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Indoor tanning develops eating disorder in teenagers (see pics)

New York: Schoolchildren using indoor tanning may develop unhealthy weight control behaviours such as taking diet pills or vomiting to lose weight, an alarming study said.The association between indoor tanning and such disorders may be

PTI Updated on: April 08, 2014 10:19 IST



Analysing the data on nearly 27,000 high school students in the US, the researchers found that about 23 percent of females and 6.5 percent of males reported indoor tanning within the past year.

For older teenagers, indoor tanning was even more common: 33 percent of females and 11 percent of males aged 18 years or older.
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