Catching rays, soaking up sun, baking on the beach―there are myriad ways to describe the typ-ical summer tanning experience. The popularity of tanning continues, despite well-proven correlation between sun exposure and skin cancer. Although skin cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer, it is also one of the most prevalent because people still perceive a bronzed body as a healthy body. Nothing could be further from the truth, according to Joyce Ayoub, director of public information at the Skin Cancer Foundation. "There is no such thing as a safe tan," she says. "A tan is the skin's response to an injury, and a sign of damage." Not only does tanning increase your risk for skin cancer, says Ayoub, but it causes wrinkling, blotching and sagging―hardly an advertisement for healthy living.
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