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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhdnP2273xE&w=640&h=360]Not even 100 years ago, it was the norm throughout society… and shockingly enough, doctors actually recommended it for improved health. But the tables have turned dramatically as far as public perception on smoking, which is now recognized as the number one cause of preventable disease and death in the United States.
The latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal that smoking kills roughly half a million Americans annually. Nearly 50,000 of these deaths due to exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke. These statistics are staggering, especially considering that smoking rates have been progressively dropping since the turn of the century.
The temporary satisfaction that smokers get from inhaling that plume of ashy smoke and watching it bellow into the air − a moment of relaxation in a busy and increasingly stressful world − just isn’t worth the long-term health risks. And with national “Kick Butts Day” on March 16th, I feel as though it’s my duty to warn our readers of the importance of kicking this dirty habit.
If you’re a smoker, you’re probably acutely aware of the fact that commercial cigarettes aren’t good for you. I mean, heck, national anti-smoking campaigns have been aggressively urging the public to stop smoking for at least the past 20 years. You’d have to have been living in a cave to miss it.
Anti-tobacco sentiments date back many hundreds of years. In fact, some of the earliest historical records show that during the 1600s Roman Catholic popes banned tobacco use in holy places. King James I even issued “A Counterblaste to Tobacco,” which stated that tobacco smoking is a “custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black and stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horribly stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
Quite the strong opinion, wouldn’t you say? And yet, minus the religious connotations, this isn’t much different from the message being broadcast by public health officials today. These men and women continue to drive the point home that smoking kills − and it definitely does!
Inhalation of smoke in any form isn’t good for your lungs. However, it is especially the case when that smoke is laced with thousands of chemical additives − 69 of which are known carcinogens! This is what you’ll find in the average commercial cigarette, by the way, which is orders of magnitude more toxic than cigarettes of old that contained just tobacco and paper.
Tobacco, and even nicotine, isn’t inherently toxic, it turns out. Nicotiana Tabacum, as well as its cousin Nicotiana Rustica, are the plants from which tobacco is derived. They have been used for thousands of years in both medicine and religion. Only within the past 100 years has tobacco become a dirty word with an even dirtier reputation… and it’s all in the roll.
Some of the more surprising, scientifically-backed health benefits of tobacco include:
In my view, the research behind all this points to the potential health benefits of tobacco itself, not smoking − so don’t get too excited and rush out to the store to pick up a pack of lights! Smoking tobacco is a bad idea, no matter how you look at it. There is significant science suggesting that engaging in this dirty habit is far more destructive than it ever could be helpful.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) lists the following as being a few of the more than 250 chemicals in tobacco smoke known to damage human health:
And the list goes on and on, with all sorts of heavy metals, plastics, and other chemicals that are generated every time a smoker lights up. The short-term effects of this exposure are disastrous in and of themselves, but the long-term effects are even worse.
Lung cancer is the most obvious consequence of a smoking habit, as is emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). But smokers are also at risk of developing similarly devastating diseases such as diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, age-related macular degeneration, pneumonia, chronic inflammation, and depressed immune function.
There’s also the risk of developing cancers of the esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, cervix, colon and rectum, not to mention acute myeloid leukemia.
I’m not here to harp on you if you’re a smoker who’s trying to quit, or even if you’re not necessarily trying to quit. I recognize the difficulties of breaking this addictive habit when it’s been a part of your life for many years. But I will urge you to make every attempt possible to quit, for your own sake and for the sake of your family and friends.
I’ve witnessed too many loved ones die from cancer to keep quiet about this, especially when smoking-related health damage is completely preventable. With Kick Butts Day as a reminder, you have the opportunity to join tens of thousands of others in the same boat who are committing to “kick butts” and take names.
It’s never too late to stop smoking. Believe me when I say that the human body has an incredible ability to heal itself, even if you’ve been smoking since as far back as you can remember. But you’ve got to decide to take the first step, and that means quitting.
Go pick up some nicotine replacement patches, or even enroll in a local smoking cessation class. Whatever it takes to stop polluting your body with cigarette smoke, just do it! Your friends, your family, and ultimately your body will thank you.
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“Step onto the body scanner platform and place your hands in the air; it’s for your safety and security.”
If you’ve traveled through a U.S. airport within the past few years, you’ve probably had a government screener say something along these lines. Every day travelers are herded through the checkpoint corrals into one of these anti-terrorism full body scanners. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims these so-called “advanced imaging technology” devices are just as safe as traditional metal detectors. But is this really true?
When they were first rolled out post-911, backscatter X-ray tunnels quickly became standard fare at commercial aviation facilities nationwide. The TSA claimed the amount of low-intensity radiation emitted by these machines was safe, releasing less than 10 microREMs of radiation per screening. This is an amount equivalent to what an airplane passenger might incur after just two or three minutes of flying at cruising altitude.
This claim was later debunked. It was revealed that concentrated radiation blasted directly at a person’s body is much more harmful than the random patterns of ionizing radiation sent in all directions from the cosmos and by an airplane’s navigational equipment during flight. Not long after these facts came to light, the TSA came up with a different type of screening technology that it said was safer − the millimeter wave machine.
According to the TSA’s Frequently Asked Questions page, millimeter wave imaging technology “uses harmless electromagnetic waves to detect potential threats, which are highlighted on a generic outline of a person appearing on a monitor attached to the unit. If no anomalies are detected, an ‘OK’ appears on the screen with no outline.”
It all seems simple enough, right? Unfortunately, this explanation by the TSA is trite at best, and deliberately misleading at worst. A closer look into millimeter wave technology and the ways in which it affects the human body during an average TSA screening reveals a truth that the government doesn’t want you to know. The doses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the TSA’s millimeter wave technology machines can cause cancer.
The fact that millimeter wave technology is used in the treatment of skin cancer (due to its known skin-heating properties), means it undeniably has an effect on human cells. This heating is a direct result of microwave frequencies entering the skin and inducing a certain level of atomic motion within the cellular structure. This is really just a fancy way of saying that millimeter wave radiation microwaves your skin.
Just how much this millimeter wave radiation microwaves your skin is where push comes to shove. But most scientists are in agreement that any amount of radiation poses at least some level of risk. The public deserves to know both this level of risk and what they can do to minimize or eliminate it.
Though not ionizing in nature, millimeter wave radiation is still potentially damaging to the human body. A 2012 paper published in the journal Radiation Research admits that the safety of millimeter wave body scanners is “difficult-to-impossible to prove using publicly accessible data.” This means that TSA claims of negligible risk associated with their use represent the opinion of the TSA, and not scientific fact.
What we do know is that millimeter waves, which exist in the 30-300 GHz range, cause “multiple biological effects,” according to another study published the same year in the International Journal of Oncology. Though this study looked specifically at millimeter wave radiation in the context of cancer treatment, the morphological effects demonstrated reveal that this supposedly “safe” form of radiation causes cellular change that inhibit cellular growth.
Like all other forms of radiation, millimeter waves don’t differentiate between healthy cells and malignant cells. Whatever cells they’re targeted at are the cells they destroy. In the case of concentrated radiation blasts from millimeter wave body scanners, it means every cell on the surface of your body.
What this all means is that millimeter wave body scanners act as giant microwaves that literally heat travelers’ bodies at the cellular level using ultra-high frequencies not normally found in nature. Microwave ovens operate at nearly the same frequencies as these machines. They induce cellular vibrations strong enough to generate heat in food, so imagine what it’s doing to your skin.
But these are just minor thermal effects, you might be thinking, since an airport body scan only lasts a mere two seconds or so as opposed to 30 seconds to a minute to warm a bowl of soup in a microwave oven. But the principle is still the same, especially when taking into account repeated exposures.
And you also have to consider the non-thermal effects of millimeter wave radiation, which disrupt cellular communication in ways that science has yet to fully delineate. The United States Air Force conducted its own research into ultra-high frequency, non-ionizing radiation as a potential weapons technology. Interestingly, in the process they uncovered evidence that the non-thermal activity of millimeter wave radiation directly interferes with the body’s ability to protect and heal itself.
A World Health Organization (WHO) report adds even more to the conversation, revealing that millimeter waves not only heat the skin but also damage eyesight and cause cancer, particularly cancer of the skin.
A team of researchers from the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico recognized the lack of scientific research into this questionable technology. They decided to investigate for themselves how high-frequency terahertz (THz) waves, like the kind emitted from the TSA’s millimeter wave full body scanners, affect human DNA. They learned that:
“THz waves … unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication.”
Recognizing these inherent dangers, the best thing air travelers can do is opt out of the TSA screening process when presented with a body scanner rather than a traditional metal detector. By choosing a manual pat-down, air travelers can minimize their radiation exposure and thus minimize the risk of developing cancer.
Though physically invasive and admittedly unconstitutional, a physical pat-down is still better than being blasted with a concentrated vortex of electrical and magnetic energy. As it sweeps around your body, the full body scanner exposes each square centimeter of your body to about 0.013 milliwatts of radiation. Collectively, this is enough to induce gene mutations, nerve damage, sterility, and even cancer.
“Low levels (below 10 mW/cm2) of NIR (non-ionizing radiation) have been found to produce many adverse health effects in animals including temporary sterility, genetic changes, and changes in the transmission of nerve impulses,” explains the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT).
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found preliminary evidence that these low levels may affect the immune system, which means the body may be less able to fight off disease.”
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In honor of World Kidney Day (Mar 10, 2016), we here at The Truth About Cancer want to remind you of your precious kidneys… and to share some helpful tips for maintaining good kidney health.
Kidneys are bean-shaped organs located in your lower back on either side of your spine. They release hormones that regulate blood pressure and stimulate red blood cell production. They also maintain fluid levels inside you, filter waste, aid in activating vitamin D, and balance your sodium, potassium, and phosphorous.
It takes about 30 minutes for your kidneys to filter every ounce of blood inside you. It might shock you to learn that kidney (renal) failure is officially the 9th leading cause of death in the U.S. Most people don’t give kidney health much thought − until these vital organs stop working.
If your kidneys fail, it means they’re unable to filter waste from your bloodstream. Within a matter of hours, the toxins inside you can build to a lethal level.
You can’t survive without your kidneys. You must have at least one functioning kidney. If both kidneys fail, you are left with two options:
Experts estimate that 26 million people in the United States have some form of kidney disease and are unaware of it. Annually, kidney disease kills more people than breast cancer or prostate cancer. More than 47,000 people died from kidney disease in 2013. Yet you don’t hear much about it in the mainstream media.
Kidney disease is a “silent” killer. Kidney function deterioration can happen quietly over time. But once your kidneys begin to fail, your health declines quickly. You might experience symptoms or you may have no clue you have kidney disease until you’re tested for an unrelated condition.
If you experience any of the following symptoms, seek medical attention immediately.
Acute kidney failure is usually a side effect of another medical condition. Heart disease and diabetes are the single biggest risk factors for kidney disease.
Research from Johns Hopkins University (published in American Journal of Kidney Disease) found that patients who are obese have double the risk of developing kidney disease. If you’re a smoker, you have 60 percent more chance of losing the use of your kidneys if they begin to fail.
Renal failure is a painful process. Only cancer requires more visits to the doctor for treatments and procedures.
This World Kidney Day take a moment to think about your personal kidney health. Figure out where the worst offenders are in your daily life and lower the toxins you pump through your body.
If you don’t protect these bean-shaped organs, they could literally collapse from exhaustion. Don’t wait until your kidneys fail before you recognize the importance of these under appreciated (and often ignored) organs.
Please take care of the health of your kidneys. You can’t live (long) without your kidneys… and you don’t want to try.
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