1.0Smart Tan Newshttps://news.smarttan.comrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="GoTD7qJ4VQ"><a href="https://news.smarttan.com/index.php/tanning-better-than-not-tanning-story/">Tanning Better Than Not Tanning: Story</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://news.smarttan.com/index.php/tanning-better-than-not-tanning-story/embed/#?secret=GoTD7qJ4VQ" width="600" height="338" title="“Tanning Better Than Not Tanning: Story” — Smart Tan News" data-secret="GoTD7qJ4VQ" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://news.smarttan.com/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> The benefits humans get from suntans far outweigh the risks of overdoing it, an astronomer whose life work has been studying the sun wrote last week in a column that’s getting lots of attention. Bob Berman — an American astronomer described as a “science populizer” for writing books such as “The Sun’s Heartbeat: An Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet” — wrote last week that the advent of mass-sunscreen sales has spawned an unnatural generation that is just now waking up to the fact that sun avoidance kills. According to Berman, when humans started wearing sunscreen 365/24 in the past generation, “The metamorphosis was complete: we had become like the Morlocks in H. G. Wells's book The Time Machine, shielded almost totally from sunlight's UV.” Berman’s column — which appeared in high-tech blog Gizmodo.com — quoted vitamin D guru Dr. John Cannell extensively. Cannell will be part of the scientific symposium being conducted as a pre-convention function at Smart Tan Downtown, Oct. 14 in Downtown Nashville. To read Berman’s column, click here. To learn more about Smart Tan Downtown, click here.https://smarttan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2011-07-25-Tanning-Better-Than-Not-Tanning-copy.jpg