The driver must be smeared with sunscreen

Only a very small number of drivers, going somewhere to visit on a sunny day, Wear sunscreen. US researchers have found that this should be done even with the windows closed to protect themselves from the threat of skin cancer.

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Researchers from Stony Brook University urged drivers not to forget to take to the road sunscreen . Do not think that the glass of the car provide some protection, because in reality they allow to penetrate the interior of up to 80% of ultraviolet rays of the spectrum A. In their regular exposure to the skin aging process and increases the risk of Skin Cancer .

Car windows block only ultraviolet rays of the spectrum in which cause sunburn, but the rays of the spectrum A quietly pass through the glass barrier and affect the skin and eyes of the driver and passengers. In the US, people spend behind the wheel of the car is much longer than in the garden, or if you exercise outdoors, but the machines they are much less likely to use sunscreen.

Only 15% of the surveyed said that "most of the time" is used the cream when the control car, and 38% do not do this ever, considering that you need to be protected from the sun only directly on the street. The most amazing thing is that even the people in medical history that there have been cases Skin Cancer It is not protected further.

Two-thirds of respondents believe that the open window sunscreens   I do not need, which is not true. For protection against all of the sun's rays provide only the windshield and sunroof. A significant number of rays enter the cabin through the side or rear windows. (READ MORE)

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