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A sexy look at hidden dangers of tanning If you're looking for a good reason to avoid tanning beds—or if you're just a perv who likes hidden-cam footage of women undressing—then Ads of the World has the video for you. Created by the Danish Cancer Society, this clip has actually been circulating on YouTube for seven months or so, with teaser names like “Tanning Bed Hottie” and “Sexy Tanning Salon Hidden Web Cam Video.” (And while some claim it could be shorter and still be effective, I would counter with one of the greatest horror-movie clips of all time.) The creators seem to have outed themselves at a pretty good time. A 30-year study released this month found that melanoma rates have skyrocketed among women since 1980, likely due to excessive tanning indoor and out. The study makes no mention of demonic tanning machinery, although it was probably implied. —Posted by David Griner

July 21, 2008 in Freaky, Griner | Permalink

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What else has changed since 1980 in our summer routine.

Certainly we have eat no more grapes with grape seeds. Grape seeds have high antioxidants. Maybe you never ate the seeds. I did as a child. Lots of them.

We no longer sweat as much as we used to around the clock because sweating is seen as a major social embarassment. We have indoor careers with year round climate control. We drive in climate controled vehicles. Perspiration is a natural and important function of your body. It gets rid of free radicals and supports our immune system.

We no longer have a gradual exposure to the outdoor sun in a year round exposure schedule that our skin type is accustomed to and uses to produce Vitamin D. We have office careers

We use lots and lots and lots of cosmetics continually every day because we go to office careers everday.

We have a deep fear of cancer and that the uv rays are our biggest enemy. Mentally our fears contribute to our diminished health.

We have mental defiencies that depress us and we seek to sooth these with sunshine and pick me ups. But we learned the sun is bad. We use tanning beds because they told us sunrays are harmful but our mind won't listen to our head.

We take lots more sun vacations in the wintertime and confuse our body's sun adaption schedule with harsh burns over winter vacations.

Maybe some one else can think of other things that have changed since 1980 about our behaviour with the sun. Not just that suntanning is bad.

Question: If tanning is bad and water magnifies, refracts and does whatever to those uv rays, would it be safe to assume that in humid climates skin cancer is the worse. They told me that being in the water is more harmful. So being in air laden with moisture... would it be more harmful than being in that dry heat of the southwest? State by state rates are confusing:
www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/state.htm
Does it affect poor less than rich? ethnic areas differently? Indoor workers? Farmers who use airconditioned tractors more. What?

I would like some honesty in the debate.

Posted by: | Jul 21, 2008 9:16:02 AM

Looking at deaths from skin cancer map:

could somebody say money causes cancer in rich sunny states?

Mississippi, Louisiana, South Dakota all very, very sunny and poor states have the lowest death rate.

Idaho, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Wyoming, Rhode Island are states with more money, and probably more health care. Equally sunny? I don't know. They have the highest rates of death from skin cancer.

New york confuses me. The entire state is so diverse.

Posted by: | Jul 21, 2008 9:49:49 AM

I didn't realize there was a need for a debate over whether excessive sun exposure could lead to skin cancer. Money doesn't cause it. Stupidity does.

My feeling? If you wanna tan yourself to a darkened leather all summer & on vacation, be my guest. Thin the herd of your vanity & make me look like I swim daily in the fountain of youth.

Posted by: fifi | Jul 21, 2008 11:11:13 AM

I haven't found a way to getting old without looking old. Jaime Lee Curtis is on the cover of aarp glorifying grey hair. Should i cover that up too? Do hair colorings cause cancer? Do the people who make sunscreens make hair colorings?

Posted by: | Jul 21, 2008 11:32:42 AM

I took a look at this Ad and it's to long. Could be shorter but works at the end.

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Posted by: Dwayne.D.C.Tucker II | Jul 21, 2008 12:50:32 PM

not to be a dictionary Dick or a grammar Nazi or a party pooper of speech cause Lord knows, I abbuse all those cards, but...

suntan is a noun to describe the value of our skin

sunbathing is a verb to describe the action of getting a suntan or sunburn or absolutely nothing if you wear zinc oxide or some other total block like clothes.

bathing is the verb describing the action of going in the water and lounging and produces a tan.

swimming is the verb desribing the action of exercise and movement in the water. It usually produces sweat and a tan/burn

tanning beds unless solar powered have little to do with the sun.

I would create the verb UV-bedding.

Posted by: | Jul 21, 2008 2:49:21 PM

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