Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Do make-up chemicals:parabens, phtalates, etc give women cancer? Many forbidden in EU, but not US.

Known carcinogens— like formaldehyde—are used as preservatives in everything from suntan oil to makeup

Did Make-Up Give My Wife Breast Cancer? The Ugly Truth Hidden by the Cosmetics Industry | Alternet

European Union bans nearly 1,400 chemicals from personal care products because they are carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction.

But in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration entrusts safety regulation of cosmetics to a private entity that is housed and funded by the industry’s trade association.

To date, this entity has found only 11 chemicals to be “unsafe for use in cosmetics.”

The FDA has no oversight of cosmetics products before they come on the market and, unlike the EU, leaves it to the cosmetics industry to determine which ingredients should be banned.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Carcinogen chemical 4-methylimidazole, part of caramel coloring, found in colas, popular soft drinks Toxic also aspartame, bad fructose syrup.

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Many popular cola drinks including Coke and Pepsi contain a caramel-coloring chemical that causes cancer in lab animals, warns a consumer advocacy group.

“Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,”

the chemical called 4-methylimidazole or 4-MIical 4-methylimidazole is part of the caramel coloring used in many of soda beverages

It estimated that the chemical in Coke and Pepsi products is causing about 15,000 cancers only in the US.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Coffee drinking not linked to chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease, stroke.

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Coffee drinkers have no more risk of getting illnesses such as heart disease or cancer, and are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a German study involving more than 40,000 people over nearly a decade.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, came in the wake of many previous studies that produced conflicting results, with some tying coffee drinking to an increase in heart disease, cancer, stroke and more.

Study: Sleeping Pills Kill, Death 4x More Likely. Also 35% higher risk of cancer. Stay away from pills. Worse than smoking tobacco.

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Those who had sleep pills prescriptions were more than four times as likely to have died

What’s more, the researchers also documented a 35% increased risk of cancer among people taking sleeping pills, compared with the non-prescription group.

The risk of developing lymphoma, lung, colon or prostate cancer associated with sleeping pills was greater than the effect from smoking

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Japan nuclear crisis: fears of blunder over rising levels of radiation. Say what? Radiation not 10 million times higher, only 100 000 normal.

there is no doubt that there has been a huge leap in radiation within the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the turbine building of No 2 reactor, where a reading of more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour was recorded

Exposure to 100 millisieverts per year is believed to be the lowest level at which cancer risks are evident.

A dose of 1,000 millisieverts can cause temporary radiation sickness, including nausea and vomiting.

The number of radiation-affected foods will likely increase as each prefecture is testing its produce

The latest official figure for the dead and missing from the earthquake and tsunami stands at 27,242. A huge backlog of thousands of bodies in makeshift morgues is leading many local governments to hold mass burials.

Japan nuclear crisis: Japanese fear blunder over rising levels of radiation - Telegraph

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