Now that you are all safe and sun protected (see the previous blog post), let’s talk about hiking. Why hiking, you might ask? First of all, hiking, like most walking-based activities, is great exercise. Also, it turns out that people who walk outside (or hike) tend to have less depression, and are generally healthier and happier than people who do not walk at all or people who walk indoors. Now, this kind of study can be misleading because the researchers did not prove that b

I want to talk about sunscreen today. Even though we have discussed this in previous blog posts on this site, I feel strongly enough about it that it pays to review. Note 1: The sun emits, or sends out, all kinds of radiation. This is not the kind of radiation that will kill you instantly, because it is lower in energy than radiation that kills, but it is high enough in energy that it can cause damage. What kind of damage does sun cause? It can make the molecules in your cell