Skin Care: Sunblock, Sunscreen, Vitamin D and Cancer
Sunday, June 29, 2008
I've been negligent this year. Well, I've always been negligent with regards to a certain type of skin care. I'll slather on Shea or Cocoa Butter, but nothing with
sunblock, or
sunscreen.
Bad girl!I keep reading that I should. Yet, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking: "I'm brown skinned, what do I need that for?"
Well, it turns out that black people get
melanoma too!
Color me surprised. I've known it for some time, but I always think of myself as special in this regard.
I don't sunburn; I don't flake.
Every morning, I walk around for up to an hour. Overall, I get a little darker each time. My arms and, more often than not, legs are always covered. I wear a baseball cap and UV shades, even when it's blisteringly hot.
I'm
conflicted too. Between reading that blacks in Northern areas of the world don't get enough
Vitamin D because of insufficient sunlight, what the hell am I to think? And this lack of
Vitamin D makes some of us vulnerable to
breast cancer.
So, if we get too much sun we get
skin cancer. If we get too little sun we get
breast cancer.
I'll continue to take my walks without the skin protection.
Labels: breast cancer, melanoma, skin cancer, sunblock, sunscreen, Vitamin D
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