{"id":265,"date":"2010-04-13T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personalpolishing.wordpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:10:48","slug":"white-clothes-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/white-clothes-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"White Clothes and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<em>by <strong>Carole Jackson<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottomlinesecrets.com\/index\/indexes.html?pub=blh\" target=\"_blank\">Bottom Line Health<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Deciding what to wear on a sunny day just got more complicated. Besides how good you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll look or feel, new research suggests the color of your clothing affects your vulnerability to UV radiation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Ascension Riva, PhD, of Universitat Polit\u00c3\u00a8cnica de Catalunya in Terrassa, led a team studying how a variety of factors &#8212; including fabric weave, color intensity and the hue itself &#8212; interact with UV light. Their findings may surprise you!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0The scientists dyed several types of fabric red, yellow and blue (standardizing the dyes for chemical structure and intensity), measuring the ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) of each before and after dying. They used a statistical tool to evaluate the influence of three factors &#8212; the UPF of the original, undyed fabric&#8230; the color of the dye&#8230; and the color intensity &#8212; on the final UPF. <em>Here\u00e2\u0080\u0099s what they learned&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Red and blue fabrics provided significantly more protection than the same fabric dyed yellow at the same concentration.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Intensity mattered as well. Highly concentrated colors were more protective &#8212; a brilliant, intense yellow absorbed more UV radiation than a pale blue, for instance.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Density was also a factor &#8212; predictably, tight weaves are more protective than looser ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Is White Still Right?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I asked Dr. Riva where white would fall on the scale, because I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve always heard that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the best choice for hot, sunny weather. She told me that optical brightening agents are used to create the commercial white we\u00e2\u0080\u0099re accustomed to wearing. She said this type of white does have both blocking and absorbing properties that are equal to that of pale blue. White reflects more light, she pointed out, so it may feel cooler, but that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not to be confused with UV protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0According to Dr. Riva, the differences in protection are significant enough to affect your risk for skin cancer. She suggested that people with reason to be especially worried about the effects of UV radiation, including those with skin cancer, photo-sensitivity and certain dermatological illnesses, might do well to choose tightly woven, deeply colored blue or red clothing when they\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll be outdoors in the sun. For the rest of us, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s another factor to consider in choosing what to wear &#8212; but it need not be the only one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0Source(s):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itcdc.ttf.hr\/papers.php?section=2\" target=\"_blank\">Ascension Riva, PhD<\/a>, professor, Universitat Polit\u00c3\u00a8cnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0by Carole Jackson, Bottom Line Health \u00c2\u00a0Deciding what to wear on a sunny day just got more complicated. Besides how good you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll look or feel, new research suggests the color of your clothing affects your vulnerability to UV radiation. \u00c2\u00a0Ascension Riva, PhD, of Universitat Polit\u00c3\u00a8cnica de Catalunya in Terrassa, led a team studying how a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/white-clothes-and-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Clothes and Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","pmpro-has-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4MGMb-4h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadershipshape.com\/wardroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}