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The staff at The
American Tanning Institute strongly recommend the
following sites. These sites offer fair and balanced information
regarding the benefits of moderate and sensible ultraviolet light
exposure. |
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Thee primary goal
of the UV Foundation is to fund research projects that will lead to a
better understanding of the full scope of the biologic effects of
ultraviolet light. Although the field of photobiology has existed for
more than 100 years, research into areas such as vitamin D production
and positive effects of ultraviolet light exposure is vastly under
funded and little understood today. A better understanding of these
areas will be in the best interest of the public health. The second goal
of the UV Foundation is to engage in efforts to increase public
awareness about the affects of UV light. The publication of this data
benefits the general public, the scientific community and those in
position to influence the general public, state and federal legislators
and regulators. We hope that these efforts will lead to a better public
understanding of the calculus between benefits and risks of UV light,
and will create a synergistic effect in the research community,
fostering the impetus to conduct more research into this important field. |
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The UV Advantage |
A new book by Dr. Michael Holick attacks the
conventional wisdom that sun exposure can have detrimental and sometimes
fatal consequences.
His book, entitled, The UV Advantage, offers
a different approach to sun exposure and suggests that regular moderate
exposure to UV light is the key to healthy living.
Dr. Holick, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics at
Boston University
Medical Center,
argues that a lack of UV radiation leads to the body's depletion of
Vitamin D. This depletion can lead to diseases such as osteoporosis,
hypertension, diabetes and cancer of the colon, prostate and breast.
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SUNARC |
Sunlight, Nutrition and
Health Research
Center
SUNARC is an organization devoted to research, and education relating to
the prevention of chronic disease through changes in diet and lifestyle.
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The Osteoporosis Education Project |
The Osteoporosis
Education Project (OEP) is a
US
tax-exempt, 501 (c) 3 non-profit research and osteoporosis education
organization dedicated to the advancement of bone health world-wide. OEP
is a division of Leading Edge Research, Inc. of
East Syracuse, N.Y.,
USA.
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Vitamin D Council |
The Vitamin D
Council is a group of concerned citizens that believe many humans are
needlessly suffering and dying from Vitamin D Deficiency. We are
incorporated as a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(e) educational
corporation in the State of
California. Our Board of Directors currently
includes four physicians, including John Cannell as Executive Director. |
| Additional Links |
TanningTruth.com
HealthResearchForum.org.uk
VitaminDSociety.org
Tanning-Trends.com
TANdemonium.com
TheITA.com
CITTO.org
SunlightAndHealth.org
TanCanada.org |
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