Consumer Retorts: Tanning Salons
Is fake baking really the best way to get vitamin D?
CONSUMER RETORTS
Tanning Salon Con
Is fake baking really the best way to get your vitamin D?
EXPOSURE TO UV LIGHT can cause skin cancer, but according to the Indoor Tanning Association, it's also "the only way to help the body manufacture the vitamin D it needs." This argument for fake baking has caught on in colder climates: Remember Sarah Palin's personal tanning bed? Technically, the ITA is correct, says Mayo Clinic endocrinologist Kurt Kennell: Soaking up UV rays is the only way to get your body to convert cholesterol into vitamin D. But popping 30 nanograms of the vitamin in the form of daily supplements also gives you all you need cheaply and with no risk of cancer, says Kennell. But the ITA makes it sound like a chore: "One would have to consume ten glasses of fortified juices or milk every day of the year," its website states. Asked why the ITA insists that tanning is the only way to make Vitamin D, spokeswoman Sarah Longwell explains, "If you're a supplement company, you can promote the supplement. But we are the Indoor Tanning Association."—K.B.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Jul. 11, 2009 7:57 PM PDT.
There is no way anyone can get by on 30 iu of vit D supplement a day. I am on 2000iu/day and am still clinically deficient. 20 minutes of full sun gives you the equivalent of 20,000 iu. The RDA is 400 IU/day and that was set decades before the most recent studies.
This post is uninformed and wrong. Recent studies link D deficiency to a host of diseases; various cancers, diabetes, heart disease, depression, calcium problems, etc.
If you live north of Atlanta, work inside and are not regularly in the sun between 10 am and 3 pm, you should be checked. If you are dark skinned you should be checked.
And yes, tanning with 5% UVB at sub tanning levels is beneficial and prevents way more disease than it causes. Melanoma is caused by severe burns you had years before. Basal and squamous skin cancer is easy to treat.
Thanks Mother Jones for your "anti-corporate" expose, but you don't know squat about the medical facts.
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Submitted by William G (not verified) on Fri Jul. 24, 2009 11:58 AM PDT.
Good lord this Mother Jones e-mail updates are becoming worthless. 30iu of Vitamin D? Do you guys know anything about health. And unfortunately, the tanning beds use primarily UVA, which does not make nearly the vitamin D as UVB.
While UVB rays account for the health benefits of sunshine, tanning salons are more interested in UVA rays. This is because overexposure to UVB rays, which affect the surface layers of skin, quickly causes sunburns. On the other hand, UVA rays are responsible for the golden-brown tan sought after by most salon patrons. As a result, most tanning salons calibrate their tanning beds to emit approximately 95 percent UVA rays. This calibration maximizes the tanning effects of the machine and minimizes the risk of burning. Unfortunately, it also minimizes the amount of vitamin D that can be metabolized relative to the exposure to damaging ultraviolet rays.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Jul. 24, 2009 5:22 PM PDT.
"And yes, tanning with 5% UVB at sub tanning levels is beneficial and prevents way more disease than it causes. Melanoma is caused by severe burns you had years before. Basal and squamous skin cancer is easy to treat.....you don't know squat about the medical facts."
I'm afraid you don't know squat. I am a dermatology nurse and have seen my share of skin cancers. To say that basal and squamous skin cancers are easy to treat just proves how uninformed you are. Just ask anyone who has had their face disfigured from surgery for basal cell or squamous cell cancer how easy their treatment was. Ask anyone who watched a relative or friend die from metastatic squamous cell cancer how simple it was to treat them. Melanoma has many causative factors. To say it is caused only by burns when you are young is simply wrong. That does increase your risk of developing melanoma later in life but there is no one cause of melanoma. One of the most significant factors in the development of melanoma is the damage done to DNA by UVA. It disrupts the DNA and triggers cancer growth. Heredity also plays a role in melanoma development. Statistics show that melanoma has increased among adolescents who use tanning booths regularly. Vitamin D can be obtained by having minimal sunlight exposure and is also easily supplemented. You do not need a tanning bed to get your RDA.
Instead of preaching propaganda you may want to do your research. You say you are clinically deficient. You may be but I don't think it's a vitamin deficiency.
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Submitted by Travis on Thu Jul. 30, 2009 11:56 PM PDT.
Both tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation have been placed into the highest cancer risk category, right up there with smoking ciggies and eating lead paint flakes for breakfast. The study found that people who start tanning in the beds before the age of 30 increase their risk of melanoma by 75%. Melanoma takes some big installment loans to treat (thousands), and removing cancerous lesions leaves prominent scars, so think before you jump in tanning beds. Also found was that every type of ultraviolet radiation caused mutations in mice. Previously it was thought that only ultraviolet B rays (UVB) were harmful. UVB rays are what the typical conventional bed consists of. Then they came out with the medium and
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previous commenter is correct. I take 4000 iu of vit d daily. you will not get that eating your daily diet, in fact it is not really a vitamin but a peptide that makes hormone. One only gets it from sunlight in healthy doses. doctors recommend tanning in the winter very regularly. Just remember too much of anything is toxic.
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