7 Ways to Cancer-Proof Your Home

 

 By Dr. Mercola

'When it comes to cancer, you probably want to do what you can to avoid it. But how do you do that when it seems like everything around you poses a cancer risk?

Here are seven important steps to removing the most obvious cancer risks from your home.

They include checking for and removing: radon, nonstick-coated pots and pans, makeup and personal care products with toxic ingredients, BPA-lined cans and bottles, cleaning products and air fresheners, toxic building materials, furnishings and household cleaning supplies, as well as common pesticides and weed killers.'

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Cancer-causing flame retardants linger on in California

Old sofas may harbour banned flame retardants, which have been implicated in causing cancer.KATE FREDRIKSEN / SHUTTERSTOCK

'Chemicals designed to slow household firescontinue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions.

The most controversial chemicals — used to fire-proof sofas and foam baby products such as high-chair seats — are now on the way out, but a new generation with sometimes unknown health effects has taken their place, warn researchers.'

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Deadly Teflon Chemical - Decades of Cover-Ups

'It's in your cookware, your clothing, furniture, carpets, popcorn bags and even in your food! It's perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and it remains indefinitely in the environment and even gets stuck in your body. PFOA is a toxicant and known carcinogen that has been detected in the blood of more than 98% of the US population. Exposure to this chemical has been associated with increased cholesterol, uric acid levels, preeclampsia, heart disease, liver damage, thyroid trouble, neurological disorders, chronic kidney disease and kidney cancer.'


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Cancer Is Man-Made, Not Caused by Genes or Long Life: Study Documents

Graphic by Gaia Health 

'Forget all that nonsense about the search for the cure for cancer. It will never be found. The search for a cure is nothing but redirection from the reality that cancer is caused by modern life. It isn’t in your genes. It isn’t ever going to be cured. It’s an internal effect of the world we’ve created—and symbolic of our destruction of the natural world.

A study, entitled “Cancer: an old disease, a new disease or something in between?” was done by A. Rosalie David and Michael R. Zimmerman of the University of Manchester KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. Published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, it strongly suggests that cancer is a disease of the modern world. It is, of course, controversial.'

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New Model Predicts Human Health Risks From Over 80,000 Chemicals

 

'Approximately 80,000 industrial chemicals are in use and about 700 new chemicals are introduced to commerce each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. To assess human health risks from exposure to harmful substances, James Englehardt, professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Miami, is proposing a new technique that is more efficient than current methods.

A previous report issued in 2008 by the Breast Cancer Fund, found that the upswing in breast cancer since World War II is linked to the growing number of synthetic chemicals in use as well as to increased radiation exposure.

The biggest killers, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases are largely man-made and iatrogenic in origin, yet we ignorantly dismiss their growing incidence to factors which we assume are not preventable. '




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