Ridiculous Tanning Salon Ad
April 28th, 2008 by Mike
I’ve seen some pretty wild claims in advertising but I’d have to say that this one takes the cake. In case you can’t tell, this ad is for a tanning salon. The tanning salon is claiming that you can get Vitamin - D from their service. Now that’s all fine and dandy but instead of just leaving it like that they had to go an extra giant step and add “The Way Nature Intended It.”
Yes, I’m sure that when the planet came in to existence Mother Nature said something like… “One day people will be able to go to tanning salons to microwave themselves and give themselves cancer, but until they have the technology to do that they will just have to make do with the Sun.”
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Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Calgary, McKinlay Musings.
Comments: 13
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“The Way Nature Intended It.”
This simply refers to Vitamin D from moderate exposure to UV rays. They way the body was designed to makes it’s own Vitamin D.
Not hard to figure out.
Technically, you may be just a little confuse. The frequency of microwave energy is not even close to the frequency of sun light or tanning bed lights. Sun light and tanning bed light enery are the same frequencies.
The fact is, the above ad really does make more sense than your argument does.
All I wanted to say was that I thought the claim of the ‘natural way’ was silly. The sun is natural and tanning beds are not. Vitamin D is good and natural but getting it from a tanning bed is not the same as the sun, and not very natural either.
Mike, I think you better listen to John and Clubby. They obviously know what they are talking about. After all, they are members of UVtalk.com, “home of the best looking tanning salon owners on the internet”.
Yes you should for sure listen to this guy - who thinks tanning beds can cook your dinner.
Hey, Mikey knows better than dumb tanning salon mopes. He runs around outside naked from dawn to dusk in Calgary, eats 3 dozen eggs a day and drinks 2 gallons of milk a day to maintain his vitamin D deficiency. Too bad he doesn’t drink cod liver oil. He is way too cool to tan.
I love it! I want to see a canned coffee ad telling you to wake up gently and naturally while drinking a can of coffee when running to the subway.
Coffee’s natural too, just like Vitamin D. Now, if you were talking about pills made to try and have the same effect…then it would compare.
I think the ad meant UV light as opposed to supplements made in a lab. REAL Vitamin D.
MICROWAVE???? Come on. Do you even know anything about the technology or just posting to see your words on the pretty screen?
Microwaves coming out of fluorescent lamps. Maybe you need to hurry to the patent office with that one cause I’m sure it doesn’t exist. Probably much easer than using a magnetron.
You know what’s dangerous? Stupid is dangerous. As in, you have not a clue as to what you are talking about yet feel the need to post it for all to see regardless.
OK Im sorry for using the wrong terminology. The whole post was meant to be a bit of joke but I guess I’ve really hurt some people’s feelings. Having said that, tanning beds are not the same as the sun and that’s what the whole idea of this post was.
Mike, what is the difference in UV from the sun and UV from a tanning bed?
I’m so glad you asked… here’s some info from the World Health Organization Here’s a couple of my favorite quotes from the page:
“Sunbeds used in solariums, and sun tanning lamps, are artificial tanning devices that claim to offer an effective, quick and harmless alternative to natural sunlight. However, there is growing evidence that the ultraviolet (UV) radiation emitted by the lamps used in solariums may damage the skin and increase the risk of developing skin cancer.”
and
“Exposure to UV, either naturally from the sun or from artificial sources such as sunlamps, is a known risk factor for skin cancer. Short-wavelength UVB (280-315 nm) has been recognized for some time as carcinogenic in experimental animals, and there is increasing evidence that longer-wavelength UVA (315-400 nm) used in sunbeds, which penetrates more deeply into the skin, also contributes to the induction of cancer. A study conducted in Norway and Sweden showed a significant increase in the risk of malignant melanoma among women who had regularly used sunbeds.”
and let’s not forget
“Additional exposure to UV from sunbeds is likely to enhance the well-known detrimental consequences of excessive solar UV exposure. There is no evidence to suggest that UV exposure from any type of sunbed is less harmful than UV exposure from the sun. Pre-cancerous actinic keratoses and Bowen’s disease have also been found in sunlight-protected but sunbed exposed skin in fair-skinned users after just two to three years of regular sunbed use.”