Acryl, Rayon, Workplace Chemicals Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Woman’s exposure to synthetic fibers and certain oil byproducts before mid-thirties triples a woman’s risk of breast cancer after menopause, Canadian study says.
France Labreche of the National Institute of Public Health in Montreal found a strong link between higher rates of risk and exposure to several common synthetic materials, found in textile factories and other industrial settings.
Breast tissue is more susceptible to chemical toxins in women under 40.
Women occupationally exposed to acrylic fibers ran a seven-fold risk of breast cancer, while exposure to nylon fibers nearly doubled the risk.
Among breast cancer patients, those whose tumors responded well to estrogen treatment, but not progesterone treatment, were more than twice as likely to have breast cancer for every decade they were exposed to so-called monaromatic hydrocarbons — a byproduct of crude oil — and to acrylic or rayon fibers.
Exposure before the age of 36 to another class of hydrocarbons found in petroleum products tripled the risk for women whose tumors responded to both types of hormone treatment.
Estrogen and progesterone are both naturally-occurring hormones used in breast cancer treatment.
Compared to the non-breast cancer group, the risk peaked before the age of 36, when still-active cells in breast tissue are thought to be more sensitive to harmful chemicals.
Could wearing rayon and acryl clothes also pose a risk of breast cancer? There’s no word about it.
Yet.
Detox and Cancer Prevention
No study I know of shows definitivly cancer will be prevented if everybody does just this one thing, or eats this one food, or not this other. Since people’s bodies and tolerance are different there will probably never be a “one size fits all” for cancer prevention. Our bodies change substantially during our own life. We go through deteriation and healing.
As beings with the spark of life we are served well by living foods. To gain detox and promote out body’s healing ability choosing fresh vegetables, fruits, grains and beans to be a big part of your daily diet will detox you.
More energy and less disease can be pretty much guaranteed to those who partake in making fresh natural foods, enough rest and exercise, and stress management something to study and practice.
As much as this blog is about body detox recipes doing specific detox activities has to be part of making the best effort to live a healthy and productive live by incorporating healthy habits and working to unload the unhealthy stuff.
Rushing into detox as a way to counter an otherwise unhealthy living experience is much like rushing to your doctor for a “fix me” prescription. I can only imagine how doctors feel when they see an overweight smoker have a serious ailment when he knows it never had to be like that.
Even detoxing and healthy eating will be substantially undermined if a person is not learning to deal better with the stresses life presents to everyone. When you are upset by anything, that is stress. Stress is your reaction to life. Resentment is the worst. It seems a natural reaction yet if followed, the poisons resentment, unforgiveness, and holding ill will generate inside you will fester into a destruction no medicine or fast or herb will fully protect you from.
I appreciate your comments, questions and experiences.
Regards,
Ashley
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Pomegranate Juice to Slow Prostate Cancer Progress
Study shows that drinking pomegranate juice may benefit men to slow the progress of prostate cancer.
Pomegranates contain a cocktail of chemicals which minimise cell damage, and potentially kill off cancer cells.The study, by the University of California in Los Angeles, appears in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
Previous research had indicated that pomegranate juice could have a beneficial effect on prostate cancer in tests on mice.
But the latest study has shown that humans can potentially benefit too.
The presence of prostate cancer cells is monitored by measuring levels of a chemical they produce called prostate-specific antigen (PSA). The average doubling time of the PSA is about 15 months, but in patients who drank pomegranate juice this increased to an average of 54 months. This will help to delay the therapies such as hormone treatment or chemotherapy, both of which bring with them harmful side effects.
Besides the ability to slow prostate cancer progress, pomegranate juice may also protect human body from the damage by particles called free radicals because the anti-inflammatory effects and high levels of anti-oxidants in it.
Acid Reflux May Cause Esophageal Cancer
New research has proven that there is a connection between acid reflux and esophageal cancer and Barrett’s esophagus.
Mayo Clinic’s gastroenterologists, G. Richard Locke III, M.D., and Yvonne Romero, M.D., say that only five percent of individulas who experience acid reflux will develop Barett’s esophagus and once it is diagnosed, the patients will have a 30- to 125-fold increased risk of developing esophageal cancer.
Barrett’s esophagus is a condition which damage to the cells that line the esophagus and causes these cells to become abnormal. The damage is mostly caused by chronic acid reflux, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or inflamed esophagus.
Acid reflux is a common and one of the most frequent causes of indigestion.
If you have Barrett’s esophagus symptoms, such as heartburn pain at night, blood in the stools, swallowing problems and vomiting, please visit your doctor and tell him or her your symptoms before it get worse.
