Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Protective Measures

How do people with dark skin color withstand sun light better?

Everything in this world comes with its advantages and disadvantages so does the the skin color. White skin is more prone to have sun burn and skin disease as compared to dark colored individuals. This is a good news for dark colored individuals that they are less likely to have acnes, sun burn, cracked skin and also skin cancer (to some extent). Dark color provides natural protection against sun light radiations. Dark colored skin has more concentration of melanin, a brownish pigment, that is released under the influence of sunlight by the special cells called melanocytes that are present in the skin. Those individuals whose one or both parents have dark complexion then they also have a tendency to get a dark complexion. Because the genes that they get from their parents increase the concentration of melanocytes in the skin which produce more melanin and increased concentration of melanin in skin means they will have a darker complexion.   This melanin absorb the sun radiatio...

How to Protect Against Nuclear Radiations - Prophylactic Measures Against Radiations -

Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes on March 11, 2011. The Magnitude was 9.0. This earthquake and the resulting tsunami result in massive destruction and chaos.  Thousands of people are dead and many more are still missing or injured.