{"id":561,"date":"2008-03-26T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T08:00:45","slug":"some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.jpg\" title=\"2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px\" alt=\"2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>\u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, &#8220;Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We&#8217;re Told About Food and Health&#8221; Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body&#8217;s natural protection against sunburn &#8211; a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment&#8217;s rhetoric. &#8220;Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical &#8216;advice&#8217;, which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,&#8221; Shuster writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book &#8220;The UV Advantage&#8221; in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body&#8217;s natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world&#8217;s leading authority on vitamin D production. &#8220;Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,&#8221; Holick says.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after publishing &#8220;The UV Advantage&#8221; in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light &#8220;schlock science.&#8221; Since that time all of Holick&#8217;s work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan&#8217;s consumer web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TanningTruth.com\">www.TanningTruth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent:<\/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-561","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>Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, &quot;Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We&#039;re Told About Food and Health&quot; Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body&#039;s natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment&#039;s rhetoric. &quot;Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical &#039;advice&#039;, which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,&quot; Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book &quot;The UV Advantage&quot; in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body&#039;s natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world&#039;s leading authority on vitamin D production. &quot;Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,&quot; Holick says. Shortly after publishing &quot;The UV Advantage&quot; in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light &quot;schlock science.&quot; Since that time all of Holick&#039;s work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan&#039;s consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, &quot;Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We&#039;re Told About Food and Health&quot; Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body&#039;s natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment&#039;s rhetoric. &quot;Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical &#039;advice&#039;, which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,&quot; Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book &quot;The UV Advantage&quot; in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body&#039;s natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world&#039;s leading authority on vitamin D production. &quot;Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,&quot; Holick says. Shortly after publishing &quot;The UV Advantage&quot; in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light &quot;schlock science.&quot; Since that time all of Holick&#039;s work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan&#039;s consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"smarttan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"smarttan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"smarttan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b\"},\"headline\":\"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":336,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\",\"name\":\"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, \\\"Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health\\\" Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body's natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment's rhetoric. \\\"Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical 'advice', which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,\\\" Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book \\\"The UV Advantage\\\" in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body's natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world's leading authority on vitamin D production. \\\"Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,\\\" Holick says. Shortly after publishing \\\"The UV Advantage\\\" in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light \\\"schlock science.\\\" Since that time all of Holick's work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan's consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\",\"name\":\"Smart Tan News\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Smart Tan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"Smart Tan\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b\",\"name\":\"smarttan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"smarttan\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News","description":"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, \"Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health\" Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body's natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment's rhetoric. \"Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical 'advice', which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,\" Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body's natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world's leading authority on vitamin D production. \"Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,\" Holick says. Shortly after publishing \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light \"schlock science.\" Since that time all of Holick's work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan's consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News","og_description":"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, \"Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health\" Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body's natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment's rhetoric. \"Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical 'advice', which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,\" Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body's natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world's leading authority on vitamin D production. \"Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,\" Holick says. Shortly after publishing \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light \"schlock science.\" Since that time all of Holick's work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan's consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.","og_url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/","og_site_name":"Smart Tan News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","article_published_time":"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"smarttan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartTan","twitter_site":"@SmartTan","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"smarttan","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/"},"author":{"name":"smarttan","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b"},"headline":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning","datePublished":"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/"},"wordCount":336,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/","name":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning - Smart Tan News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg","datePublished":"2008-03-26T08:00:45+00:00","description":"While most of the dermatology profession has an inexplicably myopic view about tanning, many enlightened dermatologists have broken ranks with their peers in recent years, urging their profession to re-think its one-sided dogma about sun exposure. Two of the most recent: \u2022 Research dermatologist Dr. Sam Shuster, professor emeritus to the Department of Dermatology at Newcastle University in northern England, challenged his peers to quantify the alleged increase in skin cancer incidence, which is not based on actual numbers but only estimates. In the book, \"Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health\" Shuster calls his peers to acknowledge that a tan is the body's natural protection against sunburn - a reality that has been all but stampeded under the establishment's rhetoric. \"Unfortunately our attitude to sun and ultra-violet (UV) light is subject to much perverse and dubious technical 'advice', which society has passively accepted without questioning its provenance,\" Shuster writes. \u2022 Boston University Professor of Dermatology Dr. Michael Holick \u2013 the scientist who discovered the active form of vitamin D in the early 1970s \u2013 wrote the book \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004, urging people to embrace moderate exposure to ultraviolet light as the body's natural way to produce vitamin D. Holick is widely considered the world's leading authority on vitamin D production. \"Since some exposure to sunlight is beneficial to your health, it is reasonable that if you wish to be exposed to sunlight, that you can do so with relative safety if you make sure that you do not receive a sunburn,\" Holick says. Shortly after publishing \"The UV Advantage\" in 2004 Holick was asked to resign his dermatology professorship at Boston University by department chair Dr. Barbara Gilchrest, who called his assertions about the positive effects of UV light \"schlock science.\" Since that time all of Holick's work has been supported by hundreds of independent studies conducted by the vitamin D research community. Read more from Shuster and Holick by visiting Smart Tan's consumer web site, www.TanningTruth.com.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2008-03-25-breaking-ranks-tanningnews-copy.thumbnail.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/some-dermatologists-are-preaching-smart-tanning-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Some Dermatologists Are Preaching Smart Tanning"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}