What an enormous breakthrough! The Medico -
Drug Cartel has run
roughshod over the people, buying politicians, suppressing cures and
prosecuting Naturpathic Physicians, Chiropractors and maverick MDs for
decades to protect their profits.
Dr Mathias Rath MD the famous patient advocate and author of; "Why
Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks - But People Do" has publicly stated
that "as a direct consequence of the pharmaceutical business more people
have died from preventable diseases than all the wars of mankind
combined." Richard
(NaturalNews) When a government panel of experts finds the courage to
tell the truth about cancer, it's an event so rare that it becomes
newsworthy. Late last week, a report from the
President's Cancer Panel (PCP) broke ranks with the sick-care cancer
establishment and dared to say something that natural health advocates have
been warning about for decades: That Americans are "bombarded" with
cancer-causing chemicals and radiation, and if we hope to reduce cancer
rates, we must eliminate cancer-causing chemicals in foods, medicines,
personal care products and our work and home environments.
In a directive to President Obama, the report states, "The panel urges you
most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and
other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase
healthcare costs, cripple our nation's productivity, and devastate American
lives."
When I first read that, I just about fell out of my chair.
Government-appointed experts are really saying that there are cancer-causing
chemicals in our food and water? That simple fact has been vehemently denied
by the cancer industry, processed food giants,
personal care product
companies and of course the fluoride lobby -- all of which insist
their chemicals are perfectly safe.
The
American Cancer Society, not surprisingly, was quick to bash the
report. The ACS is one of the sick-care cancer industry front groups that
reinforces consumer ignorance about both the causes and the solutions for
cancer. The ACS has, for decades, engaged in what can only be called a
"cancer chemical cover-up" with its denials that environmental chemicals
cause cancer. (http://www.naturalnews.com/010244_A...)
and (http://www.preventcancer.com/losing...)
Even as cancer experts like Dr Sam Epstein have been warning about
carcinogens in cosmetics, personal care products and foods (http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers),
the ACS has ridiculously pretended such threats don't exist. And just to top
it off, the ACS has been warning people to stay away from sunlight and
become more vitamin D deficient, thereby increasing cancer rates even
further.
So it's no surprise that the ACS doesn't like this PCP report that dares to
state the obvious: There are cancer-causing chemicals in our food and water!
"The American people --
even before they are born -- are bombarded continually with myriad
combinations of these dangerous exposures," the report writes.
Joining the ACS in criticizing the report is the
American
Chemistry Council, the trade group representing the very same
chemical companies that are poisoning our world right now. Remarkably, the
ACS and ACC are on the same side here, denying any link between chemicals
and cancer. They insist that all those chemicals in your processed foods,
cosmetics, antibacterial soaps, shampoos, fragrance products, home cleaning
solvents, pesticides, herbicides and other similar products are all safe
for you! Eat up, suckers!
Don't worry about the chemicals, they say. Cancer is just a matter of bad
luck. There's nothing you can do about it. So stop trying.
That's their message, you see, and it's a message that plays right into the
hands of the cancer industry: Don't prevent your cancer and when you get
sick, they'll make a fortune off your disease and suffering.
The PCP report also takes a strong stand on the cancer risks caused by
medical imaging
radiation. It actually says, "People who receive multiple scans or other
tests that require radiation may accumulate doses equal to or exceeding that
of Hiroshima atomic bomb
survivors."
I remember receiving hate mail from cancer industry shills when I once made
the same statement in an article about mammograms and CT scans. (
http://www.naturalnews.com/026113_m...)
And yet that statement was factually quite correct: If you undergo several
medical imaging tests in a hospital today, you can very easily receive just
as much radiation as a person standing a few miles away from the nuclear
bomb dropped on Hiroshoma during
World War II. This is
not an exaggeration. It is a simple fact of physics and the law of inverse
squares. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invers...)
Here at NaturalNews, I've been talking about the
environmental pollution of pharmaceuticals for years. The fact that
pharmaceutical chemicals are flushed down the drain and end up in the water
supply is the "dirty little secret" of the drug industry. The problem has
gone virtually unrecognized by the entire mainstream medical system... they
just pretend it doesn't exist.
Yet this PCP report takes aim at it by saying: "Pharmaceuticals have become
a considerable source of environmental contamination. Drugs of all types
enter the water supply when they are excreted or improperly disposed of; the
health impact of long-term exposure to varying mixtures of these compounds
is unknown."
It's about time somebody in Washington stood up and challenged the
pharmaceutical industry on the environmental effects of its toxic chemicals.
HRT drugs, antidepressants, painkillers and many other types of drugs are
right now polluting our oceans and waterways. You can hardly catch a fish
near any major U.S. city now that isn't contaminated with pharmaceuticals.
But don't expect anyone to give credence to this warning. This entire PCP
report is being largely ignored in Washington (and attacked by
Big Business).
The President's Cancer Panel is headed by:
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., Chair
Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery
Howard University College of Medicine
Washington, DC 20059
Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D.
Vivian L. Smith Chair and Professor Emerita
The University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77030
These two people deserve your support for having the courage to publish a report that challenges the status quo of the corrupt cancer industry. So if you wish, send them a thank-you email for their work.
The report is entitled, "REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER RISK - What We Can Do Now"
Here are some of the highlights from the report:
€ In 2009 alone, approximately 1.5 million American men, women, and children
were diagnosed with cancer, and 562,000 died from the disease. Approximately
41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their
lives, and about 21 percent will die from cancer. The incidence of some
cancers, including some most common among children, is increasing for
unexplained reasons.
€ The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of
environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly
80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used
by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or
understudied
and largely unregulated, exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is
widespread. One such ubiquitous chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), is still found
in many consumer products and remains unregulated in the United States,
despite the growing link between BPA and several diseases, including various
cancers.
€ However, the grievous harm from this group of carcinogens has not been
addressed adequately by the National Cancer Program.
The American people --
even before they are born -- are bombarded continually with myriad
combinations of these dangerous exposures.
€ Some scientists maintain that current toxicity testing and exposure
limit-setting methods fail to accurately represent the nature of human
exposure to potentially harmful chemicals. Current toxicity testing relies
heavily on animal studies that utilize doses substantially higher than those
likely to be encountered by humans. These data -- and the exposure limits
extrapolated from them -- fail to take into account harmful effects that may
occur only at very low doses.
€ Only a few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals in use in the United
States have been tested for safety.
€ While all Americans now carry many foreign chemicals in their bodies,
women often have higher levels of many toxic and hormone-disrupting
substances than do men. Some of these chemicals have been found in maternal
blood, placental tissue, and breast milk samples from pregnant women and
mothers who recently gave birth. Thus, chemical contaminants are being
passed on to the next generation, both prenatally and during breastfeeding.
€ The entire U.S. population is exposed on a daily basis to numerous
agricultural chemicals, some of which also are used in residential and
commercial landscaping. Many of these chemicals have known or suspected
carcinogenic or endocrine-disrupting properties. Pesticides (insecticides,
herbicides, and fungicides) approved for use by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contain nearly 900 active
ingredients, many of which are toxic.
€ Many of the solvents, fillers, and other chemicals listed as inert
ingredients on pesticide labels also are toxic, but are
not required to be
tested for their potential to cause chronic diseases such as cancer. In
addition to pesticides, agricultural fertilizers and veterinary
pharmaceuticals are major contributors to water pollution, both directly and
as a result of chemical
processes that form toxic by-products when these substances enter the
water supply.
€ The use of cell phones and other wireless technology is of great concern,
particularly since these devices are being used regularly by ever larger and
younger segments of the population.
€ Americans now are estimated to receive nearly half of their total
radiation exposure from medical imaging and other medical sources, compared
with only 15 percent in the early 1980s. The increase in medical radiation
has nearly doubled the total average effective radiation dose per individual
in the United States.
Computed tomography (CT) and
nuclear medicine tests alone now contribute 36 percent of the total
radiation exposure and 75 percent of the medical radiation exposure of the
U.S. population.
€ Many referring physicians, radiology professionals, and the public are
unaware of the radiation dose associated with various tests or the total
radiation dose and related increased cancer risk individuals may accumulate
over a lifetime. People who receive multiple scans or other tests that
require radiation may accumulate doses equal to or exceeding that of
Hiroshima atomic bomb
survivors.
€ Hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians in the United
States received significant radiation doses as a result of their
participation in nuclear weapons testing and supporting occupations and
industries, including nuclear fuel and weapons production, and uranium
mining, milling, and ore transport. Hundreds of thousands more were
irradiated at levels sufficient to cause cancer and other diseases.
€ Numerous environmental contaminants can cross the placental barrier; to a
disturbing extent, babies are born "pre-polluted." There is a critical lack
of knowledge and appreciation of environmental threats to children's health
and a severe shortage of researchers and clinicians trained in
children's environmental
health.
€ Single-agent toxicity testing and reliance on
animal testing are inadequate to address the backlog of untested
chemicals already in use and the plethora of new chemicals introduced every
year.
€ Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.
Enforcement of most existing regulations is poor. In virtually all cases,
regulations fail to take multiple exposures and exposure interactions into
account. [Editor's note: In other words, people should read NaturalNews!
We've been doing this for years!]
Sources
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http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory...
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