In the News
Private Member’s Bill for ban under 18 – Ontario
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Date: Thursday Apr. 26, 2012 6:54 AM ET
TORONTO — As a child, Kate Neale always wore hats and high-SPF sunscreen to protect her ultra-fair skin from the rays of the sun. But at 16, wanting to emulate the bronze-skinned Hollywood stars with whom she’d become so enamoured, she started indoor tanning and quickly got hooked.… continue reading
NDP Press Release – Ban Teen Tanning in Ontario
Thursday, April 26, 2012
QUEEN’S PARK: Indoor tanning, and its negative health affects, are the target of a bill introduced today by France Gélinas, MPP from Nickel Belt and the NDP’s critic for Health and Long-Term Care.… continue reading
IPSOS Poll on teen tanning – paid for by the CCS
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012 IPSOS Poll
Toronto, ON – Despite warnings from the health community and beyond about the ill-effects of using indoor tanning beds—particularly for young people, more Ontario youth are using tanning beds than before, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society.… continue reading
Vitamin D – most of us do not get enough
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
From Doctor Myhill
It is a fact of life in the current scientific world that publicity, hype and spin are more important in spreading information – and disinformation – about nutritional medicine than peer-reviewed scientific studies. The recent publicity over vitamin C is an obvious instance of this; a paper from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Cancer Pharmacology was the subject of a press release that presented it as new data that may have shown a damaging effect of vitamin C, even though any number of other studies have shown the opposite.… continue reading
It is a fact of life in the current scientific world that publicity, hype and spin are more important in spreading information – and disinformation – about nutritional medicine than peer-reviewed scientific studies. The recent publicity over vitamin C is an obvious instance of this; a paper from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Cancer Pharmacology was the subject of a press release that presented it as new data that may have shown a damaging effect of vitamin C, even though any number of other studies have shown the opposite.… continue reading
UV’s Disputed Melanoma Link
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 SmartTan.com
“Less than three-tenths of 1 percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma while less than two-tenths of 1 percent who didn’t tan developed melanoma.” — from the article, “Tanning Beds: What Do The Numbers Really Mean” by Dr.
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