As with research in most fields, results can get blown far out of proportion. While researchers will often comment on possible applications and benefits, they also make note of limitations and what is necessary to help back up the findings—this is something many websites looking for ‘clicks’ and attention fall short.

It’s not difficult to find an outrageous headline lurking in your Twitter of Facebook feed, and while we can all understand why this happens—attention is hard to get—the problem is that they very often take things too far, which can inevitably mislead people. Anti aging research is no exception, and an article in the Huffington Post is here to knock down a few of these claims:

2. The sun is bad for you, except when it isn’t. 

Sunbathers live longer than people who avoid the sun, according to a new studypublished in the Journal of Internal Medicine. Yes, but do they live with skin cancer while they are living longer? Apparently so in this pick-your-poison study. An analysis of information on 30,000 Swedish women who were followed for 20 years found that those with active sun exposure habits had less heart disease but yes, more skin cancer. The heart disease kills them. The skin cancer doesn’t so much. Are the guidelines for sun exposure too restrictive — and in fact doing more harm than good for your overall health?

Sun is of course the main culprit to behind how your skin ages. Whether you get more or less, there are positives and negatives. Make sure to check out the full article for more.

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