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Alpine skiing, especially Lake Tahoe skiing or Breckenridge skiing, has been one of the favorite winter past-times in the country for years. Each year, nearly 7 million citizens travel to the ski slopes. Other winter sports such as cross country skiing or ice hockey don’t even come close. Only the ever increasing in popularity sport of snowboarding approaches it with a little more than six million snowboarders in the country.
Skiing is not only great fun, it’s a fantastic exercise for all parts of the body. Skiing is excellent for toning up the upper leg muscles such as the thigh as well as the lower calf. A season of skiing will strengthen the shoulders and back and will help to trim your stomach. Skiing is also excellent aerobically. Experts estimate that an adult skiing with moderate effort, will burn anywhere from 300 to 500 calories an hour.
But in addition to its exercise benefits, Alpine skiing is also an exhilarating sport. Nothing quite compares to it. Olympic caliber skiers can top 80 miles per hour. But for a novice, even skiing at 5 miles per hours is a thrill.
Skiers don’t often thing of this, but one of the most essential pieces of apparel when they’re on the slopes are goggles or sunglasses. And the best kind are the ones that are UV rates.
When you buy goggles or sunglasses that are UV rated, you are not buying sunglasses purely for style, even though stylish sunglasses are, of cousre, cool. You are buying them to protect your eyes. And that means sunglasses or goggles with a good UV protection rating. UV light can do real damage to the eyes ranging from simple sunblindness to major cataract problems. The best UV rated sunglasses are 100% UV protective and most of them are relatively inexpensive.
Now this does not means that if you, every so often, forget to put on your UV glasses that you are in grave danger of losing your eyesight. Researchers believe that it’s your eye’s continued exposure to sunlight over a period of time that actually does the damage. But, to be safe, it doesn’t hurt to wear them as often as possible.
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