Infants need light.  All living things need natural light.

I do not know why I did so, for no one instructed me to, but on any winter
day with blue sky sunshine (in the normally usually very overcast Pacific
NW), I unclothed and placed my two infant daughters on a towel right inside
an opened sliding patio door.  I left the screen door in place so they
couldn't crawl out, plus it cut the wind considerably and the sun streamed
in.  The sun warmed their little bellies and bottoms, and they could take it
for the five or so minutes no matter the cold the temperature outside.  It
was truly a sunbath and then I put clothes right back on them.  They loved it.

I've seen a photo of young Japanese children in daycare and elementary school
in a special UV room with only their underpants on and with UV blocking
sunglasses.  The old soldiers homes in Russia offer this for the veterans
also to reduce broken bones.  It works.

The late Dr. Kime wrote a book "Sunlight" that said the melanoma rate was
increasing due to trans fats in the diet.  People who continued to eat
eggyolk and butter and olive oil with naturally occuring Vitamin A were much
more protected.  He blamed the artificial fats for the skin cancer rise.

John Ott who wrote "Health & Light" claimed that every society that made use
of daily sunlight was more protected from all cancers.  In the very tropical
climates such as India it was said of high noon "Only mad dogs and Englishmen
were outside" at such hours.  30 years ago it was still the norm to close at
midday in Spain, Greece & Italy.  They had a healthy respect for the hottest
times of the day, but sunlight was not avoided as we are told to do today.

Visting in Australia just a few years ago the billboard ads were all for the
"Slip, Slap & Slop" campaign.  Kids wearing French foreign legion hats with
the flaps and to have suncreen.  I don't know the 3rd direction of the
phrase.  But the extreme sun is probably fine for the native aborigines (as
long as they stay on their cultural diet), but is very hard on the fair
skinned, fair haired and freckled from the British Isles and other cloudy
places (like us from the Pacific NW in the dead of our winter.)
Judy Ritchie

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