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First the health warning. Every year 100,000 people in the UK get skin cancer and over 2,500 people die of it. Lower down on the list of significance, many older people with leathery skin now regret their sun worshipping youth and their refusal of any sun block prophylactic. Set alongside this is a recent study by a team from the University of Edinburgh who have demonstrated that exposure of the body to sunlight helps reduce high blood pressure, which kills 80 times more people in the UK than skin cancer. This marks something of a return to the ancient view that, as the Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder put it "sol est remediorum maximum". Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos. Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.First the health warning. Every year 100,000 people in the UK get skin cancer and over 2,500 people die of it. Lower down on the list of significance, many older people with leathery skin now regret their sun worshipping youth and their refusal of any sun block prophylactic. Set alongside this is a recent study by a team from the University of Edinburgh who have demonstrated that exposure of the body to sunlight helps reduce high blood pressure, which kills 80 times more people in the UK than skin cancer. This marks something of a return to the ancient view that, as the Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder put it "sol est remediorum maximum". Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos. Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
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