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NOV. 23, 2009 \u2014 One of the internet\u2019s most popular health gurus is taking a hard swing at the purveyors of Sun Scare for causing vitamin D deficiency while defending the concept of regular UV exposure as a healthy activity.<\/p>\n

\"2009-11-23-dark-deception-tanningnews-copy.jpg\"<\/a>Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of www.mercola.com, accuses sunscreen manufacturers of hiding the truth about vitamin D so they can sell more of their product. \u201cWell, they’ve done it again,\u201d Mercola says. \u201cYour government, so called “experts” in the health community, and certain product manufacturers have literally kept you in the dark when it comes to your health. They’ve done it primarily because they don’t stand to earn one single dime by you knowing the truth. And if you’re familiar with my work at all, you know I’m not afraid to yank the covers off the corporate moneymakers \u2014 and shed revealing light on their devious deceptions. This time they’re keeping the very serious health risks of vitamin D deficiency from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mercola\u2019s story is promoting his book, \u201cDark Deception\u201d which examines vitamin D from sunlight and the money-driven effort to keep you out of the sun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe saddest truth of all is that there is absolutely no reason in the world anyone should suffer from a lack of vitamin D \u2014 when the remedy is as simple as spending just a little time outdoors,\u201d Mercola writes. \u201cWhich leads me to this unbelievable fabrication: The Myth of the \u2018Deadly Sun.\u2019 The sun, nature’s greatest source of life-giving power, has been demonized into a great ball of evil fire just waiting to take the life of some unsuspecting and unprotected person. This kind of careless propaganda, spread primarily through the media, could not be any further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read Mercola\u2019s account and to get more information about his book click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of www.mercola.com, accuses sunscreen manufacturers of hiding the truth about vitamin D so they can sell more of their product. \u201cWell, they've done it again,\u201d Mercola says. \u201cYour government, so called \"experts\" in the health community, and certain product manufacturers have literally kept you in the dark when it comes to your health. They've done it primarily because they don't stand to earn one single dime by you knowing the truth. And if you're familiar with my work at all, you know I'm not afraid to yank the covers off the corporate moneymakers \u2014 and shed revealing light on their devious deceptions. This time they're keeping the very serious health risks of vitamin D deficiency from you.\u201d Mercola\u2019s story is promoting his book, \u201cDark Deception\u201d which examines vitamin D from sunlight and the money-driven effort to keep you out of the sun. \u201cThe saddest truth of all is that there is absolutely no reason in the world anyone should suffer from a lack of vitamin D \u2014 when the remedy is as simple as spending just a little time outdoors,\u201d Mercola writes. \u201cWhich leads me to this unbelievable fabrication: The Myth of the \u2018Deadly Sun.\u2019 The sun, nature's greatest source of life-giving power, has been demonized into a great ball of evil fire just waiting to take the life of some unsuspecting and unprotected person. This kind of careless propaganda, spread primarily through the media, could not be any further from the truth.\u201d To read Mercola\u2019s account and to get more information about his book click here.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/dr-joseph-mercola-takes-on-the-purveyors-of-sun-scare\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/dr-joseph-mercola-takes-on-the-purveyors-of-sun-scare\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/dr-joseph-mercola-takes-on-the-purveyors-of-sun-scare\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/2009-11-23-dark-deception-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/2009-11-23-dark-deception-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/dr-joseph-mercola-takes-on-the-purveyors-of-sun-scare\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dr. Joseph Mercola takes on the purveyors of Sun Scare"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}