Links to Selenium soil content and Cancer risk

This is a map highlighting the many diagnoses of skin cancer in the United States.  Here we can see the highest amounts are along the eastern seaboard and western coastlines, cornering itself in areas such as New England and the Northwestern United States.  Now that may sound weird to hear considering these areas also statistically receive less overall direct sunlight.  How is it that these skin cancer breakouts are not occurring in large amounts in areas in the so called "Sun Belt"?  Well that is because scientists are finally realizing that the sun is not bad for you!  The sun belt states have lower incidents of skin cancer due to there large amounts of sun exposure and vitamin D absorption. 

This is a map of the United States with low selenium content in soil levels.  Red areas are scarce in the mineral.  Selenium is something of a environmental protecting agent, in that it protects our cells from the constant barrage of carcinogens and pollutants.  Now if you look back at the map you first saw, you may notice some similarities.  Both maps show once again the New England and Northwestern states both have the highest skin cancer rates and the lowest Selenium soil levels.  Florida as an exception has one of the scarcest soil content levels of Selenium as of current, and a lower incident rate for skin cancer.  This is important because it lets us show the correlation between sun exposure and cancer rates.  Do not be afraid of the sun, take plenty of vitamin E and use a organic sunscreen to prevent the cooking of harsh petrochemicals into your skin and the blocking of healthy sun rays. 

Vitamin E: Inside out protection for your sunburn

Scientists have discovered that Vitamin E is basically like a Swiss army knife for nutrition.  Vitamin E is one of the vitamins that plays a tremendous role in a variety of body functions regularly.  Vitamin E plays a crucial role to eye, heart, and skin health. Research has been shown that animals given large doses of Vitamin E do not develop cataracts.  Vitamin E is an antioxidant meaning it reduces free-radicals from destroying the healthy cells that live in your body.  Animals whose diets were supplemented by the four basic antioxidants including vitamin E developed 48% less tumors than non protected animals.  Scientists now know that oral vitamin E may help prevent sunburn, thanks to some crazy tanning mice.  A study taken with two groups of hairless mice(plain diet and vitamin e enriched diet) confirmed that the mice that had the plain diet and were then exposed to sun lamps suffered marked sunburn, where as the vitamin e enriched diet did not.  In fact the nutrients doubled their sun protection.  Now currently the RDA level for Vitamin E is 15 IU far too low to be effective, 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds provides 37 IU of Vitamin E...just saying that is double what the FDA deems "safe."  Most nutritionists and researchers agree that anywhere from 100-600 IU are the daily recommended amount of vitamin E, but no side effects associated with as much as a 800 IU to help with cancer recovery, skin disorders, or lowering cholesterol.