Spanish peolple were always quite careful of the sun because, as anothers sun cultures, we always knew how dangerous it was. People used to protect against the sun, wearing long clothes and staying in the shade whenever possible, not only because the social consideration of fair skin but also and above all because of the damaging consequences of the sun exposure: freckles, wrinkles, skin aging... Then, in the sixties and the seventies began coming people from center and northern european countries, where the summer sun is not by far as dangerous as here, and began sunbathing. The young spanish people, instead of remembering what our elders knew about the sun, began imitating the foreigners. Now you can see the effects of the sun in people of all ages, but especially in women from 30 y.o., women with darken, burnt, leathery skin, that look 20 years older than they are. Sun effects on skin information: http://911skin.com/sundamage.html
That's just a deceit. Moisturize does not prevent the sun's ray to reach your skin, just prevent a quick burn, in the very moment the UVA and UVB get to the skin they begin to damage it, and sun exposure is cumulative. Only a very high SPF or proper clothes are usefull. The so called healthy tanned is a big misconception, tan is just the response of a skin damaged by the sun.
too bad those nuclear bomb drop by a B-52 by accident did not go off and kill the communist spaniards franco miss.
So you are bored and you feel like provoking... How dare you to say such a thing?. Those bombs fell in 1966, nearly 20 years after the spanish civil war, and if they had exploded, altought they couldn't because weren't prepared for it, they would have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent spanish civilians. However, they released plutonium and uranium which caused many fatalities by cancer in the following decades. And if you don't like communists do you thing to kill them was the right thing?. There was not so many communist people in Spain in those times. Spanish people were mainly a flock of poors and ignorants manipulated by radicalized political parties, a mix of socialists, communists and anarchists in one side and a mix of conservatives and fascists in the other.
Well, I think now we are not so poor and so ignorant, Spain has changed a lot in the las 70 years, although I think our politicians are still the more incompetent, devious and dangerous part of the society.
alright well i guess we will all just have to hide in our houses for the rest of our lives!! YES!!!!!
I'm not meaning such a thing. I'm just pointing out the consequences of sun exposure without adequate protection, sunblocks and proper clothes, and the nonsensical of sunbathing. I've suffered the consequences of careless sun exposure myself by not using adequated sun cremes and clothes: freckles, spots...in body and face, and they are for life. And I've seen the consequences in people around me. For example in my sister, she is now in her forties, when she was in her twenties she used to sunbathe to get the so well considered tan. Although she is dark hair and brown eyes, the mediterranean type, and she used sunscreens, in a few years she got freckles, spots, warts and even marks in her face. This ones were pretty ugly. A dermatologist prescribed her a cream to hide them and told her she could never sunbathe again or they would reappear. So she never again sunbathed. But a few years ago, after about ten years without sunbathing, a wart in her neck began to grow. The dermatologist told her it had to be burnt, which she did, and after that keep it under observation in the future. So, this are the long-term consequences of sunbathing.
Enlightenings links: http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/fdaandyou/issue07.html http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sun-damage/HQ01462 http://www.aad.org/public/Publications/pamphlets/DarkerSideTanning.htm
