sunscreen

As summer rolls around, many of us are planning to travel to a vacation spot on a plane, often to a beach, where we’ll lie out in the sun. But this is not always safe–even if you use SUNSCREEN! What’s going on here?

In AOL News, Andrew Schneider reports that while creams and ointments might prevent sunburn, they don’t keep the sun’s ultraviolet light from destroying your skin cells and causing tumors and lesions. It turns out that almost half of the 500 most popular sunscreen products may actually INCREASE the speed at which cancer cells develop and spread because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives, retinol and retinyl palmitate, which are included in many sunscreens because vitamin A is an anti-oxidant that slows skin aging.
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As the weather turns cold, many of us dream of going to an tropical island, where we can bask in the sun. But women should be especially careful when planning such a trip, because exposure to the sun ages them FASTER than it does men.

A new laser-based technique images the deeper layers of the skin in order to view the collagen and elastin, whose degeneration causes the appearance of wrinkles and the progressive loss of skin smoothness.
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How can that be? We’ve finally gotten sunscreen that’s effective. But dermatologists say that even if we use the best sunscreen, if we don’t apply it often enough, it can actually make sun damage worse.

LiveScience.com reports that when UV radiation from the sun is absorbed by the skin, it generates what are called reactive oxygen species. These are what cause our skin to age. Sunscreens contain UV filters that stop this radiation from reaching deeper than the outer layer of our skin. But over time, these filters themselves are absorbed by the skin, meaning that they sink below the surface, re-exposing the surface of our skin to harmful rays.
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A little over two years ago, we wrote a story about an extraordinary sunscreen that was available abroad but not yet approved by the FDA. It was so much more effective than we what we had that US sunbathers were importing it from Europe. Well, now it is available in the US.

The new sunscreen blocks the type of ultraviolet light that is linked to skin cancer, called UVA radiation. Current sunscreens only block UVB rays, the type of sunlight that causes sunburns.

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You didn’t read this in the your local newspaper, did you? You only read it HERE, where we report on things our own media likes to keep secret. It?s enough to make you believe in sinister forces!
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