good list! I'd agree all the things listed so far are suspect.
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(contaminant-free) pure water
Organic apples
Organic blueberries
Organic greens such as spinach
do I need to continue...?
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Cause and affect! Cause and affect! Correlation is not causation!
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While that is true, we shouldn't chant the "correlation not causation" mantra when study after study point to the same thing. There's a line between healthy skepticism and denial.
I believe that good studies are the only way we can get an idea of which things to look more closely at. And for some of the foods listed, we already know some of the carcinogenic processes (such as acrylimides in cooked fatty foods like meat).
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The only time any study has said dairy products cause cancer is when they discovered that regions that consume more dairy have more cancer. Lets ignore any other variable, because obviously it HAS to be dairy that caused it.
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A few links for you:
Red Meat, Dairy Links to Cancer Studied PCRM >> Health >> Preventive Medicine and Nutrition >> Dairy and Prostate Cancer Factsheet Dietary Fat, Especially From Red Meat, Dairy, Linked To Pancreatic Cancer MilkSucks.com: Got Breast Cancer? "Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this association. Dairy product consumption increases levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) in the bloodstream. IGF-1 is a potent stimulus for cancer cell growth. High IGF-1 levels are linked to increased risk of prostate cancer and breast cancer."
Cancer Project / Ask the Expert / Dairy Products
"Case-control studies in diverse populations have shown a strong and consistent association between serum IGF-I concentrations and prostate cancer risk.17 One study showed that men who had the highest levels of IGF-I had more than four times the risk of prostate cancer compared with those who had the lowest levels.18 Other findings show that prostate cancer risk was elevated with increased consumption of low-fat milk, suggesting that too much dairy calcium could be a potential threat to prostate health.1
Ovarian cancer may also be related to the consumption of dairy products. The milk sugar lactose is broken down in the body into another sugar, galactose. Research suggests that the dairy sugar galactose might be toxic to ovarian cells.21 In a study conducted in Sweden, consumption of lactose and dairy products was positively linked to ovarian cancer.22 A similar study, the Iowa Women’s Health Study, found that women who consumed more than one glass of milk per day had a 73 percent greater chance of ovarian cancer than women who drank less than one glass per day. "
PCRM >> Questions About Vegetarian Diets >> Health Concerns about Dairy Products
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Milk and dairy that is clearly labeled “NO rBGH” is free of rBGH, so lets make your sentence sound a little less bias by saying
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I have never seen that kind of milk on my shelves, unless perhaps we're talking about Organic. If the vast majority of milk is produced with BGH, I don't see the benefit of touting non-BGH milk if nobody can find it. And personally I believe it's more than BGH that's wrong with dairy, but that's just my opinion.
When the idea of "non-BGH" labeling was introduced, Monsanto, the producer of the BGH, sued. Last I heard they won, taking away consumer's right to know what was used.
What to Eat » Monsanto’s attack on no-BGH labels
Monsanto is also to thank for pushing GM foods into our grocery stores but suing so they can't be labeled as GM.
The FDA is Monsanto's friend and is taking the stance the BGH milk and GM foods aren't "proven" to be bad, but unlike normal food additives the FDA isn't requiring Monsanto to do safety tests first. So we really don't know the effects of BGH milk, and apparently the FDA doesn't want to find out.