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Article: Women & skin health.
- Article from:
- National Women's Health Report
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Marsha Shapiro grew up next to the resort city of Virginia Beach, VA, so as a teenager she spent hours baking herself on the hot sand, her body slathered in baby oil, covered with just the tiniest of bikinis. But today Ms. Shapiro, 37, who lives in Atlanta, GA, gets an unpleasant reminder of those days whenever she peers in the mirror.
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"Lines and wrinkles around my eyes," she says. "Brown spots and freckles all over my body." Does she regret those summer days of yore? "Absolutely," she says. "I think my skin is much worse off because of that."
She's not alone. Because so much of what we know about the damaging effects of sun on our ...