Get under the bed and kill your DNA

Filed in archive Studies on June 28, 2010

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Studies have shown that after the invention of sun beds, known also as tanning beds, in the early 1990, the increase of skin cancer in young women has increased dramatically. That is, there has been an astronomical increase in a preventable skin cancer as a result of sun bed use.

Skin cancer is the number one cancer that affects young Americans. It also kills approximately 8000 Americans every year. And it is preventable.

A surprising finding of recent studies is that sun tanning is addictive. It seems that endorphins are released when you are tanning and so you feel happy. You are literally getting high from the effects of the tanning rays. The next time someone tells you they can't quit going to the tanning salons you should believe them.

Another study conducted by the University of Michigan showed that people who used tanning beds were 74% more likely to get cancer than those that didn't. Tanning, or exposure to the sun, causes what is known as 'DNA errors'. Over 40,000 DNA errors can occur within one hour long period. After repeated exposure the cells simply can not keep fixing themselves and so the cancer starts.

Tanning kills. If it doesn't kill the user it will at least kill some of their DNA