Tanning

Tanning is when one wants to increase the skin tone of your body. An estimated 30 million North Americans turn to tanning salons as a controlled alternative to outdoor tanning. What individuals do not think about when going forward with this tanning, is skin cancer. Yes, our body needs the vitamin D given off by our sun, but nothing can replace it, especially not a UV light bulb. The only things they give off are more UV rays close to the human skin, and therefore increasing the risk to skin cancer. Skin cancer can be caught by the sun’s rays as well, but only if you tan frequently, under the sun and still not as easily as the tanning bed because the sun rays are not as close to you as the rays given off by the lights. “Women who use tanning beds more than once a month are 55 percent more likely to develop malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer” (http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/tip-sheet-tanning-booths). This cancer can be prevented in what way? Avoiding tanning booths, rather than going to tanning salons, try spraying tanning/mystique tans, and if no artificial sun UV is used definitely wear sunscreen always, and routinely go and get your skin checked out.