From Deseret News archives:
Cooked skin may cook kids' goose
1. Baste white meat in white or clear sauce.
2. Lay meat in oven and prepare to roast.
3. Close oven.
4. Cook till a deep golden Paula-Abdul brown.
5. Dress meat and prepare for friends.
6. Add more white sauce.
There you have it: One rotisserie-style, deep-roasted teenage girl.
If you know a teenager, then you probably know that tanning beds are the rage. Or did you think girls were getting those deep tans in the middle of December by taking regular Caribbean cruises?
This is creating a health hazard. Some Utah state legislators want to ban the use of the tanning salons for teens. So does the American Academy of Dermatologists and the World Health Organization. If cigarettes and alcohol are banned for minors, why not tanning salons, a $5 billion a year industry in the United States whose chief side effect, besides brown skin, is skin cancer.
In a perverse sort of way, tanning salons are the best thing that ever happened to dermatologists. They are for dermatologists what hard candy is for dentists and car wrecks are for lawyers: a gold mine.
But then Forsha turns serious: "The thing is, now that we have Vitamin D supplementation in milk, there is no benefit to sun exposure. The best thing is for humans to live in caves, but of course that's not practical. So we do the other things: We wear hats, stay out of the sun from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., play golf in the late or early part of the day, and so forth."
And we don't go to tanning salons and nuke our skin.
Tanning beds are nothing but intensely concentrated doses of ultraviolet light in a short amount of time. Thirty minutes under a sun lamp is like one day at the beach. UV rays are what cause wrinkles, discoloration, redness of the skin and skin cancer.
What disturbs Forsha most is that he is seeing younger and younger patients for sun-damaged skin. Women in their 20s are turning up in his office with cancers.
"Which is extraordinary," says Forsha. "Usually the incubation (for sun damage) is 15 years (before it manifests itself). If they're having trouble at 24, you have to wonder what they'll be like in 15 years. Usually the people we see for those types of problems are in their 40s and 50s."
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