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Bob Down		2006-04-07 08:41:01 AM

"I heartily endorse this product and/or service"

StarshipPooper		2006-04-07 08:51:26 AM

So exposing them to cancer causing radiation from the sun reduces the chances?

Walker		2006-04-07 08:51:57 AM

Yeah, but the bikini top will cover their breasts preventing the suns beneficial rays from helping them. I think they should just go topless. WHO'S WITH ME?

Picklez		2006-04-07 08:52:01 AM

"But they don't need to expose their breasts to gain protection, just put on a swimsuit or bikini, because vitamin D is made in the skin."

D'oh!

herne		2006-04-07 08:52:44 AM

StarshipPooper: So exposing them to cancer causing radiation from the sun reduces the chances?

Global warming?

Mcaffolder		2006-04-07 08:52:52 AM

Yeah and semen is a great dietary enzyme!

Gigitty_Gigitty		2006-04-07 08:54:06 AM

TTIWWO_B_P!!!

/obligatory
//DRTFA, but I will now...

BunkyBrewman		2006-04-07 08:54:09 AM

This study needs more of a hands-on approach.

/reluctantly volunteers

Jaegs		2006-04-07 08:54:15 AM

Mcaffolder for President!

Forsythe P. Jones		2006-04-07 08:55:24 AM

Let's get this thread in the mood,baby:

www.david-dodge.com

StarshipPooper		2006-04-07 08:55:39 AM

What Causes Skin Cancer?

Sunburn and Sunlight

Very simply, sunburn and UV light can damage your skin, and this damage can lead to skin cancer. There are of course other determining factors, including your heredity and the environment you live in. However, both the total amount of sun received over the years, and overexposure resulting in sunburn can cause skin cancer. Most people receive 80% of their lifetime exposure to the sun by 18 years of age. The message to parents from this is to protect your children.

Tanning is your skin's response to UV light. It is a protective reaction to prevent further injury to your skin from the sun. However, it does not prevent skin cancer.

BigGrrr		2006-04-07 08:57:15 AM

This thread is useless without pictures!

dc-kid		2006-04-07 08:58:19 AM

woot!!1!!!11!!1

ActionPaintball		2006-04-07 09:00:19 AM

RandomExcess		2006-04-07 09:00:30 AM

Wasn't there a report that said a steady diet of semen would do the same?

cheezalot		2006-04-07 09:00:55 AM

Best way for women to beat breast cancer is to wear a bikini when they're younger... unless they're fat, ugly or have sharp knees.

StarshipPooper		2006-04-07 09:01:11 AM

RandomExcess

No, that's to reduced aging, if you applied the cream directly on their face. No more wrinkles!

Lady J		2006-04-07 09:02:10 AM

Hurrah for Europe and our healthy approach to topless sunbathing.

cargrrl82		2006-04-07 09:04:21 AM

StarshipPooper

And when UV hits the skin it also produces vitamin D. Which is rather important stuff. Not enough of it and you can have all sorts of problems, including skin problems, depression, bone problems etc. Also that pasted blurb contains a bogus stat.

Death-Speak		2006-04-07 09:04:22 AM

Walker: Yeah, but the bikini top will cover their breasts preventing the suns beneficial rays from helping them. I think they should just go topless. WHO'S WITH ME?

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Mcaffolder		2006-04-07 09:05:05 AM

Jaegs: Mcaffolder for President!

The most smartest thing id heard all day, get thoes morans outta office

Millennium		2006-04-07 09:05:16 AM

So it's a trade-off: breast cancer or skin cancer.

Lovely.

likelyculprit		2006-04-07 09:06:05 AM

where's danlpoon?

Blair		2006-04-07 09:06:30 AM

maybe skin cancer cures breast cancer

didja think of that?

Dragunov7.62		2006-04-07 09:06:59 AM

Parasitic_Spin		2006-04-07 09:07:41 AM

So I will get skin cancer from all that tanning, but the boneless, skinless breasts of HollyZiggy will remain cancer free!

Now we just have to figure out how to be attractive without skin, and it'll all be good....

fragMasterFlash		2006-04-07 09:07:43 AM

Please, won't someone think of the goth chicks.

Rozinante		2006-04-07 09:07:46 AM

when they're younger

Too late for you, granny. Cover up for all our health.

AnthraxRipple		2006-04-07 09:08:09 AM

Now we have a legitimate biological reason for pursuing hot girls in bikinis: they're going to live longer and thus will produce more offspring.

waterrockets		2006-04-07 09:10:52 AM

The best prevention I've heard of is two years of nursing babies. Two kids for one year each will handle that, and it lowers breast cancer occurance by 25%.

Kaiser Bill's Batman		2006-04-07 09:11:59 AM

Damn! Didn't work for my wife....

dogfood		2006-04-07 09:13:50 AM

Let's just not tell the hotties that you can get your daily dose with 10 mins of exposure to your face and arms.

We can tell the fats though.

Adman12		2006-04-07 09:19:19 AM

StarshipPooper: So exposing them to cancer causing radiation from the sun reduces the chances?

Interestingly enough, the reason I've often read for why white people exist at all is that a genetic mutation that reduced melanin levels would have been a survival advantage in northern climates. (And our ancestors were so inbred, it wouldn't take long to spread!)

The lighter skin allowed babies (and on adults to get the most vitamin D out of limited sun exposure, to avoid rickets. It made them more susceptible to skin cancer, too, but since there was so much less sun (and they were so much more covered) it wasn't really a problem.

This was a really big deal, because since humans originally evolved in sunnier climes, human breast milk is deficient in vitamin D. 100% breastfed babies, then, depend on sun exposure for proper development.

In recent centuries, however, human migrations have brought darker-skinned people to more temperate zones, and lighter-skinned people to more tropical ones. As a result, African American women (for example), living in the north must give D supplements to their breastfed babies. (There has been the recommendation that all breastfeeding mothers dose their babies, but the study behind it was specifically black people.)

Meanwhile, sunny white Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, even though I doubt any of the sufferers are Aboriginees.

So there's got to be a balance between beneficial sun exposure and detrimental burning. And that balance will be different, depending on your skin colour (and perhaps other ethnic genetic factors).

Interesting, eh?

And now, I return you to your regularly-scheduled tittyfest.

tomWright		2006-04-07 09:19:21 AM

If more sun == less cancer
then
nekkid == least cancer

Just what we need in America.

Nekkid jailbait running around.

Think we have problems with teachers and students now???????

/going to live in a cave
//alone
///in the rain
////in a hemingwayesque sort of way

StarshipPooper		2006-04-07 09:19:26 AM

So not only will they have leather faces, they'll have leather hand bags to go with it.

magicinsomniac		2006-04-07 09:19:35 AM

If this study is legit, I'd say that is a pretty damn strong correlation between Vitamin D intake and developing breast cancer. Cancer is usually caused by a lot of secondary lifestyle-related issues, but this is pretty straightforward.

Definitely good news.

goobernutz		2006-04-07 09:20:45 AM

but skin cancer(pops) is a different story (link safe for work but not your appetite)

Major_Tom_In_Space		2006-04-07 09:21:57 AM

OK, I'm all for the topless sunbathing, but please don't forget to rub those boobies in with oil for protection, it's very important *fap* to use oil *fap fap* on those bronzed breasts *fap fap fap* to keep them save and *fap fap fap fap* healthy.

/Kleenex
//Repeat

bitteroldman		2006-04-07 09:22:45 AM

All of my long life the 'experts' have said that sun light is bad for you. Even a light tan, we were told by the 'experts', was bad.
Now we are told by the 'experts' that the sun is good.
.
All of my long life the 'experts' have said that raw milk was bad for you.
Now we are told by the 'experts' that drinking raw milk provides nutritional benefits that can't be obtained anywhere else and if handled properly (like eggs and raw chicken and hamburger meat) its perfectly safe.
.
When I was a child, I was given antibiotics every time I had a cold. My mother worked at a hospital and she fully trusted the 'experts'.
Now we are told by the 'experts' that antibiotics don't help a cold and actually can make flu germs stronger.
.
Now I can make this same comparison with a dozen topics.
.
What does this tell us?
Try logic.
Have we spent all of history (thousands or millions of years, either way) on this planet with this sun shining on us?
I think we have adapted to it by now!
The sun is the single source of life on this planet. With out it, every drop of life on this planet would cease.
Did we homogenize milk for our long history?
Have we not adapted to every change in the environment?
Did we not survive ice ages?
Did we not survive plagues?

Humans adapt.
Its what we do best.

I just don't care when one of these stories breaks.
There typically have some sponsor who benefits from the 'study'.

brap		2006-04-07 09:24:18 AM

Annette Funnicello now regrets her decision to wear a one-piece in "Beach Blanket Bazoombas."

GreyAlien		2006-04-07 09:25:14 AM

ReverendJasen		2006-04-07 09:25:17 AM

Hooray for science!

I propose that I will donate all of my time to study this, in great detail. It may take a few long, hard years of studious attention, and I may have to temporarily relocate to Miami Beach, but I promise to get the job done.

Anyone care to sponser a grant for me?

Night Avenger		2006-04-07 09:25:25 AM

Bob Down
Hail to thee Kamp Krusty!

Adman12		2006-04-07 09:26:33 AM

bitteroldman: Have we spent all of history (thousands or millions of years, either way) on this planet with this sun shining on us?

Read my post about five above yours. You might find it helps explain the evolutionary angle a little better. Seriously.

paradizelost		2006-04-07 09:26:43 AM

ReverendJasen - only if you take me with you.....

Smidge204		2006-04-07 09:27:06 AM

goobernutz

Oooooh lordy!
=Smidge=

icenine		2006-04-07 09:27:11 AM

Because you don't get a chance to get breast cancer if you die of skin cancer first.

AMurderOfLawyersInOvercoats		2006-04-07 09:29:59 AM

Yeah, well, tell that to the 1/3 of my left ear that was hacked off because of a melanoma.

/not a girl
//the sun wants to kill you

TheSignPost		2006-04-07 09:33:05 AM

Um.... couldn't they just take Vitamin D, then...? Why risk skin cancer over breast cancer...?

/ am a big fan of the skin and the b00bies
// GreyAlien.... oh... my... goodness....