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Everything you’d want to know about Vitamin D, Sunlight and Sunbeds
Monday, February 17, 2014
Your skin can also make vitamin D if you use an indoor tanning bed. As with natural sunlight, making the vitamin D you need from a tanning bed happens within minutes. continue reading
Member Advisory to Smart Tan Members on new research paper
Friday, January 31, 2014
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association is getting press today — the study pools survey data collected over the past 22 years and attempts to say that indoor tanning usage is increasing and that indoor tanning is related to 400,000 cases of skin cancer in the US.
JCTA Note: research did not include any research from Canada
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D2 is not the D for Athletes – You need D3 from the Sun
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
“When the sun hits our skin, it turns into vitamin D3. The body is used to that,” Nieman said. “High vitamin D2 levels are not a normal experience for the human body...... The European scientists theorized that during winter, when vitamin D levels in the body are low, sunlamp treatments, like natural exposure to sunlight, would increase the athletes’ vitamin D3 levels and benefit muscle function.
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Smart Tan Nashville Moving to New Location
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
The Music City Center – a brand new convention complex in the heart of Nashville – will be the new home of the world’s largest indoor tanning trade show and conference this fall. Date Oct 3rd to 5th continue reading
Drinking in the sun may raise risk of skin cancer
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Alcohol can make the skin more sensitive to light and increase the risk of skin cancer, with those who drink more than a glass a day at greater risk of developing deadly melanoma
JCTA Note: read JCTA UV Report in the Media Section of the website, an even higher risk for drinking continue reading
