Tanning Beds Dangers: Ten Top Reasons Not to Tan

www.sunaware.org Tanning beds dangers are inextricably linked to skin cancer. But there are other reasons to give up tanning beds. Here are the top ten

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[KelsoTeam77]

And FYI...I NEVER burned in a tanning bed. Never. Thats is why I would do it and get my "healthy golden glow" that is now CANCER ALL OVER MY FACE. I ruined my skin forever.

[sunaware1]

@KelsoTeam77 I am so sorry. Please become an advocate for anti-tanning bed legislation. SunAWARE has five simple steps for skin cancer prevention and detection. Teach these steps to your family and community. Help someone else avoid this painful experience. I am wishing you all the best. M. Barrow

[TheCoastGuarder]

To everyone considering tanning or is actively participating in it, you are making the wrong decision. You may look beautiful to yourself on the outside, but you are really putting yourself in grave danger. My mother was an active tanner for years but that came to a stop. She was diagnosed with Melenoma Skin Cancer, with her doctor giving the probable cause as her tanning history. I lost her when I was seven. Be smart!

[BriannMelo]

@billyboy222ify clearly you didnt understand the statement.

[billyboy222ify]

@truthabouttanning There is NO SUCH THING as an "anti tanning industry", .. . only a pro tanning industry ( Copertone, taning salons, bed manufacturers, .. etcetera ). HOW would anybody make profit by people not tanning ?

[billyboy222ify]

@BriannMelo I'd rather be "pasty" than shitskinned .

[BriannMelo]

funny how allll the girls that would DREAM of tanning or fucking pasty as hell and are white girls.... funny how that works right?

[KelsoTeam77]

For all the "pro" tanning bed people out there, I did tanning beds for years and now I have skin cancer on my FACE. I would give it ALL back to be SUPER PALE and HEALTHY. Now I am looking at getting cut up with scars on my face and I am only in my early 30's!!!!

[swoitowitz]

you should do your homework, lack of UV exposure impairs a persons auto immune system. Low Vitamin D levels, increases a person's risk of diabetes, heart disease, all forms of cancer, MS, depression, etc. Vitamin D is made when UV exposure causes our body to convert cholesterol in our skin through a process in the pancreas into Vitamin D. One session in a tanning bed, stimulates the body to produce 10,000 IU of Vitamin D! Natural Vitamin D is never toxic.

[surfacerising]

@truthabouttanning Really? I've never had a tan, Just burns. Maybe a burn can become a tan, but ALL tans are burns, and damaging. As well, 5 minutes in a bed is equal to 30 in the sun. I can't handle more than 25 in the regular sun without burning. So that would equal out to about 3 minutes equaling out to your 15 needed minutes a day in the sun for vitamin d. Everything after that is the danger zone. Girls that spend half an hour in a bed, is equal to an hour and a half in a bed.