Palin installed tanning bed in Alaska governor's mansion (security, thought, democratic)
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OK, I'm as big of a Palin Hater as you'll find, but I have to side with her on this one.
I lived in northern Germany for 3 years at a pretty far north lattitude (not quite as far north as Anchorage, but further north than the Canadian/US border) and the days were very short in winter with such a heavy overcast during the day, it was nothing short of depressing. I went to work in the dark, came home in the dark and the noontime light was rather dim. Someone suggested a tanning bed so I tried it. It really lifts your spirits and I believe gives you Vitamin D that you miss in far northern lattitudes. It just felt so good to be warm and surrounded by the light. I don't know why this works to lift spirits, but it does. There have been studies done on this too.
"Until the 1980s, researchers could only estimate how much ultraviolet radiation reaches Earth's surface. But in 1978, NASA launched the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. Three years ago, Jablonski and Chaplin took the spectrometer's global ultraviolet measurements and compared them with published data on skin color in indigenous populations from more than 50 countries. To their delight, there was an unmistakable correlation: The weaker the ultraviolet light, the fairer the skin. Jablonski went on to show that people living above 50 degrees latitude have the highest risk of vitamin D deficiency. "This was one of the last barriers in the history of human settlement," Jablonski says. "Only after humans learned fishing, and therefore had access to food rich in vitamin D, could they settle these regions."
She's already planning which wing of the whitehouse will have the presidential tanning salon. It'll be right next to the presidential tattoo parlour, head shop and shooting range.
Are you sure she paid for it herself?
lol. And maybe she can aerial hunt animals in the Rose Garden, get the taxpayers to have wolves flown in for her pleasure...
A growing trend is the home tanning bed. Many people are now opting to own their own tanning system instead of going to the salon. The primary reasons are sanitation concerns and convenience. The average home system has 16 to 24 lamps, and costs $2000 to $3000, making its price competitive (over a number of years) for tanners who frequent salons regularly. This has led to an explosion of retailers that feature smaller, home style tanning beds both on the internet and in traditional retail stores.
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