Tanning beds increase cancer risk for teens

If you're a teen or a yound adult in your early 20s -- and if you're female especially -- you may have gone to tanning beds to try and perfect that all-over body tan. If so, you may have heard that the artificial light used in many tanning beds is actually much worse for your than natural sunlight.

But, new research is again stating and reinforcing that using tannings beds while in your late teenage years and early 20s significantly increases your propensity for developing skin cancer.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer -- in its latest findings -- said its research also showed that tanning booths had no positive heath effects (this is no surprise really). The report stated that "The data showed a prominent and consistent increase in risk for melanoma in people who first used sunbeds in their 20s or teen years ... a 75-percent increase in risk of melanoma was calculated for such users."