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Summer Is About To Get Even Better!:
So with the full-weight of summer approaching, we revisit a more human side of good-health: How people look in a bathing-suit.
Especially when they get just the right amount of color to highlight their features. -Bikinis don’t hurt either.
And the unfortunate side-effect is all the UV-damage that occurs while achieving that crispy KFC hue.
But if Massachusetts researchers have anything to say about it, that could all be a thing of the past…
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You Don’t Want To Learn This Lesson The Hard Way:
Now remember to put your sunblock on, boys and girls!
And while you’re at it, go back & read the post on the EWG’s list of the best ones for you.
Here are a few of the 18 painful examples Pleated Jeans rounded up to remind you to do it.
YEOWCH!…
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First They Saved Your Health, Now Your Skin!:
You might remember our previous post on the EWG’s great work on produce safety and pesticides.
If you don’t, The Dirty Dozen with Garrick Dee Tan’s infographics is a good & worthwhile read.
Especially for the addition of The Clean 15, and The Hazardous 3.
Well just in-time for sunny weather, the EWG is at it again for Sunscreens. And their results are pretty surprising…
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The flavonoids in wine and grapes can protect skin cells from death by chocolate UV radiation, says a study by U. Barcelona and the National Research Council of Spain.
Not sure if this study was funded by the Rioja Vintners Chamber of Commerce, but it does make a certain amount of ~sense-ish.
Some sources are reporting that if you Drink Wine or Eat Grapes, it can help.
Erm, I may have read the glaringly-brief Abstracts incorrectly, but I thought the experiments were not carried out on humans, but…
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Tylenol / Acetaminophen OD-ing Causes Liver Damage Study Abstract
Human Variant Mad Cow Blood Test Nears Readiness
-The test results you never want to get.
Acetaminophen May Reduce Incidence of Ovarian Cancer
– What’s a Girl To Do?, And 9 More Links…
