WaPoo, What to know about teens, tanning and the UV index. "In videos dating back to at least 2022, many with over 100,000 likes, young women in bikinis seek out UV indexes of 6 and above for tanning."
The term “UV index” is not top of mind for most of us — unless, that is, you’re a tween or teen girl in 2024. On TikTok, nearly a quarter-million posts use the tag #uv. In many cases, these videos refer to the UV index, a shorthand for a measure of how intense ultraviolet radiation is at a given location. In video after video dating back to at least 2022, many with over 100,000 likes, young women in bikinis seek out UV indexes of 6 and above for tanning.
The problem is that the UV index wasn’t invented for peak tanning, but rather to tell us when not to go into the sun.
“The fact that they’re looking for the spike is exactly the opposite of what it was originally meant for,” said Morgan Rabach, an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “This is dangerous behavior.”
Kids these days. . .
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