Last week the New York Times ran an article on the front page of the Style section (the part of the paper bringing us “the latest news on style, fasion, the internet, love, gender, beauty, self-care, weddings and social change”) entitled, “How to Get Absolutely No Sun This Summer.”
Shout out to natural sun protection! Avoid seed oils, alcohol, processed foods and refined sugar, eat lots of watermelon and tomatoes (lycopene), lots of foods high in Omega-3s, drink lots of water, move around instead of lying in the sun, avoid staying out too long in the heat of the day. Cook your tomatoes in a good quality olive oil (Kirkland brand is good, unfortunately most olive oils in grocery stores with Italian names are mob-crap), because that increases lycopene absorption. Never a bad time to master a herb-y, delicious pasta sauce. I use (made-from-scratch) organic chicken broth in mind which ups the Omega-3s too. Voila, delicious sunscreen ;-)
I've barely used sunscreen in a decade (sometimes you need it, zinc oxide's a bit better). No sunburns. Admittedly, I have Mediterranean/Southern Italian ancestry and live in Canada, I do get it's a little trickier for paler people.
Well, you certainly have beautiful youthful skin for someone whose skin is ruined😁I believe there might be a correlation between the adoption of fake cooking oils & cancer/skin wrinkling
I’m sorry to say that cheap Irish and Anglo skin on Australians kinda ruined it for everyone. We actually do have harsher sun down here than in Europe and North America thanks to the proximity to the hole in the ozone layer.
I’m married to someone who can run around all day in Italy in high summer and get a nice tan, but in Australia is blistered and burnt in an hour of mild winter sun. Even African Australians get sunburnt here. A problem they have never had in their country of origin. So sunscreen does help us. I can’t imagine needing it in the northern hemisphere.
I live in a winter heavy area. I'll be outside as much as possible when it's summer and warm. This article pinpoints it - we're once again being sold a bill of goods for shoddy material. They can keep their masks, I'll bask in the sun thanks
Great article. After years of being a little wary of sun I am enjoying it these days having massively seen through the antisun/cancer narrative as yet another agenda that feeds Big Pharma profits.
I get out of the sun when I feel like I've had enough sun. Where I live in the high desert, that can sometimes mean 15 minutes of direct sun is enough sun. If I need to be in the sun for more time than feels good on my skin, I wear a hat and a light long-sleeve shirt.
It seems that they never ran out of insane ideas.
Shout out to natural sun protection! Avoid seed oils, alcohol, processed foods and refined sugar, eat lots of watermelon and tomatoes (lycopene), lots of foods high in Omega-3s, drink lots of water, move around instead of lying in the sun, avoid staying out too long in the heat of the day. Cook your tomatoes in a good quality olive oil (Kirkland brand is good, unfortunately most olive oils in grocery stores with Italian names are mob-crap), because that increases lycopene absorption. Never a bad time to master a herb-y, delicious pasta sauce. I use (made-from-scratch) organic chicken broth in mind which ups the Omega-3s too. Voila, delicious sunscreen ;-)
I've barely used sunscreen in a decade (sometimes you need it, zinc oxide's a bit better). No sunburns. Admittedly, I have Mediterranean/Southern Italian ancestry and live in Canada, I do get it's a little trickier for paler people.
Well, you certainly have beautiful youthful skin for someone whose skin is ruined😁I believe there might be a correlation between the adoption of fake cooking oils & cancer/skin wrinkling
I’m sorry to say that cheap Irish and Anglo skin on Australians kinda ruined it for everyone. We actually do have harsher sun down here than in Europe and North America thanks to the proximity to the hole in the ozone layer.
I’m married to someone who can run around all day in Italy in high summer and get a nice tan, but in Australia is blistered and burnt in an hour of mild winter sun. Even African Australians get sunburnt here. A problem they have never had in their country of origin. So sunscreen does help us. I can’t imagine needing it in the northern hemisphere.
I live in a winter heavy area. I'll be outside as much as possible when it's summer and warm. This article pinpoints it - we're once again being sold a bill of goods for shoddy material. They can keep their masks, I'll bask in the sun thanks
Great article. After years of being a little wary of sun I am enjoying it these days having massively seen through the antisun/cancer narrative as yet another agenda that feeds Big Pharma profits.
Pleased to have discovered your substack :)
I get out of the sun when I feel like I've had enough sun. Where I live in the high desert, that can sometimes mean 15 minutes of direct sun is enough sun. If I need to be in the sun for more time than feels good on my skin, I wear a hat and a light long-sleeve shirt.