Toxic Overload
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| "The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains and analyzes cancer mortality (death) data from 70 countries. WHO research shows that industrialized countries have far more cancers than countries with little industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One-half of all the world's cancers occur among people living in industrialized countries, even though such people are only one-fifth of the world's population. From these data, WHO has concluded that at least 80 percent of all cancer is attributable to environmental influences." | "My colleagues at Strang and I found that human breast cancer cells had levels of the bad estrogen that were more than four times higher than those of normal breast cells. When organochlorine pesticides were added to breast cancer cells, the ratio of the amounts of bad to good estrogen significantly jumped. These pesticides, which tend to accumulate in fat cells may somehow have influenced the formation of different estrogen metabolites. These and other findings led us to postulate that exposures to certain xenoestrogens in the environment might account for some of the current rise in breast cancer incidence by increasing the ratio of bad and good estrogens in breast tissue. Several small studies conducted in the 1970s and 1980s found that women with higher levels of DDT metabolites in their blood had higher risks of breast cancer." |
Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases
