Don't fall for these tan lies: a new campaign claims that baking inside a tanning bed is actually good for you. Allow us to cut through the BS.(COSMO NEWS)

Cosmo's Practice Safe Sun campaign lady gives the Facts about how laying out in the sun without sunscreen or cooking under a sun lamp can set you up for skin cancer, especially melanoma, which is the secured most common form of cancer for 20 something women.

So we were outraged to see that the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) a group made up of salon owners and manufacturers--has put together their own campaign to convince people that bronzing under UV light is healthful. Here, the dangerous cracks in their pro-fake-bake argument.

[TANNING LIE 1] To get the vitamin D your body requires, you need sun or tanning-booth time. The ITA has latched on to studies showing that certain populations, such as hospital patients, aren't getting enough of the bone-building vitamin D. One way to get a daily shot of it, the ITA implies, is to lay out or go to a salon regularly.

Reality check: Getting enough vitamin D is amazingly easy and, in fact, it doesn't require any UV exposure at all. Food sources can provide it: One cup of fortified milk has P2.5 percent of your daily value (for young women, that's 400 IU), and a serving of cooked sahnon contains 90 percent. Vitamin supplements are another option.

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If you don't want to swallow your vitamin D, you can get it from being outdoors 5 to 15 minutes (sans sunscreen) three times a week. That's about the time it takes to stroll around the block or walk from your parked car into the mall and back, explains Erin Welch, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

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