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In the latest breaking news, researchers have determined that indoor tanning is just as dangerous as the sun. Imagine that – the risks of overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays are the
same whether they come from the natural sun outdoors or the artificial “sun” in a tanning bed

This is far from shocking, isn’t it? And it’s also precisely the point, because just as the risks of UV rays from the sun and tanning beds are similar, so, too, are the benefits.

As with many things in life, the difference between healthy UV exposure and unhealthy exposure lies in the dose, and one of the worst choices you can make is to avoid the sun.

Too Much Sun, or Indoor Tanning, Is Linked to Cancer

New research found that melanoma patients were about four times as likely to be indoor tanners as people without melanoma, even if they’d never reported experiencing sunburn.1

The researchers concluded that indoor tanning (without burning) must then be a risk factor for melanoma, but past research has found quite the opposite. In 2012, researchers concluded that tanning bed use
was not associated with melanoma.