Indoor Tanning...A Risk Later On in Life

Fashions come and go, and like most they aren’t healthy for our bodies. Indoor tanning has become the fashion of today, but is it really worth the money and health risks later on in life? If you are going for the leathery, wrinkled, burnt old women look then I say go right ahead and tan yourself to death. Indoor tanning may look nice for the week, but the risks are far more damaging than you think such as: wasting money and time, getting skin cancer, an over dosage of vitamin D and damaging your organs. The “healthy” sun kissed glow may be pleasant, but we are defeating the purpose of looking healthy in the long run.

It all started over 400 years ago when Copernicus declared that the sun was the center of the universe. Throughout history the human race has based their life on this object that gives life, but cultures have changed over time and the sun’s symbol has shifted from a nutrient to a question of someone’s appearance. In the elder days, skin color diversified classes among rich and poor. Tan skin was a sign of hard work and labor while paler skin was a sign of higher class, tearooms, butlers and maids. In the 1920’s a new fad became popular by acci

Many teens have an inefficiency of vitamin D, but this doesn’t mean they have to make up for it with an over dosage of vitamin D at the tanning bed. The combination of UV rays and human’s skin naturally create vitamin D, so there is no point in receiving extra vitamin D, especially in Florida, but people insist on getting more dosage. Tanning beds give out three times as much vitamin D, which is an over abundance, therefore you’re receiving three times as much vitamin D when you’ve already received a sufficient amount by walking outside. This basically affects everything in the body: your eyes, organs, immune system, and skin. This can cause calcification of organs, making them hard and eventually they stop working. Cataracts are another cause of collective UV rays, are you willing to risk your eyes if you don’t die from cancer first? Being in the sun for a total of two hours on a hot day is ok, it lets the body receive the nourishment it needs, but the tanning bed lets the body receive three times as much vitamin D. This adds up over time and the resiliency of your organs decrease, they harden, and their functions disease. Are you willing to let your body down, let it decay, let it die just because of a fad?

Most teens go to tanning booths because tanning salons promote it to be safer than natural sunlight, which isn’t true. Today between 20,000 and 24,000 salons are listed in the Yellow Pages, claiming 22 million clients each year. Also, Twenty-eight percent of teenage girls and seven percent of boys are reported to have used tanning booths three or more times, but do they really know how much damage they are doing on a molecular level to their skin? Indoor tanning is one cause of the most fatal kind of skin cancer known as malignant melanoma. Collective ultraviolet rays are concentrated on the skin and evolve over time into unattractive brown splotches.

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