Best Sunscreen is also one of the Cheapest
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sunscreen needed!
Consumer Reports just came out with their review of sunscreen and it turns out that the best product tested was also one of the cheapest. Sunscreen is extremely important if you are going to be out in the sun for any continuous amount of time. While we do need 15-20 minutes of sun per day for our bodies to make vitamin D (Vitamin D is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight) anything more than that can be risky. With skin cancer rate climbing every year, it is very important to protect yourself. Using sunscreen when you are at the beach, ball game or working in the yard will protect you not only from skin cancer, but also slow the aging of your skin.From MSNBC-
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Up & Up Sport Continuous, which sells at Target for less than $10 for two 6-ounce containers, won top honors for being the “Best Buy” sunscreen.
The magazine tested 12 leading sunscreens to see how effective they were at blocking both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B radiation. The products were then reevaluated after volunteers wore the screens in water for 80 minutes. In addition to the Target brand, many of the other leading sunscreens ranked by Consumer Reports offered very good protection against UVA and excellent protection against UVB at a reasonable price, the agency said.
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One of the things to remember is that name and price have very little to do with effectiveness- the 2 top rated products were both house brands, one from Target and the other from Walgreens. Some of the lowest rated products were very expensive name brands like Avon and Burt’s Bees. Here are the top 4 and worst 4.
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The top 4 sunscreens rated by Consumer Reports, based on how well they protected against UVA and UVB rays while worn on volunteers who soaked in water for 40 or 80 minutes.
— Up & Up Sport Continuous (Target) spray SPF 30
— Walgreens Sport Continous spray SPF 50
— Banana Boat Sport Performance Continuous spray SPF 30
— Aveeno Continuous Protection spray SPF 50
And the lowest scoring sunscreens:
— La Roche-Posay Anthelios 40 with Mexoryl SX crea SPF 40 ($18.82 per ounce)
— Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard Plus IR3535 Expedition pump spray SPF 30 (Doesn’t block UVA rays)
— Burt’s Bees Chemical-Free with Hemp Seed Oil lotion SPF 30 (Doesn’t block entire UVA spectrum)
Source: Consumer Reports
Got Milk? You are probably not lactose intolerant…
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Got Milk?
A new study has shown that many people who think they are lactose intolerant really aren’t. There isn’t any definitive answer as to why people seem to have symptoms when they can absorb lactose normally, but some researchers think that it is mostly psychological or perhaps irritable bowl syndrome.
For years I thought I was lactose intolerant- then I started drinking small portions of milk, cheese and yogurt with no problems. So one thing that I recommend is that you not drink large amounts of milk at one time, but instead drink less than 1/2 cup a couple of times a day. I think you will find that in smaller amounts, you are fine.
This is important since milk is a great source of nutrition and nutrients such as protein and calcium. So try adding dairy products back into your diet in small amount and you will probably find that you can handle it without problems.
Diabetes linked to lack of sleep
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A new study has shown that insulin sensitivity decreases markedly (19-25%) in people who do not get enough sleep the night before. The real importance of this study is that Type 2 diabetes might be slowed in some people if they simply got enough sleep. The human body is a remarkable and finely tuned machine that is amazingly adaptable but also needs certain things to function properly. Sleep is one of those things! Of course, diet and exercise are the primary reasons for most cases of diabetes, but for people who do watch their diet and do get enough exercise, getting enough sleep is a relatively easy way to decrease their chance of getting diabetes. Shoot for 7-9 hours if you are and adult and more for children.
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Type 2 diabetes is caused by the body’s inability to adequately use insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, to control glucose sugar produced from food. Sugar levels rise and can damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and major arteries.
The disease, linked to poor diet and lack of exercise, is reaching epidemic levels. An estimated 180 million people now suffer from diabetes around the world.
Previous studies have found that several nights of poor sleep can result in impaired use of insulin, but Donga said this was the first study to examine the effects of only a single bad night’s sleep.
The Dutch scientists examined nine healthy people — once after a night of eight hours sleep and once after a night of just four hours.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), showed that partial sleep restriction during a single night reduced some types of insulin sensitivity by 19 to 25 percent.
“Our data indicate that insulin sensitivity is not fixed in healthy (people), but depends on the duration of sleep in the preceding night,” Donga wrote in the study.
