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Do you know how to tan?

By admin 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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The most successful “black marketing” campaign in the world?

By admin on October 3, 2009 in Vitamin-D

In July 2009 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an Agency organized within UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), announced through The Lancet Oncology medical journal and press-releases, the “breaking news” about the classification of ‘the use of UV-emitting tanning devices to Group 1, “carcinogenic to humans”’.

This announcement created a new wave of articles and reports in many newspapers, magazines, journals and TV-channels around the world. Many of the articles and reports went far beyond the original source in the reporters’ eagerness to create a “sensation” from this “news”. None of the reporters seem to have bothered to go beyond the press-release, but if they would have done that they would have discovered the following facts: Continue Reading →

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