Articles > Newspapers > International Newspapers, Major Markets > New Straits Times articles > July 2003

Article: Protect your skin with anti-free radicals

Article from:
New Straits Times
Article date:
July 15, 2003
Author:
Copyright

Yam Cher Seng
New Straits Times
07-15-2003
Protect your skin with anti-free radicals
Byline: Yam Cher Seng
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Health

SURELY a few hours in the sun doesn't hurt. Not so, say dermatologists, for it seems our skin remembers every sunburn we get and this shows up as wrinkles, age spots and maybe, even skin cancer later in life.

Our skin responds to the life we lead. If we were to spend most of our time outdoors, it would darken and thicken to provide extra protection. Research shows that when the epidermis is exposed to excessive ultraviolet (UV) rays, it results in the generation of a large number of free radicals within this layer. Free radicals are highly ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Jane Iredale's Pom Mist is a facial spritz that quenches dry skin ...
Household & Personal Products Industry;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... protecting it from pollutants and free radicals. Pom Mist contains a mixture ... tea, to protect skin against free radicals. Recent studies conducted at ... that a promising agent against skin cancer may have been found in the extract ...

Article: The best defense: free radicals from pollution and ...
Natural Health;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... necessarily shield you from free radicals, those unstable molecules ... peeled apple brown. Free radicals are a byproduct of ... premature aging and even skin cancer. So sunscreen is vital ... blocks only half the free radicals in the skin generated ...

Article: The role of free radicals in the aging ...
Household & Personal Products Industry;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... cosmetic chemist, free radicals play a key role in ... becomes damaged by free radicals, it is unable to let ... Unprotected sun exposure and free radicals slow down skin cell ... This gives rise to skin cancer--cells start growing ...

Article: Eating fruit may cut risk of skin cancer
Jerusalem Post;  November 2, 2003 ;     609 words ... ... Faculty of Medicine, explained that skin cancer is known to be accelerated by oxygen free radicals formed by exposure to sunlight ... such free radicals could act as skin cancer preventing agents. Such antioxidants ...

Article: Skin cancer defense: stay out of sun, eat fruits ...
Environmental Nutrition;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... radiation triggers production of free radicals in skin, which cause changes ... carotenoids might lessen skin cancer risk by neutralizing free radicals, explains Teresa Fung, Sc.D., R.D., a skin cancer researcher at Simmons College ...

Article: CAFFEINE MIGHT HELP WARD OFF SKIN CANCER
United Press International;  August 26, 2002 ;     688 words ... ... they have lower incidences of skin cancer. David J. Leffel, a professor ... protective effects. We know that skin cancer is caused by free radicals that are released by the sun ... that as we understand how skin cancer is caused, we're going ...

Article: Read this before you buy sunscreen: what you buy and when you ...
Redbook;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... increase your risk of skin cancer. Here's how it happens ... activates the formation of free radicals, cell-damaging atoms ... wrinkling, even skin cancer," explains Hanson ... inhibit the formation of free radicals. Having a family history ...

Article: Fighting free radicals
New Straits Times;  December 10, 2002 ;     627 words ... ... Straits Times 12-10-2002 Fighting free radicals Edition: The City Advertiser; 2 ... threatened by the daily onslaught of free radicals? Exposure to the sun's ultra-violet ... contribute immensely to the formation of free radicals within the body. Free radicals are ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives