Bra Burning (With Helen Reddy in background singing "I Am Woman"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBsT2xVce0&feature=related
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/01/health/webmd/main1361403.shtml
Excerpt:
The aluminum most often associated with breast cancer concerns is the kind used in the manufacture of cosmetics and underarm deodorant. Early studies on aluminum based deodorant suggested a link between its use and an increase in breast cancer diagnoses. However, a thorough examination of the subject reveals a much more complicated and inconclusive issue.
http://blog.cincovidas.com/aluminum-found-in-mastectomy-breast-tissue%E2%80%94is-deodorant-to-blame
http://blog.cincovidas.com/deodorant-toxin-alert-it%e2%80%99s-the-pits%e2%80%94but-we-have-alternatives-for-you
The above 2 links have good information but I couldn't copy and paste?????? ...cal
http://healthinmotion.wordpress.com/category/antiperspirants/
Excerpts:
1) So in summary, Westernized women are applying chemical compounds in antiperspirants/deodorants on the skin daily over decades. These compounds have not been studied long term with respect to skin absorption and possible toxicity. Skin transport is an FDA approved delivery system for many well studied drugs. The under arms are located in the upper extremities which by research is the most efficient site for skin delivered drugs. The breasts and the underarms are directly linked by the skin and lymphatic system. This antiperspirant/deodorant exposure occurs daily over decades, likely facilitated by underarm shaving. Interesting when the incidence of breast cancer since the 1940’s is plotted against the same time period of antiperspirant/deodorant sales, an eerie parallel is seen.
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http://www.examiner.com/ft-lauderdale-in-miami/precautions-every-woman-can-take-right-now-to-prevent-breast-cancer
Excerpt:
http://blog.cincovidas.com/deodorant-toxin-alert-it%e2%80%99s-the-pits%e2%80%94but-we-have-alternatives-for-you
The above 2 links have good information but I couldn't copy and paste?????? ...cal
http://healthinmotion.wordpress.com/category/antiperspirants/
Excerpts:
1) So in summary, Westernized women are applying chemical compounds in antiperspirants/deodorants on the skin daily over decades. These compounds have not been studied long term with respect to skin absorption and possible toxicity. Skin transport is an FDA approved delivery system for many well studied drugs. The under arms are located in the upper extremities which by research is the most efficient site for skin delivered drugs. The breasts and the underarms are directly linked by the skin and lymphatic system. This antiperspirant/deodorant exposure occurs daily over decades, likely facilitated by underarm shaving. Interesting when the incidence of breast cancer since the 1940’s is plotted against the same time period of antiperspirant/deodorant sales, an eerie parallel is seen.
2)
Health In Motion
March 5, 2008
Up In Arms Over Underarms
Editors Comment: The article linked to below from www.controlyourimpact.com highlights an important point: We have become so dependent on chemicals, we no longer question their safety in relation to our body. We trust manufacturres and governmental oversight bodies to keep us safe, but fail to take into account that enormous component of the human spirit – greed. Please read the article below (featured in Time magazine) to get a better understanding of the adverse relationship between chemicals and your skin.
http://www.examiner.com/ft-lauderdale-in-miami/precautions-every-woman-can-take-right-now-to-prevent-breast-cancer
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(Note: Please see other cancer pages on this site for additional breast and general cancer information.) I would also see Ingrid Naiman's book, Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment ( http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Salves-Botanical-Approach-Treatment/dp/1882834151), which shows describes many cures of breast, skin, pancreatic, liver and skin cancers by the use of cancer salves.
Is Your Bra Killing You? (The Link between Bras and Breast Cancer)
In a study involving 4,700 women, those who never wore a bra had the same incidence of breast cancer as men, in whom cancer of the breast is a rare condition.
Women who wore bras for more than 12 hours, but did not sleep in them, had 21 times the risk as women who wore a bra for less than 12 hours. Put in a slightly different way, the statistics are just as chilling: Women who war a bra 24 hours a day are 125 times as likely to develop cancer as women who don’t.
Medical anthropologist, Sydney Ross Singer, made this bra/breast cancer claim in the mid-1990’s, but was simply laughed at by the so-called “experts.” But with the new study involving 4,700 women demonstrating such dramatic results, Singer may get the last laugh. It is postulated that lymphatic vessels are blocked by the bra, thus preventing lymphocytes (white blood cells) from destroying abnormal cells. This blockage, over a period of years, presumably causes a build-up of cancer cells which eventually overwhelms the body’s defense mechanisms, and cancer ensues. (Another consideration is that a much higher level of hormones tends to collect in the breasts, and wearing a bra for too many hours blocks the movement of these hormones out of the breasts – this is also why breast massage is recommended, especially soon after removing the bra, to reduce the high level of cancer-causing hormones.)
From Professor Singer’s research, it would appear that wearing a bra for less than 12 hours a day would be prudent.
Make sure your bra is not constricting the lymphatic system. If, when you remove the bra, there are grooves in your skin or red lines where the bra was, you are asking for trouble.
The worst thing you can do is to wear your bra to bed – Dr. Singer’s number one admonition is: “Do not wear a bra to sleep!”
http://www.amazon.com/Uplift-Bra-America-Jane-Farrell-Beck/dp/0812218353
In the 1890s, mail-order "bust girdle" advertisements were discreetly hidden in the back pages of women's magazines; by 1918, bras were a major staple of the fashion industry, with 52 different brands prominently displayed in department stores. In this good-humored yet careful examination of mainstream print advertisements and bra-industry publications such as the Corset and Underwear Review, Farrell-Beck, a professor of textiles and clothing at Iowa State University's College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Gau, president of a home-based textile-conservation business, illuminate women's experience of this most everyday, functional yet still titillating and even scandalous garment. Less a history of the bra than a study of its relationship to history, the book traces public perception of the bra's foremost function: originally conceived as a garment meant to promote women's health, it came to be seen as one meant to improve their appearance. Bra design, the authors demonstrate, shifted endlessly in response to such factors as wartime rationing, the increasing number of women in sports and, of course, the feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s. Many of Farrell-Beck and Gau's discoveries are surprising: Who knew that the U.S. government commissioned Maidenform to design a vest for carrier pigeons during WWII or that one enterprising manufacturer marketed a bra with a tiny, zippered pocket intended to hold money? The 51 b&w illustrations add to the entertainment value of this fun, punchy book. (Dec.)Forecast: Uplift will appeal primarily to women's studies and pop culture scholars, and readers interested in the history of fashion. A word to the wise: don't confuse this work with another recent one sporting a similar title, Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors.
http://www.amazon.com/Uplift-Bra-America-Jane-Farrell-Beck/dp/0812218353
In the 1890s, mail-order "bust girdle" advertisements were discreetly hidden in the back pages of women's magazines; by 1918, bras were a major staple of the fashion industry, with 52 different brands prominently displayed in department stores. In this good-humored yet careful examination of mainstream print advertisements and bra-industry publications such as the Corset and Underwear Review, Farrell-Beck, a professor of textiles and clothing at Iowa State University's College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Gau, president of a home-based textile-conservation business, illuminate women's experience of this most everyday, functional yet still titillating and even scandalous garment. Less a history of the bra than a study of its relationship to history, the book traces public perception of the bra's foremost function: originally conceived as a garment meant to promote women's health, it came to be seen as one meant to improve their appearance. Bra design, the authors demonstrate, shifted endlessly in response to such factors as wartime rationing, the increasing number of women in sports and, of course, the feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s. Many of Farrell-Beck and Gau's discoveries are surprising: Who knew that the U.S. government commissioned Maidenform to design a vest for carrier pigeons during WWII or that one enterprising manufacturer marketed a bra with a tiny, zippered pocket intended to hold money? The 51 b&w illustrations add to the entertainment value of this fun, punchy book. (Dec.)Forecast: Uplift will appeal primarily to women's studies and pop culture scholars, and readers interested in the history of fashion. A word to the wise: don't confuse this work with another recent one sporting a similar title, Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors.
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