{"id":920,"date":"2004-07-13T03:16:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T03:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:43","slug":"dermatology-tanning-sessions-might-boost-users-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"dermatology: tanning sessions might boost user&#8217;s mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Frequent tanners may be addicted to the  mood-elevating effects of ultraviolet, or UV, light, say researchers  from North Carolina&#8217;s Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. In  the July issue of the <em>Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology,<\/em> Steven Feldman and colleagues report that exposure to UV light produces a  state of relaxation that may lure tanners into coming back for more. In  a six-week study, the researchers had 14 volunteers spend tanning  sessions divided between two identical-looking tanning beds, the  difference being that only one used UV light. After UV exposure,  participants reported feeling more relaxed and less tense compared to  non-UV exposure. The researchers think that UV light might help release  endorphins  chemicals that induce euphoria  in the body, improving the  tanner&#8217;s mood. &#8220;We believe these relaxing and reinforcing effects  contribute to tanning behavior and may help explain why people choose to  tan despite the risks,&#8221; Feldman stated in a press release.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/13\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frequent tanners may be addicted to the mood-elevating effects of ultraviolet, or UV, light, say researchers from North Carolina&#8217;s Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. In the July issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Steven Feldman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}