People are divided in their opinion about tanning. For many, especially young people, it is a way to get a darker skin colour. For others it is a mean to better health and wellbeing. For most, however, tanning is connected with skin-cancer.
During the last 25 years, tanning and tanners have become the victims of a fierce campaign against sunlight- and UV- exposure. The anti-tanning propagandists are using artificially inflated skin-cancer statistic in order to create a fear-based marketing campaign for sun-avoidance and use of sun-protection cosmetics.
It is quite easy to find the proof of that most research connecting skin-problems with exposure to sunlight are paid for by large manufacturers of sun-protection cosmetics. Also the early screenings campaigns like, for example, the international melanoma month, are created and paid for by companies earning a lot of money on selling medicines to the many new "skin-cancer survivors".
A recent, multinational, study confirms that from 100 people having had operations for suspected melanoma as many as 93 turned out to have had innocent skin-lesions removed instead. The anti-tanning lobby want to show how dangerous tanning is but the early detection campaign seems to do more harm than good.
Tanning in moderation while avoiding burns is the right way towards a healthy tan. Knowing the difference between UVA and UVB is also very important. You probably think it is best to tan in the morning and in the late afternoon and avoid sunshine in the middle of the day? This is however a disasterous way of tanning. It will not allow any UVB to neither build up a nice, long lasting tan, nor make any vitamin D from sunshine.
The safest way to tan is doing it moderately but regularly. Many studies confirm that this is the only way to reduce the risk of melanoma, the most deadly of all skin-cancers. Also the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirms this in one of their most comprehensive reports on sun-esposure and melanoma. The natural sun is not always available to provide us with sunshine all year around. The tanning lamp is therefore an invention worthy a Nobel Prize.
During the last 25 years, tanning and tanners have become the victims of a fierce campaign against sunlight- and UV- exposure. The anti-tanning propagandists are using artificially inflated skin-cancer statistic in order to create a fear-based marketing campaign for sun-avoidance and use of sun-protection cosmetics.
It is quite easy to find the proof of that most research connecting skin-problems with exposure to sunlight are paid for by large manufacturers of sun-protection cosmetics. Also the early screenings campaigns like, for example, the international melanoma month, are created and paid for by companies earning a lot of money on selling medicines to the many new "skin-cancer survivors".
A recent, multinational, study confirms that from 100 people having had operations for suspected melanoma as many as 93 turned out to have had innocent skin-lesions removed instead. The anti-tanning lobby want to show how dangerous tanning is but the early detection campaign seems to do more harm than good.
Tanning in moderation while avoiding burns is the right way towards a healthy tan. Knowing the difference between UVA and UVB is also very important. You probably think it is best to tan in the morning and in the late afternoon and avoid sunshine in the middle of the day? This is however a disasterous way of tanning. It will not allow any UVB to neither build up a nice, long lasting tan, nor make any vitamin D from sunshine.
The safest way to tan is doing it moderately but regularly. Many studies confirm that this is the only way to reduce the risk of melanoma, the most deadly of all skin-cancers. Also the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirms this in one of their most comprehensive reports on sun-esposure and melanoma. The natural sun is not always available to provide us with sunshine all year around. The tanning lamp is therefore an invention worthy a Nobel Prize.
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