Whether your skin tans or not, tanning is the worse thing you can do for yourself. Please never tan...no in the sun or a tanning bed. A tanning bed is actually worse.
Jack's Pearl
2012/06/10 16:23:47
If you have had one burn in your life as a teen, you increase your odds of skin cancer by 50%. If you have burned more then that you basically guarantee yourself skin cancer at some point. That is how bad it is for you.
They say that tanning beds are safe, but they are misled themselves. Tanning beds are worse then tannin in the sun. So avoid those completely.
Where at least 35 poof sunscreen anytime you are out in the weather at all. You should always protect your neck and face, regardless. Even light coming through windows while you are at work or school or home, can have an effect.
Please protect your skin! Have young looking smooth skin your entire life!
They say that tanning beds are safe, but they are misled themselves. Tanning beds are worse then tannin in the sun. So avoid those completely.
Where at least 35 poof sunscreen anytime you are out in the weather at all. You should always protect your neck and face, regardless. Even light coming through windows while you are at work or school or home, can have an effect.
Please protect your skin! Have young looking smooth skin your entire life!
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irish -liberty or death! 2012/06/10 17:16:12
+6wrong! this fallacy needs to fall down the trash bin. we NEED the sun! we NEED it to make vitamin D.
Now we're so sun-phobic some people have a deficiency in Vitamin D.
It seems to me it's about balance. (Just like alcohol, bacon, and chocolate.)
As far as using sunscreen, you need to put it on a half hour before exposure so that it get's into the skin. This is best while you are cool too. THen it needs to be reapplied as you are out. And it helps immensely to protect your skin.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. More than 3.5 million skin cancers in over two million people are diagnosed annually.1
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime.3
Over the past 31 years, more people have had skin cancer than all other cancers combined.4
Nearly 800,000 Americans are living with a history of melanoma and 13 million are living with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer, typically diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma.5
Actinic keratosis is the most common precancer; it affects more than 58 million Americans.6 Approximately 65 percent of all squamous cell carcinomas arise in lesions that previously were diagnosed as actinic keratoses. In patients with a history of two or more skin cancers, 36 percent of basal cell carcinomas arise in lesions previously diagnosed as actinic keratoses.7
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common form of skin cancer; an estimated 2.8 million are diagnosed annually in the US.8 BCCs are rarely fatal, but can be highly disfiguring if allowed to grow.
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Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. More than 3.5 million skin cancers in over two million people are diagnosed annually.1
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2
One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime.3
Over the past 31 years, more people have had skin cancer than all other cancers combined.4
Nearly 800,000 Americans are living with a history of melanoma and 13 million are living with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer, typically diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma.5
Actinic keratosis is the most common precancer; it affects more than 58 million Americans.6 Approximately 65 percent of all squamous cell carcinomas arise in lesions that previously were diagnosed as actinic keratoses. In patients with a history of two or more skin cancers, 36 percent of basal cell carcinomas arise in lesions previously diagnosed as actinic keratoses.7
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common form of skin cancer; an estimated 2.8 million are diagnosed annually in the US.8 BCCs are rarely fatal, but can be highly disfiguring if allowed to grow.
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer.9 An estimated 700,000 cases are diagnosed each year in the US,10 resulting in approximately 2,500 deaths.2
Between 40 and 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have either skin cancer at least once.11
About 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers are associated with exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.12
Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 percent between 1992 and 2006.13
No matter what you say to him, it's wrong, the group is a government conspiracy, and there is no 'proof.'
According to the claims, of risk, on this post, the malignancy rates should be in the billions of cases annually, do you have that data.
Let me break it down for you by citation
Citation 1
"Estimated incidence"
Citation 2
Please refer to page 5
http://www.cancer.org/acs/gro...
Citation 3
"Estimated effect"
Citation 4
See revision history
http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/19...
Citation 5
The Lewen Group nothing but a lobbying group for health care dollars, so far have produced reports regarding breast cancer increases, prostate cancer increases, anything that will pour more grant money into those they represent.
Interesting and they are here to educate, surely you jest.
http://www.skincancer.org/abo...
I hope you understand the point. Please come to the table from an educated perspective or do not come at all.
I understand where your perceived concern comes from. You have been told that if you do "x", "y" won't happen, unfortunately the evidence is not sufficient to support that.