Explaining why professional indoor tanning makes sense to your local political leaders and your local media just got easier for tanning professionals. Smart Tan this spring introduced “The Economic and Biologic Impact of Indoor Tanning Businesses” — a 72-page binder …
The non-profit Vitamin D Council is reporting that The Chicago Blackhawks may be the first professional sports team in history to have its team physician put most of the players on 5,000 IU of vitamin D — a dosage only …
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 …
“There has been nothing definitive on the relationship between vitamin D and cancer survival. There isn’t even agreement on how much vitamin D to recommend. What we do know is that UV rays are carcinogens — they cause cancer. Period. …
Dermatology leaders — unable to convince people to stop tanning by overstating the risks associated with UV overexposure — should turn to another fear-based tactic: Showing people pictures of wrinkled skin and claiming tanning will lead to severe wrinkling.
Nearly three out of four tanning businesses say media coverage of last July’s International Agency on Research on Cancer report – coverage which erroneously compared UV exposure to cigarette smoking and arsenic – has hurt their business operations. That’s the …
Business Week covered a study this week showing that 70 percent of pregnant women, and thus their soon-to-be-born children, are not getting the vitamin D they need — almost certainly because they don’t get enough sun exposure.
A skin care web site this week pointed out one huge hole in the widely contested suggestion that UV exposure is the cause of melanoma skin cancer: indoor workers get melanoma more often than their outdoor-working counterparts. And a peer-reviewed …
