I wish that none of the gyms had tanning beds. Why? because gyms are places to get healthy and tanning beds are a way to get sick. Tanning beds are not a healthy choice. A study last month in the medical journal Cancer Epidemioogy, Biomarkers & Prevention found that tanning beds can increase your chances for getting the most deadly form of skin cancer by 74%!
Tanning beds should come with warnings, just like cigarettes do. There’s a great story in the newspaper today about a woman named MaryAnn Gerber who started tanning at age 13. Why did she? vanity. She wanted to look good. It almost killed her. Even though she used all of the precautions she could. She now actively crusades to try to keep others from making the same mistake.
