It’s all relative. Sunscreen itself has carcinogens. It’s kind of like blood pressure medication. It’s easy and works. But obviously exercising and eating better would be better.
Same with the sun. Gradual exposure and not baking deliberately in the sun would be better, but sunscreen is easier.
At the end of the day we’re extremely well adapted to the sun for the most part, within reason.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Back in the day it was normal to die of skin cancer at 30. These days, we prefer to avoid it.
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Source? This is my point, that I think we lack evidence for that claim.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sunscreen was invented in 1946, it looks like. Our ability to diagnose cancer has come a long, long way since then. So it would likely be difficult or impossible to answer this question, since 50 year old data about skin cancer incidence will be lower than modern level simply due to diagnostic advances.
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