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Top Tanning Facts For Safe Tan |
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The custom of tanning the skin has received a lot of publicity in the recent times. Because of its alleged link with cancer, tanning and its effects has become a major subject of debate among scientists, beauticians and women. All these wanna know the tanning facts by their heart.
Though it is commonly believed that tanning invariably leads to skin cancer, recent studies have shown that tanning may be a protective device against certain types of cancers. The risk of colon and breast cancer is reduced by exposure to tanning conditions as the sun retards the growth of cancerous cells that cause these conditions of cancer. By retarding its growth cancer rates come down. This is proved by the fact that cancer of the breast and colon is more common in countries that are sun deprived.
By establishing the benefits of exposure to the sun from tanning is a scientific fact. One can also counter the belief that tanning should be stopped because it is one of the causes of skin cancer. But tanning need not be stopped altogether because of this risk. After all it is a known fact that deaths from melanoma, the variety of skin cancer that is the risk factor from tanning, is the least death risk as only 0.3% of cases of death have been linked with this form of cancer.
Then again, in the early stages, there can be a cure from surgery also. On the other hand, colon and breast cancer is a far bigger killer as the number of affected cases is around 20% to 65%. The lack of sun on the skin that is the chief benefit of tanning also helps to control osteoporosis and thus tanning is an ideal way of enjoying the sun and benefiting from it.
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