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Headline Story at SmartTan.com U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was part of the back-room midnight deal that put the proposed 10 percent “Tan Tax” into the senate version of health care reform. Want to let Harry know how you feel about that?… continue reading

By Elena Gorgan, Life & Style Editor http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nicola-Roberts-Tackles-Tanorexia-in-New-Campaign-and-Show-131654.shtml Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts is perhaps most famous for her fiery red hair and porcelain skin but, as fans would know, she wasn’t always this fair-skinned. A few years back, Roberts was a tanorexic herself, making sure she worked daily on her fake tan, just like the other members of the band.… continue reading

Headline Story from SmartTan.com A financial services columnist this week penned a strong essay urging everyone to question the ignorance of “the ‘consensus’ on sunlight exposure (which) has badly misled us towards vitamin D deficiencies.” Patrick Cox, a columnist for Agora Financial, wrote a comprehensive essay echoing Smart Tan’s contention that anti-sun advice would be completely flip-flopped if the phramaceutical companies behind the message could sell sunshine.… continue reading

Stanley J. Pope 1 and Dianne E. Godar*2 1 Sun Systems & Svc, Inc., Oak Park, MI 2 U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration, Silver Spring, MD *Corresponding author email: Dianne.Godar@fda.hhs.gov (Dianne E. Godar) The mention of commercial products, their sources or their use in connection with material reported herein is not to be construed as either an actual or an implied endorsement of such products by the Department of Health and Human Services.… continue reading

Sales of once-neglected nutrient eclipse those of vitamin C for the first time, suppliers say Martin Mittelstaedt and Anna Mehler Paperny From Friday’s Globe and Mail Vitamin D used to be the Rodney Dangerfield of vitamins – often overlooked and certainly neglected by consumers.… continue reading