A film everyone should see

jane1433
jane1433 Member Posts: 1
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
Hi,

My friend who has breast cancer (she's 31 and has no history of family cancer) sent me the link a film's trailer that is very interesting. The film is about cancer.

Here's the link to the trailer:

www.youtube.com/jpsfilmsparis

The film is called 'the idiot cycle' and the ex-president of the ACS is featured.

I've sent the link to this trailer to everyone I know who has a family member cancer. This looks like an important film about cancer.

Best, Jane

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  • The1percen
    The1percen Member Posts: 135
    #2
    OH MY
    Wow, that's pretty powerful stuff. I have wondered for a long time about the cigarette controversy. I realize they didn't have cancer testing for the "early Americans" but it didn't seem to kill them. I suspect it is all the chemicals they use to cure it and stuff they put in the filters and paper. You also hear about dioxins from plastic bottles and using plastic in microwaves...
  • bfbear
    bfbear Member Posts: 380
    #3
    The1percen said:

    OH MY
    Wow, that's pretty powerful stuff. I have wondered for a long time about the cigarette controversy. I realize they didn't have cancer testing for the "early Americans" but it didn't seem to kill them. I suspect it is all the chemicals they use to cure it and stuff they put in the filters and paper. You also hear about dioxins from plastic bottles and using plastic in microwaves...

    Fascinating...
    ...but not surprising.

    For years I wrote an environmental newspaper columns that included articles based on the common sense idea that the more known carcinogens you are exposed to, the more likely you are to get cancer.

    The things I wrote about, and this is back in the 80s and early 90s, included: drinking coffee from styrofoam/polystyrene cups; plastics in touch with our foods (bottles, utensils, plates, cups, storage containers); air pollution, water pollution (pouring used car oil onto the road to "get rid of it"; bleached paper products -- coffee filters, paper towels, toilet paper, paper picnic plates -- all contain dioxins; pesticides on fruits and vegetables; golf courses sprayed with pesticides and herbicides up the wazoo; clothes covered with formaldahyde to keep them "safe" from mold and insects until they're on the store shelves; hormones in milk, meat, and poultry; make-up, lotions, and assorted beauty products with petroleum products in them... You get the idea.

    If the big, successful companies of the world are producing these things, and the alternatives are too costly or difficult to obtain, how can we avoid these things? I don't have the answers to these questions. But there is no doubt in my mind, anyway, that we are constantly exposed to carcinogens, knowingly and unknowingly. Whether there's a tie-in between the drug companies and the plastics companies? Probably. But there are many other products besides plastics (which, by the way, are also petroleum products for the most part...good, old oil! The same stuff we're fighting for in Iran)which are causing health problems.

    In any case, it's a HUGE problem with a need for global solutions. I was told that the ACS is starting to address it. It's going to take moving corporate mountains and more...

    Frustratedly yours,
    Debi
  • fauxma
    fauxma Member Posts: 3,577 Member
    #4
    The1percen said:

    OH MY
    Wow, that's pretty powerful stuff. I have wondered for a long time about the cigarette controversy. I realize they didn't have cancer testing for the "early Americans" but it didn't seem to kill them. I suspect it is all the chemicals they use to cure it and stuff they put in the filters and paper. You also hear about dioxins from plastic bottles and using plastic in microwaves...

    Another thought might be
    Another thought might be that the "Early Americans" did not smoke to excess. Tobacco was used in pipes and often smoked after dinner when the men all gathered together to have a drink and discuss manly issues and the ladies went off into another room to (I don't know) discuss children and the households. I doubt that many of them had a pack plus daily habit. They also didn't need to exercise as an addition to their day because for most people, physical activity was a part of their daily routine. And many of the bad foods we indulge in didn't exist or were special treats (sugar and white flour for example). And they did not have the plastics etc we have now. We eat more meat, more sugars, more white flour, more of most things not good for us and less of the veggies and fruits than they probably did. I think that we are all seeing that a good nutritious diet, moderation or elimination of tobacco and alcohol, good daily exercise and being environmentally careful will benefit us all. Even with all this there will still be cancers, but at least we will be doing all we can for ourselves. I am the worst offender at eating poorly, not exercising and and using plastics etc, and that is something I work on. The only thing I have just preached that I am good about is not drinking and smoking. We all have our vices, weaknesses and all we can do is try to be kinder to our bodies, something that is easier said than done. And yes, we don't know how many died of cancers because consumption was a common diagnosis for lung ailments but these might have been from many sources, TB, cancer, working in mines etc. And for many cancers, since there were few treatments or early diagnosis many probably just got ill, weak, weaker and died. We may see what appears to be more cancers for several reasons; 1. There are more people so more cancer 2. They can diagnosis a cancer more accurately now 3. There are more modern factors contributing to cancers 4. There really are more cancers. It could be any or all of these. Or none. Just my rambling on and my view on this.
    Stef

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