View Single Post
  #41   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 25-04-2006, 15:21
lukevanoort lukevanoort is offline
in between teams
AKA: Luke Van Oort
no team
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada
Posts: 1,873
lukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond reputelukevanoort has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to lukevanoort
Re: Sunburnification

As everyone else I've met with red hair, I burn really easily, SPF 70something is what I use. (Get stuff with Titanium Dioxide, it works wonders) I did end up with a tan after PE last summer, but that has mostly gone away.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick Tyler
At the risk of sounding like -- you know -- a parent or something, wear a hat and smear sunscreen on your exposed skin. Skin cancer is nothing to joke about, and a teenage sunburn can lead to a melanoma at 40. If skin cancer doesn't actually kill you, you might be like my father-in-law who has had to have skin cancers carved out of his face and ears several times over the last 50 years -- and every divot leaves a scar. I grew up sailing and bodysurfing in Huntington Beach, and I have already had to have a painful treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions. I'd rather you all have pale skin (for you northern European types) than start growing skin cancers.
Amen to that. What people don't realize is how damaging a "healthy" tan is. Tanning is a response to damage, trying to prevent more, like a scab. If you're covered in scabs do you look healthy? NEVER TRY TO TAN. It is even recommended that babies aren't allowed in the sun for something like the first six months... period, no exceptions. Don't neglect your eyes either, they can be damaged too. (Make sure you have sunglasses that protect against UV-A and UV-B, ones that don't promote damage) Don't use tanning beds either, when ever I hear that someone does this I want to knock some sense into them, most skin cancers aren't life threatening, melanoma is, it is caused by exposure to UV-A, guess what tanning beds use? UV-A. Tanning bed use triples your chances of getting it. DON'T DO IT! (sorry if that went on a bit, I feel very strongly about people potentially ruining their life for a temporary aesthetic benefit)
__________________
Team 1219: 2009 - Mentor
Team 587: 2005 - Animator, 2006-2008 - Team Captain
Reply With Quote