08-06-2005, 01:21 PM
Quote:There is such a thing as a healthy tan for people with certain types of skin. It's genetic, man!No, there isn't, but this is a common misconception. Evolutionary skin darkening to cope with greater solar exposure is healthy, but that involves genetic mutations over thousands of years. Skin darkening within one's lifetime is unhealthy. It means that skin cells are being rapidly killed, which wouldn't be so bad, except when too many have to grow back at once, irregular (cancerous) growths are more likely.
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