Why so long?

Chemicals are found in our workplaces and homes—aplenty. These can be in the form of industrial chemicals, household detergents, kitchen-chemicals including sodium chloride (kindly refer to my previous blog), cosmetics, body lotions, and a whole host of similarly dangerous stuffs. Many of these can be deadly, especially if they build up in our body tissues. As a result of increasing exposure to such chemicals, cancer has been on the rise in every nation of the world! Yet, we are totally complacent or ignorant about the kind of havoc chemicals can wreak on our health!

Chemicals have started proliferating at a rapid rate since the industrial revolution. The number of new chemicals being created and the quantities of existing ones produced are still growing at a staggering pace. Increasing number of victims of during-chemical-production or during-chemical-use, including women with breast and other forms of cancer, are suffering from this ghastly disease. Breast cancer, for instance, is a leading cause of death in American women.

Chemicals can cause not only heart disease but also cancer and other chronic diseases, including breast cancer. I have long believed that! And have written to that effect in my book, The Amazing Heart. Only in recent times are scientists beginning to wake up to the possibility that chemicals may be linked to cancer. They are only just starting to suspect (suspect only, not condemn as yet) that chemicals may play a part in causing cancer! As a result, not much has been done to alleviate the growing problems.

AFP recently quoted Megan Schwarzman, a physician and environmental health researcher at the University of California, Berkeley as saying: "We're currently not identifying chemicals that could be contributing to the risk of breast cancer.” ¹ I would say, why not? Why are mainstream doctors not—or so slow in—recognizing, let alone recommending the avoidance of—the detrimental effects of numerous chemicals in the lives of their patients whom they are trying to help? Why are doctors and scientists slow in even identifying those chemicals that may contribute to cancer, for instance? I think I know why. Do you?

Government health or regulatory authorities throughout the world, including the U.S., have virtually not been regulating the vast majority of everyday-use chemicals. For example, the authorities in U.S.A. are, according to Dr Schwarzman, just regulating a handful of the over 200 chemicals in the environment that are linked to mammary tumours in lab animals "on the basis of their ability to cause breast cancer." ²

How long will people have to endure all kinds of chemicals, which are presently not banned despite the fact that they have been shown to cause cancer or other health problems? How many lives must we lose before we wake up to the harm chemicals can bring into our lives?

Chemicals have been winning the war over millions of lives on this planet every year, High time we waged a war against chemicals!

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You might be doing him or her a favor.

Meanwhile, let’s keep fighting the war on our own fronts.



May you win the war,
Ray Chee
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¹ Chemicals suspected in breast cancer, AFP News, Saturday, February 20, 2010