{"id":20295,"date":"2022-08-05T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midwestint.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=20295"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:17:17","slug":"skin-care-uv-protection-cancer-prevention-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midwesttinting.com\/2022\/08\/05\/skin-care-uv-protection-cancer-prevention-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Care And Protection To Help Prevent Skin Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is in full swing and many of us are getting regular exposure to the sun. Making sure your skin is properly protected is a serious matter. While fad diets and pop science tout “cancer preventing” super foods with difficult to pronounce names, protecting yourself from the most common type of cancer really comes down to blocking UV rays. Skin cancer affected more than 5.4 million<\/a> people in the United States in a single year, according to The Skin Cancer Foundation<\/a>. More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all the other cancer types combined, and one in five Americans will develop it by the age of 70. Because this risk is so great, we wanted to offer some skin care, uv protection and skin cancer prevention tips<\/span> you can take to protect yourself even where you didn’t know you were at risk.<\/p>\n

Are You Using UV Protection In Your Car? You Should Be!<\/b><\/p>\n

The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that over 50% of skin cancers manifest on the left side of the body<\/a>. Researches attribute this split to our sun exposure while driving in the car. Given that AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that the average American spends 17,600 minutes driving each year<\/a>, that’s a lot time for one half of your body to be receiving more UV radiation than the other.<\/p>\n

Check Out This Video From The Doctors<\/strong><\/p>\n