PINK TIPS

I'll be posting health tips during this month as part of our Breast Health Awareness Campaign-

PINK TIP - Women who have poor diets, low in antioxidants and high in omega-6 fats (vegetable oils such as corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, soybean and canola oils), are at much greater risk for breast cancer. Likewise, women with chronic diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, colitis, and other autoimmune disorders are at substantially higher risk of cancer with yearly mammograms.

NB: Canola and Soy oils are used in Promise, Smart Balance, other margarines and prodcuts as "plant sterols". In most cases these oils are genetically modified which causes other health risks.

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Pink Lids Marching

Now that we are once again in the Pink Pandemonium I would like to comment on a recent interview aired from Portland OR about the fact that the woman interviewed said there is no cure for breast cancer.

Well there is cure, and there is also prevention. All of this has been on the record for decades, and little attention is given to it because of the influence of the breast cancer industry.

How about reporting on the well known fact that mammogram promotes breast cancer and it increases the incidence when you promote the "Annual Screening Mammogram" to women who are 40 years old.

Why not report on Thermography, a non-carcinogenic screening system that detects earlier and even identifies very minute real tumours. Mammogram, on the other hand, can't detect tumours until they are about 8 years old. And if you recall, the problem of reading the x-ray was seriously lacking, leading to many false findings, so another machine was developed to re-read your x-ray (digital mammography).

Why not report on the damaging effects of chemo and radiation and the miserable statistics proving that chemo really cures about 1-2% of people.

The politics of this is that there won't be a cure until the "race racket" stops subsidizing paychecks for researchers. Maybe it should subsidize the families of women who die from breast cancer or provide accountability to women who have been conditioned to believe there will be a cure.

AP should start doing some real investigative coverage of this issue. I've done the research and I've been educating women for several decades on these topics.

I direct a 501c3 organization and I can't get General Mills/Kraft to donate to it for our educational efforts, like this blog for example, as they give only to Komen. Komen refuses to communicate with my office.

Maybe there is a hidden agenda, or more likely a political issue, that keeps everyday people in the dark, at the cost of many lives.

TV News Harmful to Health
http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/tv-health-news-harmful-to-health.html

John Gofman, PhD, MD
"His 1985 book X-rays: Health Effects of Common Exams, co-written with Egan O'Connor, stated that 75 percent of cancer cases are caused by medical radiation, including X-rays, mammograms and CT scans."

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Pink Lid Parade is on the way

October is coming quickly and once again we'll see the pundits roll out the Pink Parade to help you believe you are really contributing to the "cure". Of course you should know by now this is just a campaign to allow scientists to continue chasing down paths that fail to offer a cure.

To help alert you to important issues in women's health, breast health and options for cancer, related articles till be tagged with the pink lid.

Remember, cures and better care along with better screening is already available, you just aren't getting the message from standard venues.


Breast cancer drugs raise blood clot risk

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Drugs used to lower the risk of breast cancer in women have the side effect of increasing the likelihood of blood clots, researchers in Oregon say.

The study, published in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, examined the effects of tamoxifen, raloxifene and tibolone reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer by 30 percent to 68 percent. But it also found tamoxifen and raloxifene increase the chance of blood clots by 60 percent to 90 percent, and that tiboline, which is not on the U.S. market, is associated with strokes in women over 70.

"They did differ on the harm side. That's important to know," said Dr. Heidi D. Nelson, a research professor at Oregon Health & Science University who was the lead author.

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Tumors fueled, in part, by free radicals

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The growth of cancerous tumors is fueled, in part, by the buildup of free radicals, or oxygen-containing molecules, U.S. researchers say.

Chemical biologist Kate Carroll of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and colleagues say their method monitors an early tip-off of oxidative stress -- sulfenic acid in proteins produced when the oxidant hydrogen peroxide reacts with the protein building block cysteine.

The researchers managed to use a chemical probe to "trap" the small, transient, hard-to-detect sulfenic acid and tag it for recognition with a fluorescence microscope in a panel of breast cancer cell lines.

"For each line, we saw a very distinct pattern of sulfenic acid modifications, indicating different oxidative stress levels and hinting at differences in the underlying molecular events associated with tumor growth," Carroll, the study leader, said in a statement.

"Whether the patterns we see will correlate with response to anti-oxidant treatment or other therapies that modulate oxidative stress level remains to be seen, but now we at least have a way to investigate that question."

The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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