Reflections on 5 Sources of Carcinogens

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This post was written by: Susan Blue

An Online Surprise

Today is Wednesday. Yesterday when I was on line with my MSN server, one of the news stories was 5 things that may be responsible for breast cancer. That was in the morning. I did a quick scan of the article. I ignored my intuitive thought of save this. By the evening, it was no longer on the screen.

5 Sources of Carcinogens

It was a click to the next picture listing. It showed carcinogenic sources that are common and very much part of our lives. What I remembered:

1. Exhaust from cars.
2. Pesticides in water and foods.
3. Gas fumes from filling your car with gas.
4. Industrial pollutants.
5. Cosmetic carcinogens, from hair dyes to make up.

I was pretty elated when I left for work. I was thinking that there is hope for cleaner living. We don’t have to poison ourselves to have the “good life.”

Reflections

I am fortunate. I live close to the mountains, so my water isn’t full of mineral salts, farming runoff, or industrial recycling. I have lived in communities where I didn’t like the water. Having been raised in Colorado, I got to realized how lucky I was.

There isn’t a lot of industry where I live. But south of me by an hours drive is a city that has steel mills. They have a very high percentage of population with Multiple Sclerosis. They also have a lot of cancer.

My community is not big on public transportation. What we do have is inadequate for the population base we have. Development has been the name of progress and growth. The down side is lack of development for vehicle thorough fares. What took me 15 minutes on a bad day 3 years ago, now takes 35 on a good day. A good day is good weather conditions, no accidents, no road construction/improvements, and I am not driving rush hour traffic.

I pump my own gas. Have for years. My Dad taught me not to get it on my skin and to hold my breath or breath as little as I could when I was at the pump.

I did enjoy living in Oregon where gas station attendants were mandatory. Reminded me of my childhood, with some one pumping gas, cleaning windows, putting air in the tires if need be. I was fine to pay a little more so someone had a job that paid a living wage. At the time I lived in Oregon, the wage a gas station attendant made would support a small family. Nothing extra, but they wouldn’t have to go to community health or get food stamps.

My childhood was farms and ranches around a small city. It was a railroad center for commodities and mining. During the summer, kids worked the orchards or someone’s farm. School started after the harvest. There were years that Christmas and Easter vacation were very short because of a late harvest. Just about everyone knew how to pick, sort and pack fruit or produce.

I had graduated from high school when chemical farming became more the norm. When I returned 20 years later, many of the people in my practice were recovering from bouts of cancer. They thought it was because of the pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They kept on using them.

Many of the choices in health food stores for skin, hair care and cosmetics have carcinogenic substances. Yikes!! What ever you put on your skin gets in your blood system. My Hydrotherapy, Nutrition, Physiology and Swedish massage classes emphasised this point. Our skin is the largest eliminating organ. And it can be a very large absorption organ as well.

I have found a line of food grade (means you could eat it and not poison yourself), organic hair and skin products with no carcinogens. The hair spray has no alcohol or polymers. And it works. The line is Blue Printz, Products for Healthy Living and will be available at the end of October at this blog site.