Beach Day Beauty!
CT woman pushes to ban tanning beds in health clubs
CT woman pushes to ban tanning beds in health clubs : A Connecticut woman is fighting to make it so health clubs aren’t allowed to offer tanning beds in their facilities.
Popular posts from this blog
May, A Month of True Beauty
May, A Month of True Beauty #skincancerprevention May, a month of true beauty! Spring goes into full bloom and our fantasies of summer come closer to being reality. Many spend hours in their gardens and yards, tenderly trimming trees and planting delicate flowers. With great care and pride we prepare our homes for a summer full of family and friends. This May, I ask that you give yourself the same purposeful care. 1. If you haven’t had a recent skin check please make an appointment with a dermatologist and get your skin checked! I can’t say this enough, be like Nike® and just go DO IT! 2. Get your eyes checked! Yes, melanoma can also occur in the eyes! Dr. Sue Devine of Devine Eye Care in Enfield, CT recently told me “Although rare, early detection is critical, the five year survival rate is 80% when caught early but drops to 15% after it has spread” she also told me “dilated eye exams or ultra wide field retinal scans are critical is early detection. In her practice, t...
May Skin Cancer Awareness Awareness Month -What It Means To Me May is National Skin Cancer Awareness month and as so many work to bring the importance of sun safety and early detection to the forefront of everyone’s mind, I would like to tell you about one of the reasons it matters to me. As tanning beds are warming up for their pre-summer rush, I’m going to take a trip down memory lane, to 1994, my friend Jenna and I were preparing to take our first adult road trip, from CT to Boston. At 18, this was scary and exciting, we had never driven into the city! We rented a car, a most fabulously awful, Dodge Shadow from a local repair garage. When we finally arrived in Boston, I remember promising- If we make it out of this city alive, I’ll never EVER drive here again. That is one significant part in my memory from that trip. My other prominent memory, the one that would ultimately be the risk to our lives, is that we went tanning a week earlier. Because you had to have a tan to be ...
Comments
Post a Comment