There are few things you could do in life short of smoking 5 packs a day or doing lines of asbestos that could increase cancer risk by this amount. Think about it. Tell your tan and slightly orange friends.
“74% greater risk of melanoma among tanning-bed users”… Wow!
They don’t emphasize how much she tanned, which is a big part of why people get melanoma. They overdo it. She was probably in the bed for the full time more than twice a week, a ridiculous amount of time.
“I often thought, while driving to the tanning salon, ‘Why am I doing this? I was just there yesterday,’” says Bargielski, now 31, of Erie, Pa
The lesson here is moderation. Nobody should be going two days in a row like this lady. Nobody should be burning themselves and trying to stay in an extra minute. That minute could be the difference between safe and burnt.
It’s when people go this often is when they get skin cancer. Twice a week is the absolute maximum (no matter what natural skin tone you have) and never two days in a row. It’s the lack of education that gets people thinking that tanning beds are automatic cancer machines.
I’ve been tanning safely for three years. No skin cancer. No new moles. I’m not saying that I’m invincible, I’m saying that I practice moderation and don’t go more than I know my skin can handle. Right now I go 11 minutes each time. I adjust when I haven’t gone in a while. There was a time where I could go for 15 minutes without burning, but I stopped for a few weeks. I keep in mind how long it’s been since I last tanned and how long I tanned that last time.
“Taking away from teens the option to tan indoors will not stop teens from sun tanning; it will only send them outdoors,” says executive director John Overstreet.
The rays in a tanning bed are not that different from the sun. Keeping that in mind, people who are so afraid of tanning in a bed should be just as afraid of the sun, right? Why is that never the case?
Agreed with Kimber, ‘nuff said.
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