Recently I had a conversation with my american friends about sun cream and how western doctors and medias advice us to protect ourselves, especially our kids from sun by applying a lot of sun cream.
Now with this in mind, I have asked myself about the practice of putting oil on new born babies out on the sun in the middle of the day back in Nepal. This ancient practice and tradition had been carried out by many generations. This practice would a big NO here in western countries.

So are we ignorant back in Nepal about the dangers the sun can pose to our skin thus health? Is the sun-heat more dangerous in western countries than in Nepal? Or are the western doctors and medias just trying to market sun-creams so that the companies that produce them make tons of profits? Or do nepalese have something special in their skin that can handle sun heat that the westerners don't?
And the cases of skin cancer back in Nepal is lower than in the USA. So what's all the fuss and what's the correlation between these 2 very different and opposing practices in two different parts of the world?