Battling Cancer

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these last few months, you must have heard about melamine - that notorious chemical added to Chinese baby formula to increase its protein content. It killed several babies and made more than 50,000 seriously ill.

The acute effect of melamine is the formation of renal crystal or kidney stones, leading to kidney damage. Little children are especially susceptible to the effects of melamine because of their small body weight and their high intake of melamine-tainted milk. 90% of those who were ill were younger than 2 years old.

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Resource Post for November

Ever since it hit the news late last year, bisphenol A (BPA) is getting more and more notorious. The latest development in the BPA story is this - researchers at the University of Cincinnati reported that exposure to BPA may actually reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments among cancer patients.

Yet, plastic manufacturers all over are still using it in their polymerization process. And food manufacturers are using plastics with BPA in their packaging.

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