The Strong Link Between Cancer and Pesticide Exposure

re: The Strong Link Between Cancer and Pesticide Exposure

Laserman — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:06:40 GMT

If you go to almost any search engine, and type in "Prince Edward Island pesticide fish kill", you will find articles about how rainfall has washed pesticides from farmers' fields into streams, resulting in the death of hundreds of fish within 24 hours. This has happened on numerous occasions, not just a few "isolated incidents". P.E.I. is a beautiful place, has less than 140,000 permanent residents, but I haven't been there since 1999, and don't plan to ever return.

re: The Strong Link Between Cancer and Pesticide Exposure

tyciol — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:47:59 GMT

The Mercola site has many many articles on how to prevent cancer. I have some important questions to ask though...

Would you say following all the advice on the site will guaranteeably prevent it? I think it is impossible to prevent ALL free radical damage, odds are some will occur (even from internal metabolism).

However, since it can be lessened, it can on average put off the time until the free radical dice roll hits a cancer mutation.

What I want to know is, do you believe that even if a cell does become cancerous, following your advice will always somehow cause that cell to die, and not multiply into a tumour and take over the system?

Furthermore, what does the Mercola site advice to people already having cancer? What treatments are good, which are bad? I'd think there would be a certain point where the body's internal healing mechanisms, even if fully restored, simply wouldn't keep up with a disease it simply had no reason to evolve adaptations against.

re: The Strong Link Between Cancer and Pesticide Exposure

andrewlee — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:57:23 GMT

i live in a farming community and we have interestly high autistic rates... assumably from the pestisides.

in australia, and i believe the same hold true for the u.s., that companies that produce pesisides and chemicals are basically autonomous... which is alarming, because they're allowed to use chemicals that cause cancer! they may as well be classified as biological weapons!

re: The Strong Link Between Cancer and Pesticide Exposure

mmc88121 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:11:50 GMT

I think this article is very interesting, as I now live in a small farming community. However, when I was born my parents lived over a toxic waste dump. This was not known at the time. I wonder what exposure to these chemicals has done to my body over the years? I can see what the effects of it have done to my son.

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