More and more Research results show that it is healthy to tan. Each time such a research result is published the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SRSA) goes out in the media to tell it is dangerous to tan. The sun’s healthy effects, on both cancer and other diseases, the SRSA completely ignores. Mostly because SRSA´s lack of public health.
Society probably sees SRSA as an organisation who works with public health. That is not the case. When SRSA goes out and runs their agenda, such as unmanned solarium should be forbidden and that an 18-year limit should be introduced, it has no support in current research. But that doesn’t worry SRSA.
– SRSA consistent ignores all research results that show it is healthy to tan, says Roland Laurent, VD at Ultra Tan AB. We can not have a supervisory authority that invests such prestige to control us.
– It is hard to describe what our industry is exposed to other than persecution, Roland Laurent continues.
Why do SRSA ignore the public health
SRSA´s commission within tan is to make sure the numbers of cases with skin cancer are higher year 2020 than year 2000. And that sounds good. But the new research results from the latest year’s shows that the sun protects against most of the cancer forms and against several other diseases (look below).
The commission’s absurd consequence
SRSA´s instructions miss the overall public health. The absurd consequence is if the number of skin cancer will be halved from 6 476 (The National Board of Health and Welfare, 2007) to 3 238 every year, and the number of cancer cases double, from 50 100 (The National Board of Health and Welfare, 2007) to 100 200, SRSA has ”succeed”. Worth to mention is that the relation between tan – solarium – skin cancer is increasingly questioned.
Authority almost as big as the industry
Solarium industry turn over about 500 Swedish Millions/year (about a bigger ICA Maxi). Ultra Tan AB, the lead participator, turn over approx. 60 Swedish Millions/year. Among the solarium owner there is a large proportion immigrants and women compare to other industries.
SRSA has a grant at approx. 400 Swedish Millions/year and puts approximately three fulltime job every year and close on 1,5 Swedish Millions/year to control tanning.
A small selection of the research results SRSA ignored
”D-vitamin can prevent 30 deaths for every death which is caused by skin cancer.”
”State authorities spend too much time to scare away Americans from the sun”
– Edward Giovannucci, professor in nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.
”We who lives up north can allow ourselves to benefit from a couple of minutes in the solarium per week. It is good for the body and prevents both cancer and other diseases”.
”The chance to survive skin cancer is greater if you tan compared not to tan.”
– Johan Moan, professor at Radium hospitalet and Physical Institution at The University in Oslo and known for a unique method to cure skin cancer without surgery.
· To tan obstruct following cancer diseases; kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer (see the document ”It is healthy to tan” and related releases)
· To tan obstruct following diseases; thrombus, osteoporosis and autism. According to the scientist and doctor in psychiatry Mats Humble, the people from Somalia calls autism for ”the Swedish disease”.
· There are no evidence that to tan in a solarium increases the risk for skin cancer, despite several attempt to prove it (see example document ”It is healthy to tan” and ”The men of darkness strike again”).
SRSA say among other in the magazine ”Badmästaren” (nr 1-2009) that solarium does not give the radiation it takes for the skin to build the healthy D-vitamin.
· The Technical research Institute of Sweden has shown that Ultra Tans fluorescent lamp generates the type of radiation it takes for the body to generate D-vitamin (see the document ” It is healthy to tan”)