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Safety | Tanning firm says it’s already working within new recommendations

Monday, March 7, 2011
Officials from the Department of Health will soon begin visiting tanning salons across the province, checking to ensure that operators are following a series of safety guidelines the government proclaimed last year.
New rules: Frank Findlay, owner of Miami Tanning Salons in Fredericton, poses for a photo in one of the downtown location’s tanning bed rooms.
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App Gives Your Photos a Bronze Glow

Monday, March 7, 2011
 
TanningBooth, a new iPhone application, allows users to give their photos a beautiful bronzed tan, according to an article on iPadmodo. The app, on sale for 99 cents, is available for the iPhone and soon the iPad as well. The app lets users select from a range of skin tones to transform any picture into a glowing portrait.
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Tanning is out – Quesnel grads say no to tanning

Saturday, March 5, 2011
Tuesday the Canadian Cancer Society launched its first ever Tanning is OUT campaign with Correlieu Secondary and seven other schools across the Northern Region.… continue reading

Heading for a sun vacation? Skip the tan

Friday, March 4, 2011

Linda Cousineau always worked hard to save enough money for a yearly trip south, where should would escape the winter blahs by basking in the sun: Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Mexico were her favoured destinations.

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Is Sunlight Your Greatest Protection Against Breast Cancer?

Thursday, March 3, 2011
A 2010 study from France has shown that women who were exposed to a combination of sunlight and dietary vitamin D had up to a 45 percent reduced risk of contracting breast cancer, according to Cancer Epidemiol, Biomarkers & Prevention.
The researchers noted that high dietary vitamin D by itself did not correlate to a reduced risk of breast cancer, whereas sunlight exposure alone did correlate to a lowered risk.… continue reading

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