{"id":936,"date":"2017-07-27T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/?p=936"},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:33:58","slug":"uv-awareness-month-uv-rays-sunscreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/uv-awareness-month-uv-rays-sunscreens\/","title":{"rendered":"UV Awareness Month &#8211; UV Rays and Sunscreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>UV Rays and Sunscreens:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPF (Sun Protection Factor), is a measure of how much protection a sunscreen provides the skin from UVB rays. UVB rays are known to cause sunburn, damage skin, and are known to contribute to skin cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way a sunscreen works is if your skin would normally burn after 10 minutes of sun exposure, applying a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 would allow you to stay in the sun and prolong the time it takes to get a sunburn for approximately 150 minutes (a factor of 15 times longer). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure your sunscreen has an SPF of 30 or higher and is a broad spectrum SPF. Make sure you reapply sunscreen after you swim or every 2 hours to make sure your skin is protected from the sun at all times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-932\" src=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/UVPost3-01.png 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UV Rays and Sunscreens: SPF (Sun Protection Factor), is a measure of how much protection a sunscreen provides the skin from UVB rays. UVB rays are known to cause sunburn, damage skin, and are known to contribute to skin cancer. The way a sunscreen works is if your skin would normally burn after 10 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginehealthcentres.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}