{"id":5047,"date":"2010-12-06T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/tanned-women-live-longer-study-says\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T08:00:49","slug":"tanned-women-live-longer-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tanned-women-live-longer-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanned Women Live Longer, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 a finding that flies in the face of dermatology\u2019s overstatement of the risks of UV overexposure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our studies show that women with active sunbathing habits live longer,\u2019 Dr. Hakan Olsson of Lund University in Sweden, told the London Daily Mail in an article published Dec. 4. Olsson told the Daily Mail the benefits of exposure to sunlight \u201cfar outweigh\u201d the danger of skin cancer.<a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Tansenior.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5050\" title=\"Tansenior\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Tansenior.png\" alt=\"Tansenior\" width=\"280\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Mail, \u201cProfessor Olsson also suggested that skin cancer was not caused by sunbathing alone.\u201d The article quotes Olsson on this subject as saying, \u2018I and many others believe that there may be factors other than the sun that influence the risk of malignant melanoma. The burning of the skin in the sun is not enough to explain this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the Daily Mail story<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1335364\/Tanned-women-live-longer-say-scientists-Lund-University-Sweden.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 a finding that flies in the face of dermatology\u2019s overstatement of the risks of UV overexposure. \u2018Our studies show that women with active sunbathing habits live longer,\u2019 Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tanned Women Live Longer, Study Says - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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 \u2014 a finding that flies in the face of dermatology\u2019s overstatement of the risks of UV overexposure. \u2018Our studies show that women with active sunbathing habits live longer,\u2019 Dr. Hakan Olsson of Lund University in Sweden, told the London Daily Mail in an article published Dec. 4. Olsson told the Daily Mail the benefits of exposure to sunlight \u201cfar outweigh\u201d the danger of skin cancer. According to The Daily Mail, \u201cProfessor Olsson also suggested that skin cancer was not caused by sunbathing alone.\u201d The article quotes Olsson on this subject as saying, \u2018I and many others believe that there may be factors other than the sun that influence the risk of malignant melanoma. 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