When Will Cooks Wise Up: Chemicals in Women

Do you REALLY want 'convenience' of "non-stick" pans, the 'best' way to kill pet birds --in food -in You?

Chemicals in Pregnant Women Identified
Published: Jan. 14, 2011 at 7:54 PM

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Almost all U.S. pregnant women carry dozens of chemicals from non-stick cookware, food or personal-care items -- some banned from the 1970s, researchers say.

Lead author Tracey Woodruff of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues analyzed data for 163 chemicals and found 43 of the chemicals were found in more than 99 percent of pregnant women.

The researchers detected
polychlorinated biphenyls
organochlorine pesticides
perfluorinated compounds
phenols
polybrominated diphenyl ethers
phthalates
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
perchlorate [dry cleaners fluid, jet fuel; found seeping into ground water, many sites]
in 99 percent to 100 percent of pregnant women. [highlights mine]

Bisphenol A, a chemical that makes plastic hard and clear and also found in epoxy resins that are used to line the inside of metal food and beverage cans, was identified in 96 percent of the women studied.

Prenatal exposure to BPA has been linked to affecting brain development and increasing susceptibility to cancer later in life, the researchers say.

"It was surprising and concerning to find so many chemicals in pregnant women without fully knowing the implications for pregnancy," Woodruff says in a statement.

"Several of these chemicals in pregnant women were at the same concentrations that have been associated with negative effects in children from other studies.

The findings are published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
© 2011 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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--'Cannot' use a little butter -oil in the pan, Really? Then: don't get pregnant, expect healthy baby....

--Remedy for the Politcs --that allows chemicals that cause cancer --chemical-makers to shove toxins into market place --without Proof of safety? Where to start...
Start with: Did you know you can cause a member of Congress to vote the way You want? It takes: only 100 sincere letters --to a Senator, to Member of House. So: find 9 friends --ask each to find nine friends until, tada~ 100 people --who each promise to write a letter to Their rep.

-Outlaw: "non-stick" cookware --ALL of it recalled within 60 days; no further production; all cookware -tools, etc. produced with "non-stick" toxins: destroyed safely --without allowing ANY into landfills -groundwater -ocean.

-Demand: ALL chemicals produced since 1970 - onward --PROVEN safe for environment -creatures -humans --ZERO 'side' affects of cancer-causing chemicals Before allowed to continue production, sale --before introduced into market --with FDA and EPA required oversight.

If You --don't take any action --do nothing?
Why are you at this website? No other country in the world has cancer rates of US --if you aren't willing to take action to Stop chemical/toxin producers: why bother finding out what WILL give you cancer?

Find nine friends --before end of the week: who each promise to find nine friends, and to write --who each promises to do the same. If not: start saving up --for more medical insurance, nice funeral; write your Will.

More incentive?
The chemicals in non-stock cookware: found in bloodstream of polar bears --eight years ago. If bears in Alaska cannot escape these toxins: what are Your chances?

Write short direct personal letter to both your Senators, your Congress person --they don't hear from You: they will go with the lobbyist --at their office, with a check --Allow chemical makers to continue.

Your choice --but not any baby's....

Bone Drugs: Linked to Esophageal Cancer

By Kate Kelland

LONDON Thu Sep 2, 2010 7:09pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - People who take a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be doubling their risk of developing cancer of the gullet or esophagus, a British study found on Friday.

Researchers who conducted the work said the results were worrying, but should not prompt doctors or patients to immediately change their practice on bisphosphonates, which are prescribed mainly to older people to help strengthen weak bones.

"We have to be concerned, but this is the first large study with long-term follow up that has found this effect, and it is just one observational study," said Jane Green of Oxford University's Cancer Epidemiology Unit, whose research was published in the British Medical Journal.

"Also, because esophageal cancer is uncommon, even a doubled risk is still a low risk," she said in a telephone interview.

Bisphosphonates are a class of drug designed to help prevent bone fractures and offset bone weakness associated with menopause and with osteoporosis. They include Merck & Co's Fosamax, Roche's Boniva, Novartis's Reclast and Warner Chilcott's Actonel.

Green and colleagues from Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) analyzed data from the UK General Practice Research database on men and women aged over 40 who had either esophageal cancer, stomach cancer or colorectal cancer diagnosed between 1995 and 2005.

They found that people with 10 or more prescriptions for bisphosphonates, or with prescriptions over about five years, had nearly double the risk of esophageal cancer compared with people with no bisphosphonate prescriptions.

"In Europe and North America, the incidence of esophageal cancer at age 60-79 is typically 1 per 1,000 population over five years, and this is estimated to increase to about 2 per 1,000 with five years' use of oral bisphosphonates," they wrote in a report of their findings.

In people who had one or more previous prescriptions for oral bisphosphonates, the risk of developing of esophageal cancer was 30 percent higher than in those who had never taken the drugs. The researchers found no links between bisphosphonate prescriptions and stomach or bowel cancer.

Green noted that a previous study using the same UK database had found no link between bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, but said her research had tracked patients for almost twice as long. She also said that with populations aging, bone diseases such as osteoporosis were becoming more common, leading to higher levels of bisphosphonate use.

"It's important to see our findings as part of a wider picture. These are very commonly prescribed drugs and we don't have enough information about the long-term risks and benefits."

In a commentary on the study, Diane Wysowski of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] said "the possibility of adverse effects on the esophagus should prompt doctors who prescribe these drugs to consider risks versus benefits."

She also suggested doctors "tell patients to report difficulty in swallowing and throat, chest, or digestive discomfort so that they can be promptly evaluated and possibly advised to discontinue the drug."

--"Possibly" discontinue? You sure could just keep on keep'n on Listening --to actress Sally Fields --flog Boniva for a living ...shovel toxins... loose your throat -body... or not, whatever --makes you feel good.