{"id":32,"date":"2013-05-13T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theeuropeantouch.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2014-02-23T21:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T21:20:22","slug":"sun-protection-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theeuropeantouch.com\/wordpress\/sun-protection-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Protection & You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunlight is good for you. I know, there are many reasons why we must have sun protection, but, like many other things in life, moderation is the key.<\/p>\n

We need sunshine for our bones, for the vitamin D and for light therapy. Lack of sunshine leads to seasonal affective disease (or SADD)<\/p>\n

20 minutes of sunlight (without sunscreen)is all we need for the above reasons.<\/p>\n

However, with longer exposure without protection, both UVA and UVB will do both temporary and long term damage. UVA ages the skin and UVB burns.<\/p>\n

Pay attention to the label on sunscreen and look for\u00a0Total Protection<\/span><\/span>, which covers both UVA and UVB. If there’s only SPF, your sunscreen protects only against UVB.<\/p>\n

Once you have established that, look for the protection factor which will be a combination of the protection from UVA and UVB.<\/p>\n

European SPF numbers are lower than the US, so a European product with SPF8 is the equivalent of SPF12 in the US.<\/p>\n

The amount applied makes a difference to the length of time you can stay in the sun. Most people use too little. Rule of thumb is 2 fingers per zone (head, each arm, chest, stomach, upper leg, lower leg – each is one zone)<\/p>\n

You must apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going out and re-apply 30 minutes after, also after swimming.<\/p>\n

Because our ozone layer is thinning, we need sunscreen even on cloudy days.<\/p>\n

If you need one more reason to use sunscreen, you must know that 90% of squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma is due to sunlight exposure, while the deadly melanoma is 65% caused by UVB damage.<\/p>\n

Yes, sunshine is great and we need it, but there is no reason why we should go without sunscreen.<\/p>\n

by Nadia Danay<\/p>\n

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