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Sunscreens Don't Provide the Protection They Claim
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7-29-2007 10:57 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7578bc54-91b5-48aa-ac0c-7800d4a1dd27/56948D74-E838-401B-BD1F-64B9B9EADD84/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm" href="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mercola.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm"><H1>Sunscreens Don't Provide the Protection They Claim</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm"><SPAN><IMG border="0" align="right" src="http://www.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2006/06--june/6.16sunscreen.jpg" alt="" />While sunscreens are generally effective at filtering out ultraviolet rays from the sun that cause sunburn (UVB rays), they don't work as well at filtering UVA rays, which penetrate the skin deeply and are more likely to cause skin cancer and wrinkles.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm"><SPAN>Misleading or confusing product labels are partly to blame for the widespread misinformation regarding sunscreens. <SPAN>In 1999, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said stricter rules for sunscreen testing and labeling would take effect in 2001, but this was put on hold indefinitely. In the fall of 2005, Congress ordered the FDA to produce the revised regulations within six months.</SPAN></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm">If you accept the premise that it is good to use sunblcok, which is typically not true, then many commercial sunblocks are not delivering what they promise.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm">the <A linktype="3" href="http://www.mercola.com/2003/dec/10/cancer_sun.htm">sun actually protects you from cancer</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm">nearly every sunblock needs to be applied every 45 minutes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mercola.com/2006/jun/29/sunscreens_dont_provide_the_protection_they_claim.htm">commercial products are <SPAN><A linktype="3" href="http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/15/sunscreen.htm">loaded with toxic chemicals</A> </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/56948D74-E838-401B-BD1F-64B9B9EADD84/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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