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Learning About Spf

SPF stands for sun protection factor and means people could stay out in the sun far longer than when they don´t use it. Dr. Judith Crowell, Dermatologist with Baptist Health South Florida, describes in the 80s doctors saw an epidemic of melanoma. “Now you are getting far more of the tanning rays. Now we learned that the tanning rays also play a large role," she says.

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