tanorexia

Serious cases of tanorexia can be considered dangerous.

Some British dermatologists have even started using "tanorexia" to describe people who are addicted to sun beds.

Tanorexia' refers to an obsession with a suntan, while a 'salad dodger' is an obese person.

Tanorexia, slummy mummy and manscaping are some of the funny phrases being included in the vote, the Sun reported Friday.

You could have 'tanorexia'.

Krentcil's excessive tanning has focused attention on "tanorexia," a habit that research indicates can be as addictive as alcohol or smoking.

The overworked mother is unlikely, however, to suffer from tanorexia -- "an obsessive desire to have tanned skin, placing the sufferer at risk of skin cancer."

Neither tanning dependence nor tanorexia are covered under the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Tanorexia describes the inability of an individual to stop artificially tanning, and has been indicated among teenagers who regularly tan indoors and admit to being unable to stop.

In the same way, a sufferer of "tanorexia" may believe him or herself to have a much lighter - even a pale - complexion when he or she is actually quite dark-skinned.

From sky-high heels and tanorexia, to burning our hair or wearing too tight a fit; a study reveals just how many accidents we're willing to risk in order to look our very best.

Yes, we have tanorexia, manorexia, pregorexia... all of which suggest that anorexia is some form of trend, a slang term that can be slapped across any old obsession to make it media-friendly.

Although the term "tanorexia" has been used by the media and several doctors to describe the syndrome, both the word and syndrome have not been widely accepted by the medical community, and is considered slang by many.