Women have more antioxidants to reduce their skin cancer risk

It's important to wear an African American skin care product with added SPF to protect against the sun's harmful UV rays to lower your risk of developing skin cancer. Ladies should be encouraging their male partners to slather on the sunblock as well, since men are three times as likely to get a common form of skin cancer than women. 

Recently, researchers from Ohio State University set out to try to figure out why men are developing this and other cancers at a higher rate. What they discovered is that male mice appear to have lower amounts of an important skin antioxidant, and a higher amount of cancer-causing inflammatory cells.

"The findings suggest that women may have more natural antioxidant protection in the skin than men," said study co-leaders Gregory Lesinski and Tatiana Oberyszyn.

Researchers are hoping that the discovery of this disparity could lead to new targets for cancer treatments.

For women who want to give their skin even more antioxidants, there are many skin care products for black skin that contain green tea and pomegranate, both of which are antioxidant-rich.