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BCNPF BY DR. MARC SORENSON, EDD BREAST CANCER NATURAL PREVENTION FOUNDATION As a founding director of the Breast Cancer Natural Prevention Foundation, I'd like to personally invite you and your busi- ness to take part in Natural Breast Cancer Prevention Month this May – a totally unique breast cancer aware- ness program designed to make a real-world difference right now in your community. The bottom line is simple: You don't need to cure or detect what you can prevent. And the BCNPF is unique among cancer charities today because our mission is to teach natural and proven breast cancer prevention strategies that your friends, neighbors and customers can begin right now – today. Where other cancer charities pour billions of dollars into detection and treatment programs, which are important, we feel those are secondary to what should be obvious: Detection isn't prevention, and when you can prevent something, detec- tion is a lot like closing the barn door after the horses are gone. It all starts with this simple fact: Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as one of the most significant and preventable risk factors for breast cancer. And the amount of vitamin D humans need to be healthy is only naturally consistent with getting regular sun exposure – the most natural, 93 SMART TAN MAGAZINE [ SmartTan.com reliable, abundant and neglected source of vitamin D. There's enough research to show us that maintaining natural vitamin D blood levels – levels achieved naturally by those who work outdoors – cuts breast cancer risk in half. That's because hundreds of clinical, laboratory, case-control, epidemiological and ecological studies show that "The Sunshine Vitamin" regulates proper cell growth in every system in the body, and that vitamin D deficiency compromises this natural system, allowing cancer cells to develop and spread. To prevent breast cancer here's what else you need to understand: Vitamin D deficiency is sunlight deficiency. Because vitamin D is made most naturally and abundantly when skin is exposed to UVB in sunlight, the vitamin D levels are declin- ing as a result of our indoor lifestyle. It's no surprise that a 2011 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that women who spend more than 21 hours a week outside have 26-50 percent lower breast cancer rates than those who don't get regular sun. Nature had it right. We're supposed to be getting regular sun – not working indoors all day in fluorescent-lit cubicles. Natural breast cancer prevention also means proper diet and exercise – pre- vention strategies that are also widely underappreciated despite being natu- rally intuitive. Women who consume high amounts of vegetables in their diet are 35-43 percent less likely to develop breast cancer, according to research. Dozens of papers show that women who get regular exercise are at least 25 percent less likely to contract breast cancer than those who do not work out at all. The common theme is that a natural life- style put our bodies in the correct position to operate as nature intended. When we deviate from our design, that's when sys- tems start to break down. Of course, there are no silver bullet solutions – no one is saying that any of these prevention strate- gies are a cure-all. The point is that they put you in the lowest risk categories and give your body the best chance to per- form as nature intended. That's the kind of message worth spread- ing in your community. That's why I'm asking you to get involved in Natural Breast Cancer Prevention Month this May. Call (866) 650-6463 for more informa- tion on raising funds and educating your community. Dr. Marc Sorenson, EdD, is founder of the non-profit Sunlight Institute and is a director of the Breast Cancer Natural Prevention Foundation. For more information, and for research citations for this article, visit www.PreventBC.org.