Many people discount risks from their lifestyle choices because they don't want to make the hard changes (losing weight, stopping smoking, getting regular exercise, reducing drinking, eating healthfully, reducing stress, and avoiding risky situations).
It's always easier to point the finger of blame at other factors rather than honestly look inside themselves.
I just received a news release telling me that my diabetes drug showed, in controlled study, that it increases the risk of bladder cancer. I take a half dozen other drugs for full-blown metabolic syndrome, suffer the side effects, and lie awake thinking about the risks. Have you noticed that most of the advertisements on TV are for drugs? I think all of them are toxic, even at normal dosage levels. When we will find other ways?
Sherrie, on my TV i see a lot more car commercials and food commercials and commercials for other TV shows. I get what you are trying to say and believe me, I do NOT agree with DTC advertising of medication, but I think you may have exaggerated just a tad.
By the way, if you truly think all your medications are toxic please stop taking them immediately. It is your personal choice to manage your chronic disease or not. Just remember, that chronic disease mis-management is currently costing all of us about $29B per year. So on second thought, keep taking those meds and stop complaining that you get to live longer.
1) Sherrie: I have, by diet change, (not going on a diet) been taken off ALL diabetes medication (4 jabs +1000 mg Metforminx2day) in 18 months. Read the labels and avoid fat, sugar & Carbs. There is hope.
2)
"We are being bombarded" with messages about the dangers posed by common things in our lives, yet most exposures "are not at a level that are going to cause cancer,
Mainly by people who want/need to be seen to be publishing something/anything to get their 15 minutes and probably some grant funding.
Yes, I wear a blue tooth..because my Mom said it looked better than a gold one. I also worry about the cancer..so I put on the ear gear and keep the phone in my pocket........??
Carcinogens are things that can cause cancer, but that label doesn't mean that they will or that they pose a risk to anyone exposed to them in any amount at any time.
Then why the hell do you push the lie that cigarette smoking causes cancer should you not say that it might?
I love when people brush off cancer risk by just saying anything can kill you, so why worry? If you want to do something, just do it. LOL. Cancer is a cumulative thing. If you expose your body tissues to any kind of irritant on a regular basis, the cells will not only do the repair work from injuries and routine maintenance by multiplying, but they will multiply out of control, thus the lumps and tumors. You can be smart and minimize the causes of cancer that you can control by avoiding these possible hazards, or you can take your lumps (no pun intended) when you go into your 50's and later.
Birth is the leading cause of death. Everyone who has ever died shared one thing in common: they were born. We should regulate and limit exposure to birth.
Men should carry a warning label: "if they don't pay attention to their health and the health of their family, they will die sooner and make their families sick."
Corn syrup. It is not a natural substance, but is made by using chemicals that have no place in the human body. Everybody I've spoken to who is on radiation therapy can't even stomach it; my husband is on chemo therapy and he vomits if there is corn syrup in his food. And it is put in soda pop, juice, pastries, breads (even bagels), ketchup, steak sauce, salad dressing, and other sauces, etc. My husband was told to avoid nitrites and nitrates, but how can anybody avoid corn syrup? The body cannot metabolize it; at the very least it causes a fatty liver. We get this stuff even if we don't want it; check labels. In Canada and Europe, sauces etc. are not allowed to be made with corn syrup, why here? We order some foods from Canada; same brand sold in the U.S., but from Canada the ingredients are different and it tastes much better. The U.S. also allows far too many glutamates in food: not just MSG, but hydrolized yeast etc., and these affect all the cells too, especially the brain and nervous system.
I am always skeptical of the initial studies that show a link between some benign product and cancer. I have trouble believing cell phone cause cancer, think about it. The batter in a cell phone is tiny and puts out a fraction of the amount of electromagnetic radiation as a simple light bulb, and no one has believed lights cause cancer. Cigarettes on the other hand definitely do, and if you want to get off them drink Quit Tea, You have to flush all those terrible chemicals out of your system.
The WHO is a possible cause of cancer. It is also a reliable cause of unneeded stress.
Many people discount risks from their lifestyle choices because they don't want to make the hard changes (losing weight, stopping smoking, getting regular exercise, reducing drinking, eating healthfully, reducing stress, and avoiding risky situations).
It's always easier to point the finger of blame at other factors rather than honestly look inside themselves.
I just received a news release telling me that my diabetes drug showed, in controlled study, that it increases the risk of bladder cancer. I take a half dozen other drugs for full-blown metabolic syndrome, suffer the side effects, and lie awake thinking about the risks. Have you noticed that most of the advertisements on TV are for drugs? I think all of them are toxic, even at normal dosage levels. When we will find other ways?
Sherrie, on my TV i see a lot more car commercials and food commercials and commercials for other TV shows. I get what you are trying to say and believe me, I do NOT agree with DTC advertising of medication, but I think you may have exaggerated just a tad.
By the way, if you truly think all your medications are toxic please stop taking them immediately. It is your personal choice to manage your chronic disease or not. Just remember, that chronic disease mis-management is currently costing all of us about $29B per year. So on second thought, keep taking those meds and stop complaining that you get to live longer.
1) Sherrie: I have, by diet change, (not going on a diet) been taken off ALL diabetes medication (4 jabs +1000 mg Metforminx2day) in 18 months. Read the labels and avoid fat, sugar & Carbs. There is hope.
2)
Mainly by people who want/need to be seen to be publishing something/anything to get their 15 minutes and probably some grant funding.
"You can't live life in fear," he said. "You have to live life."
By far the most substantive sentence in this whole article.
Sounds like anything can kill you. In fact, if you live too long it might you.
Yes, I wear a blue tooth..because my Mom said it looked better than a gold one. I also worry about the cancer..so I put on the ear gear and keep the phone in my pocket........??
Then why the hell do you push the lie that cigarette smoking causes cancer should you not say that it might?
Yes
I love when people brush off cancer risk by just saying anything can kill you, so why worry? If you want to do something, just do it. LOL. Cancer is a cumulative thing. If you expose your body tissues to any kind of irritant on a regular basis, the cells will not only do the repair work from injuries and routine maintenance by multiplying, but they will multiply out of control, thus the lumps and tumors. You can be smart and minimize the causes of cancer that you can control by avoiding these possible hazards, or you can take your lumps (no pun intended) when you go into your 50's and later.
Birth is the leading cause of death. Everyone who has ever died shared one thing in common: they were born. We should regulate and limit exposure to birth.
Women should carry a warning label.
"any child born of this woman will one day die".
Men should carry a warning label: "if they don't pay attention to their health and the health of their family, they will die sooner and make their families sick."
Corn syrup. It is not a natural substance, but is made by using chemicals that have no place in the human body. Everybody I've spoken to who is on radiation therapy can't even stomach it; my husband is on chemo therapy and he vomits if there is corn syrup in his food. And it is put in soda pop, juice, pastries, breads (even bagels), ketchup, steak sauce, salad dressing, and other sauces, etc. My husband was told to avoid nitrites and nitrates, but how can anybody avoid corn syrup? The body cannot metabolize it; at the very least it causes a fatty liver. We get this stuff even if we don't want it; check labels. In Canada and Europe, sauces etc. are not allowed to be made with corn syrup, why here? We order some foods from Canada; same brand sold in the U.S., but from Canada the ingredients are different and it tastes much better. The U.S. also allows far too many glutamates in food: not just MSG, but hydrolized yeast etc., and these affect all the cells too, especially the brain and nervous system.
I am always skeptical of the initial studies that show a link between some benign product and cancer. I have trouble believing cell phone cause cancer, think about it. The batter in a cell phone is tiny and puts out a fraction of the amount of electromagnetic radiation as a simple light bulb, and no one has believed lights cause cancer. Cigarettes on the other hand definitely do, and if you want to get off them drink Quit Tea, You have to flush all those terrible chemicals out of your system.