Everything will kill you

[polaris93]

Top 5 Suspected Everyday Carcinogens in American Cancer Society's Scary New Report

Don Juan Matus, Carlos Castenada's teacher, had a better idea: make death your friend. And as Jim Morrison said, "Nobody gets out of here alive!" And as it was said long ago, no one knows the day or hour of his death (Matthew 24:36-44). It's what you do while

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Styrene

[anonymous]

A study conducted by a "blue ribbon" panel of epidemiologists and published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (November 2009) reports: "The evidence of human carcinogenicity of styrene is inconsistent and weak. On the basis of the available evidence, one cannot conclude that there is a causal relationship between styrene and any type of human cancer."

Priscilla Briones for the Styrene Information and Research Center (SIRC), Arlington, Virginia. SIRC (www.styrene.org) is a trade association representing interests of the North American styrene industry with its mission being the collection, development, analysis and communication of pertinent information on styrene. SIRC has sponsored approximately $20 million dollars in research over nearly 25 years to better understand the potential, if any, effects styrene may have on human health and the environment.

Re: Styrene

[polaris93]

People aren't turned out by cookie-cutters, and it's conceivable that even if 99% of all individuals aren't detrimentally affected by styrene in their environment (or accidentally ingested, which brings it all home in a very thorough way), 1% of us are -- and that any one of us could be in that 1%. Articles like this one should be taken advisorily, that is, as information which the individual might want to review and then make his own decisions about. Which is why I posted it. It's something to think about. Experts can go on and on all they want about what they think is safe for me, but in the end, it's up to me. The same is true for all of us.