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For Our Mothers and Others — 5 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Environmental Estrogens

Spring: birds singing and nesting1 , hyacinths and lilac perfuming the air, delicate daffodils and vibrant tulips decorating homes and gardens — a yearly reminder of nature’s beauty, fertility, and that she is our source of life and sustenance. No wonder we’ve personified nature as a mother. We celebrate Mother Earth each spring with her own day, Earth Day. Spring is also the time of year when we stop to celebrate our marvelous mothers, the life-giving and nurturing2 forces in our lives. In honor of both Earth Day and Mother’s Day, here are some ideas to share with your mother, and others, on how we can treat Mother Earth with love and respect — AND potentially reduce the risk of breast cancer for all the women in our lives.

A potential risk factor for breast cancer is exposure to environmental estrogens. Environmental estrogens are any of a group of synthetic substances found in the environment that, when absorbed into a person’s system, function in a similar way to estrogen. Estrogen stimulates breast cell growth³ , and exposure to estrogen over long periods of time, without any breaks, can increase the risk of breast cancer. Whether environmental estrogens can fuel the growth of breast cancer is still being studied. But if there was a 10% chance that your plane had a significant mechanical problem, would you get on the flight?

The following are five simple ways (there are others) to avoid exposure to environmental estrogens:

• Avoid pesticides containing DDT and dieldrin (look at the labels), and advocate4 for your schools and community to do the same.

• Avoid cooking with nonstick cookware: the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) used to make products grease- and waterproof is an environmental estrogen. When the cookware is heated, PFOA can seep into your food.

• Avoid using plastic food containers, which may contain bisphenol A. Never heat plastic containers or use plastic wraps in the microwave — heating plastic causes the leaching5 of the environmental estrogens into your food.

• Avoid cosmetics or personal care products containing phthalates. Because phthalates are mainly used for fragrances, and often not required to be listed on product ingredients, using fragrance-free personal products would limit exposure.

Recycle old electronics, including cell phones, hard drives, TVs and computer monitors, and batteries. The breakdown of the cadmium, nickel, and lead in these products form environmental estrogens that can seep into our soil and water supply.

How important is paying attention to environmental factors?A major study commissioned by Congress released in February 2013 concluded that “Primary prevention of new breast cancer cases requires identifying and reducing exposures that increase the risk of the disease, and fostering6 behaviors that may help to prevent it.

The surest steps to reducing our risk of breast cancer are well established: maintain a healthy weight, exercise, eat nutritious food, avoid alcohol, and don’t smoke.

Adapted from: http://community.breastcancer.org/blog/for-our-mothers-and-others-environmental-estrogens

 

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Billy Steinberg escreveu originalmente a música “True Colors” sobre a sua própria mãe.Acanção foi incluída no segundo álbum solo da cantora e atriz norte-americana Cyndi Lauper e chegou ao #1 da Billboard. “True Colors” foi interpretada pelo elenco de Glee no episódio 11 da primeira temporada, “Hairography”.

 

TRUE COLOURS

You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged til I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world, full of people
You can lose sight of it
And the darkness, inside you makes you feel small

But I'll see your true colours, shining through you
I see your true colours, and that's why I love you
So don't be afraid, to let them show
Your true colours, true colours
Are beautiful, ooh like a rainbow

Show me a smile
Don't be unhappy can't remember when
I last saw you laughing
When this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
Just call me up, cos you know I'll be there

 

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discouraged - darkness - beautiful - unhappy

O gato Garfield é estrela de uma das tirinhas mais famosas da história, sendo publicado em 2570 jornais de todo o mundo (só perdendo para Peanuts). Garfield é criação de Jim Davis. Leia a tirinha e analise o uso do pronome “Who”.

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Hold Me Closer

 

Veja a simplicidade de alguns versos da letra de Hold me Closer, sucesso gravado por Elton John em parceria com Britney Spears.

 

HOLD ME CLOSER 

Andrew Wotman / Bernard J. P. Taupin /
Elton John / Henry Russell Walter 

I saw you dancin' out the ocean
Runnin' fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands (oh)
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today (oh)

 

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How The Death Of Mahsa Amini Pushed Iranian Women Over The Edge Of Revolution

 

The protests that were ignited by Mahsa Amini's custodial death in Tehran are now raging across 40 provinces of the nation with over 70 people believed to have been killed in the unrest.

 

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Jheelum Basu

UPDATED: 10 OCT 2022 8:53 AM

 

The spontaneous outburst of anger over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman while being in the custody of Iran’s ‘Morality Police’ has barreled into the third week now. And the flames of protests look like they are here to stay.

The guidance patrols or Gasht-e-Ershad, commonly known as the ’Morality Police’ of Iran, detained Amini on September 13 for flouting the country’s dress code for women as she apparently was wearing an ‘improper head covering’.

After enjoying a little leniency in the Hijab rule during the more reformist Hassan Rouhani’s regime, women in Iran again were made to abide by stringent restrictions on clothing once the hardliner President Ebrahim Raisi took over the post in 2021.

According to Islamic Republic’s present advisory, women are advised to cover up in public by wearing a “hijab” or headscarf that is supposed to completely hide the hair.

Authorities claimed that Mahsa succumbed to death on September 16 owing to a cardiac failure three days after falling into a coma while her family, rejecting the possibility of any underlying medical condition to be the cause of her death, firmly pointed towards custodial brutality and asserted that she was beaten.

‘She was tortured, according to eyewitnesses’, said Amini’s cousin Erfan Mortazaei, as per media reports.

“She was tortured in the van after her arrest, then tortured at the police station for half an hour, then hit on her head and she collapsed”, he added.

The protests that were ignited by her death in Tehran are now raging across 40 provinces of the nation. The unrest is believed to have killed over seventy people so far while countless people got arrested. The authorities have imposed stringent restrictions on internet services and clamped down on protesters. Access to social media platforms and messaging applications has also been curtailed.

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I - ... COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE MORALITY POLICE ...

II - ...SHE APPARENTLY WAS WEARING ...

III - ...TO COMPLETELY HIDE HER HAIR ...

IV - ...REJECTED THE POSSIBILITY OF ANYUNDERLYING ...

V - ... FIRMLY POINTED TOWARDS ...

 

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