#if I can extend my healthier years by applying suncream ill do that
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Alternatively/additionally cover up in the sun. Especially if you cant stand suncream, wear long sleeves, long legwear, wide brim hats.
Hello everybody with summer fast approaching here is your regular reminder that:
Everyone needs to wear sunscreen
SPF 50 is pretty much the best protection you can get, an SPF higher than that will have the same effect
Melanin does not protect you from skin cancer
Tanning is caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation
Spending the majority of your life receiving regular large doses of UV radiation without any skin protection is a good way to get skin cancer
Don't use tanning beds, and don't go sun tanning
Wear your fucking sunscreen
#NHS says there's no such thing as a healthy tan#i used to be proud of tanning and not burning#im white but in yhe summer I could get darker than my mixed race sister because i spent a lot of time outside#but since learning that the sun is always a hazard even if it doesn't burn#im pretty diligent about suncream#especially with the stuff coming out lately about#sundamage causing senescent cells#(damaged cells thats arent cancerous so the immune system may leave them alone#but they can still produce harmful things#on the benign end they are the cause of wronkled skin#but on the worse end the senescence cells in the skin can produce toxic substances causing any age related conditions pretty much#arthritis#organ failure#cancer#this is what I have read in the New Scientist#)#so im like#if I can extend my healthier years by applying suncream ill do that
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