{"id":24259,"date":"2025-05-22T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/may-is-national-skin-cancer-awareness-month-4\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:18:38","slug":"may-is-national-skin-cancer-awareness-month-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/may-is-national-skin-cancer-awareness-month-4\/","title":{"rendered":"May is National Skin Cancer Awareness  Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176551 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Skin-cancer-The-sun-is-hot-skin-cancer-is-not.png\" alt=\"sticker that says the sun is hot skin cancer is not\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, it&#8217;s not all about the sun&#8230;. what about indoor tanning? Glad you asked!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>10 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT INDOOR TANNING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tanning beds are NOT safer than the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Tanning&#8211;indoors or with the sun&#8211;makes your skin age more quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Using tanning beds can cause a serious injury.<\/li>\n<li>Getting a base tan cannot prevent sunburn.<\/li>\n<li>Getting enough vitamin D from tanning beds isn&#8217;t possible.<\/li>\n<li>Becoming addicted to tanning is a real risk.<\/li>\n<li>Tanning (indoors or outside) can make stretch marks more noticeable.<\/li>\n<li>Giving customers &#8220;false and misleading information&#8221; has been a common practice at tanning salons.<\/li>\n<li>Looking tan year-round is possible with a self-tanner.<\/li>\n<li>Quitting (or never starting) indoor tanning can help you live longer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aad.org\/public\/diseases\/skin-cancer\/surprising-facts-about-indoor-tanning\">American Academy of Dermatology Association<\/a> to learn more about indoor tanning<\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Hudson Valley Community College\u2019s Health Services at the Wellness Center\u00a0 located in Campus Center, Suite 270, is here to support you in meeting your healthy goals. We offer advocacy and care to promote being well and staying well.\u00a0 Feel free to contact our office at 518-629-7468 or stop in and see us to set up an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 22 May 2025 11:18:38 +0000 by\u00a0j.heidinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, it&#8217;s not all about the sun&#8230;. what about indoor tanning? Glad you asked! 10 SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT INDOOR&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}