By now you know the paradox that to boost your body’s production of vitamin D, which is critical for cancer prevention, you need a daily shot of sunshine and its ultraviolet light. And yet…too much U.V. directly correlates to skin cancer. Now research says that Americans who tan regularly — 30 million hit indoor tanning “salons” every year — are actually addicted to it. Overdosing on U.V.’s turns on all the happy centers of the brain, so much so that tanning bed addicts will even go back after getting skin cancer. Via NY Times

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