Worship the sun, live forever

My neighbor: she'll outlive me

Women who sunbathe regularly live longer and enjoy health benefits which outweigh the risk of skin, according to research presented at the Swedish Society of Medicine's annual conference.

Studies of the sun exposure habits of 40,000 women in southern Sweden have found that the health benefits of spending extended periods in the sun outweigh the negatives, such as the increased risk for skin cancer.

Researchers claim that exposure to the sun is attributed to helping against blood clots, which are twice as common in the darker periods of the year than in the summer, the newspaper reported.

Furthermore the incidence of type 2 diabetes also shows seasonal variations, with the winter boom in cases attributed to a lack of vitamin D.

Chief physician Håkan Olsson at the division of oncology at Lund University argued that he was not alone in claiming "that there can be other factors other than the sun which affect the risks for developing malignant melanomas," and that exposure to the sun could help protect against a slew of other conditions.