Why am I doing this – and why should you care?

Many different people have asked me why I am having this Don Quixotic struggle with the windmills of the sun-scare mafia.

Sometimes I am even asking myself the same thing. Don’t I have anything better to do with my time?

Then, I get the daily email from Google Alerts,

presenting me with today’s 10 most viewed news about tanning.

Usually 8 or 9 of them are about new laws against tanning or describing how lobbying groups want to forbid teenagers the access to tanning salons.

Reading how the journalists or bloggers use, what I know are falsified, “evidences” of how dangerous tanning beds are, gives me new energy to put on my virtual barber’s basin and write a new post on this blog.

I also get another email from Google.

This one is disclosing the latest input to cyberspace about anything to do with Vitamin D.

When comparing the information in those two emails, it is hard to believe that they come from sources located on the same planet.

In one, you can read about how extremely dangerous tanning is and about people describing their horrors when diagnosed with melanoma. (And there is obviously no problem to find such cases since it seems like anyone who visit a dermatologist in USA or UK today, has some spot on their body that maybe can be a potentially possible melanoma).

In the other email, you can read about how maladies believed to be extinguished since the middle of the 20^th century (like rickets) now are making comeback among children. And how osteoporosis is affecting the life of one movie star after another. Plus hundreds of new research-reports of how a rampant Vitamin D deficiency is linked to most types of cancers and other diseases.

Those who are against tanning – do they live in isolation? Do they not have access to today’s common research tools? Do they only subscribe to the press releases from L’Oréal’s marketing machine?

This is what I try to do at least once a week.

I click to and comment on one or two articles that are presenting especially vilifying twisting of the truth in the news about tanning reported by Google.

If you somewhat share my conviction about that moderate and regular tanning according to each skin-type, is good for every human being, independent of age, you can do the same.

It is very easy to sign up for Google Alerts for a selected key-word (in my case, “tanning” and Vitamin D”) and immediately start to receive information about the most visited new additions to Internet about your selected topic.

I have posted in the forum, my latest comment to an outrageously misguiding article in today’s Capitol Weekly.

Why don’t you too subscribe to Google Alerts and start commenting?

Most likely, you are a much better writer than I am and will be able to find more local approaches to the subject.

If you do so and then post information about what you are commenting on in the forum, we can build up a small database of useful arguments for the benefit of all our peers.

Together and with the assistance of Internet, we can make our case stronger than one by one alone.