Posted by: Curt | Under: 40's/fit, 50's/fit, Children/fit, Health, Ladies/fit, Prime/fit, Youth/fit | (0) Comments
When I was bodybuilding in the 80’s, we used to go to the beach (I lived in Florida) and stay out all afternoon with no sunscreen. Just tanning oil. We literally cooked ourselves. It is probably a miracle that I don’t have skin cancer at this point- and I may still get it. But statistics show that people like me are an anomaly. I have several friends who have gotten skin cancer. More and more people, especially young women are are finding out that skin cancer is a real risk and it is growing.
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Increasing numbers of younger women continue to receive diagnoses of the most dangerous form of skin cancer even as the rate of new cases has leveled off in younger men, federal health officials reported yesterday.
…For young men, the rate of new melanoma cases rose from 4.7 cases per 100,000 per year in 1973 to 7.7 cases per 100,000 per year in 1980, but it then stopped rising.
“The reason for the leveling off in melanoma rates among young men is not known,” Purdue said in an e-mail. “This may reflect reductions over time in the amount of sun exposure experienced by young men (public awareness campaigns regarding sun exposure and melanoma were widely launched in the US in the 1980s). However, we really don’t know for sure.”
For young women, the rate went from 5.5 cases per 100,000 per year in 1973 to 9.4 in 1980, and it kept rising to 13.9 in 2004.
“These findings are important because they suggest that public education campaigns to educate Americans about the risks of skin cancer from sun tanning do not appear to have resulted in a reduction in melanoma rates among young women,” Purdue said.
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The rule of thumb is that 15-30 minutes of sun exposure per day is probably safe for most people. In fact, we need sun exposure for our skin to make vitamin D. But that’s about it. Cooking yourself by the pool or in a tanning bed is very risky. And being a little pale is still infinitely better than skin cancer. Check out lots more info on it here.
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