Black hair care products and Breast Cancer....

[sjprincess182]

I just received this e-mail and I had to pass it on....



Now I know I am staying NATURAL


Please read this article about Black hair products and cancer in
Black women.

FYI - Be aware . . . Spread the word . . . Even if you don't
need this information pass it on . . . It might save someone's life.

Lifestyles Report...Hair scare
By Debbie Norrell

At least two months ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview
about ingredients in hair care products used by African-Americans
possibly leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a
15-year breast cancer survivor. I agreed to do the interview. However at the
end of the taping I didn't know anything more about the study than before
the cameras started rolling.

Recently W AMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance
writer Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a
feature on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these
stories we still did not have a list of the products. Battle
gave me the list that didn't make her feature during a recent visit I
made to the WAMO studio's promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure.
So many of my friends have seen the stories on television or read about
this issue in the paper and they want to know which products to be
concerned about.

However I wanted to give you more so I went to the Internet and
looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and
found one entitled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines
Environmental Suspects (update Spring 2005).

The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the
new Center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in
African-Americans under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much
breast cancer as do white women.

The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a
Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants
and ingredients in hair care products and other personal products
regularly used by African-American young women and their mothers.

More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in
hair care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for
higher cancer rates in this population. I've started to carry copies
of the list in my purse but we're going to share it with you right here.
The list simply says:

The following is a list of products that have
previously been found to contain hormones:

Placenta Shampoo
Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
Placenta revitalizing shampoo
Perm Repair with placenta
Proline Perm Repair with placenta
Hormone hai r food Jojoba oil
Triple action super grow
Supreme Vita-Gro
Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
B & B Super Gro
Lekair natural Super Glo
Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E
Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine
Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus
TEA-COCO
Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
Nu Skin body smoother
Nu Skin Enhancer

The majority of these products contain placental extract,
placenta, hormones or estrogen.
As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director
of the Center for Environmental Oncology, part of the University of
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced
the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a
possible cause of breast cancer.

Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not born, but
made and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the
greater her risk of breast cancer."

We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our
hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health
is shared. Ladies and gentlemen beware.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell.Com.)


Thanks, Linda for the info. Below I've added a link with regard
to the research. ~~BBA

http://www.wpxi.com/health/4204594/detail.html

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[sjprincess182]

bumping.......

 

[vpoetic]

I don't use none of that stuff. But at the same time I never really take the idea of cancer to serious, because every day they come up with something new. But thank you anyways for giving us the heads up.

 

[Maynard]

I don't use none of that stuff. But at the same time I never really take the idea of cancer to serious, because every day they come up with something new. But thank you anyways for giving us the heads up.

You are not invincible. Please be mindful of what kind of words you put out in the universe. I have had family members who have suffered as well as succumbed to cancer. So it is very serious.

 

[tiffers]

You are not invincible. Please be mindful of what kind of words you put out in the universe. I have had family members who have suffered as well as succumbed to cancer. So it is very serious.

I was gonna say the same thing. My best friends mom just died from breast cancer 2 weeks ago. To say that you're not worried about it because ''they come up with something new every day'' is ludicrous. And quite frankly, offensive. Thousands lose their lives every day to cancer, and for you to brush off and minimize the pain these people go through because you don't have to deal with it is maddening.

People DIE of cancer. In case you didn't know: DEATH=SERIOUS

I usually try to keep the peace and mind my own here, but this just got me and I couldn't hold my tongue. Ridiculous

 

[drasgrl]

Thank goodness I use none of those products. Cancer runs in my family anyway so if I get it I know it's not the hair products.

 

[AsTheCurlzTurns]

Thanks for the heads up on this, I, too, don't use any of these products at all. I admit, I did use the Perm repair like more than 10 years ago, but it was just one time, because it didn't do what it said it was for. Not for me anyways.

 

[TaurusAngel]

I don't use those either. But they aren't the only things that give u cancer, so you should always stay aware no matter what the case may be. Thank you for posting this.

 

[AvaSpeaks]

You are not invincible. Please be mindful of what kind of words you put out in the universe. I have had family members who have suffered as well as succumbed to cancer. So it is very serious.

No, I don't think she meant it like that. I think she meant it like everyday they come up with something that will "give you cancer" so she doesn't take that part too seriously.

It's like everyday, they do come up with something new, this will kill you, that will lead to this. It's so much that you wonder how are we still alive?

So I think that's what she meant. My mother succumbed to Breast Cancer as well, and although I take Breast Cancer seriously, I don't take all that stuff "they" keep saying will kill us or link us to this and that disease seriously either. Because at this rate, with all the different products we use, we would be dead within years.

 

[comike]

There's probably about 100 threads with this same information. Funny that they keep pin pointing black hair care products considering the amount of other products that contain hormones and considering the amount of meat we consume in this country.

 

[vpoetic]

I didn't mean to sound rude. All I was trying to say is that people try to connect so many different things with cancer and then change their mind a week later, it is hard to tell what to believe. So instead of trying to drive my self crazy I just learned to not worry so much about it. Believe me I am very much a health conscious person, I didn't mean to sound like I was blowing off the warning.