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by kaesar14 1434 days ago
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...

I think based on the studies linked in the source above quite a lot of what you've stated as plain fact is easily debatable.

1. Does not seem like Vitamin D supplementation provides any of the benefits that are linked to Vitamin D from sun exposure.

2. The maladies strongly linked to being combatted by said Vitamin D kill far, far more Americans (700,000) than melanoma (7,000) a year.

3. Obesity and vitamin D have a pretty strong experimental link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5691711/