Is tanning really that bad for you???

[Joe Stenson]

hate to call bullshit on a good bro, but i fucking dare you to stare at the sun in the middle of the day with your naked eye for even 30 fucking seconds !!
you will fuck yourself up !!!!

I don't hate to call BS on someone calling me stupid. I fully agree.

The bigger question is why someone would stare at the sun OR the light in a tanning bed. Saying that one is worse than the other proves nothing when a logical person wouldn't be doing either in the first place.

 

[Guvna]

Is tanning really all that bad for you? Actually no. A society of tanning bed owners recently funded a study on the subject

riiight

and it was found that being deprived of UV rays causes cancer, and is especially good at causing cancers that are much, much deadlier than skin cancer. As a matter of fact, can you think of a single person right off hand who has died of skin cancer?

girlfriend's aunt. and pretty much every older person I know that has sunned even a a little bit has had some tpe of skin cancer removed.

I have known people who have died of lung cancer, colon cancer, and so forth, but skin cancer? No, because skin cancer is usually pretty easy to remove.
In the aforementioned study, of which I only know vague details, a lot of anecdotal evidence was used. For instance, various cancers have a low occurrence around the equator, and I think skin cancer is actually included in that group. In areas that don't get much sunlight, like Norway, there is much more cancer in general.

ever think that is becuase of the different ethic and genetic backgrounds? Almost everyone in norway is white as a ghost, and they have generally not gotten much sun for the last umpteeth thousand years. They are NOT made for sunlight. So, the little light they do get (and now the ones that tan) do not have the genes for it, and have not been darwined off from getting cancer (because of not enough sun in the first place).

Then you have people near the equator, all dark skinned, and all of their ancestors have had copius amounts of sunlight. The people who were predisposed to get cancer from too much sun, or those that deveoped it died off. Darwin. Those that are here now are genetically gifted to NOT develop cancer form sunlight AND they are darkskinned.

 

[zZzStarGazer]

i see you dumbasses walk though the doors everyday at the tanning salon I manage.... yes it will cause skin cancer and premature aging...

Someone like you manages a tanning salon?
No wonder I do so well. I would fire someone like you ruthlessly.

 

[Bruce]

no shit man, the people at mine won't let you use the silver bullet bed which is the most powerful, two days in a row, they actually care. it does depend on the bed, the old ones are just as bad as bakin in the sun, the newer beds are not dangerous period. only if you are bu

 

[Campeon Del Mundo]

if tanning caused cancer then all the construction workers and farmers would be dead.

 

[krishna]

if tanning caused cancer then all the construction workers and farmers would be dead.

That's because it's natural sunlight. It's people who use tanning beds which lowers their skin's immunity and ability to heal itself, and then go out in the sun who have the majority of the problems.

 

[Whacked]

4 pages and NO ONE'S figured it out yet???

LMFAO

A pizza here and there
Drink a beer once in awhile
Eat a doughnut once a month when you get the urge
Run a mild/moderate cycle -- take breaks / use supps
5-10 miles over the speed limit aint that bad
Get fucked up once a year if you need to
LIVE LIFE PEOPLE!!!!

Like everything else in life -- MODERATION IS KEY!! Do anything and everything what you want ---just don't over do it! Or be prepared to suffer the consequences. Life's all about BALANCE.

Geez!

 

[glennds]

4 pages and NO ONE'S figured it out yet???

Like everything else in life -- MODERATION IS KEY!! Do anything and everything what you want ---just don't over do it! Or be prepared to suffer the consequences. Life's all about BALANCE.

Geez!

thanks whacked, for straightening this out for the rest of us!

 

[will b huge]

ONCE AGAIN FELLAS---

That ENTIRELY depends on the type of bed you use....I only use Ultra Bronz Super High Pressure....It completely splits up the UVB and UVA rays completing eliminating the bad harmful one that produces all harmful UV Rays.....Therefore, also, almost making it impossible to burn...simply darken.....GREAT BED--very pricey though!!!

IF YOU ELIMINATE THE BAD RAYS (CANCER CAUSING)----IT IS FINE....WHAT TECHNOLOGY YOU GUYS HAVE WHERE YOUR AT ANYWAYS------

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[FlexManning]

Even if you were trying to flame me you're just flaming yourself. Did you read the links I posted by reputable medical communities? I've posted legitimate evidence. Where's yours?

Yeah, I love your "evidence". Editorials written by doctors. Throughout every link, "some experts suspect" "tanning beds possibly could" "could even" and so forth.

What you're talking about is proof positive of EXACTLY what I'm saying. All this talk yet there isn't a single study in existence which proves it yet the medical community yaps about this stuff constantly. Every link you posted- I read each one- is an editorial which cites theories. Too, each assumes that the given health professionals have an indepth knowledge of different wavelenghts of ultraviolet radiation and the degree to which they are able to penetrate skin.

Each year various theories that sound good on paper are called into question by newer studies such as the idea that calcium intake causes kidney stones, or the premise that cutting down on sodium is the most important factor in regulating hypertension, or that protein intake causes kidney damage and so forth.

I don't think anybody is surprised that 3 given doctors would express their belief that tanning beds are bad for you. In fact, it will probably take at least 5 years before anywhere close to half of doctors will begin admitting that moderate exposure to any type of UV rays can be healthy. We could also probably track down hundreds of doctors who will swear that steroid use causes penis shrinkage. Easier still we could find dermatologists who feel sunscreen should be worn 24 hours a day, even indoors and in winter.

Notice also that any discussion of outdoor activities or tanning lead by a health professional constantly emphasises cancer, cancer, cancer. That's a powerful word to throw around, especially when the majority of the public doesn't realize that with any effort at all put into early detection skin cancer is very, very rarely fatal.

Again, I'm not saying the more is better approach is warranted. I'm simply saying- in a forum where we generally try to be frank and take certain statements from the medical community with a grain of salt- that several aspects of this subject are exaggerated.