HEALTH TIP FOR WOMEN

[brnidokiegurl 0]

A friend whose mother recently got diagnosed with breast cancer said the doctor told her

women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the bottle have certain chemicals that can lead to breast cancer. So please be careful and do not drink that water bottle that has been left in a car and pass

this on to all the women in your life.

This information is the kind we need to know and be aware and just might save us!!!!

The heats causes toxins (Bisphenol A) from the plastic to leak into the water and they have found these toxins in breast tissue. Use a stainless steel canteen or a glass bottle when you can !

[cartaverde 12]

And what percentage would drinking bottled water that has been left in a car / has not been left in a car / not drinking bottled water increase or lower the risk of getting breast cancer?

Did that doctor have some reason why drinking such water is ok for men?

[almaty 19]

And what percentage would drinking bottled water that has been left in a car / has not been left in a car / not drinking bottled water increase or lower the risk of getting breast cancer?

Did that doctor have some reason why drinking such water is ok for men?

wow, you ask allot of questions?

[kerewin21 2]

It's always good to think about possible environmental exposures that can lead to diseases. But don't be too upset if you've been drinking water that's been left in a car! Saying that it leads to breast cancer is a HUGE stretch. It has been shown that water heated in bottles made of certain forms of plastic can have polybrominated bisphenol A in it. However, the only thing they have managed to show is that in a bottle this chemical in large quantities can interact with the receptors of certain kinds of breast cancer and possibly in breast tissue. It's a long stretch to extrapolate from that that drinking water from a plastic bottle left in a car causes breast cancer. We have no idea how the chemical acts in breast tissue in the human body first of all, nor do we know how much of the chemicals are absorbed into the body if we drink the water, nor do we know what effect if any it will have.

Like I said, we should be aware of the many environmental toxins around us, many of which are of our own creation, but we can't say yet which of them cause what, if anything.

[homesick_american 1]

Why is it only a health tip for women? Men can get breast cancer too.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

Why is it only a health tip for women? Men can get breast cancer too.

but if men had breasts they'd never leave home

[brnidokiegurl 0]

big surprise Charles you do have them...

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

big surprise Charles you do have them...

i do? great. i'll be back on vj in about 2 decades

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Gasoline exposure increases risk of male breast cancer

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Breast cancer strikes men at a rate one-hundredth that of women, but a report suggests that men who work around gasoline and combustion products have a significantly higher risk of developing the disease.

"If gasoline and combustion products cause breast cancer in men, it probably does so in women too," according to Dr. Johnni Hansen of the Danish Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hansen looked at the lifetime employment records of 230 Danish men born between 1897 and 1966 who were diagnosed with breast cancer. The researcher matched each case with 56 men born the same year who did not have the disease. Men who had blue-collar jobs for at least 3 months in service stations, vehicle maintenance, wholesale gasoline sales, or car repair shops were considered to have been exposed to gasoline vapors.

Men who had been exposed to gasoline and combustion products for at least 3 months were more than twice as likely to develop breast cancer as those who had not been exposed, Hansen reports. In addition, men who began working in these trades before age 40 were almost four times as likely to develop the disease.

Writing in the current issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Hansen notes that although breast cancer is rare in men, the disease in men seems to be linked to many of the same factors as in women. These factors include family history of disease, a prior non-malignant breast disorder, and exposure to ionizing radiation. Previous studies have linked exposure to benzene and certain hydrocarbons, both products of gasoline and diesel fuels combustion, with breast cancer in women and in animals.

"Since (these hydrocarbons) and remnants of uncombusted gasoline are exhausted from automobiles to the general environment, the breast cancer risk particularly of women may be of public concern," Hansen explains.

The author calls for further study of the risk of breast cancer among men and women exposed to gasoline and combustion products.

Source: www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?id=30608&StoryType=ReutersNews