http://www.stopmoles.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:44:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve been seeing a lot of jocks lately. The anatomical area, not the athletes. Summertime means heat and humidity, sports, and itchy groins. Jock itch is a general term for an itchy rash in the groin. Heat, sweat, and skin rubbing on skin can leave the area looking like you ... http://www.stopmoles.com/200/get-rid-of-your-jock-itch-once-and-for-all.php With blonde hair and big blue eyes, she looked like a young Betty Draper from Mad Men. My patient, Julie, had been faithfully treating her acne for months. Just when she was starting to clear (in time for her senior photos), wham! Red dots cropped up over her forehead and ... http://www.stopmoles.com/199/sunscreens-cause-acne-and-other-fun-summer-acne-facts.php While vacationing in Idaho and Montana last week (blissfully off the grid), I experienced something beautiful: altitude. At 6,260 feet Stanley, Idaho is a mile higher than my home in San Diego. The skies there were a brilliant blue. There was daylight well after 10 PM. The mornings were a chilly ... http://www.stopmoles.com/198/where-are-you-more-likely-to-sunburn-beach-or-mountains.php You know the sun makes vitamin D. Did you know that it does so in just minutes? After a few minutes of sun, your skin stops making vitamin D. After a few minutes of sun, your skin starts making skin cancer. Lying out at the beach or the pool for hours this summer ... http://www.stopmoles.com/197/dermdoc-drills-down-vitamin-d-in-high-def.php Photo: jvision (flickr) Share and Enjoy: http://www.stopmoles.com/196/skin-cancer-is-more-common-on-which-side.php Just what you needed: another mixed message about your health. The top health story this Memorial Weekend was sunscreens might cause skin cancer. The story originated from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit organization that “protect(s) the most vulnerable… from health problems attributed to a wide array of toxic contaminants.” EWG announced their ... http://www.stopmoles.com/195/sunscreens-cause-skin-cancer-what.php I made this video while at the Lance Armstrong Foundation Headquarters in Austin, TX to help people understand why tanning is an unsafe way to get your vitamin D. Your skin needs UVB to make vitamin D. Many tannning beds use little or no UVB, so they wouldn’t increase your vitamin D ... http://www.stopmoles.com/194/why-tanning-is-an-unsafe-way-to-get-vitamin-d.php You know that the sun increases the risk of skin cancer for most people. You probably don’t know that for some people, the sun is the source of a terrible itchy rash — they’re allergic to the sun. The radiation from the sun triggers some response in everyone’s skin. In some, ... http://www.stopmoles.com/193/can-you-be-allergic-to-the-sun.php You think Apple’s new 4G iPhone is hot? I was at a coffee bar in Redwood City yesterday, minding my own business when I found a tube of medication. Someone had accidently left a tube of topical Botox at the bar. Was this a plant? Is this the real prototype or ... http://www.stopmoles.com/192/behold-the-holy-grail-of-wrinkle-creams-a-topical-botox.php I just returned from the International Association of Culinary Professionals Conference in Portland, OR with @foodblogga (she was at the conference, I was just there to eat Voodoo Doughnuts). One of the hottest topics in food now is the gluten-free diet. Gluten sensitivity isn’t new; it was first described in the first century ... http://www.stopmoles.com/191/gluten-free-skin-products-and-cosmetics-2.php