The Skin Color Debate

[Flyndaran]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8205131&page=1

With the normally very small risk of skin cancer without tanning, a 75% increase is not that much. It certainly is'nt anything like smoking.

[violetyoshi]

It's people's lives. They want to get stage 3 Melanoma Cancer, that's their right.

[AFPheonix]

Exactly. Just like if someone chooses to walk out of the house that day, they can run the risk of all sorts of things. Life is about managing risk and gambling on risk. Different risks are worth taking for different people. No skin off my nose.

[Flyndaran]

Exactly. Just like if someone chooses to walk out of the house that day, they can run the risk of all sorts of things. Life is about managing risk and gambling on risk. Different risks are worth taking for different people. No skin off my nose.

Was that an intentional pun? No skin off your nose... sunburn. Tee hee.
As long as people truly understand the risks, then yep, to each their own.
My anxiety makes leaving the apartment a huge risk to my emotional state. The amount of diet soda I drink would probably kill most people.

[BroomJockey]

The amount of diet soda I drink would probably kill most people.

Well, the rats that got cancer "from" artificial sweeteners were given the equivalent of from 8 to 2,000 cans a day. Seeing as the ones on the lower end had barely a trace amount (only enough to actually find it), if you stick around there, you'll probably be safe.

[Flyndaran]

Well, the rats that got cancer "from" artificial sweeteners were given the equivalent of from 8 to 2,000 cans a day. Seeing as the ones on the lower end had barely a trace amount (only enough to actually find it), if you stick around there, you'll probably be safe.

Let me see, I drink about 194 fluid ounces a day at minmum. Once I drank 320 in a single day. That's 10 liters of delicious diet pepsi. I'm glad my family is so cancer resistant and has members making it past 100.

[BroomJockey]

That's 10 liters of delicious diet pepsi.

Jeebus. I thought I was bad at 4-6L of drinkables a day o_O

[Boozy]

Once I drank 320 in a single day. That's 10 liters of delicious diet pepsi.

Do you ever leave the bathroom?

[anriana]

Do you ever leave the bathroom?

Maybe he got a catheter installed for convenience.

[Flyndaran]

Do you ever leave the bathroom?

No, I just go ALOT when I do go. I drink so much, I think my body has acclimated to using cold beverages in place of more normal forms of thermal regulation. I actually overheat when I don't get any.
And yes, I once got a kidney pain from over drinking. I don't drink that much anymore. Like I wrote earlier, I cut back to only 6 liters a day.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, the pre-cancerous growths removed from my mom's hide were all in places that never see the sun.

And she used to tan. Not naked, and not excessively, but I used to give her grief about it. And now here down the road, she's gotten bad spots on places that never saw any UV at all.

Irony.

[BroomJockey]

Irony.

Not really, as the damaged and mutated DNA isn't bound to one location, and could very well have moved through the blood stream or through the lymphatic system to those areas, not to mention there being more than one way to get precancerous lesions. It's unpleasant coincidence is all.

Irony would be if she tanned, disregarding the skin cancer risk while aware of it, and then got like rickets (after all, supposed to be from lack of sun. Irony.) or an internal cancer while doing none of the risk factors for that (getting a kind of cancer you're not courting. Irony.)