Australia Makes Tanning Salons Post Skin Cancer Warnings
It’s something that some American advocates are jealous of and want to happen over here in America, but it may not because of the lobbying going on, or at the very least may take longer for anything as radical as this to happen over here, but in Australia, the government arm that controls tanning and beauty salons is reportedly forcing tanning salons to post skin cancer warnings after lobbyists have complained that the indoor tanning industry does not post warnings against skin cancer.
The indoor tanning industry over here in the US has long denied that frequent indoor tanning has any effect on the likelihood you will get skin cancer in it’s most deadly form which is the melanoma form of skin cancer, but the statistics have shown that skin cancer has increased almost 50% amongst the age group of women who also happens to be the demographic that goes to tanning salons the most. It’s a young age to be diagnosed with such a serious skin cancer, and many researchers point to the popularity of indoor tanning as the primary culprit.
While I agree that frequent indoor tanning definitely damages the skin cell’s DNA and leads the way to melanoma cancer, I also think that avoiding the sun all together can be dangerous as well, since the sun is our primary source of producing vitamin D on our own (and the best, most cancer-protective form of vitamin D can only be made by our bodies via sun exposure and vitamin synthesis from that).
I think that as long as you wear sunscreen during long exposures to the sun and take into consideration your concentration of melanin for the amount of sun you do get, you should be fine, but little jaunts into the sun without covering up head to toe can actually be more beneficial in the end as far as creating this protective vitamin that trying to avoid sun exposure all together. This is all just coming to light in a body of research about vitamin D’s protective and preventive qualities when it comes to cancer because it was found that vitamin D lacking patients who had cancer had less chance of surviving the cancer than those who had enough vitamin D.
Do I think Australia’s warnings are a good thing? Absolutely! It’s the real sun that is most therapeutic to us anyways, so the indoor tanning salons really are harmful because of the way people tend to use and abuse them and go way too often to form a deep tan, which is very damaging to the skin and can definitely lead to skin cancer in the end. There’s always your best buddy if you really want that deep tan, self tanners nowadays are my favorite fashion accessory because the create that deep tan without all the damage to your skin.
PULLLLEASSSSE!!!!!
Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere with no contact to the outside world, youy would have been subjected to a flood of new medical information that the general public has Known for thousands of years….
“Think Sunlight is bad? Try living without it!!”
One of the most dangerous aspects of exposure to sunlight is that the majority of the world’s northern population get hardly any to none except for their yearly vacations when they tend to “go nuts” and spend hours and hours under the blazing sun of a tropical paradise. Then they get home where they nurse their yearly burn for the next few days of pain.
It is those that are wise enough to get a regular, moderate dose of UV exposure (ultimately at a properly run indoor tanning salon) that benefit the very most from Vitamin D3 Production and all it’s incredible health benefits.
It may be true that there are those very few that really overdo their frequency to tanning salons but those are usually the worst offenders of overdoing exposure to natural sunlight while on vacation.
The key word is Moderation, not legislation!
Mori Goldlist
Toronto, Canada
Comment by Mori Goldlist — September 8, 2008 @ 11:13 am