Breast Cancer Update!

The Silence that Kills

     "Hundreds of thousands of people die needlessly", says a report on breast cancer written in the UK.  This document, recently released by the UK Working Group on the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer, states that government and the "cancer establishment" are not disclosing real facts on breast cancer.  The number one fact is that "manmade environmental pollutants are the major causes and that breast cancer is preventable."

     The report, "Breast Cancer: An Environmental Disease," goes on to accuse the governments and cancer establishment of "being fixated with screening and treatment while prevention is being ignored."

      Diana Ward, the primary author of the report states, "Breast cancer is preventable, but governments and the cancer industry determinedly ignore the evidence...to prevent breast cancer, women are told to change their diet, to exercise, and to reduce weight.  The truth is that no lifestyle change can prevent breast cancer when we're exposed to cancer-causing and cancer-promoting substances on a daily basis.  Our bodies have become long-term storage centres for synthetic chemicals and the implications for 'hormone-dependent' disease like breast cancer are huge."

     Our country's cancer policy needs to change.  It needs to focus on true prevention by removing cancer causing materials from our environment.  In other words our country needs to make producers of these chemicals accountable.  Here are some facts to consider:

  • "More than 500 chemicals found in our environment are known to be weakly estrogenic (hormone disrupting).  Many are found in detergents, pesticides, and plastics.
  • Children are born with a toxic burden right from the womb.  New analysis of blood from the umbilical cords of newborn babies found an array of chemicals, many of which are suspected to have links with health problems ranging from birth defects to genital abnormalities to some types of cancer.
  • More than 350 man-made contaminants have been found in human breast milk.  Any chemicals stored in human body fat can potentially transfer to the newborn infant during breast-feeding, which makes breast milk "the most chemically-contaminated food on the planet".  In spite of this fact, it is still the absolutely best food for babies.
  • Scientists have known about the connection between dietary contaminants and cancers for many years, yet 95% of dioxin ( a known human carcinogen) which humans absorb come from the food we eat.  Most fish sold in supermarkets would be banned if the fish had the same limits of dioxin as milk, eggs and meat.
  • Risk assessment of chemical exposure-when it exists at all-is geared to what affects male adults, not children.  This is despite the widely-acknowledged fact that children are more vulnerable to toxic substances and are affected by smaller concentrations.
  • On September 3, 2005, the Standing Committee of European Doctors issued this statement: "It has now been scientifically demonstrated that there is indeed a link between chemical products and the appearance of diseases such as cancers."  The doctor's statement added: "Chemical pollution poses a serious threat to children and to the human race."

 

     The anti-cancer UK coalition calls this "the silence that kills," and rightly so.   Cancer kills, but many forms of cancer can be prevented.  Corporations responsible for the production, manufacture, and distribution of these toxic chemicals should be held accountable and the chemicals must be removed from our environment.  

Source: Volume 12 No. 6 November 2205 CCPA Monitor

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Naturopathic Cancer Prevention

     When looking at cancer prevention the best place to start is detoxification.  Get rid of cancer promoting toxins and your body and immune system will do a better job at defending you against cancer.  However, it is important to detoxify properly.  We no longer promote water fasting due to the high levels of toxins people carry in their bodies.  If those toxins are released too quickly, as in a water fast, they can do more harm as they leave the body.  Specific nutrients, herbs, and foods can bind these toxins and rid them from the body in a much safer way.

     Of course, once you flush toxins from your body it is important that you avoid putting them back.  Eating only organic foods, using non-chemical cleaners around the house, and avoiding the use of pesticides and other chemical compounds in your gardens is a must.  Check out the February issue of Island Parent for an article by Beth Yim on Gardening The Natural Way.

     Cancer prevention for baby boomers has taken on an urgency never before seen, as our bodies are bombarded by a host of cancer causing toxins.  There are ways to lower your risks.  Contact Dr. Yim today to begin your prevention program.