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While a golden glow may be desirable, the long-term damage to your skin and risk of skin cancer that it can result in, is definitely not.

But despite the potential risks, nearly half of British people suffered from painful sunburn this year and would be more than willing to go through it again next year in the quest for a tan.

In a poll of 2,000 people carried out by Superdrug and Cancer Research UK, 46 per cent had admitted to being burnt this summer with a third of those people being burnt while trying to tan.

One in three people claimed that they would take more precautions next year against the sun but would still try to get a tan.

Four in ten people who were burnt said they did the same thing every year despite the fact that sunburn can lead to skin cancer, aging of the skin and sunstroke.

The most common areas of the body to be burnt were the face, arms, shoulders and neck.

One in three people had no intention of getting a tan but were burnt because they had not been careful and covered up in the sun.

Ed Yong, of Cancer Research UK, said: "Sunburn is a clear sign that your skin has been damaged in ways that can lead to skin cancer, a disease that's affecting more and more people in the UK.

"While it's important to enjoy the sun safely to get enough vitamin D, there are risks involved in long exposures. And these results indicate that people aren't taking these risks seriously enough.

"Getting painful sunburn just once every two years can triple the risk of melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer.

"Whether at home or abroad, use shade, clothing and plenty of sunscreen to protect yourself."

People may not realise just how serious skin cancer can be. Ever year in the UK, 2,000 people die from malignant melanoma and 10.300 cases are diagnosed.

Kimberley Carter, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "Skin cancer prevention messages are still very important in teaching people how to stay safe in the sun.

"However, the fact that so many people are still getting sunburnt, and burning intentionally in the hope of getting a tan, demonstrates the value of early detection in the fight against skin cancer.

"People who repeatedly burn are putting themselves at a much greater risk of developing skin cancer at a later stage, be it five or even 20 years down the line."

What do you think? Do you let yourself get burnt every year? Leave your comments below...

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First Liz Hurley admitted that the reason she stays super-slim is because she skips breakfast and only drinks water and espresso before noon.

And now new research shows that one in three of us are doing the same – because we don't have the time to sit down and eat.

A third of people say they eat breakfast standing up because they don't have time to sit down, and 40 per cent don't bother eating until they get to work.

The survey, commissioned by Best Western Hotels, found that fry ups and porridge are now off the menu, as more than half of us now eat cereal and 42 per cent eat toast.

Meanwhile, four percent prefer to start their day with chocolate and crisps.

Liz Hurley would not approve!

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You might think that drinking from a big, tall glass could spell disaster for your alcohol consumption.

But the experts reckon that you're more likely to overdo it if you pour your drink into a short, wide glass instead of a tall, slender one.

Researchers from Oxford University blame a trick of the eye called 'vertical horizontal illusion', where the brain over-estimates vertical distances and under-estimates horizontal ones.

Professor Charles Spence, who led the study, found that drinkers poured up to 80 per cent more into a short, wide glass than a tall, slender one, even when both glasses held the same volume.

Even experienced bartenders poured 26 per cent more alcohol into tumblers than highball glasses.

So if you want to avoid a hangover, it's best to sip your G&T from a tall glass.

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Twelve women in their underwear riding on a roller coaster - does this sound like a teenage boy's fantasy to you?

It's actually a viral marketing campaign for Ultimo bras.

The company claims that their bras offer thrills without spills and to prove how good their bras' support is, they filmed a group of women, dressed only in bras and knickers, riding on two different roller coasters at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire.

Sales and Marketing Director for the Alton Towers theme park Morwenna Angove said: "Whilst we understand that in warmer climates women will wear skimpier clothing, the tests show that well-fitted brassieres such as those from the Ultimo range, will help to control the risk of further unprecedented exposures in the future."

The experiment is far from scientific and is probably not very effective in showing how much support the bras offer, so it's basically titillation.

The video may well prompt men to go and buy Ultimo underwear for their wives and girlfriends but many women watching may find it degrading.

What do you think? Is this video degrading or harmless fun? Leave your comments below...

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While older women are still struggling to break through the glass ceiling and putting up with the pay gap, young single women in the U.S. are busy out-earning their male counterparts.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, women aged 22 to 30 with no husband and no kids, out-earn men in 39 of the 50 biggest cities and match them in another eight.

The disparity is greatest in Atlanta, where young, childless single women earn 21 per cent more than their male counterparts.

The shift in earning power starting showing up in big cities a few years ago, and has become more widespread. But it isn't true for all women in the 20s – overall they earn 90 per cent of what men in the 20s make.

It seems that education is the key, as women are now 1.5 times more likely than men to graduate from college or earn advanced degrees.

The trend is particularly apparent in cities where minority groups make up more than half the population. This is because, among blacks and hispanics, women are more than twice as likely as men to get a degree.

As a result of their success, young women are more likely to delay marriage and motherhood, as they enjoy the single life and prefer to focus on career.

Do you think women are becoming more successful than men? Leave a comment below...

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Most people living in Britain would think of our society as a comparatively liberal and permissive one, and to many people that is a good thing, but for one leading figure in the Catholic Church, Britain is a sex-obsessed 'wasteland' that is a threat to wholesome values and ideals.

Edmund Adamus, aide to Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, revealed his extreme Catholic views ahead of a visit from Pope Benedict XVI to the UK on September 16.

Mr Adamus described Britain as "one of the most anti-Catholic landscapes, culturally speaking, more even than those places where Catholics suffer open persecution"

He said: "Our laws and lawmakers for over 50 years or more have been the most permissively anti-life and progressively anti-family and marriage."

Mr Adamus hoped to rally Catholics together to prevent the further degradation of society by telling them to "exhibit counter-cultural signals against the selfish, hedonistic wasteland that is the objectification of women for sexual gratification".

Speaking about his perceived blurring of gender roles, he said: "Britain in particular, with its ever-increasing commercialisation of sex, not to mention its permissive laws advancing the 'gay' agenda, is such a wasteland.

"More and more people are beginning to realise that the feminisation of masculinity and the laddish culture that haunts the development of young girls and women is not providing the answers to life's deepest questions."

He claimed that the prevalence of the 'ladette' culture, the acceptance of sex and cohabitation before marriage, the ease of obtaining contraception and abortions, and the rise of pro-gay reforms are destroying traditional and religious ideals about marriage and families.

He said: "There is a mountain of evidence now pointing to the massive risks to future marriages preceded by cohabitation. Multiple sexual partners before and outside of marriage, facilitated by contraception and abortion, is ­having massive, long-term, damaging effects on the human capacity to bond permanently.

Mr Adamus's views offended many gay-rights campaigners who branded them "gratuitously offensive".

Peter Tatchell, a leading figure behind the Protest the Pope coalition, said: "The suggestion that gay equality laws make Britain a moral wasteland is insulting but not unexpected.

"The Pope supports legal discrimination against gay people. He says we are not entitled to equal human rights."

The Archbishop's office claimed that Mr Adamus's views "did not reflect the Archbishop's opinions".

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Have you ever been tempted to have a shot of botox or maybe a little bit of liposuction on your thighs?

If so, how would you justify it?

Would you tell yourself that you had a problem that really needed to be fixed?

Or would you just admit that you want to look your best and there's nothing wrong with a bit of vanity?

Because research has shown that many women having cosmetic surgery don't think they are motivated by vanity like "other women" who have the same procedures.

Dr Debra Gimlin, a sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, spoke to 80 women aged from 20 to 70.

She found that more than half the women had created the notion of a "surgical other" they distanced themselves from.

They saw these "other" women as going ahead with surgery with little consideration of its risks, with unreasonable expectations and an obsessive concern with their appearance.

More than 50 of the women said that they were not like this and only wanted to achieve a "natural look".

Dr Gimlin believes that they created this notion as they could then believe that it was only women in this category who deserved the negative views society had of those undergoing cosmetic surgery, and not them.

These women also tended to see the surgeons that these "other" women used as being inferior to their own.

Sounds like some of us are in serious denial...

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