Worth a read: How chemicals affect us
Nicholas Kristof calls out canned food and cosmetics as culprits and breast cancer as one tragic effect of our current stew of endocrine-disrupting chemicals
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Convenience at what cost: The connection between chemicals and breast cancer (Environmental Health Policy Institute, 6/16/2011)
Since one of the known risk factors for breast cancer is increased exposure to estrogen, it stands to reason that exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals would increase the risk of developing the disease.
Study: HRT increases breast cancer mortality
A new study found that women with breast cancer who took HRT have a greater risk of dying than breast cancer patients who did not.
Eight going on eighteen (Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families blog, 1/8/2010)
Is early puberty really cause for concern?
Cancer from the kitchen? (NY Times, 12/5/09)
Another excellent op-ed from New York Times columnist Nicolas Kristof, this time focusing on the endocrine disruptors in plastics, cosmetics and more that can put us at greater risk for diseases like breast cancer.