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Another vitamin D study shows that low levels of the sunshine vitamin are linked to childhood obesity — yet another indication that vitamin D and sunlight may be doing more to regulate the body than had been thought in the …

Six out of 10 indoor tanning businesses say the U.S. Federal 10 percent tax on tanning services has hurt business more than they expected, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the past two weeks.

According to …

Leading cancer researchers in Sweden have presented data to make the case that women who actively seek the sun live longer than those who avoid it — a finding that flies in the face of dermatology’s overstatement of the risks …

Smart Tan Magazine’s December issue introduces ‘SmartTanPR” — Smart Tan’s turn-key program for tanning facilities to promote indoor tanning effectively in your community. The December magazine is hitting mailboxes this week and is available on-line right now as an e-publication.…

“(They) are targeting only bone health. We’re going to continue with our recommendation around cancer prevention.” — Canadian Cancer Society spokeswoman Heather Chappell, as quoted in The Toronto Globe & Mail on Wednesday, saying that the CCS will continue to …

A government-commissioned report issued Tuesday on vitamin D in North America contained a strange contradiction: saying in one sentence that the population is getting enough vitamin D, but conspicuously underplaying the fact that they also recommend tripling the daily vitamin …

More than half of tanning businesses say November was less-busy as compared to 2009, according to the results of a SmartTan.com poll conducted in the last two weeks.

The upside of the poll: Nearly 4 out of 10 said their …

The Vitamin D world is bracing for a major announcement this week, as the government’s out-of-date vitamin D recommendations — currently based almost solely on 1920s thinking — are expected to be revised in an announcement Tuesday.

But no one …