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go get some sun

A recent study of twenty-nine thousand women in Sweden who were tracked over twenty years concluded that “avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking.” The study showed that people who avoided the sun had a reduced life expectancy of between 0.6 and 2.1 years.1

  1. Pelle G. Lindqvist et al., “Avoidance of Sun Exposure as a Risk Factor for Major Causes of Death: A Competing Risk Analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden Cohort,” Journal of Internal Medicine 280, no. 4 (October 2016): 375–87, https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12496.)

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