Essays on Sunscreen

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Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the best time to be out in the sun to raise the level of Vitamin D.

Introduction

Our body needs Vitamin D. Vitamin D benefits our body in many ways. Lack of Vitamin D causes negative health outcomes. For many years, many people believed that the best time to be out in the sun is early morning, but recent research proves otherwise.

The best time to be out in the sun, unprotected, is during noon.

(Transitions: Let’s look at the reason that backs up this finding)

Body

Using sunscreen all the time contributes to Vitamin D deficiency. The wavelengths that help generate Vitamin D ...

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 ...

Hypocrisy paradigm refers to a research methodology that is used to test any dissonance theory that arouses conflicts by having people publicly promote a socially desirable behavior and then they are made aware that they have not always exhibited that exact behavior in the past (Stone & Hernandez, 2008).

In the induced compliance paradigm, it is assumed that the dissonance or conflict is aroused when a person says or does something that is contrary to a prior attitude or belief (Brock, 2005). It is from the recognition of prior belief and attitude that is believed that one would not engage in a given act. ...

The hypocrisy paradigm is a trial tactic which involves the development of cognitive discrepancy between a perceived attitude and that which is real. It consists of two factors. One is that which advocates in favor of normal situation and the other is that which makes the subject become aware of the past misbehavior. This is done in order to bring about difference of opinion to the subjects. It was pioneered by self consistency theorists who put it that, self consistency to the theory of cognitive dissonance will occur when the personal principle of an individual is vulnerable. While this is attributed ...

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. CDC has categorized skin cancer as an epidemic (CDC, 2013). It has been reported that more than a million cases are reported each year in the US, with approximately 120,000 cases of melanoma, the deadliest among all forms of skin cancer. The incidence of skin cancer has shown to be rising most rapidly in young adults between the ages of 18-29. It has been hypothesized that this increase in the incidence of skin cancer is due to change in behavior of young adults, including, exposure to ...

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Abstract

The present review is aimed at providing an understanding on how the workplace contributes to the development of skin cancer. Five reviews (3 epidemiological data reviews, 1 meta-analysis, and 1 article) obtained from PubMed, involving a total of at least 3479 mortality and morbidity in skin cancer. These studies agreed on the initiating role of the workplace in the development of skin cancers, both malignant mesothelioma (MM) and non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC), due to chronic exposure to carcinogens such as asbestos (Rushton, 2012; Boffetta, 2004; Romeo, 2004; ), mineral oils (Rushton, 2012), solar radiation (Rushton, 2012; Hannaford-Turner, Elder, Sim, Abramson, ...

and Aids in Fighting the Risk of Skin Cancer

Educating and Informing the Public on this Solution

The Importance of Sunscreen Solutions in New Zealand New Zealand is a country with an adequate amount of sunshine fairly well spread both in terms of seasons as well as geography. Even winters are relatively bright and most cities in New Zealand recieve more than 2000 hours of bright sunshine in year. With every passing year, the ozone layer of the earth gets depleted, thus enabling the passage of UV rays that are known to affect the skin in multiple ways including premature aging, skin cancers as well as other ...

Every day, researchers come up with new studies that document the fact that teens are fighting shy of sunscreens. Teenagers have ignored the possible harmful consequences of not using sunscreens and continue to do so. This paper not only attempts to find the reasons of this careless behaviour of teenagers regarding sun protection, but it also explains the negative consequences of failure to adopt sunscreens in routine life. These results have been further categorized into short-term and long-term effects in order to capture the severity of the matter at hand. The excuses that teenagers find and hold on ...

Concerns about the devastating effects of cancer prompted the concerted efforts, from individuals, organizations and nations, to carry out intensive research on the disease. Cancer is a disease that is characterized by uncontrollable cell growth. There exist over 100 various types of cancer, each of, which is defined according to the type of cells that are originally infected. Cancer is mainly exhibited by formation of tumors, except in the case of leukemia. The tumors, which are results of the uncontrollable cell division, hamper the normal working of the various body processes, and hence, end up harming the body. Research ...

Abstract

Skin cancers are cancers that affect the skin. These include melanoma, basal and squamous cell cancers. The symptoms include skin color change and appearance of skin ulcers, as well as, alterations in the moles that are on the skin. Smoking and ultraviolet radiations are some of the leading causes of skin cancer. The condition may be treated through radiations, chemotherapy among other means.

Introduction

Skin cancers refer to the types of cancer that affect the skin. These cancers include the basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer and melanoma. The basal cell cancer is the type of cancer that arises from ...

Skin cancer can be defined as a disease in which malignant cancer cells are found on the surface of the skin. There are three basic types of skin cancer which are named depending on the type of skill cell on which they appear (DeLong and Burkhart 528). The three are; Basal Cell carcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma and Melanoma (DeLong and Burkhart 528). Basal cell carcinoma, according to DeLong and Burkhart, is described as a non-healing sore on the skin whose cell of origin, though at times unclear, is believed to be the follicular stem cells (528). Squamous cell carcinoma, on the ...

Introduction

An overwhelming majority of all information that is known to the public is errors, misleading and is based on biased results. It can be observed in advertisements, promotional campaigns, various kinds of surveys and statistical data. For instance, companies tend to plot some selected data in their graphs to show increasing performance, research agencies ask negative questions in order to confuse the customer and advertisements convince buyers to follow leading brands. Such techniques are close to psychological, because they manipulate human thinking.

Problems

Question 6 In an ad for moisturizing lotion, the following claim is made: “. . . it’s the #1 ...

Introduction

The skin is an essential organ in the human body made of a complex membrane of cells, tissues and pigments that hold the body together. Similarly, the skin color is determined by the amount of melanin, the location of melanin and melanocytes, and the presence of caretenoids (Ostler, et al., 2004). Further, the ratio between oxygenated blood and hemoglobin and exogenous or endogenous pigments, also affect the skin color. Melanin is a vital tissue in the skin and the malfunction of melanocytes system, can lead to pigmentation disorder (Rose, 2009). The malfunction of melanocytes system can amount to melanocytic nevi, a ...

Introduction

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 ...