Sunlight is good for you after all

[Stella_Omega]

And what a relief to know, since I look ill and unhealthy without a tan...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/hl_nm/cancer_sun_dc

I love the last comment in this article-- about refining sunscreen formulas.

 

[Katyusha]

And what a relief to know, since I look ill and unhealthy without a tan...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/hl_nm/cancer_sun_dc

I love the last comment in this article-- about refining sunscreen formulas.

They should.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I've been wondering, for the last few years, if it is the tanning oils that give you skin cancer, and not the sun.

 

[trysail]

The old aphorism, "Everything in moderation," is applicable to almost everything. If 'tweren't for sunscreen, I'd never be able to sail in the tropics without turning into a burnt crisp.

Something's gonna kill us all eventually:

Exercise,
eat healthily,
don't smoke...

DIE ANYWAY!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It was clearly pointed out in last month's Scientific American. A light-skinned woman in a bikini needs about 40-60 minutes of lying in the sunshine to develop sufficient Vitamin D for good health . . . within my line of sight! The darker your skin, the more time you need.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

*hissssssss*

*baring my fangs*

*going back to my cave*

 

[DesertPirate]

*hissssssss*

*baring my fangs*

*going back to my cave*

Get out in the sun right now!

 

[starrkers]

In parts of Australia, children are developing rickets because the "slip slop slap" (Slip on a shirt, slop on a sunscreen, slap on a hat) message has been taken too far and kids are not getting out in the sun at all.
It's bloody ridiculous.

 

[oggbashan]

In parts of Australia, children are developing rickets because the "slip slop slap" (Slip on a shirt, slop on a sunscreen, slap on a hat) message has been taken too far and kids are not getting out in the sun at all.
It's bloody ridiculous.

I had mild rickets as a child. I blame wet Wales.

However I'm also at risk of skin cancer because of over-exposure in my teens. In the early 1960s I had five summers in three years and made the most of them. It didn't help that I fell asleep on the deck of a ship transitting the Red Sea and got second degree burns.

My father was embarrassed when he needed medical attention for severe sunburn on a winter day in Ottawa. As a result of jet-lag travelling from the UK via a couple of working days in Singapore and then Canberra, he had fallen asleep on a Hawaiian beach the day before...

Og