Our obsession with having a year round healthy glow is anything but healthy, especially for young women, but don`t blame it all on the sun, dermatologists are targeting indoor agency of tanning, namely tanning beds.
“The problem of tanning beds is that your entire body gets tanned, it gets tanned very quickly, there is much more intense than outside. It`s cool, so you don`t have the disincentive of getting hot, and it`s easy, and it`s quick.”
And despite industry claims that these beds are safe, doctors disagree.
“We are seeing epidemic of melanoma in people in their 20s, they are showing up in places they get only be effected by tanned bed, but there is that just typically wouldn`t see sun on a regular bases. But there is no question that young people, especially young women in their 18s or 20s are having more melanomas.”
Melanoma is the most deadly skin cancer according to the America Cancer Society, which says over 60,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year. It`s numbers like these that have prompted the American Academy of Dermatology to come out with a new campaign against indoor tanning called ‘indoor tanning is out’.
“One in five Americans develops skin cancer.”
“One person dies from melanoma about every hour.”
“I don`t wanna be one of them.”
“I don`t wanna be one of them.”
“One of the things that tanning beds does is that they, people never have a rest from ED radiation. It`s just like not having a rest from X-rays or cigarette smoke, or any other known *, your body doesn`t have time to recovery from it.”
Many doctors advise patients to avoid the dangerous of tanning beds by spraying on or rubbing on products that produce that healthy glow. Whatever you can do to avoid roasting it on.