Car Windows Can Preferentially select For Harmful UV Radiation
one factor involves indoor exposures to UVA (321–400nm) passing through windows, which can cause mutations and can break down vitamin D3 formed after outdoor UVB (290–320nm) exposure, and the other factor involves low levels of cutaneous vitamin D3. After vitamin D3 forms, melanoma cells can convert it to the hormone, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, or calcitriol, which causes growth inhibition and apoptotic cell death in vitro and in vivo. … We agree that intense, intermittent outdoor UV overexposures and sunburns initiate CMM [cutaneous malignant melanoma]; we now propose that increased UVA exposures and inadequately maintained cutaneous levels of vitamin D3 promotes CMM.
Food Additives & Cancer
good resource
Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking in Men, Researchers Say - Bloomberg
Researchers examined 271 throat-tumor samples collected over 20 years ending in 2004 and found that the percentage of oral cancer linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, surged to 72 percent from about 16 percent, according to a report released yesterday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. By 2020, the virus-linked throat tumors — which mostly affected men — will become more common than HPV-caused cervical cancer, the report found.
Food with the label irradiated food, may be harmful to your health
food irradiation destroys much of the vitamin content of food, produces a number of toxic byproducts: formaldehyde, benzene, and formic acid, as well as unique radiolytic products, e.g. 2-alklycyclobutanoes, that have been demonstrated to be cytotoxic (damages cells), genotoxic (damages DNA), and carcinogenic (causes cancer) in test tube and animal studies.”
Fortunately, the FDA currently requires that irradiated foods include labeling with the statement “treated with radiation” or “treated by irradiation” and the international symbol for irradiation, the radura:
Pesticides are linked to multiple problems : Parkinson's, diabetes & lung cancer.
IN 2009, researchers at UCLA linked Parkinson’s Disease (PD) to two chemicals commonly sprayed on crops to fight pests. The study didn’t examine farmers, but rather focused on people living near the farm fields where the chemicals maneb and paraquat were sprayed. They found that, for those residents, the risk for PD increased 75%.
A follow-up study adds two new twists. Funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences and Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, and the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, researchers have now implicated a third pesticide, ziram.
This time, the population tested also included people who worked near sprayed fields- including firefighters, teachers, and clerks. They found that the combined exposure to ziram, maneb and paraquat near any workplace increased the risk of PD threefold, while combined exposure to ziram and paraquat alone was associated with an 80 percent increase in risk. The results appear in the current online edition of the European Journal of Epidemiology.http://www.neurology.org/content/50/5/1346.abstract
When adjusted for these variables and smoking status, there was a significant association of occupational exposure to herbicides (odds ratio [OR], 4.10; 95% CI, 1.37, 12.24) and insecticides (OR, 3.55; 95% CI, 1.75, 7.18) with PD, but no relation was found with fungicide exposure. Farming as an occupation was significantly associated with PD (OR, 2.79; 95% CI, 1.03, 7.55), but there was no increased risk of the disease with rural or farm residence or well water use
Both insecticides and herbicides — most notably organochlorines, organophosphorus compounds, chlorophenoxy acids/esters, and botanicals — significantly increased the risk of Parkinson’s disease, the researchers report in the online journal BioMedCentral (BMC) Neurology.http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/167/10/1235
Using logistic regression, the authors considered two primary measures of pesticide exposure: ever use and cumulative lifetime days of use. They found seven specific pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, heptachlor, dichlorvos, trichlorfon, alachlor, and cyanazine) for which the odds of diabetes incidence increased with both ever use and cumulative days of use. Applicators who had used the organochlorine insecticides aldrin, chlordane, and heptachlor more than 100 lifetime days had 51%, 63%, and 94% increased odds of diabetes, respectively
http://newswise.com/articles/view/541427/
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-pesticides-parkinsons-20110526,0,4772737.story
California researchers who first established a link between two commonly used pesticides and Parkinson’s disease have found a third crop-enhancing chemical — ziram — that appears to raise the risk of developing the movement disorder.And they have found that people whose workplaces were close to fields sprayed with these chemicals — not just those who live nearby — are at higher risk of developing Parkinson’s.
http://peer.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/57/38/99/PDF/PEER_stage2_10.1080%252F02652030903031171.pdf
In animal studies conducted as part of the research on agricultural chemicals and Parkinson’s disease, the researchers found that ziram was powerfully destructive to neurons that use the transmitter chemical dopamine to send messages. These brain cells are the ones that die off in regions of the brain that govern motor function, causing the tremors, unsteady gait and difficulty initiating movement that are the hallmarks of Parkinson’s.
When compared to applicators who had never used these chemicals, those who had used metolachlor over 457 lifetime days had a four-fold risk of lung cancer. For those who had usedpendimethalin more than 225 days, their risk was 3.5 times greater for developing lung cancer.
That alcohol in your mouthwash doesn’t help fight bacteria and might give you oral cancer and dry out your mouth.
Alcohol [is used as a] solvent (no it isn’t there to fight bacteria). It also unfortunately dries the mouth out which is counterproductive so most companies are shying away from this
Here is a link on alcohol based mouthwash and oral cancer.
Microwave oven health risk
In intervals of two to five days, the volunteers in the study received one of the following food variants on an empty stomach: (1) raw milk; (2) the same milk conventionally cooked; (3) pasteurized milk; (4) the same raw milks cooked in a microwave oven; (5) raw vegetables from an organic farm; (6) the same vegetables cooked conventionally; (7) the same vegetables frozen and defrosted in a microwave oven; and (8) the same vegetables cooked in the microwave oven. Once the volunteers were isolated, blood samples were taken from every volunteer immediately before eating. Then, blood samples were taken at defined intervals after eating from the above milk or vegetable preparations.
Leukocytes are often signs of pathogenic effects on the living system, such as poisoning and cell damage. The increase of leukocytes with the microwaved foods were more pronounced than with all the other variants. It appears that these marked increases were caused entirely by ingesting the microwaved substances.
- Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
- Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
- Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
- Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
- Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
- Decrease in nutritional value
So the first set of studies suggests that the microwave oven creates new substances that our immune system needs to fight against. It sufficiently changes food from something our body is familiar with to something that’s a threat. Chronic inflammation taxes our body and is linked to heart disease, cancer, and a variety of other diseases.
The second set of studies are self-explanatory, detailing some of the changes that take place and how microwaves transform foods into carcinogens.
Is your car killing you with benzene?
Good article. Main point is that your car’s interior surfaces release benzene into the air, so it’s smart to open your windows before turning on the AC if at all possible…
On a sunny day, the temperature in a parked car can be more than 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) higher than the outside air.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has a limit for short-term (15 minute) workplace exposure (3.2 mg per cubic meter) and for average workday exposure ( 0.32 mg per cubic meter).
Several other studies — from Germany, South Korea, and the United States — have looked at benzene levels in moving cars. These levels have ranged from 0.013 to 0.560 mg per cubic meter
It’s impossible to know whether these guidelines for benzene levels are high or low, nor are you likely to get your car tested for interior benzene emissions.
Of course benzene is only one of many chemicals leached by your car’s interior.
The upshot is that it’s good to let in some fresh air when you first get in your car and to leave the windows if you can.
If a man has a child later in life, health risks abound.
a man over 40 is almost six times as likely as a man under 30 to father an autistic child. Since then, research has shown that a man’s chances of fathering offspring with schizophrenia double when he hits 40 and triple at age 50. The incidence of bipolarity, epilepsy, prostate cancer and breast cancer also increases in children born to men approaching 40. Both dwarfism and Marfan syndrome (a disorder of the connective tissue) have been linked to older fathers, and according to research published in 1996 in the journal Nature Genetics, Apert syndrome (a disorder characterized by malformations of the skull, face, hands and feet) is a mutation caused exclusively by advanced paternal age. A 2009 study at the University of Queensland, Australia, found a correlation between advanced paternal age and poorer performance by children on intelligence tests (the children of older mothers actually performed better). And when researchers at King’s College, London, bred mice from fathers of differing ages, the offspring of older fathers exhibited significant deficits in social and exploratory behavior.
Dairy products increase a hormone called IGF-1 which makes you age more quickly
Dairy foods increase growth hormones.
The most powerful of these hormones is called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). When cow’s milk is fed to people, IGF-1 levels also increase. Studies funded by the dairy industry show a 10% increase in IGF-1 levels in adolescent girls from one pint daily and the same 10% increase for postmenopausal women from 3 servings per day of nonfat milk or 1% milk.4,5
IGF-1 promotes undesirable growth too—like cancer growth and accelerated aging. IGF-1 is one of the most powerful promoters of cancer growth ever discovered for cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, and colon.6
Overstimulation of growth by IGF-1 leads to premature aging too—and reducing IGF-1 levels is “anti-aging.”
note : This is a post from my old tumblr
Yeah, you might as well put mushrooms and onions in your omelette, seeing as they help prevent cancer and all…
Mushrooms often prevent against angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation) - or rather they help stop the shit-tons of angiogenesis needed for cancer cells to proliferate. Here are some of those mushrooms and the compounds which are helpful vs. angiogenesis.
- Agaricus blazei mushrooms (angiogenesis inhibitors found in the mushroom include sodium pyroglutamate and ergosterol)[5][6]]
- Reishi mushrooms (via inhibition of VEGF and TGF-beta)[8]
- Trametes versicolor mushrooms[9]
- Maitake mushrooms (via inhibition of VEGF)[10]
- Phellinus linteus mushrooms[11
But as this article says, there are benefits to lots of different types of mushrooms
Shiitake mushrooms have been found to inhibit increases in tumor volume of human breast cancer cells implanted in mice.
Portobello and crimini mushrooms are closely related to white button mushrooms. Of the mushrooms studied, white button mushrooms have among the most powerful proven breast cancer chemopreventive properties, since they have been shown to suppress aromatase activity and estrogen biosynthesis
Onions contain quercetin (which is also in some fruits) which helps prevent angiogenesis. Studies have shown that onions and garlic reduce cancer risk.
In-Car Toxic Air Pollution—a New Cancer Risk? Cinco Vidas
Your car—like any enclosed area—tends to trap air inside when it’s left for hours or even days and weeks without being opened.
the interior of your car, simply because it’s less ventilated then the air outside, can become more concentrated with toxic pollution.
A report by the International Center for Technology Assessment reviewed 23 studies covering the main pollutants found in cars, including particulate matter (which can include smoke, dirt, dust, mold, spores, and pollen), volatile organic compounds (VOCs like benzene, which has been linked with cancer), carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and ozone.
- Concentrations of VOCs were over 6 times higher in cars than at fixed-site measuring stations and nearly 2 times higher than at the side of the road.
- Car commuters were exposed to more benzene than subway commuters, even though subway commutes were shorter.
- Two studies showed higher benzene concentrations in passenger cars during urban driving than during suburban or highway driving.
- Improperly maintained vehicles had higher in-vehicle concentrations of benzene.
- A 1995 study found that most in-car VOCs come from outside exhaust (not dashboards and seats as the email implied).
- Carbon monoxide levels inside cars showed consistently higher than in ambient air. Driving on urban streets caused higher in-care exposures than rural roads or interstates.
pollution levels inside cars are often much higher than those detected in the ambient air, at the roadside, and in other commonly used vehicles.
…also detected toxic chemicals like benzene, toluene, and methl-tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) inside of cars during commutes.
- When you get in your car, roll the windows down and let it air out before closing it up.
Sources
- International Center for Technology Assessment, “In-Car Air Pollution: The Hidden Threat to Automobile Drivers,” Report No. 4. An Assessment of the Air Quality Inside Automobile Passenger Compartments. July 2000.
- Jin-Woo lee and Wan-Kuen Jo, “Actual Commuter Exposure to Methyl-Tertiary Butyl Ether, Benzene, and Toluene While Traveling in Korean Urban Areas,” The Science of the Total Environment 291 (1-3): 219-228 (May 2002).
Yeah, unfortunately most manufactured products decay and release air pollutants. This is true for the chairs in your house, and pretty much any household product. Ventilation is very very healthy whenever possible.
New studies reveal evidence that cell phone radiation damages DNA, brain, and sperm
pulsed digital signals from cell phones disrupt DNA, impair brain function, and lower sperm count.
Insect studies have demonstrated that acute exposure to GSM (Global System for Mobile) signals brings about DNA fragmentation in insects’ ovarian cells, and consequently a large reduction in the reproductive capacity of the insects.
exposure to radiation for just six minutes a day affects the bone formation of fetuses.
Dr. Seyhan found that the increasing use of cell phones — and the increasing number of associated base stations — are becoming a widespread source of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. This work suggests that some biological effects are likely to occur even with low-level electromagnetic fields. The team concluded that 900 and 1,800 MHz radiation levels is related to an increase in the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in young adult male rats. The rat’s brains can be used to correspond to the brains of human teenagers.
Just because radiation is not ionizing, doesn’t mean it won’t do damage….
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