Tanning

to most safely get a tan while you soak up some rays. The first and probably most important tip is to avoid sunburns. While this might sound obvious, there are still many people out there who believe getting sunburned is an integral part of the tanning process. Sunburns are an indication of skin damage, ranging from minor redness and tenderness to painful blistered skin. The more often you get sunburned, the greater your risk of developing skin cancer. If you have to be out in the sun, make sure

The other day I was pondering the still popular, yet seemingly dangerous practice of tanning as I looked down at my chalky white legs and thought, is the desire to tan really that mysterious? It seems obvious that people just like the way it looks to be tan. In fact, one survey of American teenagers revealed that two thirds of them feel ‘healthier’ and ‘more sophisticated’ with a tan (qtd. in “Sun Tanning”). I know I feel better about putting on a bathing suit if I’m not so starkly white that I worry

“Statistics show that more than one million people tan in tanning salons daily. Nearly seventy percent of people who go to tanning salons are Caucasian girls and women, aged from sixteen to twenty- nine years. Out of about twenty- eight million people who tan indoors, about twenty- three million are teens. In 2010, the indoor tanning industry’s revenue was estimated to be $2.6 billion” (AAD). Exposure to ultraviolet radiation substantially increases an individual’s risk of health problems and irreversible

Indoor Tanning and Cancer Guaranteed brown, beautiful and golden skin in only a few tans! Indoor tanning promises and creates a beautiful tan in only a few sessions. The result from this tan is dark and clear skin that makes a person feel and look better. No wonder this craze is so popular. Who wouldn’t want to look like they just came back from the Caribbean with beautiful skin? I mean having tan skin does make a person look better right? This question is obviously a personal opinion

associate with tanning. Another pigment is called pheomelanin and it produces a red color. Redheads and blondes produce more pheomelanin and less eumelanin, which is why they don't tan as well. Sunlight and ultraviolet rays affect the pituitary gland, a gland at the base of the brain that secretes hormones, which then produces melanocyte-stimulating hormone. This hormone flows through the bloodstream to the melanocytes, which makes them able to produce more melanin. (The Science of Tanning)     Most people

The Evolution of Skin Tanning One of Catherine’s insatiable obsessions in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden is to darken her skin color. She accomplishes this by sun tanning at every opportunity possible, and naturally, her skin turns many shades darker. Catherine’s skin tanning fixation at the time the story takes place coincides with the premiere of skin tanning as a stylish and chic fashionable pursuit. Traditionally, tanned skin was undesirable to the public. Prior to the industrial

indoor tanning salons has been a controversial topic to many people. The essential question is, should a federal ban against the use of tanning salons by minors be enacted? Absolutely yes, minors should not be able to use the amenities of tanning salons due to the long term affects that will disturb their well being. The negative effects of using tanning salons do not overcompensate the temporary look enhancement. A shocking article titled “Alarming Find: 29% of High School Girls Use Tanning Beds”

A tanning bed is a faster way to tan, but is it good or bad? This leads to our topic, Do tanning beds cause skin cancer? So yes or no, some people would say no, but the truth is that a tanning bed has the same harmful rays like the sun, or even worst. Both tanning beds and sun, harm your integumentary system with UV rays. Associated with these rays cause three major skin cancer: are Basal Cell Carcinoma (BBC), Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), and Melanoma the main one. We hypothesize that the time

The difference between the sun and a tanning bed are the amount of UVA and UVB rays that are emitted, tanning beds, use fluorescent bulbs that emit predominantly UVA with a small amount of UVB. The Sun emits way more UVB than a tanning bed. The skin cancer foundation said “UVA exacerbates the cancer-causing effects of UVB, and is the main wavelength behind photo-aging…It penetrates more deeply and causes more genetic damage in the skin cells where most skin cancers arise.” On the website “YoExpert”

A Critical Introduction to Big History: Multicultural Perspectives Research Paper: A Little Big History of Sun Tanning There many things we do every day without thinking about the reasons behind them. We consume certain products and follow routines which might seem very weird to someone who has not lived their life on Earth among other human beings. Little big history is a research tool in the field of big history that allows for an in-depth analysis of a specific object or phenomenon – something