Well, obviously they need to be worn sometimes (you shouldn't be walking through snow, or in a forest with thorns, or in a city where you can step on dangerous debris without them) but in your home and your own backyard and parks and such, there's nothing wrong with it.

My family also owns a boat so I go shoe-less a lot on docks and around lakes.

Lol. Don't ya love that? I have very pale skin, so whenever I hit something just a tad too hard, I end up with a black bruise. People always think I've done something horrible to myself when it's just that I've bumped my knee on a corner, or on the bottom of a desk and didn't notice.

I have German skin. We are pale, but nearly indestructible. lol.

Pfffft. I am German. Half German, half Danish with a shitton of other stuff mixed in there, but mainly those two. I burn like hell. If, perchance, either of you ever come across a brown-haired woman squeeing over spf 300 sunscreen in a Wal Mart one day, you'll know you've met Ely. Kekeke. Seriously. Anything below spf 85 does absolutely nothing for me.

Lol. That's the first time I've heard that term!!! Lord knows I'm worthy of using it to describe myself.

I also have Native American...totally don't look like it, but I does'eth. :lol: Other than that it be German, Czech, Croatian, Polish, French, English, Danish.....aye. Probably a bit of it all got hanky pankied into thar somewhere.

ah. Blame the burning on the Czech and Polish. They burn like nothing. lol. Of course I'm part Italian so I have a burn for like a day then I'm all bronzed and all. :P I love it.

Either give me some of that awesome Italiano blood or :talk2hand: . ;)

Eh. I don't really care. It just took a little while to figure out what I had to do to prevent myself from burning. Now that I realize I have to use spf 85 + and reapply it every hour, I never burn. :lol:

So...I just realized that Polish and polish are spelled the same way. >.< Gawd, English is a horrible language. Lol.

I have a friend who does that. She always refused to wear sunscreen. Then my family decided to take her out boating with us one day and I told her "your ass better wear sunscreen or cooked lobsters will be jealous of you." She didn't wear it and then proceeded to bitch about the three layer skin peeling burn she got from it. She has listened to me since about burning herself. Lol.

But then, she has always been the chick who has to get burnt once to learn her lesson. Haha. Pun. Heh...

Yeah. That's what she does too. But still, she now wears sunscreen when we take her out on the boat. :lol:

Ely just doesn't want wrinkles.......and sunburns are painful...so she's hyper-obsessed with wearing sunscreen in the summer.

...Alright well the ozone layer is a cloud and has been proven over the last few years to be getting more abundant.

Skin cancer comes from anything that will cause swelling. Therefore using sunscreen is great, but I'd say go out till you're slightly pink a few times to build up your resistance, and then try to use less of it. Gets you a bit more vitamin D. Most people have a deficiency.

It's from the fact that Vitamin D comes from exposure to sunlight. It's a hormone produced in your own body. No one really goes outside enough to get the amount they need. That's why they put it in milk and such, and yes, they put it there, it's not there naturally.

and the "risk" is minimal. every time you get a paper cut the risk is the same as the most severe sunburn you'll ever get without needing treatment from a hospital.

Somehow I highly doubt that sunscreen removes your ability to soak up Vitamin D--I would need to see some proof from medical professionals to believe that. And yes, most people have a HUGE deficiency of Vitamin D. Info. It is a great cause of SAD, otherwise known as seasonal affective disorder. I have it, an ex of mine had it, and several people I know have it in the winter. If you want info on that, look it up on your own. :yes:

Sunscreen is very important, and I believe arguing against using it in the summer is just somebody wanting to come up with a reason to be lazy. The harmful UVB, and UVA rays that make it through our atmosphere (whether or not it is deteriorating) will cause you skin cancer in your old age if you don't move to protect yourself against it. It might just be a tan now, but it will not be "just a tan" when you're in your 60's and older.

No. it will not cause anything. It increases the chance in the same way anything else which causes swelling does.

When something causes swelling your white blood cells begin to focus on healing the damage instead of checking new cells. A cell that's mutated slips through, and begins to multiply without actually having a function. That's cancer.

If one bad burn would cause cancer then none of us with northern European heritage would exist anymore. Our kind would have all died out long ago. In snowy areas it's considerably easier to get a sunburn because of the reflected light.

If you want to prevent skin cancer, get any new mole which looks at all off checked, and take Vitamin C and D to boost your immune system.

and as for sunscreen blocking it. And I'm not lazy. I just don't slather the stuff on a foot thick like a lot of people do. I get sick less, and have better bones and teeth. I use a kind that's about... spf 40? I think. It's a spray on that doesn't leave me all sticky. lol.

Like I said, I use spf 85+ sunscreen and I haven't gotten sick in over two years, and that is not from lack of being around uber sick people either, lol.

Me? I'd rather not get those moles that should be removed because they are/could be cancerous. Besides that. Skin cancer doesn't always come in the form of moles. Example.

Sunlight doesn't cause skin cancer????
The UV rays from the sun cause the mutations you had mentioned. Why would one go about having to be freaked out about removing things when they could all but completely prevent the need to do so in the first place?

That I give you. It does wreak, lol. I used to avoid it like the plague, too. The thing that bugs me is when people go about saying that it doesn't do anything.

I've had family members die from skin cancer that was obviously caused by exposure to the sun without sunscreen. It's a horrific death.