In 1976 a Sydney doctor asked in print whether the new cooking oils were causing melanoma. His reasoning was simple. The sun had not changed. What the people were made of had.
Hunters lived naked on the African savannah for 2 million years, on the equator, under the same sun all day.
Egyptian labourers dragged limestone up the pyramids in a loincloth, in 45 degree heat.
Greek athletes trained and competed stark naked at Olympia, in August, from dawn to dusk.
Medieval families brought in every harvest of their lives with their faces, necks and arms turned to the July sun for 14 hours a day.
Nelson’s sailors worked the rigging stripped to the waist in the Caribbean.
The palest people on earth, Scots and Irish, were shipped to Australia and cleared the bush by hand, under a sun their skin had never met.
The Anzacs dug trenches at Gallipoli with their shirts off. Bondi Beach in 1935 was shoulder to shoulder with fair-skinned Australians, and the only thing anybody rubbed on was coconut oil.
Not one of them owned a bottle of sunscreen, and melanoma was a medical curiosity. As late as the 1930s an American’s lifetime odds were 1 in 1,500. Today they are nearer 1 in 50.
The sun did not get 30 times stronger in 90 years. The fat changed. Sunflower, soybean and corn oil replaced butter and dripping, and linoleic acid began building up in human tissue, including the fat in and under the skin. Linoleic acid oxidises under ultraviolet light. Butter and dripping hold firm. In the lab, the more corn oil the mice were fed, the more skin tumours the same lamp produced.
Australia never took up the question. In 1981 it launched a cartoon seagull telling everyone to slop on sunscreen.
B. S. Mackie kept measuring. By 1987 the linoleic acid in Sydney’s body fat had climbed well past its 1975 level, and the melanoma patients carried significantly more of it than the people without.
Sunscreen sales have risen every decade since the seagull. So has melanoma. Office workers now get more of it than farmers and fishermen, who are in the sun all day.
The sun has been up there for 4.5 billion years. Seed oil has been in the human diet for just over a century. Only one of them was ever put on trial.
After reducing scummy seed oils to next to nothing for quite a while, I can confirm that sun burn is a lot harder to get, a great tan is easy tho.
Sead oils are originally machine lubercants till some smart (or dumb) prick decided that with a bit of work it was edible, yeah na bring back butter, lard and dripping
Need to tell Hunty. Then he would have to go to the beach every day and could do some useful work.
Hunty smears it on his freckle so he gets a nice tan while perineum sunning.
90% of the artificial oil used in food now is SBs favorite product palm oil. He even thinks it should be used to replace fats in milk.
have a check on Diet Coke.
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Look at the label of Milo –we were all told it was a healthy drink when we were kids. It is about 50% sugar!
I think it’s all a hoax by someone who wanted a bit more space on the beach.
I have reasonably fair skin. When I was a kid I learnt if I go out in Oct/Nov and get a really good dose of sun burn followed by pealing on my back then from then on I could go around all summer with no shirt or bake in the sun at the local school swimming pool with no more problems —just got a good tan. According to to all the sunscreen fans I should be covered with melanomas by now in my older age.
Forgot to add. The sunscreen fans do not realise it blocks natural VitD production which leads to other issues.
Only use Olive Oil.
Used to use coppertone cocoa butter when surfing at Mt Maunganui
For a smart arse whitey, you had to see the blue eyes to know there was not a touch of darkie in my blood
Sorry boss, but plenty of blue eyed waka blondes around.