Sunscam

What is the highest uv for sunscreen?

Sunscreen sucks as a stand alone product. I applied sunscreen for many years when alpine skiing in Vail. After applying my morning dosage, I knew that was not enough. Thus, I would follow the sunscreen application with an entire covering of my face and neck; goggles, a hood and a face/neck "gator" provided protection from wind, sun and other elements. Although I probably looked ridiculous while teaching skiing in Vail, nobody told me that I was being foolish --- in fact, when I said I was protecting my face, people understood. I never believed that sunscreen alone would protect me from cancer. After teaching skiing for nearly a decade, and almost never exposing my face to the sun, I don't have skin cancer, wrinkles or lines on my face. Sunscreen alone does not work --- in fact on days where I forgot sunscreen, I didn't burn or tan either --- good luck and be smart --- covering yourself is the best protection.

I thought this article was great, the same can be said about medications, can the chemicals in drugs have something to do with the rise in disease, its a good possibility. If you want an answer, always follow the money...

What about acne treatments making your skin vulnerable to the sun??? should i not use sunscreen???

I would admit that the American Academy of Dermatology selling it's seal of approval without any requirements for the quality of the product is questionable. The major flaw in your argument (besides an insurmountable amount a epidemiologic data) is that a dermatologist makes their most money from treating skin cancer and the $10K the AAD charges a doesn't even pay for a mailer to the Academy's members. It would make better business sense to conceal that UV rays cause cancer if you are looking for a scam. This article is an over simplification of the issue. Major issues include that there are skin cancers that are the result of genetic defects that may require little or to practically no UV exposure, including some sub-types of melanoma in non-sun exposed areas that we are just starting to identify by its genetic profile. Another issue is that all the articles on vitamin D need were written by a doctor that works for the largest sun tanning booth company (Wolfe). Finally the one well known dermatologist (Dr. Ackerman) that is outspoken about the sun not being related to skin cancer, although brilliant, has known mental health problems and has made a living by amking antagonistic statements without the strongest scientific arguments. At the same time, the evidence for the effect of UV radiation on sun as far as aging, pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions is irrefutable. This is a feel good article for those afraid of medicine who like to take red yeast for cholesterol when it contains the exact same chemical as a statin pill where the amount and impurities are actually regulated. And since your readers might include this crowd: the original article in Lancet implying a connection between vaccinations and autism was recalled by the author because of fabricated information and statistics. These conspiracy web sites do more to hurt people that you will ever know.

The only thing this excellent article needs is an update reflecting that we now know that UVB rays don't cause basal-cell carcinoma or skin aging, either. UVA is responsible for the skin aging, at least in part, and we still don't know what causes basal-cell & melanoma cancers.

We also now know that most UVA sunscreens *break down in the sun* and that the SPF rating on the bottle applies only to UVB. The UVA protection could be 45 or it could 2, even on a bottle rated SPF 70.

More importantly, we are finding out that moderate sun exposure *decreases* melanoma risk, and that we are under an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency caused by sun phobia. This article http://loveyourmother.livejournal.com/7750.html has links to studies in the National Institute of Health's PubMed database covering all these contentions. We have to learn to get moderate sun exposure, appropriate to our ancestry, latitude, time of day, and time of year, without sunscreens. It's not as easy as slathering on the "daily defense," but I'm afraid we're going to have to start using our brains instead of relying on products that don't protect us from anything but sunburn.

I agree with you for the most part, but you must consider the reason there wasn't alot of skin cancer middle century is probably because of the huge outfits they wore to swim in the 30s

I am 40 years old and have been an avid surfer and ocean sports enthusiast for most of those 40 years.
This article and all like it are grossly irresponsible.
It is true that there are many sunscreens that do little to provide adequate protection from exposure and that many of these also contain ingredients (like titanium dioxide) that are harmful to the skin.
However, there are sunscreens that do not contain these types of ingredients.
I do not work for any industry that promotes sun protection products and I can absolutely state with 100% confidence, based on a lifetime of experience, that if you regularly expose yourself to the sun - especially on a watery surface - without using a proven sunscreen you will ruin your skin and greatly increase the odds of developing skin cancer. I see it all the time, you obviously don't.
Ms. Berwick's methods are clearly very flawed and I would happily invite her to take my acid test to prove the point.
Tsk, tsk, MJ. I expected more responsible journalism.

Sunscreens are toxic rubbish. Life evolved for billions of years in the life giving sun. We have spent our lives inside buildings and cars for how long? The Sun is the giver of life. Sunburn is a means to allow the skin to grow a harder shell for the future, the tan.

The sunscreen industry are a pack of rapist killers who damage more DNA than the Sun ever did. Anyone who marinates their poor child's pores in this concoction of Dow chemical waste is a sickening abuser of that child's right to a natural body.

Government regulators have long shown us they cannot be trusted. And all doctors, all so called 'professional organizations' are well and truly covered in the blood money of Big Chemical and Big Pharma.

There is no life but the natural life.

These killers who seek to lord their pathetic 'industry expertise' and mindless indoctrination training college degrees in what passes for 'research' in 2008, the money and blood soaked era of the degradation of science, need to understand they have zero credibility, and we will find our own path, naturally, without your pathetic and deadly toxic chemicals and drugs.

I thank you for this article. And I completely agree. Nobody should but anything on their skin they wouldn't swallow and eat. How do you think nicotine patches work? through the pores.

This toxic waste sunscreen is the worst dermatology mistake in history.

We've been dying since the day we were born. Are we going to spend our lives licking the boots of killers who are in lock step with corporate chemical and pharmaceutical just because they have white coats and BMWs?

Adobe Photoshop
Windows XP
Microsoft Office
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Mini UGG Boots

I am amazed how little of their intelligence some people conveyed in the previous postings. How much anger some people have, and how much of their Logic brand they use to try and back it up. I wonder if some cannot hear wisdom when it is spoken, but instead lean on their own lack of experience (what might become knowledge). Is it too much to ask for a sentence written with appropriate punctuation and correct spelling? Let us give tribute at least to thought - and the English language - if not also to Gloria.

The History of the Bikini - the World's Skimpiest Invention
by Samantha

About two hundred years ago, women pranced around on beaches wearing flannel dresses and three-quarter length trousers. In that period in history when showing one's knees was considered scandalous, it might have come as a shock to these women that their descendants would be sporting the skimpiest invention of all - the bikini.

Brigitte Bardot in 1953
History's first modern swimsuits were inventions that covered as much as regular clothing. In early Victorian times, they were typically made from flannel or wool and consisted of a jacket-like top and three-quarter-length pants. As societal attitudes towards "being proper" changed, increasingly smaller swimsuits were invented, revealing ankles, elbows and shoulders.

By the 1930s, women's swimsuits in Europe took the form of a halter top and shorts. However, it wasn't as racy as it sounds - the navel was still covered and only a tiny portion of skin showed between the two parts. It took a bit longer for the style to reach North America. In World War II, fabric rationing saw the removal of all unnecessary fabric. In fact, it was the uplifted mood at the end of the war that inspired the invention of the bikini.

Two different versions of the bikini were invented by Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, both from France. Heim said that his invention was "the world's smallest bathing suit." However, Reard's version used only 30 inches of fabric and was much smaller than the alleged world's smallest bathing suit. Reard's invention was named after the Bikini Atoll, the site of a nuclear test in July of 1946, one week before history's skimpiest bathing suit was introduced to the world.

History's first bikini
The first bikini that its inventor introduced was printed with type similar to that found in a newspaper, almost foreshadowing the publicity it would receive. Reard's invention was, naturally, a big hit. Soon after its invention, the bikini was making waves among beachgoers all across Europe. It took a bit longer to catch on in the United States, not really gaining popularity until the '60s. The bikini is now a common sight on beaches around the world, leaving the full-length wool suits of our great-grandmothers to the history books.

History of the Bikini Sources:
History.com
Fashion Era
Images:
Bettmann/Corbis
Getty Images

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