That photo is tweaked but that message of baggy wrinkly skin is pretty true. Ever seen a picutre of older age farmer or Native americans who spend all their time outside growing food? Or watch the discovery channel and catch the native tribes from the hot desert parts of the world? The old ones who are usually under 50, they look like american's in their 90s. So that picture's message is pretty accurate, just a bit over done.
They say sun damage ages the skin, 5 years for every day of damage. I always wear SPF 45 or better, and wear tightly weaved clothes. The tighter the weave, the more it blocks out the sun, and acts like a UVA protector. This is also why you see middle east people cover up their whole body. They don't have sun screen so they use clothes instead, as well as the fact that all that cloth actually helps to take away the sweat, so their body doesn't over heat. As usually those areas have a lot of humidity + high heat. Humidity a lot of times won't allow you to sweat correctly, and will cause heat stroke or heat sickness. So it's aways best to avoid the sun during high humid days, or the hotest part of the day, and wear clothes that keep you a bit warm, but absorb liquid very quickly. So the humidity doesn't have the chance to cool the top layer of skin and shut down the sweat glands.
And yes you can get both heat stroke or heat sickness and still be drinking a ton of water. So don't kid yourself, if you start getting a headache, feel tired, feel sick, feel like you can rule the world and people keep asking if your okay. Get yourself inside, and grab a sports drink. Your dripping out the stuff your body to cool itself, and keep it going. Also always use the UVA patches that change color when they've gotten too much sun, this will tell you when you really really need to get yourself inside. I use to live where it was 120 to 130 degrees during the day, and 100 in the middle of the night. I seen so many sun cancer victums, that I couldn't keep count, and of all ages, from 2 years old to 80. As kids who go out and play in the nice warm sun without sunscreen increase their risk of getting sun cancer nearly 40% by the time they are 11. So put that sunscreen on the little ones even it if means you got to sit on them to do it. Yourself, and watch any dark colored spots on the skin and make sure they don't change, or you get new ones. Also be careful on hot pavement, and don't let your kids play on it. I've seen little ones, get 3rd degree burns from falling on their driveway in the middle of the day, and have every bit of flesh that hit be burned. That is the worst smell you'll ever ever smell in your life, as well as hearing the scream from the little kid. So be careful with sun.
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