Sunburn???

[Bollo]

Thanks to American melting pot, I am about a quarter or so Irish (dominant culture in the home) One quarter Bavarian, as well as some Yorkshire and Essex thrown in, for good measure. And maybe a little Viking.

By rights you should be transparent! The tan must be from the German side of the family.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Might be some near east there somewhere.

 

[Bollo]

Might be some near east there somewhere.

You already mentioned Essex.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

While, in deepest, darkest Scotland ... I want to put the heating on!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

[QUOTE 4268042, member: 9609"]you have switched it off already ? jeez, ours doesn't go off until July and its back on early Sept.[/QUOTE]
I aim to build up my gas credit between end of April / early September
Being on the ground floor (without carpets) does not help.
Great for bike comings and goings though

 

[Gravity Aided]

You already mentioned Essex.

Oh, and Dutch. Totally forgot that'un.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I aim to build up my gas credit between end of April / early September
Being on the ground floor (without carpets) does not help.
Great for bike comings and goings though

I could renew my grade school skills, and make you a rag rug. Very Early American Pioneery, in a little house on the prairie sort of way.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Meanwhile in Ireland (the struggle is real)

 

[Bollo]

A blood test revealed low Vitamin D levels, so my GP prescribed tablets and 20 mins sunshine on unprotected forearms per day where possible.

Getting a bit more serious for a moment and cross-riffing our tag-team slap down of chiropractic, one of the 'crazy ideas' in this book is that the blanket advice to avoid sun exposure causes more harm than good. The (simplified) argument goes that a much greater fraction of the population as a whole are at risk from heart disease than skin cancer. Greater sun exposure would slightly reduce the risk of heart disease across this larger number, while also increasing the incidence of skin cancer. However, the net effect would be an overall reduction in deaths.
The chapter is really a demonstration of how careful you need to be when choosing your sample populations.

I'm best avoided at parties.

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 4267981, member: 9609"]Going off your avatar its not doing your complexion much good.[/QUOTE]
Nah...twas a little bit nippy the day I took the pic

 

[summerdays]

A blood test revealed low Vitamin D levels, so my GP prescribed tablets and 20 mins sunshine on unprotected forearms per day where possible.

Because I burn easily and also have psoriasis it's a bit of a gamble as to how much sunshine but one bit of information I've picked up from somewhere is that you don't generate Vitamin D in sufficient quantities unless you shadow is shorter than you.

 

[2IT]

[QUOTE 4267990, member: 9609"]how high (angle) in the sky does the sun have to be before the body can assimilate useful levels of vit D ?

I was trying to find this out a while ago and most articles suggest the sun needing to be greater than 50° - that doesn't happen where I live outwith midday in June.[/QUOTE]

I go by UV index found in some hourly weather forecasts.

 

[2IT]

I took my pallid anglo-celtic skin into the midday sun today, after 6 months in long sleeves, and have been rewarded by a patch of sunburn on my upper arm. Especially embarrassing as an Australian, who has learnt (the hard way) to be cautious.

Be careful out there, people!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAu5wCTEBt0

I've stopped with sun block because their ingredients are so unhealthy.

Now use the arm sleeves that they make for this purpose. They work well. Too expensive though IMO.

 

[Dave7]

I plan a 40/50 miler tomorrow when 24 degrees is forecast. So I nipped this morning for a travel size tube of factor 30........that is going in my back pocket.

 

[GuyBoden]