O....K.... Thanks, Marty, Good thing I finally went cold "walking chicken"
on dairy products. Still using "free walking chicken", "free range" eggs
and "free run eggs". That last bit is tongue in cheek. We found an organic
meat market that also sells wild meat though we as a family do not eat much
meat...James never. He has been a vegetarian for years. Also a large
organic meat market and the local market has an excellent selection of
organic products so it does seem to be getting easier to shop, doesn't it?
God Bless, Jeanne
At 06:07 AM 6/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Some Information for YOur Saturday and some things to be concerned about
>and careful of.
>
>God Bless
>marty auslander
>
>
>
>Monsanto's Hormonal Milk Poses Serious Risks of Breast Cancer, Besides
>Other Cancers, Warns Professor of Environmental Medicine at the
>University of Illinois School of Public Health
>
>CHICAGO, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by
>Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor Environmental Medicine, University of
>Illinois School of Public Health and Chairman of Cancer Prevention
>Coalition:
>
> As reported in a May 9 article in The Lancet, women with a relatively
>small
>increase in blood levels of the naturally occurring growth hormone
>Insulin-
>like Growth Factor I (IGF-1) are up to seven times more likely to
>develop
>premenopausal breast cancer than women with lower levels. Based on
>those
>results, the report concluded that the risks of elevated IGF-1 blood
>levels
>are among the leading known risk factors for breast cancer, and are
>exceeded
>only by a strong family history or unusual mammographic abnormalities.
>Apart
>from breast cancer, an accompanying editorial warned that elevated IGF-1
>levels are also associated with greater than any known risk factors for
>other
>major cancers, particularly colon and prostate.
>
>This latest evidence is not unexpected. Higher rates of breast, besides
>colon, cancer have been reported in patients with gigantism (acromegaly)
>who
>have high IGF-1 blood levels. Other studies have also shown that
>administration of IGF-1 to elderly female primates causes marked breast
>enlargement and proliferation of breast tissue, that IGF-1 is a potent
>stimulator of human breast cells in tissue culture, that it blocks the
>programmed self-destruction of breast cancer cells, and enhances their
>growth
>and invasiveness.
>
>These various reports, however, appear surprisingly unaware of the fact
>that
>the entire U.S. population is now exposed to high levels of IGF-1 in
>dairy
>products. In February 1995, the Food and Drug Administration approved
>the
>sale of unlabelled milk from cows injected with Monsanto's genetically
>engineered bovine growth hormone, rBGH, to increase milk production. As
>detailed in a January 1996 report in the prestigious International
>Journal of
>Health Services, rBGH milk differs from natural milk chemically,
>nutritionally, pharmacologically and immunologically, besides being
>contaminated with pus and antibiotics resulting from mastitis induced by
>the
>biotech hormone. More critically, rBGH milk is supercharged with high
>levels
>of abnormally potent IGF-1, up 10 times the levels in natural milk and
>over 10
>times more potent. IGF-1 resists pasteurization, digestion by stomach
>enzymes, and is well absorbed across the intestinal wall. Still
>unpublished
>1987 Monsanto tests, disclosed by FDA in summary form in 1990, revealed
>that
>statistically significant growth stimulating effects were induced in
>organs of
>adult rats by feeding IGF-1 at low dose levels for only two weeks.
>Drinking
>rBGH milk would thus be expected to significantly increase IGF-1 blood
>levels
>and consequently to increase risks of developing breast cancer and
>promoting
>its invasiveness.
>
>Faced with escalating rates of breast, besides colon, prostate and other
>avoidable cancers, FDA should withdraw its approval of rBGH milk, whose
>sale
>benefits only Monsanto while posing major public health risks for the
>entire
>U.S. population. A Congressional investigation of FDA's abdication of
>responsibility is well overdue.
>
>SOURCE Cancer Prevention Coalition
>
>CO: Cancer Prevention Coalition
>
>ST: Illinois
>
>IN: HEA MTC
>
>SU:
>
>06/21/98 16:00 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com
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