Wear Your Sunblock!

[Greasy B]

A good long sleeve shirt keeps me much cooler than bare skin. On really hot days I dip it the the water then wear it to get evaporating cooling, at times it so cool I can hardly put it back on. Now that my physique more and more resembles that of a Buda I'm prone to keep my shirt on anyway.

[Terrierman]

A good long sleeve shirt keeps me much cooler than bare skin. On really hot days I dip it the the water then wear it to get evaporating cooling, at times it so cool I can hardly put it back on. Now that my physique more and more resembles that of a Buda I'm prone to keep my shirt on anyway.

I figure I owe that much to society.

[Old plug]

Me too. If I ran around out there with no shirt I might stare any children in the viewing area. It has happened. I got some surgical scars that make me resemble the Frankenstein Monster.

[Jerry Rapp]

5 years from now 'they' will be saying that sunblock causes cancer.

Call me stoopid but I'm of the thinking that my body doesn't require commercial chemical products to survive in the climate that I was born into.

I love the sun, and the way it feels on my skin. Been "overdosing" on it all my life and have no desire to stop (or block) now.

Pretty sure that carb cleaner, nail polish and hair spray fallout is gonna kill me way before the sun does. LOL

it wouldn't surprise me FW, now maybe you can be obese, and o.k., but do you still need sunblock?

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/05/01/obese-and-healthy-maybe-not-study-says/?intcmp=obnetwork

[Al Agnew]

Dermatologist has told me twice now rhat I have the kind of skin that is least likely to develop cancers, but to still take care of it. Mom and dad both had same kind of skin, spent a good part of their lives in the sun, never wore sunscreen, and lived for a long time.

[Old plug]

You sound like a stock broker AL.They did so your going to put your bet you will not right??? Nobody in my fsmily had much trouble with arthritis but It has chewed me up real good.

[Al Agnew]

You sound like a stock broker AL.They did so your going to put your bet you will not right??? Nobody in my fsmily had much trouble with arthritis but It has chewed me up real good.

No, I'm a little careful. I wear long sleeve shirts and long pants (quick dry nylon type) when fishing, and a wide brimmed hat. However, I'm not anal about it, and I try to expose myself to the sun a little at a time in the spring so that I tan and don't burn. I suspect that a lot of the problems people have is because they let themselves get sunburned every spring instead of letting their skin slowly tan and build up the pigments that protect from the sun. I also suspect that what really causes a lot of skin cancers is living and working indoors for most of the time and then getting exposed to the sun when your skin has had no chance to build up those pigments. I know I don't spend as much time in the outdoors as a percentage of my waking life as I did when I was a kid and was brown from March to November.

[ness]

We'll, I'm the classic candidate for it -- fair skinned, blue eyed, lotsa of sunburns when I was young. It's just a matter of time, I'm sure. I get checked every year. So far so good.

I carry the aerosol sunscreen in my car all the time now -- so much better than the old creams to apply.

[Old plug]

I have been thinking about those nylon pant AL. do they come in a cargo pocket style.

[Mitch f]

Dermatologist has told me twice now rhat I have the kind of skin that is least likely to develop cancers, but to still take care of it. Mom and dad both had same kind of skin, spent a good part of their lives in the sun, never wore sunscreen, and lived for a long time.

Both my parents lived till about 90, both Scotch Irish too! Neither one ever had skin cancer and my mom was a red head. As Scotch Irish if we ever develop skin cancer, we can always drink and sing about it!