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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 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
articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one
titled: 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:
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 Jojoba 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 treatment with Vitamin E
13. Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with 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
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.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Maranatha!
1Cor. 16:22
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 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
articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one
titled: 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:
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 Jojoba 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 treatment with Vitamin E
13. Isoplus Hormone hair treatment with 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
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.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Maranatha!
1Cor. 16:22
of people living in America. This is due to the increased prevalence of TEFLON created by Dupont in our society. Think about it...Teflon pots/pans...plastic...bathroom cleaners....Coldstone...carpets... They SAY that having this chemical in your system in trace amounts (high amts recported in TEFLON lab workers has not been found to harm the system BUT who is to say that 20 years from now this won't emerge as thenew cause of some cancer?
