Tomorrow, we'll look at a new report from the President's Cancer Panel on steps you should take in your everyday life to reduce the risk of cancer. It warns that widespread exposure to toxic chemicals is causing "grevious harm" to our bodies and needs to be better regulated. This is not the first time these red flags have been raised, but this is from a panel that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof calls "the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream." Among other things, it recommends avoiding certain foods, toys and garden products, as well as microwaving your food in plastic containers.
We're starting the conversation online now: Do reports like this make you change your behavior?
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I wandered this way because it is fairly certain that I have cancer. Biopsy results tomorrow at 1 all tests leading to this are certain in a speculative way.
Keep away from salt they say, and my thyroid cancer is caused either by a lack of iodine in the diet or radiation at youth. I guess there are other sources of iodine, non come to mind and who really thinks about that in the diet..?
My take is this. if it is grown eat it, if it needs a bit of salt use it if it is manufactured run from it if it has preservatives why do you need it around.
Think smart, so much out there hard to not brush up against anything that is not bad for your health..
Common sence and luck prevail in my view.
man, anybody who is surprised about any of these findings just doesn't read or listen much. We've been mostly (not obsessive) organic, local and unprocessed in this house since before our 16-year-old was born; I've been buying in bulk at the alternative co-op for better prices and better grains since the early '70s. Yes. Reports like this make me think, process and discuss with friends and family what our reaction will be. My Dad's 99, not Mr. Eat Organic by any means, but we always grew our own vegetables and went to farm stands in season. It's not just cancer. It's living in reasonable balance with the planet -- corn syrup? Just say "no!"
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