Prince visits Africa in wake of Di’s death I
DUKUDUKU, South Africa
(AP) — Britain’s 13-year-old
prince watched shyly Monday as
adolescent girls performed a
Zulu dance during a visit with his
father to a rural high school in
South Africa.
Prince Harry’s trip to Africa
marked his first public activity
since the funeral of his mother,
Princess Diana, who died in a car
crash in Paris on Aug. 31.
The journey also fulfilled one
of Diana’s wishes, for her sons to
see Africa. Diana’s brother, Earl
Spencer, lives in Cape Town, but
officials did not say if Harry vis
ited his uncle.
At Ubuhlebemvelo High
School in KwaZulu-Natal
province, Charles and Harry
watched the bare-breasted girls,
wearing black-and-white string
skirts, perform the traditional
dance.
Harry talked quietly to his
father during the performance.
When a teacher $poke to Harry,
he only smiled. He walked shyljL
with his left thumb in his pocket,
scratching the soil with his foot.
Charles arrived in southern
Africa on Wednesday to begin a
three-nation tour. While Charles
visited Swaziland and Lesotho,
Harry went on safari in Botswana
with a school friend and his for
mer nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke.
Prince William, Harry’s older
brother, remained behind in
Britain because of school.
Most of Harry’s six-day visit -
was without media coverage, a
contr^ersial issue after his
mother died in a high-speed car
chase trying to avoid photogra
phers.
On Saturday, the two princes
reunited for a public meeting
with Britain’s top female music
group, the Spice Girls, at a con
cert in Johannesburg.
Harry left South Africa later
Monday to return to school in
England, while Charles attended
a banquet in Durban.
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Some sunbathing,
could stop cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Basking briefly in the sun every
day may be an important way to
prevent breast cancer, researchers
said Monday. But they also
warned, “Don’t overdo it.”
New studies indicate that vit
amin D, a nutrient made by the
skin during exposure to sunlight,
can lower the risk of breast can
cer by 30 percent to 40 percent
and perhaps even more.
“We know now that a little bit
of sun is beneficial, but it is not
good to stay out there four or five
hours,” said epidemiologist
Esther John of the North
California Cancer Center. “We
don’t want to recommend that
people go out and bake in the
sun.”
She said it is well known that
excessive exposure to sunlight
can cause skin cancer and prema
ture aging of the skin.
John, in a study presented
Monday at a scientific meeting of
4 breast cancer experts, said that a
study comparing the health habits
of 133 breast cancer patients with
women who did not have the dis
ease found that exposure to sun
light significantly reduced the
risk of breast cancer.
Sunlight lowers the risk, said
John, because the skin uses ultra
violet rays from the sun to make
vitamin D. This nutrient has been
closely linked to protection
|gainst breast cancer jn other
~ khdies, she said.
The study was part of a
national research project that has
been following the health of
about 8,000 women since 1970.
The research monitors the devel
opment of cancer and other
bealfheveiits; and compares the
effects of such things as diet and
exercise of women who get the
disease and those who don’t.
John said that the study con
firmed earlier findings that
women who live in the southern r
tier of states below Kansas tend
to get significantly fewer cases of
breast cancer than those who live
in the North.
The difference, she said, is
sunlight and how the skin makes
vitamin D.
Southern states have more
year-round sunlight than
Northern states do. As a result,
people in the South get more nat
ural ultraviolet ray exposure.
For instance, John said that
winter sunlight is so weak in the
North that people living at or
above 40 degree North latitude
do not get enough sun from
November to February to make
the required levels of vitamin D.
Boston is at latitude 42 degrees.
John said the study did not
determine just how much sun
exposure is needed to protect
against breast cancer, but she said
it probably is less than what
would cause skin damage.
Sunscreen lotions that block
ultraviolet rays would also block
the formation of vitamin D, she
said.
Vitamin D can also come
from the diet, said John. The vita
min is available naturally in fish
oil, fatty fish, egg yolk and liver,
all foods that few Americans eat,
die said. Milk and some cereals
and breads are fortified with vita
min D.
“If they depend on food only
for vitamin D, women would have
to eat foods with at least 200
international units a day to get a
reduction in breast caneer risk,”
she said.
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