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What you can do to make healthier and more informed choices about sunscreens and sun safety.
The Sunscreen Scandal: Are We Getting All the Facts?
Seeded on Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:58 AM EDT
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Environmental Working Group's 2010 Sunscreen Guide check it out....
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#1 - Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:59 AM EDTI use LaRoche, how bad is that?
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#2 - Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:45 PM EDTLike LaRoche in your bathtub in Boston (the kind that scurry around when you turn the light on)?...or the twig left over after a deep relaxation exercise? I have no clue what you are talking about.
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It's one of the sunscreens, silly. It had a couple of warnings, I wanted to know what you thought. Roach sunscreen sounds very effective, though.
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Nearing taught me about hemp oil and its magnificent healing properties. I don't know about sunscreens (I have little to no education in weird chemicals and nanoparticles)....I use unrefined coconut oil. Natural oils that contain high levels of EFA's and polyunsaturated fat (hemp oil) protects skin from rays and the development of cancer. There is one caveat however, you also have to ingest the same substance. You have inside>outside protection....how perfect is that? (And nice skin)
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So, if you put on coconut oil and eat coconut, would that work?
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Goz, that was a serious question. Is eating the coconut enough, or do you have to consume the oil to get enough of a concentration for protection?
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Ok...You can use refined coconut oil for cooking. This oil can replace your regular cooking oil when using low to moderate heat. Peanut oil for high heat....frying. Make a conscious effort to get at least a 1/2 teaspoon of unrefined coconut oil in your body each day. Can add to smoothies, milkshakes...The reason coconut oil is so amazing is it's short chain fatty acid profile...unlike damaging long chain fatty acids found in red meat, dairy. The profile of coco oil helps build healthy cells and destroys virus, bacteria, while supporting cell apoptosis...the death of the damaged cell. This substance also plays a positive role in weight loss and maintenance.
And eating coconut works too.
You can also use flax seeds. Use whole seeds freshly ground (in your coffee grinder) no more than one tablespoon per day. Sprinkle on foods or into smoothies.
Sorry Robert....I must have missed yor question...
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I don't quite agree with chemicals protecting me from nature... ie..
you don't want to get fat, eat this chemical sweetener, you don't want to get bit by insects, spray this chemical on your skin, you don't want sunburn, rub this chemical on your skin, and if you get wet, do it all again.... I'll pass, gimme sugar, I'll swim, then dry off in the shade, get plenty of vitamin D and take my chances on the sunburn and bugbites.... seems like the people that bathe in sunscreen are the ones that get skin cancer... was it the sun or was it the sunscreen.
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#3 - Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:18 AM EDTSo true....I can draw from a personal experience. Suspicious changes in a mole stopped when I suspended sunscreen use and replaced protection with natural substances. Whew! I dodged a bomb....
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I heard something recently that it may be the zinc oxide in sunscreens that may be toxic.. It's foggy here anyway, June gloom..
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Being they are "trade secrets" you are left to deal with the results...spelled g-u-i-n-e-a p-i-g.
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I refuse to use sunscreen ....The sun does more good for me than not and I will take the benefit to risk ratio small of getting skin cancer to the greater benefits of sun exposure for health....Floridians rarely use sunscreen and lather on the Hawaiin tropic no protection....And I dont know recent records but amazingly didnt in the past have high incidents of cancer comparativly speaking including skin cancer...I need to research latest epidemiology but sunscreen may be overated and not an essential .....food for thought....
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