Product Description

Explaining how and why we should get sunlight back into our lives - safely - this book shows how sunlight was used to prevent and cure diseases in the past, and how it can heal and help us in the future. Over the last 40 years, there has been a complete reversal in medical thinking on sunlight. Sunbathing is regarded by the experts to be a dangerous pastime which should be actively discouraged, yet little more than 50 years ago doctors in Europe and North America were using sunlight to treat potentially fatal diseases on a routine basis, and a number of hospitals were built specifically for sunlight treatment. The human race evolved under the sun and for thousands of years lived in close harmony with its heat and light. Many of us have lost this close contact with the sun and its healing powers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321314 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 182 pages

Review
This book is a MAJOR eye opener. After all of the "doctor's orders" over the past decade to stay out of the sun because of skin cancer, this book gives you a 180 degree different perspective and led me on a quest to learn more about the benefits of Vitamin D -and the lack of it- on our health. If you are struggling with ANY form of chronic health problems, you may just be surprised that following the guidelines in this book just may seriously improve your health!! Having been a Registered Nurse for over 14 years, a lot of the information in this book goes against EVERYTHING that I had been taught. But in a nation of increasing antibiotic resistant infections, we just may be forced to return to whatever works for good health- and it's contained in this book. Learn these principles now and when antibiotics are useless, you'll have free medicine in your toolkit that you can use anytime. - Kerri Knox, RN http://www.easy-immune-health.com

About the Author
Richard Hobday, MSc, PhD is a member of the British Register of Complimentary Practitioners and has studied traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese exercise systems in China. Dr Hobday has many years experience of solar design in buildings and is a leading authority on the history of sunlight therapy.

Customer Reviews

The definitive work on sunlight and health.
This is a "must read book" if you want to be healthy. Why? Because it brings the balance back into the unbalanced argument that the sun is dangerous to our health and should be avoided or blocked at all costs.

Perhaps for the first time, all the most important results of research in the field of health and the sun have been brought together into one document and the conclusions are startling.

Lack of sunlight can increase your chances of getting heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, decaying teeth, psoriasis and cancer (breast, colon, ovarian and prostate).

Sun bathing safely allows your body to generate vitamin D - crucial to a healthy immune system.

Long term exposure to artificial lighting can have potentially harmful health effects. Office workers who spend most of their year under artificial light and then have short periods of intense sunlight when they go on holiday can be at particular risk.

Use of sunscreens and lack of respect for the sun can leave you open to health problems.

Sunlight kills bacteria - even through glass.

You are more likely to recover from a heart attack in a sunlit hospital ward.

Moderate and controlled sunbathing should be part of a beneficial health regime, acting as a preventative medicine. Knowing when and how to sunbathe is the key.

This book tells you how to sunbathe safely and get maximum benefit.

A LONG OVER-DUE INTELLIGENT APPRAISAL OF SUNSHINE.
At long last! An intelligently researched and cogently presented argument which systematically challenges the often questionable propaganda of the vested-interests-based cosmetics industry - responsible for distorting the general public's attitude to the sun and its health-giving poweers for far too long.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.