{"id":5412,"date":"2008-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2008-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T00:00:00","slug":"mercola-healthy-sun-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/mercola-healthy-sun-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mercola Explains the Importance of Healthy Sun Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width='425' height='344'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-f0U7qL4rlg&#038;hl=en'><\/param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'><\/param><embed src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-f0U7qL4rlg&#038;hl=en' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='344'><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the video above, Dr. Joseph Mercola explains that UVB rays from sunlight produce vitamin D in the skin. Sunlight is the ideal source for vitamin D. See <a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/sunlight-allergies-asthma.asp'>Sunlight Exposure, Allergies &#038; Asthma<\/a> to learn about the role of vitamin D in allergic disease.<\/p>\n<p>Most sunscreens block beneficial UVB rays, but many do not filter harmful UVA rays.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, most sunscreens contain toxic chemicals. Octylmethocycinnamate (OMC) is in 90 percent of sunscreens, and when it is exposed to sunlight, it undergoes a chemical reaction that makes it extremely toxic! <\/p>\n<p>Besides OMC, Dr. Mercola warns that the following chemicals have been found to easily penetrate your blood stream:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone<\/li>\n<li>2-ethylhexyl-p-methoxycinnamate<\/li>\n<li>2-ethylhexylsalicylate (octylsalicylate)<\/li>\n<li>salicylic acid 3,3,5-trimethcyclohexyl ester (homosalate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/vanicream-sunscreen.asp'><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/images\/personalcare-vanicream-sun.jpg' alt='vanicream safe sunscreen' align='left' border='0'><\/a>When choosing a sunscreen, Dr. Mercola advises to &#8216;make sure it&#39;s screening for UVA and doesn&#39;t have these toxic chemicals &#8211; because otherwise, you are defeating the purpose and actually making the situation worse.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/vanicream-sunscreen.asp'>Vanicream Sunscreen<\/a> is a safe, non-toxic sunscreen that blocks both UVA and UVB rays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video above, Dr. Joseph Mercola explains that UVB rays from sunlight produce vitamin D in the skin. Sunlight is the ideal source for vitamin D. See Sunlight Exposure, Allergies &#038; Asthma to learn about the role of vitamin&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}