Positive side to indoor tans

This article is concerning the story on July 30 about the study that claims "tanning beds cause cancer.” The Yuma Sun shows only the negative side and how bad tanning is for you. What about all the studies that say that tanning is good for you in moderation?

It’s pretty funny how every year in the summer, the news or the paper in Yuma does a story about the sun and never says anything good about what the sun does for you.

Did you know tanning in a professional facility today minimizes risk because the government regulates indoor tanning in the United States and Canada. In the United States, exposure times for every tanning session are established by a schedule present on every piece of equipment that takes into account the tanner’s skin type and the intensity of the equipment to deliver a dosage of sunlight designed to minimize the risk of sunburn.

The schedule, as regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health, also takes into account how long an individual has been tanning, increasing exposure times gradually to minimize the possibility of burning.

Professional indoor tanning facilities today are in the business of providing cosmetic tans. However, tanning lamps that emit some UVB light, and most of them do, have been shown by peer-reviewed research to stimulate vitamin D production in the skin and elevate blood levels of vitamin D in the body.

While it may not be necessary to develop a tan to produce sufficient amounts of vitamin D, and while dietary supplements are an alternative, sun exposure is the body’s natural way to produce vitamin D and indoor tanning clients have 90 percent higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners.

I’m not trying to say that tanning is great for you, but there are many pros to tanning especially indoor tanning.

For more information, go to smarttan.com and you can read much more on this subject.

JUSTIN HAILE

Yuma