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It is interesting to know that indoor tanning was invented first in Europe to harness the benefits of regular sunlight exposure. It was the way for Northern Europeans (who are generally light deprived) to get the advantages of being in the sun on a regular basis. It grew into the United States in the late 1970s and in the early 1980s. It was largely adopted as a cosmetic business. It became more about getting the tan in the United States, but the roots are still there and there are still customers in the United States who come to a tanning facility specifically for the therapeutic advantages. Being in the sun is the body's natural way to produce vitamin D. We are just now really beginning to see in full force what advantages that provides people to have fully complemented vitamin D levels in their body as opposed to a great percentage of the population today, which is vitamin D deficient. People get 90-95% of their vitamin D through exposure to the sun and our society has become more and more sun averse. For example, we work indoors, and we get our sunlight more sporadically than we used to. It has become difficult to manufacture vitamin D naturally through exposure to sunlight. One of the benefits of going to the tanning salon for a cosmetic tan is that the exposure to UVB light is the body's natural way to produce vitamin.
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