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Title: Breasts are Bigger and Deadlier than Ever Before, Why Your DD Cup May Be Killing You
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Published: Jun 8, 2012
Author: Christine Hsu
Post Date: 2012-06-08 20:02:49 by farmfriend
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Views: 278
Comments: 14
The average U.S. bra size has grown from a 34B to a 36C in just one generation, but Florence Williams, the author of a new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, found that the trend towards bustier breasts takes a toll on women's health. By Christine Hsu | June 08, 2012 Breasts are getting bigger, but also deadlier. The average U.S. bra size has grown from a 34B to a 36C in just one generation, but Florence Williams, the author of a new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, found that the trend towards bustier breasts takes a toll on women's health. Not only are women's breasts today larger than they've ever been, so are their waistlines. In her book, Williams illustrates a number of disturbing trends that may contribute the high rate of breast cancer in the U.S., like weight gain and early onset of puberty, both of which have been linked to an elevated risk of breast cancer. Girls today are hitting puberty earlier than ever before, and 15 percent of all American girls begin to grow breasts at just seven-years-old, according to a 2010 study in pediatrics. Bigger breasts also put women at a greater exposure for pollutants because the body stores toxic chemicals in fatty tissue. Therefore the bigger the cup size, the greater concentration of fatty tissue to store chemicals like mercury and Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), an oily, odorless and tasteless industrial chemical used in pesticides and paint. Not only have these chemicals been shown to remain in body fat and organs for months after being exposed, they have also been found to accumulate in breast milk and transfer to infants during breastfeeding. What's worse is that PCBs have been shown to both inhibit and mimic estradiol, a major sex hormone in women, and scientists have found that the imitation of the estrogen compound supports the development of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells, uterine and cervical cancer cells. "Breast-feeding, it turns out, is a very efficient way to transfer our society's industrial flotsam to the next generation," Williams writes. "Our breasts soak up pollution. … Breasts carry the burden of the mistakes we have made." Williams had a sample of her own breast milk analyzed while nursing her second child, and found that it contained levels of perchlorate, an ingredient in jet fuel and chemical flame retardants, that were 10 to 100 times higher than in European women. While she supports breastfeeding because of its benefits for children's brain, body and immune system development, she warns that many man-made toxins will remain in our bodies and in our children's bodies for long enough that today's baby girls will transmit the toxins to their own children. "What happens in our environment is reflected in our breasts," she said, according to USA Today. "If we really care about human health, we need to care about our planet." While Williams couldn't identify exactly which of the many different contaminants are responsible for breast cancer or health issues relating to breasts, she told ABC news that her personal experience was a "great way to tell the story first-person". Not only have cancer rates doubled since the 1940s, today one in eight women are at risk of developing breast cancer, Williams said. "Our bodies are intimately connected to the world around us," she wrote. "If we live in an environment filled with pollution, these things will and do affect our health." Published by Medicaldaily.com Breasts are Bigger and Deadlier than Ever Before, Why Your DD Cup May Be Killing You
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
The big breasts are merely a statistical telltale for the underlying obesity problems. I, for one, am in favor of big breasts. Big girls, somewhat less.
I wonder if we never adopted plastics as a food container that B C might be found to be quite a bit less. All that in a gland? Wow! "I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
Remember the old saying "more than a mouthful is a waste"
But I will be the first to admit trying to push it all in is alot of fun.
LOL
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
The trend is also to use a lot of soy. All of which are GMOs as this point but besides that they are also an estrogen. I can't eat anything with soy in it as I have too much estrogen to start with.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
Sot us a source of plant estrogen and plastics are estrogen mimickers. Bis-phenol A is used in cans as a coating to make sure you get your chance to get cancer. The FDA said companies cannot advertise they are free of Bis-phenol A.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Those super sizing with surgery just want the attention in all to many cases, which is a turn off to me. It is as bad as some other body modifications popular today. There is not a thing wrong with just living with was was genetically dealt you. Aha! deleted
The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
LOL
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's Handmaiden
Not only are women's breasts today larger than they've ever been, so are their waistlines.
#2. To: farmfriend (#0)
What's worse is that PCBs have been shown to both inhibit and mimic estradiol, a major sex hormone in women, and scientists have found that the imitation of the estrogen compound supports the development of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells, uterine and cervical cancer cells.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: farmfriend (#0)
"Breast-feeding, it turns out, is a very efficient way to transfer our society's industrial flotsam to the next generation," Williams writes. "Our breasts soak up pollution. … Breasts carry the burden of the mistakes we have made."
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#10. To: farmfriend (#7)
I can't eat anything with soy in it as I have too much estrogen to start with.
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