Day 1197: "Prove It"

Day 1197: "Prove It"

As stated on here repeatedly, it is way, way, way too easy to find topics on here to write about each day. I seldom take more than five minutes to find something or think of something. Normally, when I have more time, like to today, I try to write more from experience.   However, I saw this article and it is just too good.

It is a common theme I have had on here. Does everything cause cancer and then so many weird things have anti-cancer properties too?

The bottom line, is there are just enough studies in (mostly in mice) that do point to "Hey, this MAY cause cancer" (if you ratchet up to humans you have to  daily use the equivalent of two pounds of deodorant on your body or six ounces of talcum powder basically up your hoohaw.) The basic problem is, as this article ends, so many things "may cause", we don't have the money to prove it "will not." To prove it. Whatever it is.  So, the cancer community is keenly aware of this while the others basically walk around spreading misinformation.  

Thank goodness I can't buy organic plutonium at my local Linden Hills COOP (with an extra 40 percent markup, thanks Edina.)

We are finding out Mrs. Sun has amazingly healing properties for us with Vitamin D benefits, PROVEN, but too much sun and you die of skin cancer, PROVEN. 

So, you like the sun, want to stay out longer, you put on sunscreen, right? 

What about this then?

"Sunscreen Causes Cancer: A new Report"

http://www.inquisitr.com/2116897/sunscreen-causes-cancer-says-new-report/

So, stay indoors, drink only room temperature beverages as long as it is "water", get enough sleep, don't stress, no red meat, bacon,  little alcohol, exercise, and lay off the plutonium?

Friend: "Hey, want to go on a walk around Lake Harriet?"

You: "You, no thank you. I am living a healthful lifestyle indoors, eating only organic. Healthy choices. Vegan. It is a wellness program and I say Namaste at least 100 times by 8am. I got rid of my microwave and deodorant and my TV. I am mostly made up of water so I am purifying myself. I listen only to soothing music now, constantly playing awesome musicians, like John Tesh, "Live at Red Rocks".  I have loud groups of wind chimes so I can hear them still through the closed double paned windows year round. No alcohol anymore or diet soda.  I burn sage incense. I chant. I sleep on the floor. Nude. No sex. No more showers, baths,  or razors, just a wet sponge (no towel drying) every once in a while with a homemade apple cider vinegar concoction. <insert another five minutes of random thoughts here to show her knowledge and dedication level ending with> Want to come over and hang out for a few days with me?"

Friend: "HELL NO...I mean, no thank you."

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http://qz.com/708925/why-it-sometimes-seems-like-everything-causes-cancer/

Why it sometimes seems like everything causes cancer

June 23, 2016

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the global body that keeps tabs on cancer risk, has studied nearly 1,000 "agents" to see whether they might be carcinogens. These agents run the gamut from very specific substances (e.g., plutonium) to broad categories of stuff (red meat) to broad classes of activities (working night shifts). And of all the things the IARC has looked at, there is just one it is pretty sure doesn't cause cancer.

Now, there are two ways you might interpret this. One, which is how you might be leaning if you saw the recent reports that overly hot drinks might cause cancer, is that the IARC is a worrywart that sees cancer everywhere it looks. The other, kinder view is that the IARC is in fact fantastically good at choosing to study only those things that really do have a chance of causing cancer, so it almost never identifies something that doesn't, and thus makes good and sparing use of valuable government money (it's a branch of the World Health Organization).

In fact, the truth is somewhere between the two. And if it sometimes seems as if everything around you is suspected of causing cancer, that's partly because of how the IARC classification.

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As an example, take the recent re-classification of coffee. Along with its finding that drinks hotter than 65°C (149°F) may cause cancer, and should therefore be in group 2A, the IARC moved coffee—as long as it's not too hot, of course—from group 2B (possibly causes cancer) to group 3 (lack of evidence). The working group reached that conclusion after analyzing more than 1,000 studies.

This means there are 500 agents on the IARC's list that may well not have any cancer risk, but the IARC can't be sure—and if it can't be sure after 1,000 studies, who knows what it will take? Yet there they remain on the list, leaving everyone in doubt.

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So what about that one substance on the list in Group 4, the probably-not-carcinogenic category? It's a chemical called caprolactam, and we synthesize billions of kilograms of it every year to make nylon. Though caprolactam can be mildly toxic to humans, causing irritation and headaches, the IARC decided in 1999, after a re-evaluation, that it probably wasn't a cancer risk.

You'd think the IARC must have looked at an extraordinary amount of evidence to reach that decision. In fact, itsmonograph cited only about 100 studies, and even noted that there had been no studies in humans to test caprolactam's cancer risk. So how did it get the all-clear?

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The short reason why more things don't end up in Group 4, then, says Loomis, is the lack of resources. "If we were able to study everything, there would be more than one thing in that group," he says.

So if it seems like everything causes cancer, it's because there isn't enough money to prove that it doesn't.

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Me: I have a study idea, I am pretty sure I could prove listening to too much John Tesh or Yanni causes brain cancer in mice and then we could conclude it 'may' in people. For sure Janice's beloved James Taylor would kill me, he sends me right to the edge of convulsions in one or two songs if I don't have an B-EXIT plan. 

Go FundMe for this study idea?

Or Go Fund the doctors who are truly solving the problem so we don't have to worry about all this crap anymore? (Think of the lifestyles pre-penicillin.)

https://www.crowdrise.com/lymphomaspore

Want to hang out with me for a day?

"HELL NO"...I hope you are saying. I am healing, a long, long, long story.

Thanks for being cool. You know who you are if you are in my circle of friends.

I judge.

It is a character defect and I am a miserable work in progress when it comes to certain people/topics.

Moderation? 

Life as a Moderate. Nothing extreme. Extremism in anything SUCKS. 

Get out there, get at least 20 minutes of sunlight today.....expose yourselves and live a little. Life is great.

Anyone notice John Tesh and James Taylor have the same initials? That is no coincidence, it is a cancer causing pattern?

p.s. Janice does not read these, please don't tell her I mocked JT again, it will disrupt my wellness sequence. Peace Out. Namaste.