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If adequately applied, sunscreens with sky-high SPFs offer slightly better protection against lobster-red burns than an SPF 30. But they don’t necessarily offer stellar protection against the more deeply penetrating ultraviolet A radiation, or so-called aging rays. Are these new high SPFs lulling consumers into a false sense of security?
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When children experience how it 'feels' to begin to control their own lifestyle factors that affect their health, this is the beginning of their own medical destiny. Making healthy choices is the master lever for passing over major chronic disease epidemics. "What I want for my children is for them to understand they can have control over the quality of their food and the characteristics of different foods. I want them to yearn to taste the earthiness in a mushroom, the sweeetness in a beet. This poster image has given my children an opportunity to become more aware of what they are putting in their mouths," one mother recently wrote us. We are hearing from many parents now and they are all telling us the same thing: This poster image makes the whole effort toward good health so much easier than without this image. Michael Pollan's eater's manual entitled Food Rules includes images with every Food Rule. StarChild Science's Healthy Living Initiative includes our Healthy Choices poster and flyer image in its animations for families and teachers as well as in its products. Businesses are telling us that when they put their logo on our Healthy Choices poster or flyer, families always remember their efforts to keep children focused on making healthy choices.
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he camera lucida is an optical device that assists artists in drawing by projecting onto a drawing
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Forget About Leprechauns, Engineers Are Catching Rainbows
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The 50-Year Farm Bill
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‘Smart’ Headlights Steer Light Between Raindrops
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Rain and snow don’t just block headlights: they cast distracting light back into the driver’s
Organic Tomatoes Contain Higher Levels of Antioxidants Than Conventional Tomatoes
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Trapping a rainbow
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Video of children catching flashlight in a jar
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Reflection is key to jewel beetle colors, scientists say
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Have you ever seen a colorful beetle? The colors on some kinds of beetles are not from absorption
Broccoli Sprout-derived Extract Protects Against Ultraviolet Radiation
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...humans can be protected against the damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation -- the most
Metamaterials Found To Work For Visible Light
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This 6 year old already knows you can bend light. She has even made a model of a white lightbeam
Milkweed Oil Tapped For Sunscreen And Other Products
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Bubbles and Beams
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Using Invisibility To Increase Visibility
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Lower-cost Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper, Painted On Rooftops
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Seeing Blue: Fish Vision Discovery Makes Waves In Evolutionary Biology
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"All fish previously studied have retained UV vision, but the Emory researchers found that the
Fats for Health and Beauty: Giving Soybean Oil a New Role in Serving Society
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Confused by SPF? Take a Number
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Platinum and Blue Light Combine to Combat Cancer
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Light Controls a Worm's Behavior
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Scientists Control Living Cells With Light
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After you read this article, talk to your child about the implications of using light to heal.
Debut of the First Practical 'Artificial Leaf'
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"...the device could produce enough electricity to supply a house in a developing country with
Mimicking Nature, Water-Based 'Artificial Leaf' Produces Electricity
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water-gel-based solar devices -- "artificial leaves" -- can act like solar cells to produce
Rainbow toad: Found after 87 years, first photo ever
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"The species was transformed in my mind from a black and white illustration to a living, colorful
New Imaging Technique Accurately Finds Cancer Cells, Fast
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The gifts of modern science offers women stability and security as never before. Using this new
Tagging Tumors With Gold
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Bizarre Bioluminescent Snail: Secrets of Strange Mollusk and Its Use of Light as a Possible Defense Mechanism Revealed
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"...could be a deterrent to ward off potential predators by using diffused bioluminescent light to
Butterfly Wings' 'Art of Blackness' Could Boost Production of Green Fuels
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The global search for the green fuel of the future, hydrogen gas, has led scientists to the
Researchers Create First Human Heart Cells That Can Be Paced With Light
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Healthy Living Initiative Posters
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Get the word out with our beautiful Healthy Living Initiative posters. Printed with soy based
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Healthy Choices Flyers
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