PJ

Found this story about studies showing how exposure to UVR adversely affects the levels of folic acid in the body, causing them to drop below safe levels. The link is:

http://www.discover.com/feb_01/featbiology.html

For those who don't want to read the article, which is long, the summary is that women who are pregnant, if exposing themselves to UVR, MUST take folic acid supplements to reduce the chance for birth defects. Folate deficiency during pregnancy causes neural-tube defects. The study found " documented cases in which children's neural-tube defects were linked to their mothers' visits to tanning studios during early pregnancy". So please take note of this!!!

PJ

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SHANA

I'm stilling this from Don & Bruce - PJ you might want to do some more homework on this

Quote from Don:
PJ uses an article published in Discover magazine (click on link below) by Nina Jablonski as "proof" that this is so. In addition, PJ "cautions" everyone to be careful because the Jablonski article "claims" that there is documented evidence that tanning beds can "degrade" folic acid and thereby cause NTD's and birth defects.

There's only one problem with PJ's statement and the Jablonski article.

It isn't true that UVR exposure degrades folic acid in the body!

The Jablonski article claiming that tanning bed use causes NTD's uses an obscure paper published in the "letters" section of a scientific publication by a Brazilian doctor who wrote that since two patients of his (1) had babies born with birth defects, and, (2) had used tanning beds during their pregnancy, that the causative factor of the NTD's was tanning bed use. Obviously, this is "silly" logic that wouldn't pass scientific "muster" in a peer reviewed article.

Click on the link below to read the Jablonski article.

http://www.discover.com/feb_01/featbiology.html

Last year I wrote an article titled "Good News! For Women Of Child Bearing Age: UVR Exposure DOES NOT Cause Neural Tube Defects" (published in Looking Fit magazine and SunWellness magazine) that relied upon a peer reviewed German study. This study relied upon blood samples taken from volunteers who were irradiated with UVR in a real, live tanning bed proved that while folic acid is degraded by light "In Vitro" (in the test tube), it DOES NOT degrade "In Vivo" (in the body).

Click on the link below and scroll down to the article titled "Good News! For Women Of Child Bearing Age: UVR Exposure DOES NOT Cause Neural Tube Defects" and you can print out a copy to use in your salon if you need it.

http://www.naatso.org/frameset_tso.htm

I hope this Donsense helps you refute the nonsense being posted over on Chunn's websites.
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Tan Talker

PJ stands for poor judgement. We should all do our homework on these kinds of posts.

PJ

Why is it that everytime someone posts something on this board, one is absolutely derided? My only purpose in posting that information was to alert any woman who might be pregnant about the possible dangers...if the report I quoted was true or not is irrelevant...I was only trying to help- I can't help it if you are too stupid to understand that....poor judgment? Yes, absolutely: in trying to post something helpful here...
[ This Message was edited by: PJ on 2003-05-20 23:57 ]

SHANA

PJ, everyone is tired of the media's lies. You didn't write the article and we should'nt kill the messenger.

It's actually important to address these things and to have people like Don to help us understand why its NOT true.

Thanks for bringing it up