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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Re:Complex organo chlorines and cancers
  • Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:24:55 EDT

In a message dated 3/14/2003 2:00:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, rmhoward@omninet.net.au writes:
"Eugene F. Monaco" wrote:


>The white man is a good example of such a hardy weed…<


I just learned last night from an MD that Americans have 34 times as many parasites as African people, and that cancer is growing in N. America at an “epidemic” rate.  Four years ago breast cancers risks for women were 1 in 34.  Today it is 1 in 8.

What has happened in only 4 years?
 

What hs happened is that the latency period between population wide exposure to long lived organo chlorine chemicals (30 years) has passed and we are beginning to see the consequent epidemic of breast cancer. We are also seeing early treatment and greater scanning which could cause a short term change in your figures. But the long term trend is clear breast cancer rates are increasing and the age at onset is falling.

A similar rate of increase amongst testicular and prostate cancer is also beginning to show up.
 

Researchers correlate the high parasites to high sugar diets, and things that convert easily to sugar, like simple carbs.  African diets are better, consisting of more whole grains and fiber accounting for the difference.

The idea that diet is behind rates of cancer increase is a convenient notion fostered by the chemical industry.


I was reminded of the post from Bob Howard a while back when I ran across a timely article on the subject. It traces the rise in the incidence of prostate cancer and bile duct cancer to the increase in the use of concentrated nitrates and persistent fat-soluble pollutants like the organo-phosphate pesticides thirty or forty years earlier.

<http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0528-01.htm>

You can also find lots of info on the web linking these pervasive environmental chemicals to breast cancer. So far though, I'll admit, I haven't seen much about the exact pathways oncogenesis can arise from such chemicals being lodged in the body fats. Maybe someone out there knows something more about this.

Mike Elvin
Fuquay-Varina, NC




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