As a teen, summer days were spent in the quest for the perfect tan. With cocoa butter and baby oil, my friends and I baked in the midday sun.
Fast forward to adulthood and the breaking news health headline reads: “Eighty percent of your lifetime sun damage occurs before age 18.”
The information has come too late for us, as we are now well past the teen years. The consensus? We are toast. Literally. Left to wait for the sun skin damage to start revealing itself in premature wrinkles and worse yet, skin cancer.
But wait. According to adjunct assistant professor …read more

It’s not something that you think about when you are young. I know I spent hours working on my tan every summer and it wasn’t long before I was a gorgeous shade of brown. But my excuse is that we all did it without knowing that there would be consequences. We never heard about skin cancer and the thought of wrinkles was simply something that would never happen to us.
Well, guess what. It does happen to us and I only wish that I had started a lot earlier to protect my skin from the sun. There are some great …read more