! Indians I knew about, but Chinese cherish white skin too. Since forever.
So sun is shunned. From childhood. Krishna, Shiva and Kali of dark skin have been forgotten. All want to be Sita and Ram.
And Asians, newly wealthy are the target for corporates. Money is to be made. Print, Radio and TV media tout western lightening creams and sun block creams. Articles expounding skin modern doctors, sun hating convictions, fill magazines and Cricket TV broadcasts. I ran across one just yesterday on my flight from Goa to Mumbai. "Just take Vit D supplements" it said and "cover yourself with sun screen". SPF - sun protection factors, of - different branded creams was conveniently listed.
Just such nonsense is likely what brought a young man to see me the other day. I was surprised he had severe Vit D deficiency despite hours in the sun, golfing. He diligently applied expensive sun block cream every time he golfed. Lately he had been tired, moody and had no energy. Extensive heart tests had been normal. D levels were low despite a year of supplementation. Was he still missing something? Read on!
Sun has been worshipped http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573676/sun-worship by native peoples since the beginning of time. Sun temples abound in at least in Asia, Egypt, Sumeria and Central and South America and the sun dance of the Plains Indians,
My friend Kaushik told me 40 years ago that after his bath he, fully bare chested, hands folded recited the Gayatri mantra slowly 21 times, facing the sun. Daily. I did it for a while over the years in the US.
Somehow, the new source of all knowledge and wisdom, the Western medical establishment has declared the sun to be the devil. All humans are to avoid the sun, or if perchance they cannot they are to put chemical potions to block the sun devil. These sun blocking chemicals(retinoyl palmitate? carcinogen; oxybenzone-hormone disruptor, pthalates), are absorbed into us from the skin. Dr Oz says "No published studies have shown a link with cancer". That would be reassuring except it took decades to prove asbestos a carcinogen.
For the white skinned the sun maybe the devil, but Asians, even the whiter among us, are better off being in the sun longer, so our darker skin can make Vitamin D along with sundry chemicals such as the mood elevating Serotonin, the blood pressure lowering and heart healthy NO, or nitric oxide among others.
Just taking Vit D thus is not enough. If a car is how you get around, assume that you are sun deprived. A Vit D level blood test can confirm that. Or just take my word for it.
Please fix that. Exposé your skin to the sun, protect your eyes and face and not between 10 and 2pm in the west. No SPF anything.
My father lived to 92. He loved gardening 2 hours every morning. My brother golfs without sunscreen. For me it is gardening, manual work or lately like my mother, I just sit in the sun, 30 minutes a day.
Often I think of Sonali, how one day I stopped her from tanning herself like her white friends by our pool in Bismarck years ago. Just like most in 1990, I had been brain washed by the medical/industrial complex of the west. I had forgotten sun worship. Marketing does that. I was wrong then.
So worship the sun. Save your life.
If you so believe, say the Gayatri 21 times slowly, hands folded, facing the sun.
Daily.
So sun is shunned. From childhood. Krishna, Shiva and Kali of dark skin have been forgotten. All want to be Sita and Ram.
And Asians, newly wealthy are the target for corporates. Money is to be made. Print, Radio and TV media tout western lightening creams and sun block creams. Articles expounding skin modern doctors, sun hating convictions, fill magazines and Cricket TV broadcasts. I ran across one just yesterday on my flight from Goa to Mumbai. "Just take Vit D supplements" it said and "cover yourself with sun screen". SPF - sun protection factors, of - different branded creams was conveniently listed.
Just such nonsense is likely what brought a young man to see me the other day. I was surprised he had severe Vit D deficiency despite hours in the sun, golfing. He diligently applied expensive sun block cream every time he golfed. Lately he had been tired, moody and had no energy. Extensive heart tests had been normal. D levels were low despite a year of supplementation. Was he still missing something? Read on!
Sun has been worshipped http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573676/sun-worship by native peoples since the beginning of time. Sun temples abound in at least in Asia, Egypt, Sumeria and Central and South America and the sun dance of the Plains Indians,
My friend Kaushik told me 40 years ago that after his bath he, fully bare chested, hands folded recited the Gayatri mantra slowly 21 times, facing the sun. Daily. I did it for a while over the years in the US.
Somehow, the new source of all knowledge and wisdom, the Western medical establishment has declared the sun to be the devil. All humans are to avoid the sun, or if perchance they cannot they are to put chemical potions to block the sun devil. These sun blocking chemicals(retinoyl palmitate? carcinogen; oxybenzone-hormone disruptor, pthalates), are absorbed into us from the skin. Dr Oz says "No published studies have shown a link with cancer". That would be reassuring except it took decades to prove asbestos a carcinogen.
For the white skinned the sun maybe the devil, but Asians, even the whiter among us, are better off being in the sun longer, so our darker skin can make Vitamin D along with sundry chemicals such as the mood elevating Serotonin, the blood pressure lowering and heart healthy NO, or nitric oxide among others.
Just taking Vit D thus is not enough. If a car is how you get around, assume that you are sun deprived. A Vit D level blood test can confirm that. Or just take my word for it.
Please fix that. Exposé your skin to the sun, protect your eyes and face and not between 10 and 2pm in the west. No SPF anything.
My father lived to 92. He loved gardening 2 hours every morning. My brother golfs without sunscreen. For me it is gardening, manual work or lately like my mother, I just sit in the sun, 30 minutes a day.
Often I think of Sonali, how one day I stopped her from tanning herself like her white friends by our pool in Bismarck years ago. Just like most in 1990, I had been brain washed by the medical/industrial complex of the west. I had forgotten sun worship. Marketing does that. I was wrong then.
So worship the sun. Save your life.
If you so believe, say the Gayatri 21 times slowly, hands folded, facing the sun.
Daily.
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