News Archive for May, 2012

Tanning beds may be even more effective as a vitamin D producer than was previously believed. That’s the consensus of research published by Dr. Michael Holick’s group at Boston University. Holick’s group studied 15 people aged 20-53, tracking their vitamin …

Bronze Bay Tanning in Michigan, May’s Member of the Month, is jointly owned by Sarah and Al Munkacsy. The ups and downs of doing business in a college town taught them the value of expanding and giving clients a taste …

Another British doctor physician is speaking out publicly that the peril of overzealous sun avoidance has gone too far and needs to be countered.

Dr. Pratik Sufi, a British surgeon specializing in weight loss, wrote in The Huffington Post today …

Smart Tan Executive Director Joseph Levy’s appearance Friday morning on NBC’s Today Show came about in about 18 hours of coordination involving many in the tanning market — a coordinated effort that gave the market a rare opportunity to tell …

Smart Tan Executive Director Joseph Levy interviewed as part of a segment on indoor tanning Friday morning, May 4th, on NBC’s Today Show.

The segment — which features Levy showing how a sunbed actually works — also includes an interview …

Read about the BCNPF’s latest billboard and radio campaign in cities across the country, and learn how you can spread the message of natural breast cancer prevention in your community. Click here to read May’s Smart Tan Magazine main feature, …

A Danish dermatology group reported this month that using the amount of sunscreen health officials recommend will completely block vitamin D production — adding to the volume of studies showing that SPF over-use will deprive people of natural vitamin D …

Widespread media reports Wednesday that a 6-year-old girl was allowed to tan in a New Jersey tanning salon were based on the 6-year-old’s statements to a school official that her mother took her to a tanning salon, but no evidence …