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Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that makes you want to close the rest of your tabs. All thirty of them. OK - let's go!
☀️ Melanoma, now a thing. In the 1950s, skin cancer was rare. Very rare (like 2 people per 100,000). In the past several decades, mortality rates from skin cancer have 2-3x'd and incidence rates have 9-17x'd. The increases have been unremitting. But why? Sunscreen was invented in 1938; were people locking themselves indoors covid-style, avoiding the sun and avoiding life? Whatever we've been doing for the last ~70 years is, uh, not working.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Maybe our sunscreen sucks? Maybe the small handful of corporations that make our sunscreen don't care about making good sunscreen? Maybe sunbathing became too chic after WWII? Maybe we don't wear enough clothes? Maybe we need parasols on our person at all times? Maybe uber-cheap seed oils are in our food supply are rendering our skin defenseless and weak? Or! Maybe we should expect nothing but skin cancer when we sit inside all day on the laptop and then spend one loooong day in the sun per month? This summer is hot; skin cancer is not.
🎽 Sprinting from the demons. A reader pinged me this morning about yesterday's issue regarding sprinting. He asked if the benefits of sprinting (namely, losing fat and building muscle and boosting testosterone) also apply to swim/bike sprints and boxing rounds.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Excellent question. In general, yes! Do all of these, friend. But each activity will have you breathing differently when optimizing for performance and each activity will use different muscle groups to varying degrees. Biking, e.g., won't get your upper body shredded like sprinting/swimming will. Boxing, e.g., won't 1.5x your leg size/strength like uphill biking will. Etc. Gun to my head: choose one?! It's still good old gym-class sprints on the classic red track.
🥤 Diet soda drinkers club. According to a 2015 study, folks who drink diet soda often end up compensating for their "saved" calories by wolfing down fake foods packed with sugar, cheap salt, and liquid fats.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Trump is funny as hell, but those diet cokes did him in. His figure is that of a water buffalo.
🕊️ Tweet of the Day. A bad joke bombs...
How about them Apples? Hope you enjoyed your coffee and hit me with any comments or questions.
Your friend,
Andrew🍎
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