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This was just forwarded to me by a co-worker. I think it has already been posted, but a reminder never hurts!!!
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Black Hair Care Products and Cancer:
To my sisters and sistahs - Please read and take appropriate action.
Please pass it on to your network, daughters, friends, etc.
Do you or your family use these products, see below. 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
http://www.newpittsburghcourier.com/index.php?article=10522
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 WAMO 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 articl es from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one
titled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines Environmental
Suspects (updated, 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 identif y 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 lis t simply says:
The following is a list of products that have previously been found to
contain hormones:
1. Placenta Shampoo
2. Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
3. Placenta revitalizing shampoo
4. Perm Repair with placenta
5. Proline Perm Repair with placenta
6. Hormone hair food Jajoba oil
7. Triple action super grow
8. Supreme Vita-Gro
9. Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
10. B & B Super Gro
11. Lekair natural Super Glo
12. Lekair Hormone hair trea tment with Vitamin E
13. Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine
14. Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
15. Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
16. Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
17. Nu Skin body smoother
18. Nu Skin Enhancer
KEEP THIS LIST HANDY!!!
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.
* * *
Black Hair Care Products and Cancer:
To my sisters and sistahs - Please read and take appropriate action.
Please pass it on to your network, daughters, friends, etc.
Do you or your family use these products, see below. 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
http://www.newpittsburghcourier.com/index.php?article=10522
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 WAMO 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 articl es from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one
titled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines Environmental
Suspects (updated, 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 identif y 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 lis t simply says:
The following is a list of products that have previously been found to
contain hormones:
1. Placenta Shampoo
2. Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner
3. Placenta revitalizing shampoo
4. Perm Repair with placenta
5. Proline Perm Repair with placenta
6. Hormone hair food Jajoba oil
7. Triple action super grow
8. Supreme Vita-Gro
9. Luster's Sur Glo Hormone
10. B & B Super Gro
11. Lekair natural Super Glo
12. Lekair Hormone hair trea tment with Vitamin E
13. Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine
14. Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner
15. Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO
16. Hask Placenta Hair conditioner
17. Nu Skin body smoother
18. Nu Skin Enhancer
KEEP THIS LIST HANDY!!!
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.
