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Lunch Box Must Have...

With school back our thoughts are often about healthy lunch box options. While contemplating low fat and sugar free options for children to eat we also need to be thinking about the time of day our kids are outside on their break.
Although many New Zealand schools now require that children wear sun hats and provide a shady spot to sit, once the contents of the lunch box is consumed our kids are running around unprotected.
According to Sun Smart NZ skin can burn in as little as 15 minutes in mid day sun – the time in which our kids are on their lunch hour!
When my oldest daughter was younger I started packing a tube of sun screen in her lunch box. Before starting her lunch she would apply her sunscreen so by the time she had finished her lunch she was nicely protected against the harmful effects of the sun. I have since done this with all my children who have learned coming home from school sunburned is much worse than not eating the healthy stuff in the lunch box.

Teach you child that:
• Sun burn is harmful
• To apply sun screen to their face, arms and legs before eating their lunch to allow time for active ingredients to work.
• You may like to include a wet wipe or hand sanitizer to use before eating lunch.
• Keep the tube in the lunch box so it will get used
• Don’t think if it does not get used the first time that your efforts a futile, keep encouraging and your child will soon learn.
• Getting into good habits now can protect your child for a lifetime.

BabyBaby sunscreen is safe for the whole family and protects against UVA and UVB rays. Older children can use 2B sunscreen which provides extra anti oxidants for long term skin benefits.

Safe Tanning?

There is no such thing as a safe tan! Many people believe that slow tanning is safe or tanning without burning or worse still sun bed tanning is safe, this is untrue NO TAN IS SAFE! Even on a cloudy day the sun’s rays are still present and dangerous.

What are ‘sun rays’?
The sun is constantly giving off radiation through Ultra Violet (UV) Rays. Both ultra violet B (UVB) rays and ultra violet A (UVA) rays can cause skin cancer. UVB rays are more likely to cause burn but UVA rays are just as threatening to our skin. UVA and UVB damage the skins immunity.

UVA rays tend to be more responsible for photo ageing or sun damage resulting in premature ageing. UVA rays are responsible for triggering pigment in our skin i.e.: sun tan.

UVA rays are known as the silent killers because you don’t feel them; they penetrate the surface layer of the skin and into the lower layers known as the dermis. They then destroy the cells which are essential for good skin health. The damage is not immediately seen but as you grow older and the skin’s function becomes increasingly impaired is when we start to see the damage cause by the UVA rays. The damage you may see is in the form of uneven skin pigmentation (brown patches also known as age spots), wrinkles, solar keratosis (dry rough patches on the skin), loss of collagen and elastin in the skin. UVA penetrates through clear glass exposing you when you are driving and indoors.

UVB rays penetrate the top layer of the skin known as the epidermis. This damage is seen immediately in the form of sunburn. UVB is the most common cause of skin cancer. Sunburn continues to develop 12-24 hours after exposure to the sun.

UVB is essential for the manufacture of vitamin D which is essential to our health, which adds to the debate how much sun do we need to maintain good health and how much is too much?

Does a tan protect me from UV radiation?
Excessive sun exposure causes the skin to ‘thicken’ and ‘colour’ by increasing melanin production (melanin gives us skin colour). It is thought the increase in melanin absorbs UV radiation however, it is now known that melanin gives some protection against UVB rays but not UV A rays therefore you can not rely on a tan to protect you from sun damage.

Due to the hole in the ozone sun exposure has become an ever increasing problem. The ozone layer provided a natural filter from the harmful effects of UV radiation, with the ozone hole growing it is exposing us to the harmful radiation.

Most sun exposure that contributes to adult skin cancer occurs before the age of 18 years.

The price of a sunscreen does not equate to the cost of skin cancer.

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