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[DailyClicker]

Hello!

I'm representing the Teenage Cancer Trust, as I feel strongly about trying to help people, to minimise their risk from Cancer especially at a younger age! I know this subject isn't anything new, but I feel by them promoting it via a text service, it might have a greater impact for younger people.

TCT has created a new website a service, with support from Leona Lewis!

http://www.shunburn.co.uk

Visit that website and sign up for the FREE TEXT alerts, when the sun is strongest in your area so you know when to slap more sun cream on. It contains many interesting facts about what the sun can really do to our skin.

Also by signing upto the text service, you can win prizes such as iPod Nano's and Tickets to Beach Break Live.

If you have MYSPACE, join this group to promote this fantastic new service.

http://groups.myspace.com/Shunburn

Thanks for reading this =)

Stephen!

[bank_of_slate]

Should this be posted on the referrers board?
...Linda xx

[DailyClicker]

I don't see why it should, as I am just giving out information?

It's just letting people know about new free service which could reduce their risk of skin cancer.

Might be wrong though.

[bank_of_slate]

No problem daily, I'm sure the forum guides will move it if they feel it should be
...Linda xx

[DailyClicker]

Did you know:

·One in 330 boys and one in 420 girls get cancer before they’re 20 – that’s between two and four cases for every secondary school in the UK.
·By the age of 15, you have a 1 in 600 chance of developing cancer. By the age of 24, you will have had a 1 in 285 chance.
·Teenage cancer rates have increased by 50% in the last 30 years.

[Ted_Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by DailyClicker

Did you know:

·One in 330 boys and one in 420 girls get cancer before they’re 20 – that’s between two and four cases for every secondary school in the UK.
·By the age of 15, you have a 1 in 600 chance of developing cancer. By the age of 24, you will have had a 1 in 285 chance.
·Teenage cancer rates have increased by 50% in the last 30 years.

As we know increasing the intake of vitamin D by at least 1000 IU a day reduces the risk of colorectal cancer and many other deadly cancers by 30-50% it follows the reason cancer rates are increasing is precisely because of these misguided individuals who haven't grasped that telling people to stay out of the sun and thus reducing the amount of vitamin d they obtain increases the incidence of MOST CANCERS.

Even melanomas occur more highly in those with low vitamin d status and most melanomas occur on the areas least exposed to the sun, those with melanoma who continue to obtain regular sun exposure have a better prognosis than those who shun the sun.

Of course no one should ever allow their skin to burn but the message must always include information about replacing the Vitamin d that the skin would naturally have acquired given ample sun exposure. The risk for the first cardiovascular event is 62% higher in people with vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency has also been associated with autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and schizophrenia.

Excessive exposure to sunlight causes an estimated annual loss of 1.6 million disability adjusted life years . This compares with the loss of about 3.3 billion disability adjusted life years from bone disease caused by vitamin D deficiency as a result of too little exposure to sunlight. These figures do not take into account the other potential health benefits of sun exposure and vitamin D sufficiency in reducing other chronic diseases, which account for 9.4% of total global disease burden.

This Sunlight Exposure Calculator allows you to work out how long is safe to stay in the sun.

[DailyClicker]

I'm still representing Teenage Cancer Trust so I wanted to let you know that:

Superdrug are doing a promotion on Sun cream!

https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/s...1M_Voucher.pdf

That will give you 10% off any SOLAIT spray lotion bottle!

Superdrug are also giving 5% of profits from SOLAIT spray lotion bottles to Teenage Cancer Trust charity so it might be worth anyone buying sun cream to buy it there!

[Ted_Hutchinson]

While of course it is vitally important that no one ever gets sunburnt we do have to remember that our skins evolved to white to take full advantage of the limited Vitamin D potential at this latitude. Rather than trying thinking we are smarter than evolutionary forces we should be asking ourselves why modern skin is unable to resist burning and consider what can be done to improve our skin's natural sunscreen potential.

I haven't used sunscreen at all for the last couple of years although in previous years my skin burnt as quickly as everyone else's. This is what I do. that enables me to spend all day outdoors wearing at most a pair of shorts/sandals.

The sunscreen myth: How sunscreen products actually promote cancer