Parabens & other Chemicals

This post is really by Alan, who hasn't posted in a loooong while. He sent me this info in an email, after I read some info Joan sent me about parabens and bought a pile of paraben-free soap, thinking I was home free....... Anyway I thought it worth sharing. At this point I'm looking at trying to avoid more cancer, prevent recurrences and metastases..... There's a lot of overlap with what everyone else is trying to do, though the intensity of the efforts you all might be willing to put out may vary. I find myself looking at a lot of these links with the eyes of a parent as well.... especially the stuff about girls going through puberty younger. (Did I mention that mine started growing breasts before my cancerous breast was removed? Did I also mention that she's only 11? Sigh.) Anyway here's Alan's email w/ the links.....

See http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=1203361

You might in fact be even more interested in the Breast Cancer Fund report called State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment. See http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=206137, it looks at all sorts of chemicals and other things.

Two cautions about the first item.

First - the data are not yet in that say there is a clear causative connection between parabens and breast cancer. You might want to cut them anyhow, as a precaution, but it's not a proven thing.

Second - I don't know why titanium dioxide is on this list. I can't find anything about that having any connection to breast cancer or any other kind of cancer (except a protective effect for skin cancer, of course).