TTSUN

http://www.lookingfit.com/hotnews/81h289416.html

The above is a direct link to the announcment by the UV foundation marking February as Vitamin D deficiency month. Please post in all your tanning rooms and pass this information on to your customers. Make 2008 a year to turn this industry around by educating your customers one at a time!

eileen

This is news to me that the FDA is permitting us to promote tanning as a health benefit....as much as I would love to do this I don't put it in print although I never stop talking about it (freedom of speech). :) Can someone set me straight if I'm wrong... I want to be wrong! :)

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"under exposure to UV rays is as dangerous as overexposure....this is D life" eileen

unity

You can promote the fact that tanning is a great source of vitamin D, then you can promote what vitamin D does for you. You just cant directly link a benefit of tanning as a reult of VD by leaving VD out of the equasion. So its all in the wording. I am not sure how other stares are, but im my state I could easily get away with promoting direct bennefits of tanning. Its pretty loose here.

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OMG! I made a post! :)

eileen

I always play by the rules. Hopefully kay will see this post and key in.

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"under exposure to UV rays is as dangerous as overexposure....this is D life" eileen

TTSUN

All the information we post in our rooms is backed by data and research in print that is in our waiting area. You can not say that "Tanning gives you vitamin D and vitamin D will cure". You can say, research has shown that vitamin D will etc. Do any of you display the "real" magazine in your waiting areas and have them available for customers? It's a great way to get the information in their hands. Recently we put a sign in the rooms that said the following followed with a picture of a forest. " Could this forest live without uv exposure from the sun? Can you? You be the judge. Google vitamin D and the sun and you might be surprised. This created quite a stir with our customers. I can not begin to tell you how many people made comments to us and thanked us for providing this information. I now have customers forwarding information to me about Vitamin D, the sun and your health. Please note, our sales have increased every month for the last 4 years.