Get Overexposed
"There was a time when people thought it was healthy to slather their bodies in baby oil and spend entire days baking in the sun in order to tan their skin. Over the years, dermatologists set us straight, telling us in no uncertain terms that sun worshipping will only put us on the path to premature aging -- and skin cancer.'If there's one thing in the world that one can do to avoid the ravages of injury to the skin, it's avoid the sun,' says Norman Levine, MD, a dermatologist in Tucson, Arizona Ariz., and the author of Skin Healthy: Everyone's Guide to Great Skin. 'When the sun damages the cells and deeper skin tissues irreparably you get skin aging and you are more prone to skin cancer.'" *