Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic cancer-causing chemicals

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Cooking with vegetable oils releases toxic chemicals linked to cancer and other diseases, according to leading scientists, who are now recommending food be fried in olive oil, coconut oil, butter or even lard. Some people choose to use vegetable oil due to how long it lasts in the kitchen, as many know that butter and…

(Smoking) & Bacon KIlls

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11535559 Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer, the World Health Organisation has said. Its report says each 50g of processed meat a day – the equivalent of one sausage, or less than two slices of bacon – increases the chance of developing bowel cancer by 18 per cent….

PTSD Does Not Increase Risk of Cancer

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http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/08/17/ptsd-does-not-increase-risk-of-cancer/90973.html The association between stress and cancer has been discussed in scientific literature for more than 70 years. Despite plausible theories that would support this association, findings from clinical research have been mixed. Researchers compared the rate of various cancer diagnoses among people with PTSD with the standardized cancer rate from the general population in…

Alcohol: a causal factor in 60 diseases and injuries

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11486884 It is a causal factor in 60 diseases and injuries, and a contributing factor in 200 more, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, alcoholic liver disease, respiratory diseases and pancreatitis. What may be more surprising is alcohol’s link with cancer. For the past 27 years, alcohol has been recognised as a Group 1 carcinogen. That’s the…

Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?

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The device is based on state-of-the-art molecular biology, and the latest scientific discoveries in the field of microRNA – a class of tiny biological regulator molecules, discovered in 1993. They can be used as a “perfect, highly sensitive biomarker,” as their levels vary in the blood, forming specific patterns characterizing different types of cancer, even…

Stigma is dead

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Stigma is dead. Stigma was eradicated years and years ago in many people who suffer from no-fault biological diseases. For example, stigma used to exist in men with prostate cancer and women with breast cancer. It also existed in people with no illness at all: gays, lesbians, the left-handed and other historically marginalized populations. But…