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Originally Posted by maleficent
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We don't drink milk in my home either. We're a family of lactose intolerants. Asians and Eastern Europeans tend to be that way. The solution is orange juice. The major brands all offer vitamin D and calcium enriched juices. It's even color coded, with a blue cap.
I'm another pasty white one. Irish and Ukranian genes do not make for a dark compexion. I avoid the sun like it causes cancer because, well, it does. When I know I'm going to be out in the sun for more than a few minutes at a time, I use sunscreen. This tends to be at amusement parks or the beach.
When we go to the beach, step one is always to cover every inch of exposed skin with sunscreen. I get SPF 30, which Grace is kind enough to apply, and She gets SPF 5, which I apply, though she really doesn't need it for sunscreen purposes so much as moisturizing. She is Polynesian on her mother's side, and has a deep beach tan in the dead of winter. Heck, applying the sunscreen is probably the best part of going to the beach. Even with it, I have to stay under the umbrella most of the time. It takes very mile exposure over a long time period to get even the lightest tan.
It's cool though. I'd prefer to still have soft, elastic skin a decade or two from now to looking a little nicer, and it's not as if there's much of anything other than my arms that isn't covered with something most of the time anyway.
Gilda