New Study Shows Tanning Beds Decrease Times More Cancers than They Cause
Posted By Dr. Mercola | November 10 2011 |
UV light from sun and sunbeds is the main vitamin D source for humans, and many health benefits of vitamin D have been identified. But since UV exposure has been suspected of causing skin cancer, may conventional health authorities warn against it.
A recent review of studies sought to review the health effects of solar radiation, sunbeds and vitamin D. The researchers looked at data from different time periods for populations at different latitudes, with the aim at looking at the relative risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma associated with sunbed use, vitamin D and UV effects. They found that increased sunbed use was not associated with melanoma.
According to the research:
"The overall health benefit of an improved vitamin D status may be more important than the possibly increased [cutaneous malignant melanoma] risk resulting from carefully increasing UV exposure. "
In fact, Ivan Oransky, the editor of Reuters Health, has previously noted that the real risk of getting skin cancer from a tanning bed is somewhere less than three-tenths of one percent -- and even then, this is likely only from those who habitually overexpose themselves
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