Essays on Sunburn

New dieting trends that include detoxification have become extremely popular in the past few years (Yahoo Finance, 2014). The most well-known emerging trend in this sphere is juice detoxing. McCormick’s (2014) report calls this phenomenon a “liquid revolution”. The current paper discusses it, explains the factors that make this issue a hot topic, and determines the advantages as well as concerns for the target audience. The target audience includes celebrities, healthy individuals, diabetics, and those willing to lose weight. First and foremost, juice detoxing puts little stress on the digestive system, allows a large intake of vitamins, and ...

Ultraviolet light (UV light) is a type of electromagnetic radiation that is located between visible light and X-rays in the electromagnetic spectrum. It is invisible to the human eye, and has a frequency greater than that of visible light but lesser than X-rays. It has a wavelength ranging from about 10 nm to 400 nm (ISO, 2007). UV light is a part of the radiation that comes from the sun. It can also be produced artificially by electric arcs, black lights, tanning lamps and mercury vapor lamps. The name Ultraviolet literally translates to “beyond violet”, as it has a ...

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Tanning seems to be the latest trend in recent years, whether “artificially” at tanning salons, or naturally from sun exposure enjoying a day at the beach or by the pool. Many people tan with hopes of obtaining that “natural glow” without giving thought to how this exposure is affecting them. Some of the artificial methods used for tanning include; tanning beds, tanning lotions, tanning pills and tanning sprays. Natural tanning (from exposure to the sun) as well as tanning by use of tanning beds depends on exposure to UV rays which are divided into UV-A and UV-B. The rays penetrate ...