{"id":228193,"date":"2026-01-01T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dont-use-them-tanning-beds-triple-skin-cancer-risk-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:27:28","slug":"dont-use-them-tanning-beds-triple-skin-cancer-risk-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dont-use-them-tanning-beds-triple-skin-cancer-risk-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t use them\u2019: Tanning beds triple skin cancer risk, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-use-them-tanning-beds-triple-skin-cancer-risk-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just the thing to do\u2014everyone wanted that nice, dark, tan skin,\u201d the 49-year-old market researcher told AFP via video call from Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day in her 30s, Tarr noticed a strange mole on her back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity. \u201cIt was just the thing to do\u2014everyone wanted that nice, dark, tan skin,\u201d the 49-year-old market researcher told AFP via video call from Chicago. Then one day in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}