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Last updated at 1:48 AM on 6th February 2012
Playing in the sunshine reduces the risk of children developing eczema and food allergies, researchers claim.
Those living in areas with lower levels of sunlight are at greater risk of developing food allergies and the skin condition, compared to those in areas with higher UV.
Scientists used data from analysis of Australian children and how rates of food allergies, eczema and asthma varied throughout the country.
Healthy: Children living in areas with lower levels of sunlight are at greater risk of developing food allergies and the skin condition, compared to those in areas with higher UV
On average children in the south of the country were twice as likely to develop eczema as those in the north.
There was also a link between latitude and allergies to peanuts and eggs.
Sunlight is important because it provides the fuel to create vitamin D in the skin.
Australia is a particularly good place for this type of study as it spans nearly 3,000 miles from north to south, with a large variation in climate, day length and sun strength.
Protection: Sunlight is important because it provides the fuel to create vitamin D in the skin
Dr Nick Osborne, who led the researchers at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, a joint initiative between Plymouth and Exeter universities, warned: ‘This investigation has further underlined the association between food allergies, eczema and where you live.
‘We’re now hoping to study these effects at a much finer scale and examine which factors such as temperature, infectious disease or vitamin D are the main drivers of this relationship.
‘As always, care has to be taken we are not exposed to too much sunlight, increasing the risk of skin cancer.’
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The main cause of allergies, eczema and asthma is too much mercury and aluminium, mostly injected via vaccines. Mercury and aluminium are added to vaccines as they cause inflammation. Without this additive, your body would not respond to the dead viruses and you would not develop immunity. Unfortunately, the cumulative amount of heavy metals is too much to be excreted all at once, so they remain in the body where the perpetually stimulate the immune system to create inflammation, and in the absence of real viruses to attack, it starts to attack non-harmful things, and even the body’s own cells. Sunlight creates Vitamin D, which strengthens the immune system. Not sure how it works, but perhaps it enables the immune system to function more normally. But it would be much better to avoid heavy metals in the first place.
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I have Ezcema and Asthma and I do find that whenever I visit sunnier climates that my conditions improve. Maybe i should migrate since summer in UK is disappearing.
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Could it be that the £multimillion profit made by the producers of sun creams,etc ,could have paid for research favourable to them .That has conned us for all these years
I wonder what they have up their sleeves for the next product
Vitamin D enhanced creams perhaps
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we are only here with the help of the sun , hiding from it causes all sorts of problem , people really dont think they have a body at all and were it comes from , we grow like a flower towards the light
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Ha ha ha that is unless they have oral allergy syndrome. Another wonderful bit of propaganda by the “health” police. I wonder if they would like to come and explain to my son why frolicking in a field and eating all the fruit he likes makes him very poorly. They ram “health” down people’s throats without thinking it can adversely affect anyone who can not enjoy this lifestyle!! Every day I have to explain to him he is slightly different in some ways!!! Makes me mad!!!
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