Re: Hope Americans enjoy their chemicals, carcinogens, and air pollutants

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Sounds good -- can't wait! :)

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An All-Natural Chemical Feast (from the New York Post)

By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Posted: Thursday, November 23, 2006

EDITORIAL
Publication Date: November 23, 2006

This article appeared in the Thanksgiving 2006 (November 23) issue of
the New York Post:

It's time to start the preparation for your multicourse serving of
Thanksgiving chemicals.

These days, people think the word "chemical" means "bad" -- and
supermarkets are filled with foods that claim to be "chemical-free,"
"all-natural," and "purely organic." Almost daily, media stories tell
us, for example, how a "carcinogen" known as acrylamide is showing up
in French fries and other cooked high-starch foods.

We're told that nitrite in bacon, saccharin in Sweet'N Low and PCB
traces in farmed salmon are "carcinogens." The basis? They cause
cancer in lab rats that have been fed enormous doses.

So it may be a suprise to learn that even 100 percent natural foods --
including the holiday feast that will be coming your way shortly --
come replete with chemicals, including toxins (poisons) and
carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals), which average consumers would
reject simply because they can't pronounce the names.

Assume you start with a soup course, then munch down some crispy,
natural vegetables, move on to a traditional stuffed bird with all the
trimmings (washing it down with a few glasses of wine) and then top it
all off with dessert and coffee. You will thus have consumed holiday
helpings of various "carcinogens" (again, in lab animals fed high
doses). Yes, Mother Nature makes "carcinogens," too:

* hydrazines (mushroom soup)

* aniline, caffeic acid, benzaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, quercetin
glycosides, and psoralens (your fresh vegetable salad)

* heterocyclic amines, acrylamide, benzo(a)pyrene, ethyl carbamate,
dihydrazines, d-limonene, safrole, and quercetin glycosides (roast
turkey with stuffing)

* benzene and heterocyclic amines (prime rib of beef with parsley
sauce)

* furfural, ethyl alcohol, allyl isothiocyanate (broccoli, potatoes,
sweet potatoes)

* coumarin, methyl eugenol, acetaldehyde, estragole and safrole (apple
and pumpkin pies)

* ethyl alcohol with ethyl carbamate (red and white wines)

Then sit back and relax with some benzofuran, caffeic acid, catechol,
l,2,5,6,-dibenz(a)anthra-cene with 4-methylcatechol (coffee).

These carcinogens in your 100 percent natural holiday meal are
accompanied by toxins -- popularly known as "poisons," also from
Mother Nature. These include the solanine, arsenic and chaconine in
potatoes; the hydrogen cyanide in lima beans; and the hallucinogenic
compound myristicin found in nutmeg, black pepper and carrots.

Now the good news: These foods are safe.

Four observations are relevant here:

1) When it comes to toxins, only the dose makes the poison. Substances
-- like salt -- are potentially hazardous at high doses but perfectly
safe when consumed at low doses like the trace amounts found in our
foods.

2) While you probably associate the word "carcinogen" with nasty-
sounding synthetic chemicals like PCBs and dioxin, the fact is that
the more we test naturally occurring chemicals, the more we find that
they, too, cause cancer in lab animals.

3) The increasing body of evidence documenting the carcinogenicity (in
the lab) of common substances found in nature highlights the
contradiction we Americans have created up to now in our regulatory
approach to carcinogens: trying to purge our nation of synthetic
carcinogens while turning a blind eye to the omnipresence of natural
"carcinogens."

4) While animal testing is an essential part of biomedical research,
so is common sense. A rodent is not a little man. There is no
scientific foundation to the assumption that if high-dose exposure to
a chemical causes cancer in a rat or mouse, then a trace level of it
must pose a human cancer risk.

If we took a precautionary approach with all chemicals and assumed
that a rodent carcinogen might pose a human cancer risk "so let's ban
it just in case"), we'd have very little left to eat. (A radical
solution to our nation's obesity problem!)

The reality is that these trace levels of natural or synthetic
chemicals in food or the environment pose no known human health hazard
at all -- let alone a risk of cancer.

So the next time you hear a self-appointed consumer advocate fret
about the manmade "carcinogen du jour" and demand the government step
in and "protect" us, remember, you just ingested a meal full of
natural carcinogens without a care in the world and with no risk to
your health.

Pass the methyl eugenol! Bon Appetit!

Elizabeth Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and
Health (ACSH.org, HealthFactsAndFears.com).

See also: ACSH's Holiday Dinner Menu and America's War on
"Carcinogens" publications.
http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.1425/healthissue_detail.asp

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Happy Thanksgiving, in America is this week, I've already eaten
my portion of benzene, salt, PAH's (turkey skin being roasted) weeks
ago and survived it in October. I thought I'd find out if there's
anyone different in the world and can't survive a dose of all those
chemicals and dangers; or is it just that aroma of turkey that will
kill you?

Let's celebrate living in the world of chemical soups; where the water
your drinking now was once possibly drank by dinosaurs (there is no
H20 introduced into our world) and are still alive to tell Nannies to
take a flight and flock off. LOL

Be thankful that you can see the whole world perspective that some
people miss out on; due to agendas and figuring out where to twist the
information from light!!!

--
Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
.

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