USA - Memorial Day: Sunscreen propaganda heats up
Memorial Day: Sunscreen propaganda heats up
Jeffrey Phelps
...Even though more people have been pressured into using sunscreens than ever before, the incidence of skin cancer continues to rise. This is because the constant use of chemical-laden sunscreen is almost as ridiculous as the use of arsenic to whiten the skin or fluoride for better teeth. While they can have some positive effects, their side effects can be just as dangerous and even deadly.
According to the EWG's Skin Deep Sunscreens Report 2012, “Sunscreens can help reduce UV-related free radical damage by diverting the radiation from the skin, but the ingredients themselves can break down and release their own free radicals in the process.” This leaves the consumer gambling that the net effect of the sunscreen they have cooked on their skin for hours will hopefully be somewhere on the positive end of the spectrum. The same EWG report also says that “both nano-size zinc oxide and titanium dioxide from sunscreens react strongly with UV light and may damage skin cells.” And that “the UV filter Padimate O causes skin damage when it reacts with other compounds to form a mutagenic contaminant and causes a dramatic increase in DNA strand breaks compared to untreated skin.”
As if skin damage itself is not enough to send you looking for better options, the use of sunscreen also blocks the good effects of the sun. Vitamin D production is almost completely blocked by sunscreens..........
Jeffrey Phelps
...Even though more people have been pressured into using sunscreens than ever before, the incidence of skin cancer continues to rise. This is because the constant use of chemical-laden sunscreen is almost as ridiculous as the use of arsenic to whiten the skin or fluoride for better teeth. While they can have some positive effects, their side effects can be just as dangerous and even deadly.
According to the EWG's Skin Deep Sunscreens Report 2012, “Sunscreens can help reduce UV-related free radical damage by diverting the radiation from the skin, but the ingredients themselves can break down and release their own free radicals in the process.” This leaves the consumer gambling that the net effect of the sunscreen they have cooked on their skin for hours will hopefully be somewhere on the positive end of the spectrum. The same EWG report also says that “both nano-size zinc oxide and titanium dioxide from sunscreens react strongly with UV light and may damage skin cells.” And that “the UV filter Padimate O causes skin damage when it reacts with other compounds to form a mutagenic contaminant and causes a dramatic increase in DNA strand breaks compared to untreated skin.”
As if skin damage itself is not enough to send you looking for better options, the use of sunscreen also blocks the good effects of the sun. Vitamin D production is almost completely blocked by sunscreens..........
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