Just a little while ago now, Lucas and I, along with some friends, spent the day at White Pine Beach. White Pine Beach, also known as Sasumat Lake, is a beautiful spot where families and teenagers flock in the summer to enjoy the hot sun and cool lake waters. Last Sunday was no exception as hundreds of cars searched for parking spaces and hundreds more people searched for the perfect spot on the beach. Lucas and I settled in to our spot on the grass nicely, making sure our water was close by and our magazines even closer. For quite some time we were emerged in our respective news or car stories, enjoying the sunshine and the laughter of people around us. I relaxed in confidence knowing that we had prepared for our day, the food was packed, water was cool, and sunscreen was lathered on with plenty more on hand to reapply. It was when I finally surfaced from my magazine that I noticed a worrying trend. All the girls around me were in their tiny bathing suits lathering on spf 4 sunscreen or putting none on at all. As someone who does not leave the house on a rainy day without sunscreen I could not believe what I was seeing.
The sun is getting hotter every year and as it heats up so does the danger of exposure to it. Skin cancer is now a common cancer and is raising in young girls. I am not going to pretend to be an expert on this but I think it's common knowledge now that UV rays can cause skin cancer and in many cases do cause cancer. If there is a method that helps fight this why not use it? I truly hope that a day comes when having a tan is not a cool thing and people take this danger seriously.
For some quick facts on Skin Cancer click here.
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