Health: Coping With Cancer--You Can Win the Battle!

Coping With Cancer--You Can Win the Battle!

Written by Larry Denton

If you are reading this article, chances are that you or someone you care about has cancer right now! Cancer is repparttar

uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells as they are needed to keep repparttar 113539

body healthy. Sometimes, however, this orderly process goes wrong. New cells form even when repparttar 113540

body does not need them, and old cells do not die when they should. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a growth or a tumor. Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous).

Cancer has been around as long as mankind. In repparttar 113541 second half of repparttar 113542 20th century, repparttar 113543 number of reported cancer cases exploded. Due in part to repparttar 113544 overload of toxins, pollutants, stress, dietary changes, lifestyle changes with people being less physical active, increasing numbers of pathogens, electromagnetic stress, artificial lighting and thousands of things that were not around 100 years ago. All of these combine to weaken your immune system and alter internal bodily functions, thus clearing repparttar 113545 way for cancer to develop.

The most common type of cancer is non-melanoma skin cancer, with more than 1,000,000 new cases expected in repparttar 113546 United States this year. Non-melanoma skin cancers represent about half of all repparttar 113547 cancers diagnosed in this country. The cancers with repparttar 113548 lowest incidence are renal cancer of repparttar 113549 kidney and thyroid cancer.

Although cancer is repparttar 113550 second leading cause of death in repparttar 113551 United States, behind coronary disease, repparttar 113552 survival rate for many types of cancer has drastically improved in recent years. About 1.1 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in repparttar 113553 U.S. in 2005 (the rate of 125 per hour) and about half a million people will die from cancer. However, improvements in cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment have increased repparttar 113554 survival rate significantly over repparttar 113555 last 20 years.

Toxic Plastic Water Bottles

Written by Debra Lynn Dadd

I recently received a question from one of my readers about repparttar

safety of drinking water from clear plastic water bottles. These bottles, made from Lexan polycarbonate resin (a plastic polymer), are widely used for single-serving sales to one-gallon of water in stores and home-delivery bottles.

Theee bottles appear to be safe because they do not impart any taste or odor to repparttar 113538 water. Lexan polycarbonate is also used to make compact discs and DVDs, bulletproof windows, mobile phones, and computers.

The water delivery company sent my reader a notice saying that their Lexan polycarbonate bottles are perfectly safe to use. They suggested their customers visit a website that was designed to portray this plastic in a positive light.

But, actually, a toxic chemical is lurking in these bottles that does end up in repparttar 113539 water you drink. Lexan used to be used to make baby bottles, but these are no longer sold. Hmmmmm...

STAY AWAY FROM BPA

In 1998, Dr. Patricia Hunt of Case Western University in Ohio discovered that one of repparttar 113540 components of Lexan polycarbonate resin--bisphenol-A (BPA)--can leach into water from water bottles. BPA is a potent hormone disruptor. It can impair repparttar 113541 reproductive organs and have adverse effects on breast tissue and prostate development.

Who do we believe? The water delivery company or Dr. Hunt?

I'm inclined to go with Dr. Hunt. I went to a website maintained by repparttar 113542 authors of Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival, who are continuously searching repparttar 113543 scientific literature for information on endochrine disruptors. The Our Stolen Future (http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/bisp page on bisphenol-a henola/bpauses.htm#recentimportant) gives a whole page of links to scientific studies that show that BPA damages repparttar 113544 endocrine system in a variety of ways.

BPA can leach from water bottles when exposed to heat and cleaning agents, but detectable levels of BPA can also leach into water from bottles just sitting at room temperature, according to a 2003 study conducted by repparttar 113545 University of Missouri published in repparttar 113546 journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY

Is there is a level of BPA that may be acceptable? To answer that question we have to ask: acceptable to who? A healthy male? A woman? A child? The elderly? And how would you know how much leaching has occurred in repparttar 113547 water? It could easily vary from day to day depending on how long repparttar 113548 water had been in repparttar 113549 bottle, whether or not repparttar 113550 sun was shining on repparttar 113551 bottle in repparttar 113552 delivery truck, and a variety of other factors.

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