The Red and Black

Wow this article was written without anybody doing any valid research!

Safe?
Tanning beds are absolutely FDA regulated! What country does Dr. Campbell live in anyway? I'm glad he's not my Dr. Here is a link directly to the FDA to help you out with this one:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/tanning/index.html

Depressed?
Yes you get depressed but Dr. Campbell neglects to tell how much those sunny lights cost. Does he also happen to sell them? Minimal moderate tanning 5 - 6 mins will give you the same advantage and give you Vit D as a bonus ...without putting a hole in your pocket!

UVA and UVB Rays
Sorry but Megan is not a tanning specialist here. Megan and her clients would benefit if she got smart tan trained or go to ATI tanningprogram.com and get certified. Who told you UVA rays are less damaging and how?
UVA is responsible for wrinkles. UVB can help clear skin of acne, psoriasis and still give you your Vit D!
You are not permitted by the FDA to advertise tanning as SAFE!
You want to tell your clients to tan responsibly and moderately. You are there to skin type your clients and keep them from overexposure which we all know is dangerous to our clients.

Aging
Tanning salons offer lamps not bulbs. Many tanning beds do have a switch to turn down face lamps. Also many professional salons will sell/offer face guards if you don't want to tan your face. I don't see Dr. Campbell mentioning your diet and how important that is to your skin lots of anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory products like....blueberries, goji berries, curcumin, ginger. Pure organic coconut oil is great for your skin.

Stronger Bones
Well Dr. Campbell is right here, the Vitamin D research is growing rapidly. Dr. Campbell doesn't mention how are going to get this DIRECT sunlight 10 minutes a day from September through May. Three times a week in a tanning bed for 5 minutes should give you more then enough and you probably won't even tan but you will get your dose of Vit D!

Dry Skin
Everybody's skin is unigue where did the 4 minute dry skin comment come from?? Use moisturizers with no chemical compounds and big hats and weaved clothing for sunblock (you won't hear your derm telling you this, they make 35 billion a year selling you sunblock).

Fast Color
Wow I would worry sending a client there.... HP beds are higher in UVA not UVB!!!! They actually have some of the lowest amounts of UVB.

Eileen,
Professional Tanning Salon Owner

oh my god. YOU FORGOT TO MENTION SKIN CANCER.
HELLO.
ARE YOU SERIOUS

Where is the skin cancer. Those UV rays must be soaking it up very well

Interestingly enough, the writer's last name is "White."

"It only takes five to 10 minutes of direct sunlight to produce the body's daily need of Vitamin D"

Yeah and you couldn't possibly do that in the natural sunlight each day could you????

No, numnuts, not everyone can. Especially when one has to cover themselves from head to toe because of cold or rainy weather, you know, like in the winter? Quit hating on pubsluts who want to get nice and tan to look like porno chics. What, next you'll be attacking waxing salons?

Eileen,

I think you mis read that study you just provided a link to. To quote the article:
"The study, to be published by the journal Nature in its Sept. 21 issue, involved giving tans to specially engineered mice, not by exposing them to ultraviolet rays in sunlight (the usual route to a tan), but by applying a cream that switched on the tanning machinery in their skin cells. Because people who tan easily, or have naturally dark skin, are far less likely to develop skin cancer than fair-skinned individuals – who tend to get sunburns rather than tan – the findings suggests that medicinally-induced tans can protect at-risk individuals from the disease."

So, while the tan skin does provide protection from skin cancer, they did not advocate acquiring that tan through exposure to UV radiation. They used chemical means to produce the tan. From further down in the article:
"Melanoma is the fastest-increasing form of cancer in the world, accounting for 62,000 new cases in the United States every year and nearly 8,000 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. It occurs when pigment-making skin cells called melanocytes begin dividing rampantly as a result of damage to their DNA...
One trigger for melanoma development appears to be ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun, which can damage the skin's DNA."

Your misinterpretation of this study leads me to call into question all of the other "facts" that you propound in your first post.

Now that we have self-tanners that don't make you orange, why do we need tanning beds? Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, and 90% of it is caused by overexposure to UV rays! I can't believe that students in COLLEGE can't see that tanning in your youth dramatically increases your chances of skin cancer--not when you're 85, but when you're young, too. I know someone with it, and it's not pretty, guys.

You just can't defend a habit that does nothing but increase your risk for a terminal illness.

um hi skin cancer?

well guys i really dont understand all of the hullaballu. its just tanning. i go tanning twice a day and i think my skin has a lovely glow. my boyfriend sure thinks so ;)