The UV index is meant as a warning about the sun’s harmful rays. But more than half of all young people treat a high UV reading as a prompt to rush outside and sunbathe.
It seemed like a terrific idea when the Danish Meteorological Institute and the Danish Cancer Society introduced a UV index showing just how harmful the sun’s ultraviolet rays are right now. That way, you could take precautions when the numbers were high. The Danish Cancer Society sums it up as a sunhat, sunscreen, and shade.
As if.
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