Environmental Toxins Killing Twenty-five Years After Banning Chemical! © By Lena Sanchez In 1980 the World Health Organization stated that 80 percent of cancers were due to synthetic carcinogens. But the American Cancer Society would have us believe that the cause is primarily personal. If we only modify our habits, and that is good, but does not explain why 70 to 80 percent of breast cancer victims do not fall within the American Cancer Society's three risk categories. And you are saying 1980, who cares that was so long ago and the problem was taken care of! Sorry but they just thought it was taken care of. Breast cancer has risen as have just about all cancers of every part of the body… It is also now found that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PCDE's) a notorious class of chemicals banned in 1977, after evidence that they caused cancer and build up in people and the environment, has now shown up in breast milk of women world wide in 2001 & 2002 during an environmental chemical studies followup. That is 25 years later! A few years back when I worked the ACS phone lines during the cancer education drives the figures were 1 in 8 women got breast cancer, it is now 1 in 3 women will get breast cancer. In 2002 in the United States alone, breast cancer struck an estimated 205,000 women and killed nearly 40,000. Billions of dollars have been spent in an effort to stem this unrelenting tide; yet as many as 50 percent of breast cancer cases remain unexplained by the characteristics and risk factors associated with the disease. Or a refusal to recognize the cause would be a better explanation. The breast milk samples collected from U.S. women in 2002 indicate even higher levels of (PBDEs) in the bodies of first-time mothers than found in Europe and Canada. Already, scientists say, most Americans may carry in their bodies levels of PBDEs that have been found to cause serious, permanent neurological damage in laboratory animals. PBDEs and other brominated fire retardants (BFRs) are similar in chemical structure to PCBs, which are still found in the bodies of people and animals more than 25 years after they were removed from commercial products in the United States. Taken from the Science News Vol. 142 on the Environment - Studies have documented in drinking water many potentially toxic volatile organic chemicals. (VOCs) - from chloroform and pesticides to carbon tetrachloride and lately the very deadly PBDE's. The Ralph Nader Group did an environmental study - privately funded - that showed that breast cancer along with cancer of the kidneys, skin, testes, prostate, and lung as well as non-Hodgkin's' lymphoma, malignant myeloma and numerous childhood cancers increased according to the amounts of pollutants, largely chlorine and chlorine byproducts in the air and water. The increased numbers of cancers also directly corresponded in accordance with the increased level of chlorine added to the water! As chlorine levels were increased so did the cancers in the area! Just as with antibiotic usage necessitates using strong antibiotics so does the use of chlorine need to be increased in the water systems periodically as the bacteria becomes immune to lower amounts! Taking long hot showers is a health risk, according to research presented in Anaheim, California at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Showers, and to a lesser extent baths, lead to a greater exposure to toxic chemicals contained in water supplies, than drinking the water. The chemicals evaporate out of the water and are inhaled. They can also spread through the house and be inhaled by others. Family members can receive 6 to 100 times more of the chemicals by breathing the air around showers and bathtubs than they would by drinking the water. Every day, a typical American comes in contact with dozens, if not hundreds, of consumer goods that contain PBDEs, including electronics, electrical cables, carpets, furniture, and textiles. Although the pathway by which PBDEs and other brominated fire retardants get into the environment is largely still a mystery, the chemicals are now found worldwide in house dust, indoor and outdoor air and the water and sediments of rivers, estuaries and oceans. PBDEs have been found in the tissues of humans, whales, seals, birds and bird eggs, moose, reindeer, mussels, eels, and dozens of species of freshwater and marine fish. If chemicals are still around after more than twenty years after being banned and you add the chlorine and chlorine byproducts of this century that the average household eats, drinks and breathes daily, is it any wonder so many are ill? Put the environmental issues and the lack of nutrients in our foods and this generation could be the last that have any similance of normalacy! These health problems created by the environmental issues are bankrupting the governments of the world in such a manner it isn't noticed, yet! I've found ways of getting away from some of those chemicals and one of those is http://www.envirodocs.com/water_filtration.htm whether you get it from me or someone else, protect you and your family TODAY as much as possible by eliminating as many chemicals as possible with water and air filtration. A second fighting front is to get your immune system tuned up to fight off the invaders from your environment around you! Wishing you great health and longevity! Lena *** Meet the author Lena Sanchez's at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/lena.htm Editor of "Natural Environmental Health Facts." And "Your Home Business Coach Ezine." Subscribe at http://www.envirodocs.com/newsletter