Byline: Pat Wingert; With Karen Springen, Daniel Stone And Sarah Elkins
Doctors fight back against claims that tanning is healthy. Worries about cancer and 'tanorexics.'
Eighteen-year-old Libby Weldon of Canby, Ind., knows the must-haves for the perfect prom: a date willing to dance, a glamorous dress, strappy sandals, dangle earrings and, to set it all off, the golden glow of deeply tanned skin. At first, her parents objected to the tanning because of its link to skin cancer. Then her dad read an article on the health benefits of vitamin D, otherwise known as the "sunshine vitamin." Weldon, who hit the tanning bed 10 times in the two weeks before the big night, says, ...