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By on October 16, 2011 in Tanning - all

uv tanning tips tanningsalon10 UV Tanning tips for your next visit to a tanning salon.

A while ago I was asked to write an article about UV tanning tips for the new Directory of Tanning Salons in USA.

They liked the article and asked me to publish it also in EZineArticles.com. That is why I can also re-publish it here on The TanningGurus Blog and make the translations to a couple of other languages.

Indoor UV tanning can be wonderful and beneficial if you know how to do it correctly.

Here are 10 UV tanning tips that will help you to get the most out of your visit to a tanning salon.

UV tanning tip 1: Select your salon. Believe it or not, but UV tanning can be one of the best skin-care and overall health beneficial activities you can provide for your body. You just have to get the right individual advice of how to do it correctly. Even if you follow all tips on this page, you will need professional advice at the tanning salon of your choice. Therefore, select to visit salons that have trained staff that can give you individual advice. Cleanness, modernity of equipment, the changing of lamps at regular intervals and the general atmosphere, are also important features when you make your choice of salon.

UV tanning tip 2: Know your skin type. To know your skin-type is very important for a good result and safe tanning. The amount of melanin in your skin, together with your goal for your tanning, will determine your tanning program and which kind of tanning lotions you should use. If you are skin-type 2, you will need to build up more melanin in order to develop a deeper tan. If you are skin-type 3 or 4, you might just want to darken you existing melanin with UVA-rays (but remember, this will not give you any Vitamin D).

UV tanning tip 3: Decide your tanning goals. Do you want the darkest possible color, or do you want a combination of Vitamin D and a healthy glow? Maybe you want to prepare your skin for a sunny vacation? Tell your tanning goals to the staff in the salon so they can give you suitable advice.

UV tanning tip 4: Which kind of UV-rays? Find a tanning salon with tanning beds (and staff) that can meet your goals. Remember that UVA-rays from high-pressure lamps only oxidize the existing melanin in your skin and do not produce any Vitamin D or build up any additional melanin in order to prepare the skin for further tanning. UVB-rays from low-pressure lamps, on the other hand, make the body produce both Vitamin D and more melanin. The amount of UVB in low-pressure lamps can vary. Look for a tanning bed with at least 3% UVB (in relation to UVA) for best result in shortest time. The staff in the salon should be able to guide you.

UV tanning tip 5: Do NOT burn your skin! Always stay on the safe side of burning your skin when tanning in a tanning bed (this goes of course also for tanning under the open sun). Even if you want to get as dark as possible, do not take any risks with too long tanning sessions in too strong tanning beds. You must let your skin get used to tanning slowly. Use the UVB rays to build up more melanin and use tanning lotions with bronzers and other active tan- and skin- care ingredients to help your skin stay young and healthy also after many years of tanning. Follow a tanning schedule advised by the staff in the tanning salon, and you should be fine.

UV tanning tip 6: Always use tanning lotions! Always use tanning lotions specially made for indoor tanning in tanning beds. The role of such lotions is to keep you skin well moisturized, provide anti-oxidation and rejuvenation as well as add bronzing tan-enhancers. Good indoor tanning lotions should have a rich moisturizing base (preferably Aloe vera or coconut milk), a fair amount of other active skin-caring ingredients (preferably with silicone to lock them and the moisture into the skin) and bronzers to assist the tanning process. There are three different kinds of bronzers, each with a specific task:

  1. Natural bronzers (with Tyrosine) to speed up the natural production of melanin.
  2. Delayed bronzers (with DHA and/or Erythrulose) that oxidize existing melanin.
  3. Cosmetic coloring bronzers that dye your skin more brown (just like coloring your hair).

Delayed bronzers and cosmetic coloring bronzers work also without UV-light and are therefore common in self-tanning lotions.

Tingle lotions can be used carefully in order to provide more oxygen to the tanning process.

Remember – having a smooth, healthy and well moisturized skin that absorbs the UV-light, can make your session double as effective than when having a dry and wrinkled skin that reflects the UV-rays. Always buy your lotion in your tanning salon. Only then can you be sure of the quality and get professional advice on how to find and use the right lotion for your skin-type and goals.

UV tanning tip 7: Protect your eyes! Always use special goggles during your tanning session. Just closing the eyes will not prevent the UV-rays from harming your eye-sight. The goggles must have a broad-spectrum protection towards both UVA and UVB. Even if you believe that the staff in your tanning salon follows the highest hygienic standards for the goggles they provide, it is better to buy your own, personal, goggles in your salon. Ordinary sun-glasses are not suitable for indoor tanning in tanning beds.

UV tanning tip 8: When to shower? It is better to take a shower before your sunbed session than directly after. The reason for this is that when you apply the tanning lotion, your skin should be as clean as possible. Furthermore, if you use lotions with delayed and/or cosmetic coloring bronzers, they need to stay on the skin for at least four hours in order to give the optimal benefits.

UV tanning tip 9: Horizontal or vertical? This is mainly a matter of taste. Many prefer horizontal beds because you can relax better during the tanning session. Others prefer vertical tanning units because you can move around in order to increase the blood-circulation for a more even color without white pressure marks. The choice is yours (if your salon offers the alternatives).

UV tanning tip 10: Respect your fellow tanners. Be quick and efficient in the tanning booth before and after your session. (But don’t stress since tanning should be a relaxing experience). Make it easy for the tanning salon staff to clean after you by picking up and dispose of any paper, empty tanning lotions packets etc.

Please be aware of that the tips above are valid for you only if you are in normal condition. In case you are suffering from any medical problems, you better first consult your doctor before using indoor UV-tanning.

Hopefully you found the tips for indoor UV tanning useful and, if so, please share them with your friends.

This article is provided by Goran Olsson as a contribution to the unique directory of tanning salons in USA.

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How Tanning Can Make You Healthy?

By on July 22, 2011 in Tanning - all

TanningCan tanning really make you healthy?

Today there are two totally opposite opinions among people about tanning:

  1. Tanning is dangerous because you can get skin-cancer from it; and

  2. Tanning is healthy because it will give you Vitamin D

The fact is that both opinions above about tanning are right but the second is more right than the first.

Like with almost all good and healthy treats, having too much tanning can be negative. Consuming any vitamin, medicine, healthy food or food supplement, in small doses are good for your health, however taking too much can give you serious side-effects.

To determine the correct amount you can safely take of a food-supplement or medicine is difficult because it varies from person to person depending on many different individual circumstances. To regulate your tanning is easier; the most important factor is to be sure to stay well clear from burning your skin.

That is also one of the reasons why tanning is the preferred way to raise your level of Vitamin D. Tanning is also the only natural way for your body to absorb Vitamin D. If Vitamin D was meant to take by swallowing it, Vitamin D would have been present in a mother’s milk. Since all other nourishment needed for a newborn are present in a mother’s milk, except Vitamin D, it gives us a hint of how nature wants us to get it in another way, namely by tanning.

During the last five years, modern medical science has confirmed what our ancestors always knew – sunshine and tanning are necessary for human life. Modern science has also identified Vitamin D as one of the hormones responsible for the healing process that is trigged by sunlight. Exposing your naked skin to UVB rays (270 – 315/320 nanometers wavelength, with the Vitamin D creation peaking at 297 nm), is the most natural and safest way for your body to start its own production of Vitamin D. It is not necessary and likely not 100% safe, to take Vitamin D as food supplement or to drink huge amounts of fortified milk. Tanning is the best solution to get Vitamin D.

So now maybe you are convinced to get healthy by raising your Vitamin D level by tanning, you just have to find the all-important UVB-rays.

If it is summertime or perhaps if you live close to the equator, this will be easy. During the rest of the year, it is more difficult. The farther from the equator you are, the more problematic it is to find UVB in nature. The sun has to be at an angle of 50 degrees above the horizon for the short UVB rays to reach the earth and the sky must be clear and free from pollution.

The Vitamin D you managed to get by tanning in the right way during the summer will disappear at the same pace as your skin loses its tanned color. My own experience is that it takes about six weeks without tanning for my level of Vitamin D to go from very high to insufficient.

There is also a way to stay healthy during the “flu-season”, by visiting a tanning salon. The tanning lamp emitting UVB (together with UVA), is probably the most important health-improving invention during the last 50 years. It is an invention well worth a Nobel Prize.

Unfortunately and for reasons described in several other articles and posts on my blog, indoor tanning has become the main target for the “sun-scare” lobby. A few person’s obsession to get as dark as possible by abusing the means of indoor tanning, is motivating a fierce anti-tanning campaign. The fact is, however, that regular and moderate indoor tanning is probably the best way to stay healthy during the time when UVB cannot be found in nature.

A regular tanning regime is good for your health, but you have to help your skin to stay smooth and healthy in order for the tanning sessions to work. Using dedicated tanning lotions (without SPF) of good quality, preferably based on Aloe Vera, will keep your skin young and smooth while tanning in moderation.

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MANCHESTER UNITED stars have regular sunbed sessions

By on February 4, 2011 in Tanning - all

Manchester United stars are tanning for Vitamin D

The Sun reports:

MANCHESTER UNITED stars are having regular sunbed sessions at the club’s training ground.

But the Red Devils won’t be coming out of them with a healthy glow – just plenty of vitamin D.
The club’s masseur, GARRY ARMER, said: “The tubes have been altered slightly, so it is purely for vitamin D.”
“The players go in for four or five minutes after training, about three times a week.”
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A regular intake of vitamin D helps maintain well-being and fitness – something RYAN GIGGS, a United veteran of more than 850 games, knows all about.
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My comment:
Just wonder what they mean with “The tubes have been altered slightly, so it is purely for Vitamin D”?
There are no tubes today, except experimental and for some medical purposes, that are emitting only UVB.
Such tubes would be too difficult to operate safely in a regular tanning bed.
Probably they mean that the tubes used by Manchester United have a higher percentage of UVB (in relation to UVA) than what is normally the case within the European rule (erythemal-weighted irradiance not exceeding 0.3 W/m2).
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The Vitamin D Solution

By on October 25, 2010 in Books, Tanning - all, Vitamin-D

New book from Dr. Michael Holick
The Vitamin D Solution
The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem

<<<< Click on the image or on the link above to buy the book from Amazon

Dr.Michael Holick is a dermatologist and the world’s leading authority on Vitamin D.  In this his latest book, he describes the result from more than 30 years of research into the secrets of how the human body is using UV-light to protect us from most diseases.

Since this is a blog about tanning (there are many other sources on Internet for Vitamin D), I have extracted in this post what Dr. Holick writes about using UVB from tanning-beds for boosting our Vitamin D levels when UV light from the natural sun is not available (which is most of the time for many of us).  This is Step 1 in his 3-Step Strategy and Chapter 8 in the book.  In Chapter 1-7, he gives all the proof needed in order to understand why we need moderate and regular exposure to UV-light all the year round.

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Dutch Cancer Council new sunlight recommendations

By on September 21, 2010 in Tanning - all

For many years the Dutch Cancer Council, just like most of their peers in other countries, was recommending people to stay away from tanning under the midday sun and always protect the skin with sun-blocking lotions.

They were all misled by inflated statistics over melanoma-diagnoses handed to them by dermatologists employed by large cosmetic companies. (see my post “their-task-is-to-improve-our-health-–-but-how-can-we-trust-them-after-this“)

Those producers of chemical sunscreen lotions, the largest of them being the French L’Oreal, saw their sales sky-rocket in the same pace as their “tame” dermatologists manged to scare more and more people with flawed melanoma-statistics.

Fortunately for mankind, at least in the Netherlands, some members of the Dutch Cancer Council, seem to have a broader view than those who have focused only on skin-cancer.

Their previous advice of avoiding the midday sun and always using sunscreen has resulted in more and more people being deficient in Vitamin-D.  This has created a sharp increase in all cancer-cases.

The new advice, to expose arms, hands and face to sunlight 15-30 minutes everyday before 3 PM, is based on the fact that UVB-rays from the sun then can reach the skin and produce Vitamin-D in the most natural way.  That is at least the theory behind the advice.

In practice we also have to take into account when during the day and during the year it is possible for UBV-rays from the sun to reach the earth.

There are mainly two criteria that decides that possibility:

  • The ozone-layer, which reflects the UVB-rays if they are coming in from the sun below 50 degrees above the horizon.
  • If there are any obstacles like clouds and/or pollution in their way.

The video below demonstrates how to calculate the first criteria, the angle of the sun above the horizon.

The result of the calculation shows that if you are in Amsterdam, you can get UVB from the sun only in the period from April 25th until August 20th.   In the middle of the summer (June 25th), the angle of the sun above the horizon is higher than 50 degrees between 10:20 AM and 3 PM and the closer towards the start and finish dates of the “UVB-season”, the shorter time each day.

Other places with approximately the same time-schedule as Amsterdam (i.e. approximately the same latitude) are: Berlin, Warsaw, Minsk and, in Russia, Lipetsk, Irkutsk and Chita.

The rest of the year, from August 20th until April 25th, the Dutch population, as well as everyone else, can get the cancer-risk-reducing benefits from the Cancer Council’s new recommendations only by tanning in a solarium.

So don’t listen to the false advice from those working for the producers of sun-protection lotions.  Go and get some Vitamin-D where you can find it.  Just be sure not to over-dose (not to burn your skin).  If you follow my advice in the previous post “Do You Know How To Tan?“, you can get all the benefits from tanning and none of the disadvantages.

Watch the video in order to find out how you can calculate the time of the “UVB-season” at your place.

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Their task is to improve our health – but how can we trust them after this?

By on July 31, 2010 in Regulations, Tanning - all

WHO against healthy tanningAren’t they supposed to give healthy advice about tanning?

According to their Home-page on Internet, “WHO [World Health Organization] is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.”

Yet recently we have seen one clear example, and further down you will see another one, of how WHO’s recommendations might not be based on what is best for the health of the world’s population but rather on what is best for some pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies.

The “Swine Flu pandemic”.

A new report, published in British Medical Journal, reveals that the top scientists, who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a global pandemic, held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.

The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, who is preparing their own report on WHO’s “Swine Flu” recommendations, is criticizing WHO, saying: “Parliamentary Assembly is alarmed about the way in which the H1N1 influenza pandemic has been handled, not only by the World Health Organization (WHO), but also by the competent health authorities at the level of the European Union and at national level.” It went on to explain that WHO’s actions led to “a waste of large sums of public money, and also unjustified scares and fears about health risks faced by the European public at large.”

Now, let’s connect those strong indications of non-transparent habits in WHO, with their recent (Fact sheet N°287 Interim revision April 2010 “Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure”) recommendations for use of tanning beds.

A family’s dirty laundry is being washed (at least partly) for the public.

The developing scandal around the L’Oreal family fortune where the dirty laundry of the world’s largest cosmetic company is being washed publicly in courts in France has proved that L’Oreal is no stranger to the habit of “influencing” officials to do their biddings.  And I am going to, if not prove, at least give some very clear evidence of their possibility to “assist” WHO in their work while creating a multi-billion dollar market for L’Oreal’s (and all their other cosmetic brand’s) sun-protection lotions.

The three groups that provide reports and statistics

The successful “black” campaign against tanning (indoors in solarium as well as outdoors under the open sun) is powered by reports from mainly three groups – the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) organized under WHO, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and European Society for Skin Cancer Prevention (EUROSKIN).

So let’s look a little bit closer on each of those organizations and from where their leading participants get their funding.

The numbers behind the names refers to the numbers in the picture below.

As presented in my previous post “The most successful “black marketing” campaign in the world?”, L’Oreal Recherché was funding the “research” made by Adéle Green1), Chairman of IARC at the time (2006) when their report about tanning beds classification as ”carcinogenic to humans” was presented.

A quick Google-search shows that J.P. Césarini2), one of the scientific chairmen of ICNIRP, is affiliated with “Fondation De Rothschild” whose director,  Jean-Pierre Meyers3), also happens to be the Vice-President of L’Oreal and married to Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers4), the daughter of “the richest woman in France”, Liliane Bettencourt5), “Madame L’Oreal” herself.   Césarini is by the way also connected to INSERM (see below) through his research at “Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Tumeurs de la Peau Humaine”.

Just to make things worse, the ex. president-founder and now chairman emeritus of ICNIRP, Michael Repacholi6) from Australia, has a reputation from his work for WHO on EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) from radio-transmitters, as being a consultant doing the liaison between commercial interests and WHO (http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/puzmud.htm)

Some additional “googling” reveals that the third organization mentioned in WHO’s recommendations, EUROSKIN, based in Germany, is founded (and funded) by a huge organization in France covering almost every aspect of French medicine – INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherché médicale).  This sounds innocent enough until we see that one of the sponsors (and probably not the smallest!) of INSERM is “Foundation Bettencourt Schueller” the private foundation of Liliane Bettencourt in which Jean-Pierre Meyers also is a director.  The first Chairman in EUROSKIN, Jean François Doré7), came from the INSERM headquarters in Lyon and the new chairman, Mathieu Boniol8 ), also from INSERM, is the statistician contributing the statistical data behind IARC’s flawed report from last year.

Common for all reports is, in addition to the witch-hunt on tanners but not surprisingly when taking into account that the authors were paid by L’Oreal, the blatant promotion of sun-protection lotions.

So we have now two striking examples on how an organization like WHO can be used as a vehicle for commercial interests that goes in opposite direction of what is WHO’s (declared) purpose.

Most Governments are like sheep (or with no own expertize – or just being lazy), but a couple stands out against the crowd.

And most governments are following the recommendations from WHO like sheep in a herd without applying their own basic research or even common sense to their decisions.

According to my knowledge only two governments in Europe have had the civil courage to speak up against WHO.

I am thinking about the Polish Minister of Health that managed to save billions of Polish tax-payers money by preventing Poland from buying the “swine-flu” vaccine recommended by WHO.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhZesZe33cw

And the second case is the Dutch government that opposed the WHO recommendation on tanning beds (see my earlier post “THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD OF THE DUTCH HEALTH COUNCIL CRITICIZES THE INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER (IARC)” (http://thetanningguru.com/dutch-health-council-criticizes-iarc )

All reports and WHO recommendation are based on old information and new research is not taken into account

Just like the IARC-report from July 2009, all references in the ICNIRP-report from 2003 are from research-reports from before year 2000 (actually most of the references are the same!).  Nothing is said about the tremendous amount of research made during the last ten years showing that the benefits from UVB-radiation outweigh the risks up to a factor thousand to one, or even more according to some experts.

The few sentences in the WHO recommendation that refers to the health benefits of tanning are so far from anything else presented in recent reports, so it would be ridiculously funny if the matter wasn’t that serious.

For example:

“While sunbed use may increase vitamin D synthesis, predominantly from the UVB component, for the majority of the population, incidental exposure to the sun, combined with normal dietary intake of vitamin D, provides adequate vitamin D for a healthy body throughout the year. If people require more vitamin D than the sun can provide (for example, because of living in polar regions) this should be supplemented through diet rather than sunbed use.”

This is written in a recommendation to the world’s governments at a time when almost 100% consensus exists about the fact that UVB rays are the only natural and safe way for the body to create Vitamin-D.  The best proof of that Vitamin-D never was intended for oral intake lays probably in mother’s milk that contains all vitamins and other nourishment for a child except Vitamin-D.  Also it has been measured in several researches that UVB-rays reach the earth only a cloudless (and pollution-fee) day while the sun is above a 50⁰ angle above the horizon, and that is definitely not only in “polar regions”.  For more details on this, see my post: http://thetanningguru.com/do-you-know-how-to-tan#more-580

Would you buy a mobile telephone that is made today based on more than 10 year old technology?  Probably not, but most of the world’s governments are doing just the same thing when they adopt laws and regulation based upon WHO’s recent recommendations.

The experts view

Professor Johan Moan, Senior Researcher Radium hospitalet in Oslo, Norway, one of the world’s most recognized experts on the benefits of Vitamin-D, says like this in his letter to the Norwegian health authorities on 12.11.09 (translated from Norwegian)

“Research has changed my view on sun beds. With the knowledge we possessed in the 90s, an age restriction would be reasonable to consider, but with the knowledge we have today, an age restriction seems very unfortunate. Technological development of the sun beds combined with Norwegian rules have made the radiation from them much weaker today than they were during the 90s, and much weaker than many other countries. The danger of getting a sunburn has thus been dramatically reduced. I think the Health Directorate should focus on spreading information to make sure Norwegians show common sense when exposing themselves to the sun. The sun is good for your health in moderate doses, and if you avoid getting a sunburn, then exposure both outdoors and in sun beds will  be good for you, no matter how old you are. One should also take into consideration that the number of people under 40 with malignant skin cancer has gone down since 1990, while the number of people using sun beds has increased.”

Norway has not implemented any age-limit for tanning in solarium and neither has the Netherlands and most other countries in the world.

The picture below describes the possible ways for L’Oreal to influence the process in WHO in order to create and maintain a multi-billion dollar market for sun-protection lotions, a market that hardly existed 20 years ago.

The ways for L’Oreal to influence the recommendations on tanning from WHO in order to make billions on sale of sun-protection and “fake-tan” lotions.

 

Links:

http://www.who.int/about/en/

http://assembly.coe.int/main.asp?Link=/documents/workingdocs/doc10/edoc12283.htm

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jun03_4/c2912

http://www.icnirp.de/commission.htm

http://www.inserm.fr/partenaires

http://www.euroskin.eu/about/board-of-directors/index.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363574/

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=937791&ticker=OR:FP&previousCapId=874249&previousTitle=L’OREAL

http://www.fondation-de-rothschild.fr/spip.php?rubrique1

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Do you know how to tan?

By on February 7, 2010 in Tanning - all

Do you know how to tan in the right way to get all the benefits from time spent basking in the sun?

If you are like most people, you probably believe that you should avoid the midday sun and that you always have to apply a sun-protection (SPF) lotion before and several times during your time under the sun.

Unfortunately, this way of tanning is a guarantee for NOT getting any Vitamin-D benefits at all from the sun and if you read on, I will tell you why this is not the best way to tan.

But first, for those of you who are not interested in why and just want to know the solution, here is the short version of how to optimize your Vitamin-D tanning. Continue Reading →

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DUTCH HEALTH COUNCIL CRITICIZES IARC

By on December 20, 2009 in Tanning - all

The Health Council expresses major reservations concerning the decision recently taken by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to raise the category of UV-radiation and solariums to cancer risk category one and says that the supporting scientific documents provide no basis for this.

The Council states that “sunbathe sensibly and in moderation. As yet, there is no justification for making a distinction between sunbathing and the use of sunbeds” and continues in its letter to the Dutch Ministry which deals with health and consumer protection, that “it is not possible to state with certainty that the use of sunbeds is responsible for an increased incidence of melanomas”.  In the statement the scientists belonging to the high-ranking panel also explain the positive effects of sufficiently supplying the human body with vitamin D pruduced in skin stimulated by UV radiation.

The Dutch Health Council is the Netherland’s most important scientific panel in the domain of health. Its studies, statements, and recommendations often form the basis for legislative proposals.

The letter from the Health Council of the Netherlands can be downloaded HERE

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Book recommendation for tanners: The Healing Sun – Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century by Richard Hobday

By on December 3, 2009 in Articles Archive, Tanning - all, Vitamin-D

Anyone who still have any doubts of the healing and preventing powers of sunlight (inclusive UV-light) should read this book.

Reading this book will give another perspective to the present fanatic campaign against sunlight driven by the World Health Organisation and sponsored by large manufacturers of cosmetics for sun-protection.  It makes you wonder if this organisation really is serving us with the best advice on how to live a healthy life.

Here is an example of pictures from the book:
hobday_fig_12

Here is what it says on the backside:

The human race evolved under the sun, and for thousands of years lived in harmony with its heat and light. Yet over the last fifty years we have lost this close contact with the sun and its healing powers. We have become afraid of it.

However the sun is central to our well being and health. Did you know that:
• designing and building sunlit houses can help prevent disease, make us feel happier and save energy
• sunlight can help prevent and heal many common and often fatal diseases like breast cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis
• before antibiotics, sunlight was used successfully to speed up the healing of wounds
• tanning moderately throughout the year is better than avoiding the sun altogether
• sudden bursts of strong solar radiation are unnatural and dangerous, protection needs to be built up slowly
• early morning sunlight in cool temperatures is particularly beneficial to the body
• sunlit hospital rooms provide a better environment for the treatment of clinically depressed people
• prolonged exposure to artificial light puts the body under great stress
• large numbers of people may be compromising their health through sunlight deficiency
• there is a substantial body of historical and contemporary evidence that suggests moderate sunbathing is far more beneficial than we are currently led to believe

The light and heat from the sun are indispensable to all nature. Humanity is also part of nature and needs sunlight for health and well being, for vitality and happiness. This book explains how and why we should welcome sunlight back into our lives — safely! It shows how sunlight was used to prevent and cure diseases in the past, and how it can heal us and help us in the future.

Richard Hobday, MSc, PhD is a member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners and has studied traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese exercise systems in China. Dr. Hobday has many years experience of solar design in buildings and is a leading authority on the history of sunlight therapy.

You can get it from Amazon through this link:

Healing Sun: Sunshine and Health in the 21st Century

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Hello tanners!

By on September 10, 2009 in Tanning - all

It’s no use to deny it – I am devoted to tanning for health and Vitamin D.  Not only to my healthy tanning but mainly to yours.  Therefore I am starting this blog in order to share with you my thoughts about tanning and how you can get the most out of your time in the solarium or under the sun.  For more details about me, see my biography

Mostly I will write about Vitamin D and about tanning lotions.  Those subjects have become my specialty since a couple of years back.  I will write about how to tan for Vitamin D and about the ingredients and quality of tanning lotions. This will help every tanner to tan right and how to select the correct  lotion for every tanning purpose.

The “Black Marketing” campaign from dermatologists sponsored by large manufacturers of chemical sunscreen lotions is another topic which I will give my view on.

I will make no secret of my connection to Devoted Creations and their European web-shop at www.lotionsdirect.com.  For reasons that you soon will be aware of when you follow this blog, I consider the lotions from Devoted Creations superior to any others.

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