Chemicals and its Relation to Cancer

 The mind is one of the greatest gifts of God to every human.  It enables us to think, to do our work with efficiency and to know the logic of every situation.  In fact, the fruits and products of greatest minds in the world can be seen everywhere.  This includes the synthetic chemicals that are present in many items we use on a daily basis.

 From the moment that you open your eyes in the morning until you close them at night, you are actually with these chemicals.  Indeed, man has no satisfaction.  As the leaves are falling from the trees, man seeks informations and makes inventions which he believes can provide him a quality and a better way of living.  Mostly, these things are made up of chemicals and we are being engage to them gradually.  But what are the effects of these chemicals on our bodies?  Is there a link between some chemicals and the huge increase in cancer and other illness?

 Though our bodies are highly efficient in breaking down and expelling toxins from our system, there’s still a need for us to be concerned.  Recently, testicular cancer has increased by 300% and childhood cancers have increased by 26% since 1971.  It is a sad fact that every child born today has a host of chemicals in its body.   Why?  It is because the human body is at the top of the food chain, absorbing a lifetime of chemicals from its mother’s body before birth and her milk after birth.  This is being believed to be a factor in the rise of miscarriages.

 Artificial musk was tagged as a “chemical of high concern.”  It is present in washing powders, fabric conditioners, deodorants and other household items that we use on a daily basis.  You may be wondering how this chemical makes its way back into our bodies.  Well, follow this one: The water that you used in your daily washing makes its way to the treatment works.  Of course, that water contains artificial musk because of the washing powder that you used.  From here, it will pass into rivers and either lie in the mud or pass out to sea, because ¾ of the surface of the world is made up of water, there’s a high probability that it will pass out to the bodies of water.  Then small creatures will ingest this.  As the larger fish eat the smaller fish, it consumes the chemicals ingested by the smaller one.  The artificial musk then will remain in its body fats.  So when we eat the fish, we also consume its chemical content.  Furthermore, the sludge from treatment works is spread onto farmland and consumed by cows from which we get milk, butter, cheese, etc.  This chemical is then added to the level of artificial musk we already have in our bodies and is passed on to our children.

  Many of the chemical in products we use everyday have not had their safety property assessed.  And because there are chemicals that are more dangerous when they are being combined to other chemicals contained in our bodies, it’s really a danger when this is not being properly assessed.

 There’s now a list of chemicals that the European Union classes as of “very high concern.”  But then, manufacturing industries are still being allowed to include the chemicals in their products, that’s why these chemicals are still present in everyone’s home.  Although there are safer alternative available, manufactures are not being put under any pressure to change the chemicals they use.  Until Government introduces legislation to force these companies into action, it is down to the public.  There are actions provided by the Greenpeace website that the public can take to levy pressure against these manufacturers.

 The Government is encouraging scientists to find a cure for cancer.  It seems that officials do not believe that prevention is much better than cure.  More often than not, the blame is being put at the sufferer’s lifestyle, but how can this take into account the huge rise in childhood cancers?

 Between conception and birth is the most susceptible time for exposure to cancer causing substances or carcinogens.  The results of these exposure may materialized immediately like birth defects or not until much later in life in the form of testicular cancer.

 It does not take a genius to realize the effects of chemicals on our environment and our bodies.  Aside from Cancer, many illnesses such as asthma and allergies are experiencing a huge surge in detection and unless we can force the government and manufacturers to act, this trend looks set to continue.

 The government seems to run by the assumption that all chemicals are safe until proven otherwise.  It is true that synthetic chemicals really made a great way to success when it comes to industry and other aspects of our lives.  But much safer alternatives are just around the corners!  Should we have to sacrifice the lives of the many for the dreams of a few?