Didn't we have enough to worry about at our cookouts, between feeling guilty about the mercury in our otherwise healthy and low-cal tuna steaks and weighing the pros and cons of bug spray (sure, it will spare you the West Nile, but once it's killed all the ladybugs, birdies and bees, there won't be any nature to romp around in).
Now, in our holiday weekend edition of today's New York Times, we learn that sunscreen is suspicious, too. Apparently, the Environmental Working Group only recommends 15 sunscreens over SPF 15, the editoral reveals: "The others either did not protect skin enough from some radiation that can cause skin cancer or included ingredients linked to possible health hazards." And we were just concerned with not getting the stuff in our eyes.
The article suggests that we keep wearing sunscreen and also don "more protective clothing and big hats," which only brings up sad images of Ashley and Mary Kate in their NYU first-years, bag-lady-chic days.
It's a BBQ buzzkill, sure. But right now, our main concern is, who's going to tell hatless, kayaking lovebirds Portia de Rossi and Ellen de Generes? Just when they thought it was safe to go out in the water.
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