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Could staying out of the sun actually increase your cancer risk?

New research has found that women with high concentrations of vitamin D have a much lower chance of developing cancer. Avoiding the sun “is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking” the authors wrote in a recent issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. Compared with those with the highest sun exposure, life expectancy for those who avoided sun dropped by 0.6 to 2.1 years.