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Chemo and Radiation Kills Child. The WORST Place to Store Your Cell Phone. By Dr.

The WORST Place to Store Your Cell Phone

Mercola If you think the jury's still out on whether cell phones can be dangerous to your health, then you might want to take the time to listen to this video from the Environmental Health Trust (www.ehtrust.org). Dr. Devra Davis, author of "Disconnect--The Truth About Cellphone Radiation," has been researching the safety hazards of radiation emanating from your cell phone.Like many people, Dr.

Davis just didn't believe the possibility of cell phones being dangerous―until she studied it. Can Your Cell Phone Cause Cancer? One interesting case that can serve as an illustrative warning of the cancer-causing potential of cell phones is that of a young woman with no other predisposing risk factors for cancer who came down with multi-focal breast cancer. Why Carrying Your Cell Phone on Your Body is a Bad Idea... Men in particular may want to reconsider carrying their cell phones on their belts or in their pocket, in close proximity of their reproductive organs.

References: CancerSmart Consumer Guide. Home » Resources » Press Releases » CancerSmart Guide Helps Consumers Track Toxins at Home By Gail Johnson Illustration: Lori Joy Smith Georgia Straight 12-Aug-2004 Every time someone lights a cigarette, dozens of carcinogens get released into the air--substances like hydrogen cyanide and ammonia and formaldehyde.

CancerSmart Consumer Guide

If the word carcinogens has a nasty ring to it, that's for good reason: they're known to cause cancer. Just as not smoking can reduce the risk of lung cancer, not using harmful chemicals to clean your countertops could help decrease the chance of acquiring other forms of the disease. "People really do want to know what's in common products, and they have a right to know," Mae Burrows, LEAS's executive director, said in a phone interview. In Canada, Burrows explained, manufacturers do not have to label carcinogens on their products. "We have no rights as consumers in Canada--in this age of information--to know what's in a product," Burrows said. Increase in Deadly Melanoma Not Due to Sun Exposure. By Dr.

Increase in Deadly Melanoma Not Due to Sun Exposure

Mercola Rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have been rising for at least the last three decades, and this increase has been largely blamed on exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun. However, research published in the British Journal of Dermatology shows that the sun is likely nothing more than a scapegoat in the development of melanoma, and the sharp increase may actually be "an artifact caused by diagnostic drift.

" Melanoma Increases Due to Benign Disease, Not Sunlight Diagnostic drift, according to the study, refers to a hefty increase in disease that is being fueled by non-cancerous lesions. "There was no change in the combined incidence of the other stages of the disease, and the overall mortality only increased from 2.16 to 2.54 cases per 100,000 per year … We therefore conclude that the large increase in reported incidence is likely to be due to diagnostic drift, which classifies benign lesions as stage 1 melanoma. " The Real Reason the Cancer Industry Never Talks About Prevention. June 17, 2011 | 69,293 views Share In the video above Robyn O'Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her to become a Real Food evangelist.

The Real Reason the Cancer Industry Never Talks About Prevention

Her journey started when one of her children had a dangerous allergic reaction to a "typical" breakfast, and unfolded into discovering one reason why the United States may have the highest cancer rate in the world. Oncologists have long been using crude weapons to fight cancer -- cut out tumors or use chemotherapy that kills good cells as well as bad ones. Drug companies say that new cancer drugs will change this -- for a price. Cancer drugs are often horribly expensive. The Economist reports: "Not all these new drugs work. None of this is likely to change so long as the conventional medical establishment and organizations like the American Cancer Society, which appears to be far more interested in money than it is in finding a cure, continue to have their way.