Mothers Don't let Your Daughters get Breast Cancer
Sherill Sellman, author of MOTHERS, Prevent Your Daughters From Getting Breast
Cancer
We live in a synthetic chemical soup. They’re everywhere, in everything and they’re here to
stay. How many? It is estimated that since World War II, more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals
have invaded our world. About 40 million tons are manufactured worldwide.
It is shocking to learn that hardly any of these substances have been tested for safety, but
have been added to our food, skin care, water, cleaning products etc. without our consent
and, most of all, without warnings of their potential dangers.
Approximately 1000 new synthetic chemicals are made each year. Surprisingly, city dwellers
use more synthetic chemicals per acre than farmers and spend more than one billion dollars
annually. In a lifetime 50 lbs of toxic waste can enter a body from drinking water and at least
450 lbs can enter the body through the skin.
Organochlorines are chlorine-based chemicals. They are extremely toxic and lethal and
include herbicides, pesticides, including DDT, its metabolite DDE, dieldrin, atrazine,
methoxychlor, hetachlor, kepone, chlorine bleach, most disinfectants and vinyl chloride which
is used to make plastic products such as bottles and soft toys for babies.
They accumulate in our bodies in many ways: from drinking water; from food grown with
agricultural chemicals; from plastic migrating into canned and microwaved foods and from food
or body contact with chlorine bleached paper products (coffee filters, tampons, paper cups,
toilet papers).
Although pesticides are designed to kill insects and other organisms, that’s not all they do. In
fact, only 2 per cent of the 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides sprayed on crops accomplish this
purpose! The other 98 per cent are absorbed into the air, water, soil or food supply – and into
our bodies.
The majority of organochlorines are stored in fat cells and breast tissue. The tendency of
organochlorines to stay in the body is evidenced by the fact that recent samples of fat and
breast milk collected from women in the United States and Canada contained DDT, chlordane
and dieldrin, organochlorines banned for over three decades (as well as those in current use
such as DDE and PCBs).
Women with high levels of agricultural organochlorines in their blood are 4 to 10 times more
likely to develop breast cancer than women with low levels. Women with breast cancer have
50- 60 percent more PCBs, DDE and other pesticides and organochlorines in their tissues
than women without breast cancer.
The really scary thing about these pervasive chemicals is that fetuses and infants can be
harmed by exposure to chemicals at levels that do not appear to harm adults. In fact, these
hormone disrupting chemicals can have effects at extraordinarily low doses, as low as parts
per trillion. Mixtures of synthetic chemicals can have effects that are different from those of
individual synthetic chemicals.
For instance, a combination of only two different organochlorines together in minute doses has
been found to be 1000 times more potent in affecting human estrogen receptors as with the
chemicals alone. So, there’s no escape. We’re surrounded. Products that look innocent, such
as commercial soaps and shampoos, can be harboring potent carcinogenic hormone
disrupters.
The same applies to our food. Our favorite salad green, lettuce, can be sprayed with
pesticides as many as 12 times in its short life. The lawns our children play on, the household
cleaners we use in our ovens, on the sink, for the toilet. The water we bathe in. These are just
some of the ever-contaminating ways synthetic chemical shave silently infiltrated into our lives
and put our health at risk.
What do we do to survive the toxic onslaught?
It has become obvious that going organic is really no longer an option. From eating organic
fruits and veggies to using organic personal care products, household cleaning products and
organic pest control, going organic is really the only way to go.
A recent study found that pre-schoolers who were eating primarily organic foods had 6-9 times
less pesticide residues in their bodies! So, just making small changes do make a difference!.
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