Thread: Tanning

Nope, I'm about as white as a white Irish guy can get livin in the woods in winter.

i never get sunburnt therefore i tan instantly when sun comes out so dont need to bother

I don't tan.

Absolutely.

i do sunless tanning, the lotion kind is pretty good, but not as good as a real tan.......still works really nice i like it brings out defenition...

Yes I do...I helps with my acne!! I might die of skin cancer at 35, but my acne wont show!!lol


Seriously tho, it also helps my mood during the winter months.

I tan just enough to take away the pasty pallor.

ill be dammed the day i go tanning, although i do understand if some guys need to for compition

Originally Posted by kicka19

ill be dammed the day i go tanning, although i do understand if some guys need to for compition

why is that ?????

i have regular sunbed sessions, tanning is great, improves your looks (teeth, eyes.. etc all look better if your tanned) and from a BBing perspective it makes you look a lot more ripped, plus chicks dig a tan

Originally Posted by young d

i have regular sunbed sessions, tanning is great, improves your looks (teeth, eyes.. etc all look better if your tanned) and from a BBing perspective it makes you look a lot more ripped, plus chicks dig a tan

As you live in the UK it's understandable. The sun only comes out once every three years

Originally Posted by QuestionGuy

why is that ?????

ultraviolet (UV) light directly damages DNA leading to mutations. it also produces activated oxygen molecules that in turn damage DNA and other cellular structures. lastly it leads to a localized immunosuppression, thus blocking the body's natural anti-cancer defenses.

i have thought about it. I usually only get a tan during the summer but in the winter i have never gotten a tan at my local tanning place.

They are finding out now that sun exosure in moderate amounts is very beneficial to your health.

If the sun is good enough to make organic life on earth grow and thrive, then spending a little time in it is all right by me.

Originally Posted by mrguy

They are finding out now that sun exosure in moderate amounts is very beneficial to your health.

"very benefical", never heard that before. EVERYTHING on Medline, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC's website says the exact opposite. do you have any links to medical studies ?

Generally I agree with you LAM and your view is held up by most research. I wouldn't say frequent exposure is "very benefical", but there are some benefits in moderation.

See this small extract from the British Medical Journal

Coronary heart disease
There are seasonal patterns in cardiovascular mortality and in cardiovascular risk factors that may be partly explained by reduced exposure to sunlight in the winter months.13-15 Some studies have reported a protective association for vitamin D (a marker of sunlight exposure).16-18 For example, Scragg et al, in a case-control study of acute myocardial infarction, reported an odds ratio of 0.43 (95% CI 0.27 to 0.69) for subjects with 25-hydroxycholcalciferol concentrations equal to or above the median compared with subjects whose concentrations were below the median.16 These findings are tentative, and might be explained by bias inherent in the case-control design or confounding by exposures such as physical activity. Nevertheless, as coronary disease is such an important cause of death (in 1995 the deaths of 73 129 men and 60 732 women in England and Wales were attributed to ischaemic heart disease9), even a modest protective effect of exposure to sunlight could result in a substantial reduction in mortality.

Mental health
People find lying or sitting in the sun enjoyable and relaxing.3 This subjective sense of wellbeing may be important in itself in improving the quality of a person's life. Seasonal variations in sunlight exposure may underlie a proportion of episodes of depressionthose attributed to seasonal affective disorder.19 Furthermore, the well documented increases in suicidal behaviour in early spring may also be related to patterns of day length and sun exposure, although other explanations for this phenomenon exist.20 Psychiatric illness is an important factor in population health, and any beneficial effect of increased exposure to sunlight might reduce appreciably the population burden of disease.

Other diseases
Exposure to sunlight increases vitamin D production and reduces the risk of rickets in childhood and of osteomalacia and fractures in adulthood.21 In addition, ultraviolet light (both from natural and medical sources) is used to treat some skin conditions such as psoriasis, which affects 2% of people of European ancestry. It has also been suggested on the basis of the ecological association with latitude, that exposure to sunlight reduces the incidence of multiple sclerosis.22

Source: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/conte...l/319/7202/114

plus it keeps you from getting sickle cell anemia. blacks are very prone to it because their skin blocks out more of the UV rays, and therefore become vitamin D deficient

Originally Posted by DimebagDarrell

plus it keeps you from getting sickle cell anemia. blacks are very prone to it because their skin blocks out more of the UV rays, and therefore become vitamin D deficient

sickle cell anemia is genetic. the only way to get sickle cell anemial is to enherit the sickle cell trait from both parents. it has nothing to do with a vitamin D deficiency.

Vitamin D is found in fortified milk, dark green leafy vegetables, eggs, fish liver oils, butter, tuna and salmon. I guess if ones diet was severely lacking it could be possible to benefit from the vitamin D that is prodeced from exposure to sunlight. The only person I have ever seen with rickets was when Homer got it on the Simpsons.

I don't tan because my complexion is fairly dark

Originally Posted by crazy_enough

Yes I do...I helps with my acne!! I might die of skin cancer at 35, but my acne wont show!!lol

that is exactly why i'm gona start tanning.

my back/shoulders are breaking out all over the place, this is the worst its ever been and i'm not using any AAS or anything.

Hell yea!

I love it!
The chicks love it!

YES YES YES

no, i don't...tans are for the summer, unless you're competing

I've got Irish skin, I don't tan, i burn....and then peel . I'd rather not give myself skin cancer

I've already got a "natural" tan. I don't sunburn either. If I layed in one of those things the result would be more like a burnt biscuit than anything else. I'd have to turn into a crime fighter. I could walk around at night undetected and layeth the smacketh down on criminals, unless they had a flashlight. Then I'd be screwed. On another note, I benched 300 lbs today. I'm going for a 400 lb deadlift and a 500 lb squat. Wish me luck.

That's sweet dude, right now I can only dream of getting that high...(even though lots of lifters can do it).

I use only high pressure beds, block out allot of UV rays and don't give you that
crappy red look. It hits the wallet a bit though

Originally Posted by joesmooth20

I use only high pressure beds, block out allot of UV rays and don't give you that
crappy red look. It hits the wallet a bit though

OMG ! that is some funny shit. you should really do some research on the subject.

UVA rays are the most carcinogenic ! they have the longest wavelength when compaired to UVB and UVC rays. UVA rays penetrate deeper into the dermis. you have been given some very bad info.

Originally Posted by mrguy

They are finding out now that sun exosure in moderate amounts is very beneficial to your health.

They found that out a long time ago, and we are talking far less than what is done under a UVA/B tanning bed.