There doesn't seem to be much in this article that would discourage me from usually wearing sunscreen. There is this:
> “There wasn’t and there still isn’t absolute evidence” that supplements are bioequivalent to sunshine.
which means that I can't necessarily get away with just vitamin D supplements. Other than that, the article hardly emphasizes Australia's stance on vitamin D supplements, only that right now only dark-skinned people are advised to take it. But they don't say if people were advised to take supplements when avoiding the sun, which might be a crucial thing to do if they were to avoid the sun altogether. So I can't be sure if the vitamin D deficit was due to lack of sun exposure, or mostly due to one-sided marketing (avoid the sun, but don't do anything else to compensate).
Last summer I read a chronicle by a doctor that said that 10 minutes of (naked) exposure was adequate. There was a lot of fuss about getting enough vitamin D.
> People regularly exposed to daily sun have a lower risk of getting melanoma and also have a higher survival rate if they do3 because regular sun exposure protects against burning,
Well this doesn't actually seem to apply to someone who is mindful of the amount of sun exposure he gets. It is of course more sensible to have a little exposure over time to the sun to build up a tan than to spend spurts of time in the sun and risk getting sun burnt. But that doesn't really apply to a person who might be very careful to put on sun screen when he is spending more time in the sun.
> “There wasn’t and there still isn’t absolute evidence” that supplements are bioequivalent to sunshine.
which means that I can't necessarily get away with just vitamin D supplements. Other than that, the article hardly emphasizes Australia's stance on vitamin D supplements, only that right now only dark-skinned people are advised to take it. But they don't say if people were advised to take supplements when avoiding the sun, which might be a crucial thing to do if they were to avoid the sun altogether. So I can't be sure if the vitamin D deficit was due to lack of sun exposure, or mostly due to one-sided marketing (avoid the sun, but don't do anything else to compensate).
Last summer I read a chronicle by a doctor that said that 10 minutes of (naked) exposure was adequate. There was a lot of fuss about getting enough vitamin D.
> People regularly exposed to daily sun have a lower risk of getting melanoma and also have a higher survival rate if they do3 because regular sun exposure protects against burning,
Well this doesn't actually seem to apply to someone who is mindful of the amount of sun exposure he gets. It is of course more sensible to have a little exposure over time to the sun to build up a tan than to spend spurts of time in the sun and risk getting sun burnt. But that doesn't really apply to a person who might be very careful to put on sun screen when he is spending more time in the sun.