Great Tips on Selecting Sun Screen

A great article in the San Francisco Chroncile on how to select the sun screen that's best for your skin type.

Find a sunscreen formula that fits your life and lifestyle," suggests Sandra Read, M.D., clinical instructor of dermatology at the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. "If it's too heavy, sticky, or expensive, you're not going to wear it."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/30/hearstmagbeauty476671.DTL

How to Avoid Heat Stroke This Summer

Great blog in the New York Times on how to avoid heat stroke this summer.

A few years ago, two triathlons in Melbourne, Australia, held two months apart provided a fine if unconventional laboratory for studying heat illness. During the first event, early in the Australian summer, fifteen competitors were treated for heat illness. Three of them were diagnosed with life-threatening heat stroke. In the second similar triathlon held on another very hot, muggy day, no racers succumbed.

Read the rest here:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/how-to-avoid-heatstroke/

Study: Tanning Beds as Deadly as Arsenic (AP)

If you needed any more reasons to protect your skin from UV rays...

LONDON - International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming them as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have described tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation as "probable carcinogens."

A new analysis of about 20 studies concludes the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75 percent when people start using tanning beds before age 30. Experts also found that all types of ultraviolet radiation caused worrying mutations in mice, proof the radiation is carcinogenic. Previously, only one type of ultraviolet radiation was thought to be lethal.

Click on the link below for the complete story:

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_tanning_beds_cancer.html

3 Sun Spot Myths

MYTH: Sun Spots are only common in individuals with darker skin tone
FACT: Regardless of your skin type, dark- and light-skinned people are equally prone to developing sun spots.

MYTH: Sun Spots are contagious
FACT: Although it is an infection, it is not contagious, as the yeast normally lives in the skin. Some people may be genetically susceptible to sun spots. Other factors that may contribute to the development of sun spots include malnutrition, use of oral contraceptives, and hyperhidrosis. Studies have shown that a previous history of sun spots makes a person more vulnerable to future sun spots condition. The recurrence rate of sun spots after cessation of treatment is as high as 60% the first year and 80% the second year.

MYTH: Sun Spots can cause cancer
FACT: Sun Spots is a superficial fungal infection of the skin. It is harmless and not related to cancer whatsoever. But any type of over exposure to the sun can cause Melanoma which is cancer of the skin. Daily use of sunscreen is always recommended.

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