That’s why you’ve got to take control and responsibility for your own health and not expect yearly check-ups to keep you healthy or catch things. As if most young people are going to get yearly check-ups anyway.
I do. For instance, there's...
Nanoparticles used in common household items cause genetic damage in mice
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The TiO2 nanoparticles induced single- and double-strand DNA breaks and also caused chromosomal damage as well as inflammation, all of which increase the risk for cancer.
Once in the system, the TiO2 nanoparticles accumulate in different organs because the body has no way to eliminate them. And because they are so small, they can go everywhere in the body, even through cells, and may interfere with sub-cellular mechanisms.
You better believe this is causing genetic damage in us too and this stuff is in everything, esp sunscreen lotion and paint. It’s a whitener. It’s used in teeth bleaching products and white lines in the road. It’s even used in some skim milk to make it whiter. Something like 2 million tons of this stuff is produced each year. We are poisoning ourselves with this insidious stuff. It's even in our brain cells banging around. Did we study it before we unleashed it on the environment and the public. No. Will we now stop making it? No. There’s no telling how much of this stuff each of us has in us, and it accumulates with time.
Then there's
this cancer-causing thing that’s pissing me off right now that hardly anyone knows about:
Many everyday products we use are radioactive » Abilene Reporter-News Mobile
Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world.
Common kitchen cheese graters, reclining chairs and tableware manufactured with contaminated metals have been identified, some after having been in circulation for as long as a decade. So have fencing wire and posts, shovel blades, elevator buttons and airline parts.
In 2006 in Texas, for example, a recycling facility inadvertently created 500,000 pounds of radioactive steel by-products after melting metal contaminated with Cesium-137, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records. In Florida in 2001, another recycler unintentionally did the same, and wound up with 1.4 million pounds of radioactive material. And in 1998, 430,000 pounds of steel laced with Cobalt-60 made it to the U.S. heartland from Brazil.
A recent example emerged last summer, when a Flint, Mich., scrap plant discovered a beat-up kitchen cheese grater that was radioactive. The China-made grater bearing the well-known EKCO brand name was laced with the isotope Cobalt-60. Tests showed the gadget to be giving off the equivalent of a chest X-ray over 36 hours of use, according to NRC documents.
Some Russian and Chinese metal manufacturers are dumping radioactive waste in their metals and making things for us, like doorknobs. Great. Every time you touch it you could be x-raying your hand. Who’s checking? I’m taking a Geiger counter to Wal-Mart. Seriously. I have one and I’m going. If I find something, it will be in the local news at least. Maybe I can create an international incident.
And that's just 2 potential cancer-causing dangers we're exposed to. So it's not that incredible that this guy got cancer at 26. What's incredible is that we all don't.
