High-Risk Tanners Are More Likely To Get Their Fix Outside The Salon

By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe Published: June 24, 2015 10:57am ET on LiveScience. People who go tanning at gyms or beauty shops may have riskier tanning habits than those who go to tanning salons, new research finds. In the study, researchers found that the total number of indoor tanning sessions over women's lifetime was twice as high among women who had ever tanned at an indoor nonsalon location than among those who had tanned indoors but only at tanning salons. Moreover, the women in the study who were tanning at a location other than a tanning salon were more likely to tan all year round than those who went only to tanning salons. They were also more likely to report using indoor tanning to boost their mood, and being addicted to tanning. "Nonsalon tanning locations also seem to attract more high-risk tanners," such as people who may be depressed or are dependent on tanning, the researchers wrote in the study. "Despite this evidence, we know little about the supervision, regulation or maintenance of nonsalon tanning locations," they wrote in their findings, published today (June 24) in the journal JAMA Dermatology. [7 Beauty Trends That Are Bad for Your Health] In the study, researchers led by Joel Hillhouse, a professor of public health at East Tennessee State University, asked 823 women ages 18 to 25 questions about their indoor tanning habits. They asked, for instance, whether, where and how often the women went tanning. The women who tanned at locations other than ...
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