Do you think parents use too much sunscreen on their kids these days?

http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/09/too-much-sunscreen.html

“Associate professor of medicine Edward Giovannucci notes that UV-B radiation, the source of suntan and sunburn, is also the component of sunlight that enables human skin (particularly lighter-pigmented skin) to synthesize the “sunshine vitamin”—D—used by every type of cell in the human body. Animal research has associated a lack of vitamin D with multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, and pathological processes that underlie several forms of cancer, including those of the colon, breast, prostate, and digestive tract, such as stomach cancer.”

It isn’t just kids, but there have been vitamin D deficiencies linked with kids who have been slathered with sunscreen every time they go outside from the time they’re born. I grew up in Vegas, one of the hottest cities in the world, and I only put sunscreen on if I knew I was going to be in the sun for a long time, long enough to induce a sunburn.

http://www.nj.com/parenting/joel_schwartzberg/index.ssf/2009/08/vitamin_d_deficiency_are_kids.html

Experts now say kids should spend 15–20 minutes in the sun each day without sunscreen.