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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 540
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 02:09 pm: | 
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As an aside, the author below is 40+ (maybe 50), and I
have to say, I only hope to look HALF as good as this
sister does a decade from now.
~Deesha
Lifestyles Report...Hair scare
http://www.newpittsburghcourier.com/index.php?article=10522
by Debbie Norrell
At least two months ago WPXI contacted me to do an
interview about
ingredients in hair care products used by
African-Americans possibly
leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am
a 15-year breast
cancer survivor.
I agreed to do the interview. However at the end of
the taping I didn't
know anything more about the study than before the
cameras started
rolling.
Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier
freelance writer
Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it
was a feature on
the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these
stories we still
did not have a list of the products.
Battle gave me the list that didn't make her feature
during a recent
visit I made to the WAMO studio's promoting the
Pittsburgh Race for the
Cure. So many of my friends have seen the stories on
television or read
about this issue in the paper and they want to know
which products to be
concerned about.
However I wanted to give you more so I went to the
Internet and looked
for articles from the Center for Environmental
Oncology and found one
titled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines
Environmental
Suspects (update spring 2005).
The article stated, one of immediate research
priorities of the new
center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in
African-Americans
under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much
breast cancer as do
white women.
The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a
Massachusetts based
cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and
ingredients in
hair care products and other personal products
regularly used by
African-American young women and their mothers.
More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic
compounds in hair care
products used by Black women as a possible explanation
for higher cancer
rates in this population.
I've started to carry copies of the list in my purse
but we're going to
share it with you right here. The list simply says:
The following is a
list of products that have previously been found to
contain hormones:
Placenta Shampoo, Queen Helene Placenta cream hair
conditioner, Placenta
revitalizing shampoo, Perm Repair with placenta,
Proline Perm Repair
with placenta, Hormone hair food Jajoba oil, Triple
action super grow,
Supreme Vita-Gro, Luster's Sur Glo Hormone, B & B
Super Gro, Lekair
natural Super Glo, Lekair Hormone hair treatment with
Vitamin E, Isoplus
Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine, Fermodyl with
Placenta hair
conditioner, Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and
estrogen plus TEA-COCO,
Hask Placenta Hair conditioner, Nu Skin body smoother
and Nu Skin
Enhancer.
The majority of these products contain placental
extract, placenta,
hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis
(epidemiologist
and director of the Center for Environmental oncology,
part of the
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and
co-researcher Leon
Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens,
synthetic estrogen
imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.
Davis also says, "most cases of breast cancer are not
born, but made and
the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her
lifetime, the greater her
risk of breast cancer."
We need to be more cautious of the products that we
use on our hair and
our bodies and demand that more information about our
health is shared.
Ladies and gentlemen beware.
(Email the columnist at debbienorrell@aol.com.) |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1295
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 02:25 pm: |
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Oh yeah, she IS gorgeous:
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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 541
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 02:30 pm: |
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And she's got a GREAT body too. Very fit. She's my hero. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3218
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 03:47 pm: |
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Hmmmmmmmm?
Kola,
What's that you said earlier on 'Vette's "Was Malcolm Gay" thread about over half of "females" having had some gay inclination or fling? |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1305
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 03:51 pm: |
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Yeah, ABM....we're all just licking each other's brown gooey bodies and thinking about YOU and your big rod and how you're our only salvation.
We writhe in wait of your blessed penetration.
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 397
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 03:57 pm: |
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LOL!
(I'd type more but my fingers are writhing! LOL) |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3226
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 04:24 pm: |
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Kola: "Yeah, ABM....we're all just licking each other's brown gooey bodies and thinking about YOU and your big rod and how you're our only salvation....We writhe in wait of your blessed penetration."
ABM: Fellas? Don't you just LOVE it when a sistah FINALLY 'feels' yah?
'Vette,
Careful. Too much of that and you may go blind. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 402
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 04:32 pm: |
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'Kay, I'll use caution. LOL
But, back on topic: Such an estrogen hormone-breast cancer link would not surprise me at all. My husband and I decided a while back to stop purchasing milk and chicken meat from animals that had been fed hormones. We do not warm up our food in soft plastic containers or use plastic wrap. I'm sure there are other things we could do.
And as soon as my husband finds them out, we'll be changing our ways immediately. He is haunted with the notion of our daughters menstruating at age 8. And now there may be another reason to make these changes... |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3227
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 04:39 pm: |
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'Vette: "He is haunted with the notion of our daughters menstruating at age 8."
ABM: I understand. But, believe me, fathers don't feel much more comfortable with THAT when their daughters are teens.
Seriously, though, this seems yet ANOTHER reason why sistahs (and brothahs) might want to rethink this whole hair perming/coloring obsession we have. |
Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1309
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 04:43 pm: |
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Well if they don't perm it and dye it---they'll just BREED it straight.
You know niggerstock. It's a worldwide phenomenon.
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Kola
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Username: Kola
Post Number: 1310
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 04:43 pm: |
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Ooops. Sorry to be so abrasive.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 3232
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 05:08 pm: |
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Kola: "Well if they don't perm it and dye it---they'll just BREED it straight...You know niggerstock. It's a worldwide phenomenon."
ABM: Well. At least they'll annually save +$1,000 and hundreds of unproductive hours at salons. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 115
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 07:42 pm: |
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Yvettep writes:
But, back on topic: Such an estrogen hormone-breast cancer link would not surprise me at all. My husband and I decided a while back to stop purchasing milk and chicken meat from animals that had been fed hormones. We do not warm up our food in soft plastic containers or use plastic wrap. I'm sure there are other things we could do.
And as soon as my husband finds them out, we'll be changing our ways immediately. He is haunted with the notion of our daughters menstruating at age 8. And now there may be another reason to make these changes...
Libra writes:Gurl..what your saying is so on point. Not only that, have you been in a middle school..? The 10-12 yr old boobs are the size of Kola's. Goodness..
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