5 Foods That Fight Sunburn (1)

• The danger of sunburn
• Fighting sunburn with oatmeal
• Fighting sunburn with fat-free milk

Find help for your skin in your kitchen

No one sets out to get sunburned, but the pleasant distractions of summer – the long, sunny days or the beckoning beach – all make it easy to forget that extra coat of sunscreen. Of course, it’s best to practice sunburn prevention and stop a burn before it starts, given its ability to cause skin cancer and premature aging. Luckily, common foods in your kitchen possess sun-protection compounds to aid your current sun-protection routine. Others offer surprising relief if you do accidentally catch too many rays.

Check out these natural food remedies to deal with – or prevent – summer sunburns.

1. Oatmeal
Burn-fighting effect: When your whole body is sunburned,oatmeal provides the best type of relief.
Sunburn treatment: Grind up a cup of oatmeal in a food processor, add it to cool bath water, and soak.

2. Fat-free milk
Burn-fighting effect: The milk creates a protein film on your skin that will help ease the discomfort of fresh sunburn.
Sunburn treatment: Apply cool, not cold, milk to your skin using a clean cloth or gauze. Apply compresses for 15 to 20 minutes, and repeat every 2 to 4 hours

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Teaching Topic: Listicles 教學主題: 目錄式文章

listicle (list+article)

Most often found in magazines and on blogs, listicles are articles made up of list facts, tips, examples or quotations based around a common theme.

Listicles had been around for the decades but the word itself, a blend of the word’s list and article is much younger.

Sometimes listicles are written in a round countdown format, meaning, the author is making a judgment about what he or she is writing about.

That’s right. For example, in the listicle, top ten beaches in Mexico, the last beach mentioned at the number one position would be in the author’s opinion the best beach.

And people just love listicles because they are easy to read and digest.

So they’re great for people who are too busy to read lengthy articles and for people who have short attention spans.

Well, if readers love listicles, publishers love them even more, because they know if they include a listicle title on a magazine cover sales will go up.

Right. I’m sure you’ve seen examples of listicles buying for your attention from a magazine rack at local convenience store, “five worse foods to eat before bedtime”. Or “ten ways to lose five pounds in two days”.

Closer Look
No one sets out to get sunburned, but the pleasant distractions of summer – the long, sunny days or the beckoning beach – all make it easy to forget that extra coat of sunscreen.
No one…, but the …–[ list of examples ] – all make/made it easy to…
- No one wanted to be a bad worker, but the uncomfortable working conditions -- long hours in a hot dark factory building -- all made it easy to do everything carelessly.
- No one wanted to give up on their weight loss plans, but the delightful treats -- the cakes and cookies -- all made it easy to forget there was even a plan in the first place.

Language Lab
beckon v. 招喚, 吸引
if something such as a place or opportunity beckons, it appears so attractive that you want to have it:
- The glamour of Hollywood beckons many young actors to seek their dreams.
glamour
- Max is both talented and diligent, so a bright future is beckoning him.
- The dress in the window is beckoning me.

premature adj.
happening before the natural or proper time:
- The newly developed treatment for premature baldness is quite effective.
- The country's premature death rate has dropped drastically since prenatal care became mandatory.

gauze  n. [uncountable]
thin cotton with very small holes in it that is used for tying around a wound:
- The nurse taped a piece of gauze on the patient's wound.
sterile gauze n. 消毒的紗布
- The OR needs to prepare a sufficient amount of sterile gauze for each operation.

compress n.
a small thick piece of material that you put on part of someone's body to stop blood flowing out or to make it less painful
compress v.
to press something or make it smaller so that it takes up less space, or to become smaller:
- Firmly compress the dough to make sure there's no air in it.