"INTERNATIONAL HEALTH & SUN STUDIES" report issued

This "TANNINGHEALTH.ORG REPORT" is released in the Fall season, because that is when days grow shorter for many people, in much of the world. These shorter days can deprive us of the sun exposure that is needed for good health.

After decades of seemingly endless and oft reported bad news about sun exposure and alleged “Sun Damage”, comes news that moderate Sun Tanning is actually good for what ails you!

A Few Proven Health Benefits For Those Who Get Enough Sunlight:

• A significant reduction in frequency of catching the common cold for those who get more sunlight (oft proven, many sources, whether by natural means or sunlamp use)
• A significant reduction in malignant melanoma as well as cancer rates for many common cancers, including skin cancer, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. More significantly – there is a reduction in cancer mortality for these cancers and others (as shown by Drs. Garland and Garland, for the U.S. Navy, and many others, by correlating epidemiological studies of geographic occurrence of various cancers, with a study of seasonal and cumulative sunlight intensity and sunlight distribution patterns around the world).
• A significant reduction in frequency or severity of osteoporosis and other bone diseases (most recently demonstrated by studies at the Boston University School of Medicine).

Details are found at the SunTanning.com web site, founded by Dugan, which carries a virtual library of reputable studies and reports regarding the health benefits associated with moderate use of sunlight or tanning salons.

“Few people get enough sunlight to be truly healthy", says Dugan, who adds, "Those people groups who do not get enough sunlight can be shown to have problems with general health issues such as the common cold, as well as with cancer rates, cancer mortality rates, and frequency and severity of Osteoporosis and other bone diseases."

Medically sound and scientifically accurate studies are all pointing in one direction, according to Dugan and his associates who are fans of salon tanning for those who cannot get enough outdoor sunlight. The report was published as the culmination of a decade long effort, including much research by Dugan and his associates. After spending thousands of hours reviewing thousands of medical and scientific documents on the subject, Dugan claims that the results are consistent, if surprising, and that the evidence soundly reverses many old 'wives tales' that are based on bad science.”

Dugan is excited to share his findings, and understands that the report raises a lot of questions. "The OLD SCHOOL studies have nothing to do with tanning, nothing to do with the real world, and nothing to do with human beings,” he notes. The newer work cited has been done under much better conditions, with better controls, and it all points to good news for sun lovers and tanning salon patrons

"What we found was that the old, anti-tanning research was often done incorrectly", states Dugan. He continues, "Even the FDA admits grave concern that researchers often used the wrong UV test lamps, the wrong subjects, and/or the wrong doses. These old studies prove conclusively that burning mice is bad for their health", laughs Dugan. Most of them were done with laboratory test sunlamps containing 40% UVB (the burning ray) instead of the 2 – 5% that found in nature, and at most tanning salons. The laboratory lamps were invented specifically to damage things, so you could test the durability of paints and coatings in severe sunlight exposed geographies.

Dugan postulates that no real correlation can be shown between these lamps and natural sun or tanning salon exposure on human beings. Nobody can even guess how much natural exposure these doses actually equaled, in the old, flawed, “tanning tests” so often cited.

The “TANNINGHEALTH.ORG REPORT” concludes that, “It is not so unusual that new discoveries and more accurate research reverse older ideas.” Dugan says he is very pleased to be able to commend the work of these researchers and institutions, and to report these findings!

About the Company:

TANNINGHEALTH.ORG was founded by Lonn Dugan, president of BIG Design and BIG Marketing Solutions, LLC. These companies provide web and traditional marketing or advertising services to members of the tanning industry. Dugan has served the tanning industry for over 20 years as a health and safety products manufacturer, and as a Certification Trainer for state mandated tanning salon employee education programs, such as the I.S.E.I., where Dugan has been a presenter for 7 years and a certification coordinator for the last 3 years. Prior to that, Dugan was president of Lucas Products Corp, a manufacturer or Protective Eyewear and of hygiene and cleaning products for tanning salons. Dugan also founded Suntanning.com, a web site designed to help promote a better public image for tanning salons, share articles and studies that show health benefits to be derived from tanning, and provide collegiality, community, for industry members. The site was built at the crossroads of information and technology, to support the professional growth and success of the tanning salon industry. The site slogan is “Today is a good day to be healthy and tan”.