News Archive for July, 2010

More than 6 out of 10 indoor tanning facilities say their first six months of 2010 were worse financially than the first six months of 2009, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in early July.

Just less …

More vitamin D experts are starting to acknowledge the incredibly obvious: That worldwide vitamin D deficiency cannot be overcome with diet. Dr. Anthony Norman, a vitamin D expert from the University of California, told United Press International in a story …

A Denver dermatologist this week repeated the lie that dermatology continues to spread: That sunlight only poses dangers and that people do not need sunlight to make natural levels of vitamin D.

“It takes only a few minutes of ultraviolet …

Nearly nine out of 10 tanning facility owners say that actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent coming-out-of-the-dark moment embracing regular sun exposure could be a defining moment in society’s re-thinking about UV light. Paltrow, revealed last month that she suffered from severe …

Bill Rancic – the grassroots entrepreneur who won Tycoon Donald Trump’s first ‘The Apprentice’ show on NBC – is the keynote speaker at Smart Tan Downtown Oct. 22-24 in Downtown Nashville, an event with a conference designed to address tanning’s …

Dermatologists — using over-the-top “sun scare” messaging to drive patients into their offices — are removing benign moles from patients with insurance dollars, with industry-wide understanding that some derms will even lie to get a mole removed with insurance dollars, …

“Lack of sunshine and the vitamin it makes in our skin is probably the most serious single cause of disease in the UK today.”

— Health education expert Oliver Gillie, considered one of the worldwide experts in vitamin D and …

Another British news source is reporting that Great Britain’s cancer authorities are going to bury the all-out ‘Sun Scare’ messaging in favor of asking people to embrace the sun with common sense.

In other words: Goodbye 365/24 sunscreen.

London’s Daily …