Luv, Zen Lill

PS men of MM blog – new summer fashions have just hit my closet, it IS that time of year.

After a long winter, springtime is finally upon us. And soon, instead of warnings about the flu, we’ll be hearing from medical experts about the importance of using sunscreen every day to protect ourselves from skin cancer.

Daily sunscreen use and warnings to avoid the sun at all costs have been the mantra of government agencies and most medical professionals for at least a decade or more. However, during that time we’ve seen monumental jumps in depression (and the use of antidepressants) and vitamin D deficiencies, both of which sunlight helps to prevent.

Studies have also shown that, while sunscreen use can prevent visible burning, it’s questionable whether it actually results in a drop in skin cancer rates—particularly melanoma, the most deadly form.

And, then there’s the concern of various sunscreen ingredients being absorbed by the body and causing further problems. Scientists have now found that one widely used sunscreen ingredient, benzophenone (BP), can pass through the skin and be absorbed into the bloodstream. Once inside the body, it mimics the effects of estrogen.

This latest study was performed to see if there was a link between endometriosis, which affects 1 in 10 women, and the use of sunscreens and other personal care products that contain BP. Endometriosis requires estrogen to develop.

When they tested the urine of women who underwent surgery for endometriosis, they found high levels of BP—and higher levels of the chemical was associated with an increased risk.

While this study focused on mature women and endometriosis, you have to wonder about the effects on young children. Research has shown that unborn and young children are the most susceptible to estrogen-mimicking compounds.

Young children are generally the ones covered in these chemicals. Even low doses of these chemicals have been shown to alter sexual characteristics in developing fetuses, cause the early onset of puberty, and damage estrogen cycles throughout adulthood.

If you’re going to be out in the sun for long periods of time and require a sunscreen, then zinc oxide is probably the best option. Make sure it isn’t micronized zinc oxide, which is another way of saying it is zinc oxide nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are small enough to penetrate the skin and are the latest craze in skin care products.

By using nanoparticles, manufacturers hope to get more of the product into the inner layers of the skin. Unfortunately, these chemicals can then enter the bloodstream and the effects on various other tissues and organs are still largely unknown.

Now it’s your turn: Are you an avid sunscreen user?

Bruce, that’s just white bullshit. An integrated prom is NOT a divisive issue in and of itself. It is a manufactured divisive issue by whites trying to pretend that their race is so special that permission is needed by OTWs to mingle with them.

Your reflexive acceptance of that premise tells me your race. Most others will find the assumption that an integrated prom between teenagers who attend the same public school would be divisive idiotic.

Unfortunately, you and the rest of your race will have to face this fact also, you are not special because of the color of your skin. NOT today, nor were you yesterday.

It was only as Robert,RT has been pointing out to you on this blog. You were Constitutionally made America’s Affirmative Action Beneficiaries.

But we are tearing down that privilege every day even if it seems progress is one brick at a time sometimes.

We never even gave it a thought that anything would be separate. My mouth is still open, my head is still shaking as I’m typing……..