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Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin
An anonymous reader writes "The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings beginning today to review a proposed safe exposure limit for dioxin, a known carcinogen and endocrine disruptor produced as a common industrial byproduct. It's all but impossible to avoid exposure to dioxin. Women exposed to it pass it on to fetuses in the womb, and both breast milk and formula have been shown to contain the stuff. Research done by the Environmental Working Group has shown that a nursing infant ingests an amount 77 times higher than what the EPA has proposed as safe exposure. Adults are exposed to 1,200 times more dioxin than the EPA suggests is safe, mostly through eating meat, dairy, and shellfish."
Are you also gay? Because you might be soon.
This is not flamebait. It's just that vegans who consume a lot of soy products are getting way too much estrogen in their diets. I just heard an anecdote from a friend's roommate who, on his most recent trip to his doctor, said that while he still loved his girlfriend, he found himself increasingly attracted to men. They did some tests and found his estrogen levels were way out of whack, and that was causing his homosexual feelings. Being gay isn't a problem; being gay when you're straight and involved is.
I'm not criticizing the lifestyle, just putting the info out there--it's something vegans should be aware of. The gentleman in question switched to being a vegetarian and his issue went away with time. There are probably other ways for vegans to avoid too much soy as well. The "turning gay" thing is sensational, but having too much estrogen will be problematic in other ways for anybody, so gay and female vegans ought to keep an eye out as well.
If this is already well-known, my bad.
Your brain is not a computer.
or maybe, just maybe, it's not the doomsday scenario environmental nazi's want us to believe? keeping the population under control by scaring them isn't just for bush
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Um, no. Your chance of getting cancer is regulated by carbohydrate intake, thank you very much.
Cancer cells thrive in high blood sugar environments. Native populations, which had never had cancer in the histories of their people, started getting these "diseases of civilization" when the western diet, with copious amounts of carbohydrate, was introduced. They probably had the same incidence of cancerous mutations as before their diet changed, but the newly enriched high blood sugar environment let these otherwise harmless cells outproduce and overwhelm the other cells of the body.
Carbohydrate is the ultimate carcinogen, so put down that bran muffin, orange juice and low-fat bagel.
problem solved once again. seriously guys, that dystopian wasteland we all giggle about at the movies is becoming more and more a reality every day. climate change, mercury in fish, dioxins in meat, produce contamination from
pig farm and bovine wastewater runoff, megacorps like monsanto pushing unsafe genetically modified foods and silencing dissenters, and a growing population of adults that are completely fucking incapable of cooking anything outside hotdogs and microwave hot pockets should be a call to action.
Good people go to bed earlier.
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Actually, we are all dead. Everyone dies eventually and most people die of cancer, heart attack, or stroke. Is it possible that Dioxin causes any of these? If so, then it is killing us.
Stop being so shortsighted. I don't know whether or not Dioxin is poisonous, but you seem to have reached a conclusion based on the article summary. That alone speaks to your lack of critical thinking. You fail at science.