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Kraft, the company who makes so many of America’s staple food products and whose stock seems to always be golden with its increasing dividends and seemingly stable value in storms, is scrambling to do damage control over an ad that I actually think is pretty clever.
Sure, some may find it in “poor taste”, but if you look at it the right way, it’s actually pretty funny. The print add shows a Korean infant at its mother’s breast, feeding. You cannot see a lot of the breast, the “bad parts” (I feel ridiculous even saying that, why is nudity so shunned anyway) are fully covered by the baby, who by the way is a beautiful baby.
The baby is holding in its hand the iconic Oreo cookie, looking at the camera. It’s a pretty amazing shot actually, and none of it looks photo shopped, so it’s a really amazing photo that looks totally natural, which to me also adds to its appeal.
The ad was created by an agency in Korea, but after the ad went viral, which is a powerful form of advertising, Kraft became eager to put a disclaimer on the ad saying it was never meant for public consumption.
I think they want to keep their somewhat conservative image up and think this is too risque due to the partially exposed breast and somewhat kitchy nature of the ad, which contradicts the safeness that is associated with this all-American brand.
I say relax, let it go and just don’t say anything about it. Those people like me, who are pretty liberal and have a good sense of humor might take it for exactly what it is – a clever advertisement that uses a bit of humor and irony to get your attention – nothing more. There’s really nothing salacious about it.
I’ve gotta hand it to the uber talented Aubrey O’Day – she knows how to make herself front and stage, albeit at the expense of her team mates sometimes rolling their eyes at her apparent need to be the constant focus of attention. Sure, she’s a narcissist, but she is a talented narcissist – you’ve gotta give her credit for that, even as she’s throwing her team mates under the bus to Donald Jr. when they’re not in the room.
This last episode had the two teams going at it in a competition to see who could produce the most catchy jingle for Good Sam, a service that helps people who are stranded in their vehicles. Both teams had talented singers, the one having Clay Aiken and the other having O’Day, who has a great singing voice by the way (so does Clay though).
I was a bit surprised that the normally perceptive Aubrey went with the somewhat risqué cheerleading outfits her team donned, hers in particular which seemed to let an ample portion of her breasts (implants, good ones though, they appear to be silicone) to be pushed up and out of the tight top.
The executive liked her team’s performance, and the song was very catchy. However, he did notice the somewhat risqué outfits, and wasn’t all too pleased with that since he stated this would be a jingle and performance that is safe for your grandmother and nephew to both view.
It was obvious all male eyes were on the voluptuous O’Day as she performed, and she seemed to really feed off of it. A true born performer, that one is, no matter how pushy she may be. She and Arsenio butted heads as usual as well this episode, him being upfront with her about her not hearing his suggestions since he was project manager, but in the end he was happy she was on his team since they won.
I like this show because you get to see a totally different side to these celebrities that you may have grown up with watching, or that you may not have known much about before you see this show. It also shows you that celebrities can be every bit as caddy, petty and generally whiny as the rest of us Average Joes. Some of them, you wonder how they’ve had so much success because of their personalities.
At any rate, I have enjoyed this season a lot because they have such diverse and explosive personalities. The most explosive and surprising has been Lisa Lampanelli, a hilarious comedienne who seems to have it out for the gorgeous Miss Universe Dayana. Her explosions are genuinely cringe worthy.
Well, doesn’t this job sound fun – for a guy at least. The Hooters calendar search is now underway. The Hooters calendar crew will be hitting all the major cities and taking pictures of tons of Hooter girl wannabes along the way. If you’ve never been to a Hooters, they’re a “guys bar” that has pretty lousy service unless you’re a guy, and great breaded wings.
And that’s about it. My husband loves their breaded wings, which are actually off the charts in fat and calories – pretty much just as bad as eating a bucket of KFC fried chicken, and that is bad believe me, but these babies are soooo good once they cool down. I must say, they are good.
The other food there though in my opinion is so-so. Also, my experience has been that if you go in there as a women with her husband, the service is really lackluster. Perhaps it’s because many of the servers there think I’m judging them as a woman but I’m really not. It’s just always a weird vibe, at least if you just go with one guy and you’re the woman.
It is funny to people watch and see the older guys trying to flirt with these young girls in tight short shorts and tight shirts. And by the way, you don’t have to have large breasts to work at Hooters. I think it’s all about just being able to be a fun girl and have confidence in the relatively minimal uniform they provide.
The Hooters Calendar is a yearly calendar that has women in it that have that all American, healthy girl look. They can be blond, brunette, and any race or color but they always have great bodies and they’re usually young. They have real breasts, fake breasts and everything in between. What is the actual criteria for being a Hooters calendar girl? I have no idea!
We can add Edie Falco on the growing list of celebrities that has battled and won the fight with breast cancer. Edie, the actress most well known for her role and Ms. Tony Soprano on the acclaimed HBO show “The Sopranos” and now as the main character in “Nurse Jackie” on Showtime, battled cancer several years ago and had a very successful and full recovery.
Today, she looks just as beautiful and vibrant as ever and thankfully is still with us, healthy and happy and with children now too! She has been a survivor now with no remission for a full nine years if you can believe that. She was very successful at keeping it out of the public eye, which she says really helped her personally to deal with it in her own way and to continue life and continue working even though she knew she had a potentially fatal disease.
Other actresses who have battled breast cancer and won the fight are Kylie Minogue, Christina Applegate, Guiliana Rancic, Jaclyn Smith, Cynthia Nixon, Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge to name a few. Those were just the women who chose to go public with it. There are probably many more who just go through it privately.
It’s a very personal choice on who you tell, and everyone deals with this disease differently which is how it should be. There is no rule book that tells you how you should handle it. It’s entirely up to you. There are many coping mechanisms that can work, it just depends on your personality and the way you tend to handle these types of matters in your life usually.
Edie Falco recently went on television to promote a hotline that is open 24 hours which is totally devoted to help women with breast cancer talk about their feelings. It is anonymous, and you can talk to women who have gone through it themselves. It’s a great way to vent and have open discussions with other women who have gone through the exact same thing you have.
It’s also a great way to unburden yourself without feeling that you are burdening family or friends. Women so often feel that way because we have that built in nurturing mechanism that some how doesn’t make us feel comfortable asking for something from others, even if only a shoulder to cry on when we need it.
But what we don’t know is that those people we’ve been for over the years likely do want to be there for us, we just have to reach out and let someone take care of us, even if only for a few hours.
Jennifer Love Hewitt gets a lot of attention. It’s not always for the best things, but she gets it. Her show Ghost Whisperer has been sort of a quiet hit. Her love life has always been somewhat of a fodder for tabloids, and her breasts seem to make more news than any of it.
That and her figure, which has unfairly been judged when she is a beautiful, shapely woman who is just not sickly thin in a town that is obsessed with women being sticks.
The lates on Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts is that they gained all the attention on her recent appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show where the jokester flashed a huge picture of her boobs in full on cleavage for a new show of hers called the Client List that is premiering in the spring.
She was embarrassed and of course shocked, but the nice actress made light of it and sort of made fun of her breasts. She also acknowledged that her generously portioned breasts were actually airbrushed down a few cup sizes in a previous print ad for the same show.
Apparently though the billboards haven’t been reduced if they’re making this big of a splash. The cool thing is that Love Hewitt is all natural. You can tell, they are very naturally shaped and don’t have that hard appearance that breast implants often have.
Something to be proud of in the land of plastic and fakeness my dear!
Love Hewitt got her start in the well known and well loved series Party of Five. She then made a little more of a name for herself when she starred in the fun slasher movie alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
Both actresses joked that the movie should have been called “I Know What Your Breasts Did Last Summer” as both acknowledged they wore chicken cutlet inserts to give them that ridiculously bouncy cleavage they achieved in the movie that undoubtedly made the boys oggle them.
She now has had several movie and tv successes and no doubt will have more since she seems to be a real professional and still seems to also be down to earth – and yes – nice!
In rather shocking and sad news, breast cancer cases around the world have more than doubled over the past decade, and have particularly hit women in third world or developing nations as they cannot seek treatment or proper care once diagnosed. This is the same for cervical cancer as well.
While it is not known why breast cancer has flourished so much, there have been plenty of guesses from more hormones in our food, more hormone-mimicking ingredients in our skin and body care like parabens and phthalates, and more hormones from estrogen-mimicking plastics with BPA’s in them (see our previous stories on BPA’s and their link to breast cancer).
While there are a million reasons this increase could be seen, it is important to remember that we have the power to help change this terrible statistic by educating our loved ones about how to spot breast cancer early on, and making sure we get the right people in office who are going to make sure that women right here in the US who cannot afford it will be able to get access to affordable serious health care.
In other news from around the world, surveys and research have found that women on certain expensive breast cancer meds are stopping them too early because either their deductibles are so high and they’ve been drained of money and can no longer afford the treatment, or because they have no health coverage at all.
This is pretty serious stuff we are talking about when women put their lives at risk simply because they cannot afford the treatment. The fact that typical breast cancer treatments are so expensive in the first place is probably the biggest question, and in my opinion, the biggest problem that faces us today.
Not only are the treatments expensive and can put women into debt and bankruptcy, even if they have some form of health coverage, but they are so highly toxic that many people think they are better off not going on them in the first place and instead seeking alternative treatment options for their breast cancer.
That is of course a highly controversial topic, and since I am not a doctor, I won’t get into it here, but I am of the opinion that many of the treatments out there today are more toxic than the cancer itself.
One of the largest concerns over breast cancer screenings, which are still most usually performed using the mammogram test, not the lesser used and more expensive ones of thermography and less risky screenings, is the fact that they can often give a falsely positive reading.
This causes much needless alarm and fear in the patient, and critics say that many times the cancer or irregularity that is detected would either never become life threatening or would be so slow growing that it may take decades to even become fully cancerous. However, most professionals still recommend mammograms and other screenings to women in certain age groups or certain high risk groups.
There are definitely many schools of thought on mammograms. I have shared my thoughts before, and I’m sure they are extremely contoversial, as I have opted not to get mammograms and instead do my own breast screenings with my hands (see our past story on self breast examination vs. mammograms) and also keep a close eye on any alarming changes in my breast tissue, pain and anything like discharge, which is always a bad sign.
My personal beliefs aside, I think everyone has a right to make their own choice when it comes to deciding how they should take a defensive stance against breast cancer.
New research has actually indicated that women who have had false positive screenings where they were given a biopsy to make sure the mass or irregularity spotted in a mammogram is noncancerous, actually may have a higher risk of getting breast cancer later. In other words, these false positives may be an indicator, to a degree at least, of how likely a woman is to get breast cancer in the future.
The reason, as with many of these studies, is not so clear cut, but the thinking is that earlier irregularities may signal some sort of predisposition toward cellular irregularity in the breast tissue, which may indicate a higher risk of the breast tissue becoming cancerous at a later point in life.
Of course, you have excellent preventive measures at your disposal if you are predisposed to breast cancer. Diet is crucial to preventing any type of breast cancer. Exercise is as well as it promotes all the good chemicals flowing in the body which help prevent cancerous growths from forming.
Having a great attitude is also paramount in preventing cancer – after all, there is a huge mind/body connection.
Certain newer forms of birth control have been found to cause as much as a doubling risk in women of developing breast cancer. That is just plain scary, and you should definitely take heed to this because this particular form of birth control – the injectable kind such as brand name Depo Provera, is also linked to blood clots in women and even increased risk of stroke.
I happen to know a women personally who had a stroke while on this form of birth control and she was only in her mid-thirties when this happened to her. She was advised to immediately come off this form of birth control after the stroke and in fact was advised not to go on any other birth control after that.
To me, this paints a very alarming picture of birth control, particularly the injectable form since it is now found to not only cause blood clots but also to double the risk of breast cancer. The active ingredient in the harmful one that causes breast cancer is progestin. It uses progestin only as its main form of birth control by tricking the body into not becoming pregnant.
See our related stories in “Can IVF or Birth Control Cause Breast Cancer?” and “Being on the Pill, Breast Health and Risks”
It is likely not simply the fact that the birth control is injected that causes the increased likelihood of breast cancer, but rather the type of estrogen it uses. The study was done over a five year period and involved women in two groups, one that had breast cancer and the other that did not.
The groups were not older, they spanned in age from mid-twenties to mid-forties, so this could definitely happen to anyone. The women in the cancer and non-cancer groups were asked a range of questions, including what type of birth control they used. Women had the higher incidence of breast cancer who were on the progestin-only injectable type of birth control for 12 months or more.
It only took one year on the birth control to have the higher rate of breast cancer, so apparently the type of estrogen used causes cellular damage in a short amount of time, adding to the alarming results.
If you are on this form of birth control, you may want to seriously consider getting on a different one as soon as possible to effectively decrease your risk of developing breast cancer. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned. I’m not usually overly alarmist about stuff like this, but this is some pretty startling information for a form of birth control that is so popular.
Well, I’d say that Sarah Burge, who has been dubbed the “human barbie” because of her almost one million dollars in plastic surgery, is definitely not a feminist. She purchased a voucher for her seven year old daughter’s birthday for breast implants for her when she gets to be sixteen years of age.
I don’t even know where to start to express how dysfunctional I think this is, but then again to each their own, and this little girl seems very excited to have the money in her pocket to get just that done with her breasts when she turns sixteen. Then again, that’s all she’s known, is seeing mommy, this almost doll-like woman, her short life.
And what of the age of sixteen, when she is supposedly allowed to use the breast augmentation certificate? Isnt’ that a bit young, or doesn’t that violate some state laws to get surgery (elective, plastic) that young? I thought the age of consent was 18, but I could be wrong.
I fear for our children who grow up seeing women who are increasingly impossible looking thanks to plastic surgery and boob jobs. Little girls grow up thinking they have to have these impossibly small waists and huge boobs, skinny arms, skinny thighs and the whole nine.
That’s just not how the average woman looks here in America. It’s not how we’re built. If we are, we are in the minority and very few and far between. There should be variety – that is what makes us each unique.
Of course the bestowing of breasts to such a young girl is drawing ire, as it should. It just doesn’t seem like it’s in the best of taste. It seems cheap and sensationalistic and also creepy at the same time. Hopefully the child grows up and realizes that beauty isn’t everything and that you don’t have to spend close to a million bucks to be drop dead gorgeous.
I just read an interesting article about how Beyonce was spotted breast feeding her young new infant Blue Ivy Carter, in a restaurant. Hey, it makes sense. You have a baby that young out of the house, and you are definitely going to have to put her to your breast at some point ’cause baby gets hungry, and baby gets hungry often!
But how do you feel about it? Well, the answer is, it doesn’t really matter what others think about it. It matters what you, the mother thinks, and if you are comfortable enough to do it in a tasteful manner in public, then by God you should be able to without judgements from other people.
But let’s face it. We’re still not the most sexually unrepressed nation here in the US. We’re progressively thinking in SO many other ways, but sexually speaking we are still behind the 8 ball when compared to European countries, Brazil and Latin America in general.
I remember the first time I saw a woman bring out her breast to feed her baby. It was actually a friend of my parents, when I was really young. She covered her breasts with a towel, and put the baby’s head under the towel so she could obscure the majority of her breast, but a little bit of it sort of popped out and I remember feeling confused and embarrassed as a child that she had just exposed herself.
Someone else later said that what she did was in appropriate, so that wad kind of the idea that I grew up with, that women nursing in public was not acceptable. But that’s hogwash, darnit! It should be perfectly natural for a woman to do it. There are of course human etiquette parameters around it, just like anything else – like brushing your hair at the dinner table and things like that.
What I’m saying is that we need to unravel a bit of our cultural tightness that surrounds the breast and other sexual body parts. Breasts have been so sexualized over the paste few decades here in the US that it seems like anything having to do with breasts is automatically considered a taboo.
What we are talking about here though is a child being nourished by its mother. That isn’t weird – it isn’t sexual, and it sure as heck is something to be celebrated and not frowned upon in public.
There has always been the known fact that there is a very agressive form of breast cancer that hits black women mostly. This is undisputed. But do black breast cancer patients also die more often than those of other races? There are new studies that do suggest this, and the reasons are a little foggy as to why.
The thought is that the reason has to be due to differences in standards of health care and access to prepaid health care plans. The reason for this hypothesis is that the larger rate of death from breast cancer in black women really doesn’t add up because white women and women of other non-black backgrounds are actually more likely to get breast cancer in the first place.
So there must be some sort of environmental or surrounding issue as to why African American women die more often from the disease. Even though black women almost exclusively get a rare form of the cancer that is so agressive the prognosis is usually grim, there are still many more occurrences in white women of breast cancer in general.
There is definitely a demographic and socioeconomic factor at work here. When researchers looked at the data, they found that poorer black women who tended to not have as good access to high quality medical facilities and also did not have access to good doctors and health care were the ones that were at the highest risk of dying from breast cancer.
They also found that the health and medical facilities that were in poorer areas were inferior to those that were in more affluent areas, where more money and more affluence would come pouring in for treatment. This is an unfortunate fact, but it exists everywhere, and it exists in many of the largest cities here in the US today.
Cadmium, which is a type of small particle metal that is found naturally in the earth and in many fertilizers that are used to grow vegetables in the ground more efficiently and abundantly, has recently been linked to a higher risk of breast cancer.
Although no direct cause and effect relationship could be established, there is evidence that women with higher levels of this substance were in a bracket for higher breast cancer risk. This means we should try to avoid overexposure to this substance, but it’s not the easiest thing since it is found in many of the foods we eat.
That includes the healthy ones like lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and every other veggie that is grown in the earth that has had any type of ferilizer on it. Eating organic can help some, but you still may have some natural levels of it in your foods even with that.
Cadmium is also found in organ meats (sausages, bratwursts and things like that), sunflower seeds and some other foods in naturally higher levels. Our bodies absorb this substance like a sponge. Some of it can be expelled via our normal digestion and waste elimination process, however some of it may very well stay in the body, and like other toxins, stay in the fatty tissues.
Our breasts are all fatty tissue, so this is where a lot of our body’s toxins end up getting stored (read our past article on toxin build up in breast tissue) It is the reason that quite often the breast tissue is loaded with toxins such as parabens, pthalates and more when breast tissue is biopsied.
Making sure you have optimal iron levels in your blood is another way you can avoid cadmium build up in your system. You are less likely to store so much of the substance if your iron levels are ideal. Eating things like red meats, certain types of legumes and beans, and certain types of nuts and dark leafy green vegetables will help elevate your levels of iron so you can achieve this.
The health benefits of breast feeding for babies are very well publicized, and it can actually be a somewhat polarizing subject among new moms, busy and working moms, and those that have the ability to easily do it or have more access to the right facilities to pump so they can give their child breast milk instead of formula in those formative years.
Gisele Bundchen, known for putting her supermodel foot in her mouth quite a bit lately, was also a polarizing force when she made it sound as if mothers who chose not to breast feed should be ashamed of themselves.
Not only did she make herself seem an elitist, but she also sounded very out of touch with what the modern world is like for hard working moms that work actual 8-10 hour days while nursing an infant and don’t get to enjoy the bliss of having a lot of time off. I don’t know what is truly in her heart, but Gisele got a lot of backlash for those breast feeding comments, which may not have even been intended to be harmful.
One of the primary benefits of breast feeding for women is that they experience less blood loss after they have given birth to their child than their non breast feeding counterparts. In addition, the uterus shrinks down must faster to its original size.
Of course there is that vanity factor in that breast feeding is supposed to burn several hundred calories per day in women who are nursing. However, on the flip side of that, breasts can appear to be “deflated” after women stop breast feeding. Many women look for natural breast enhancement and firming alternatives after breast feeding for this reason.
Additionally, women get to feel the nurturing bond in those tender moments when she is breast feeding her infant, and that alone counts for so much. It sort of harmonizes the heart, calms the blood pressure, and cements a woman’s maternal instinct to protect and love her child. It is a great bonding experience between mother and child.
There is evidence that breast feeding may also ease post partum depression. Another side note is that stopping breast feeding earlier may actually increase the incidence of postpartum depression, so it appears that even the length of time breast feeding has an impact on a woman’s emotional health after she has given birth and is breast feeding her child.
Overall, breast feeding does have numerous benefits for both mother and child, so of course it should be considered carefully depending on one’s lifestyle, beliefs and their overall attitude toward it.
Women who are getting breast implants, who also happen to want silicone breast implants, now have another option besides the two that were previously offered by two huge implant companies. Silicone implants, as you know, are much more popular than saline since they sprang back on the scene and out of the FDA’s highly scrutinous doghouse in 2006.
They are more populer because they offer a more natural breast implant alternative than saline. They aren’t more natural of course, but they feel and look more natural according to both the makers and a lot of the women who happen to get these types of breast implants as their device of choice when getting breast augmentation surgery (whether for reconstructive purposes or purely cosmetic).
Up to this point, only two large companies offered silicone breast implants. Allergen and Mentor, which have been around pretty much since the dawn of breast augmentation. A new company called Sientra is introducing its newly FDA approved silicone implants, and they will be available to women very soon (if not already at the time of this print).
They will offer the silicone implants in several shapes and sizes, including round, anatomical and tear drop shaped, so women of all shapes and sizes and with different size desires will be satisfied with their offerings. No word yet on how they are compared to the other two price-wise, but they would have to be somewhat competititve being the new guy in the market to get a decent share of this booming industry.
Silicone implants are often used in reconstructive surgery because they have greater pliability and softness, and give women who have gone through the trauma of having their breast or breasts removed the peace of mine of having the softest implant possible which mimics their natural removed breast or breast tissue.
Even when silicone implants were banned for general public use by the FDA, they were still available for certain reconstructive purposes for women who had undergone mastectomies.
Remember, there still is nothing quite like your own breast tissue. THAT they have yet to come up with a good implant for. So check out natural breast enhancement alternatives if you’re in the market for some better looking and feeling breasts.
If you’ve ever been interested in the realm of natural breast enhancement alternatives instead of breast augmentation surgery, then you have probably run across a product called Breast Actives, formerly called Breast Gain Plus. They improved their formula a short while ago and enhanced the name of the product as well since it is now a two step breast enhancement system.
They are now offering a cream that goes with the supplement you take daily. The cream has a very potent “feminizing” ingredients called pueraria mirifica in it. This is an herb that has been used by women of Asian descent for many years now for several purposes.
One purpose is that it is supposed to soften the skin and make it look younger, both when taken internally and when applied topically, as it is with this new breast cream by Breast Actives.
Another is that it has potent phytoestrogenic compounds in it which can amp up the breasts and make them appear fuller by increasing their volume and creating an atmosphere in your body much like when you were going through puberty and your hormones were initiating the processes which make you grow breasts.
Basically, the cream is designed to work in tandem with the supplement, so you are getting both topical absorption of phytoestrogenic compounds as well as an oral supplementation, which makes it more effective.
It’s worth looking into if you’re considering options other than surgical breast augmentation.
It appears that the gorgeous and style-conscious fashion maven and wife of the uber hot David Beckham, Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice from the popular band Spice Girls), has gotten her massive breast implants removed. Or she may have downsized to a small set of implants.
However, if you look at earlier pictures of her, not only was she a little bit thicker (and by thick with her, I mean still skinny, but not rail thin as she is now), she did have a pretty ample bosom for her size. Not sure why she got the implants in the first place, because she’s always had a fantastic body.
They may have been uncomfortably big for her naturally tiny frame, is my opinion. They looked like they might also possible be hardened, as they were so large that they looked like they were about to pop out of her shirt the majority of the time. I think she looks 100% better without her breast implants.
Or with smaller implants, whichever the case may be. You can clearly tell in pictures that her breasts appear more naturally sized. they are no longer the beach/bowling ball size they were before. Perhaps she felt as she gets a little older and wiser that many times “less is more”. She couldn’t be more right.
She looks absolutely gorgeous without the giant breast implants. I’ve always thought she was a beautiful woman, but was dismayed when she got the implants and started to cut her hair in that severe haircut and dye it a severe shade of blond. She looks much better more natural with her long, straight brunette hair and gorgeous skin tone.
Maybe having her daughter (her first girl) has brought her more back down to earth. She seems much more at ease in the photos as well, not like she has some painful rocks sticking into her chest like she did when she had the massive gozungas that used to weigh her down. Bravo Victoria! You look beee-autiful!
A woman who owns a salon in Texas has recenlty been arrested after the police in the area received several complaints from female customers who had apparently had the woman perform some sort of breast augmentation procedure on them.
It is not clear whether the woman was injecting the women’s breasts with some material (which is not known yet), or whether she was actually performing the cutting, prying and insertion and all that nonsense that goes with getting breast implants. The final straw appeared to be when one of her clients was hospitalized with severe chest pains and remains there in critical condition.
So far, it’s sounding like these might have been some sort of injection. I’d say for several complaints to be coming through already, there are some seriously dangerous things that were going on in the backroom of this salon. The woman obviously is in trouble because she has no licensing or credentials to perform plastic surgery.
This has happened countless times as reported in the media. When unscrupulous “business owners” perform ridiculously low priced “plastic surgery” on desperate patients, it is dangerous in so many ways. These “doctors” may inject patients directly with things like silicone, which are toxic to the system and can only be housed in a breast implant casing in order to be safe.
Still other unspeakable materials have been injected into patients as well in the name of beauty which are much more toxic than silicone. There are safe and natural breast implant alternatives out there though, so please don’t ever seek out one of these ultra cheap doctors!
There can be serious complications due to any type of anesthesia or any other part of the operation, and only a professional medical facility has the procedures and equipment to handle things when they go awry. Which they often do when you have a person who has no idea what they are doing cutting into you or otherwise performing some sort of an enhancement without any schooling or expertise.
These fake doctors lure people in who are desperate to get things done to themselves to make them more attractive. Breast implants are a very popular plastic surgery option because so many women feel insecure about the size of their breasts in this super size me society whe have.
There are a ton of other procedures that these scam artists lure you in with. Things like liposuction and Botox and other types of injections are fast increasing in the rate of fraud reported. Sometimes people know they are going to someone who is not properly credentialed, but they are lured in by the promise of a vastly improved appearance at a bargain basement price.
Many people have died due to these illegal surgeries, so it’s definitely no light matter.
There is a growing part of the population that believes mammograms, which are images of the interior breast tissue that are displayed on an x-ray type of screen, are actually toxic to the breast tissue because of the radiation they emit into the breast tissue. Of course, this belief is highly controversial.
Further, people who believe this also believe that getting a mammogram every year is not only unnecessary, but may actually cause, accelerate, or somehow trigger the very breast cancer you are trying to avoid or catch early. This thought has contributed to a decrease in mammograms in women.
I am increasingly one of the women who is starting to believe this by the way, but I in no way endorse doing one thing or another because admittedly I am not a medical professional, but am nonetheless entitled to make my own medical choices.
I do regular breast self-examinations and have yet to get an actual mammogram myself. I keep this to myself because the majority of women I know fully believe that mammograms save lives and that not getting them could kill you.
I feel comfortable telling very few people this, as I don’t want to sway their opinion on their own health decisions, but I’m not so sure that mammograms save lives. In fact, I’m not totally comfortable with the response I get when I ask medical professionals what kind of radiation my breast would be exposed to when I get the stock answer “it’s very minimal, as much you you’d get from sitting right in front of the television for a while” or something to that effect.
Self-examinations of course, cannot tell you if you have a tiny mass forming of cancerous cells sometimes, and that is the whole argument for mammograms. But the truth is, mammograms cannot tell you this sometimes either. See our earlier article “Guide for Breast Self Examination“.
There are newer methods of more in depth breast exams such as thermography, however those have yet to hit the mainstream and are not covered by all types of insurance yet. They are supposedly more safe – just not widely available yet.
I like to do my own exams anyway, because I feel more in tune with what’s going on with my body instead of just leaving it up to fate to discover something. I also know my own body well, so I know if I feel something fibrous and I’m on my period, it’s nothing to worry about unless it sticks around.
It is your body, and your decision how you take care of it. It’s all in what you believe and what you are comfortable with. Do your research and use your brain to figure out what the right detection option is for you when it comes to the health and wellness of your breasts and prevention of breast cancer.
If you’re one of those people who is very aware of the products you buy and the ingredients in them that can be harmful or detrimental to your health, then you know that many of the toxins found in our foods, body care products and even our environment can be harming your breast health. Also see our previous story on toxins found in breast tissue and breast milk.
They harm your breast health by adding to your body’s toxic load. Toxins often concentrate in fatty tissues. What is the breast but fatty tissue? That’s exactly what it is comprised of – all fat. Which is pretty funny when you stop to consider how this mass of fatty tissue has been sexualized and viewed as the ultimate source of feminine sexiness.
Because toxins that you eat and put on your body are attracted most to the fatty tissues, they can concentrate in your breasts. Chemicals like the chemical preservative family parabens, have been found in abundance in biopsied breast tissue that has been found to be cancerous. BPA’s have also been found in breast cancer tissue.
All of this seems to point to the fact that toxins such as parabens, chemicals and BPA’s may contribute to the toxic threats that can result in breast cancer. Heck, even in a recent news story, pavement sealant has been found to have health risks. Salon hair straighteners, like the Brazilian Blowout products, have even been found to be harmful and toxic when inhaled or absorbed into the skin.
In short, everywhere you turn is an opportunity to either flood your body with toxins, or protect it by making safer choices that bypass chemicals and other hazardous materials. Instead, you want to choose wisely. Choose paraben free skin care, and try to avoid things like sulfates, DMDM, hydantoin, petroleum and others that have been identified as questionable to human health.
In your foods, try to buy only organic produce where possible, especially if the fruit of veggie is eaten without being peeled, since this offers little protection against the fungicides, pesticides and anti bacterial agents that fruits and veggies are inundated with. See more on foods to avoid for breast health.
Try to minimize alcohol and sugar consumption, as both have been shown to be detrimental to breast health. If you must consume alcohol, try to make it red wine, which at least has a lot of antioxidants to offset the effects of the grain alcohol. Sugar is generally toxic to the body in its unnatural, refined form. Sugar actually can feed cancerous cells, so it is wise to try to avoid sugar, especially the refined variety, if you can.
Radiation is still a major treatment avenue for women with breast cancer. Much to my dismay, modern medical science has not found better, less toxic ways to conventionally treat this cancer, and women are subjected to chemotherapy and radiation, both of which kill not only cancer cells (and sometimes not even that very successfully), but also healthy cells.
This is why women get sicker when they get these treatments – because the treatment, combined with the cancer itself really does a number on the human body and often times women get extremely weak. But enough on that, that is my own personal view on toxic cancer treatments, and I’m sure my views are not shared by all.
Conventional breast cancer treatment and research has indicated that a newer “localized” version of breast radiation may actually result in more mastectomies (breast removal surgeries) down the line than full-breast radiation, which radiates the entire breast, not just one targeted area where the cancer is.
Which is too bad, because Lord knows it’s much better to only target these types of lethal treatments to a smaller area, rather than subject a larger mass of tissue to it. Research has found that women receiving the localized as opposed to whole breast ended up need more radical mastectomies within a five year period.
This appears to point to a higher total “cure” rate for the whole breast radiation, but it is not really clear to me why this might be. After all, isn’t the targeted treatment targeting the area where the cancer cells are congregated? And if so, there must be stray cancer cells in the surrounding tissues that appear “cancer free” that are being missed.
Everyone knows how devastating mastectomies can be to women. They take away a huge piece of your womanhood and leave emotional scars. However, there are also some great breast implants and reconstructive surgeries that look pretty amazing today as well, so that’s a good thing.
Or perhaps those cells haven’t amassed yet and made themselves obvious like the masses that are being targeted. I remember reading theories in the past that every person contains cancer cells within their body at any given time. It’s when the cancer cells are allowed to take over the body that a cancerous tumor forms.
Things like eating high antioxidant diets, high fiber, and high vitamins, while maintaining a healthy and toxin free lifestyle as much as you can may ensure that these cancerous cells are never allowed to proliferate. I think in the coming years, science will understand a whole heckuva lot more about breast cancer, and we can truly begin to understand how we can prevent it best.
Rosario Dawson is one of those actresses whose beauty may be a little underestimated because she seems so down to earth and goofy. She’s basically just as gorgeous as Angelina Jolie, but because she isn’t constantly looking serious and deep in thought in every photo ever taken of her, I think this is why her true beauty isn’t totally recognized.
She’s got the full lips, the big eyes, the olive toned skin and the lithe body that looks effortlessly maintained by probably a scant diet and little exercise. Yeah, she’s the type of girl that makes all of us women jealous!  But there’s another thing that Rosario Dawson’s got going for her and that is a big pair of knockers that don’t seem to match up with how skinny she is everywhere else!
However, they are real. She actually, I believe, did a partial nude scene in which her breasts were exposed and of course the scene was scrutinized by breast implant experts who claimed her breasts are real. I would have to agree. I’ve seen her in a few movies where she appears to be braless, and when she suddenly moves or bounces up and down, her breasts do so too freely to not be real.
Fake breasts, or even good breast implants, tend to not move as much when a woman moves her body around or bounces up and down suddenly. Boy, if implant makers could capture that natural breast feature in an implant, they’d be the biggest thing since sliced bread.
However, due to the nature of breast implants, they just can’t toally mimic real breast tissue yet. They still can tend to look “fake” and feel harder and less pliable than a woman’s real breast tissue. Which is why products that enlarge the breast naturally like Bountiful Breast and herbal breast enhancement pills are all the rage now.
Lots of women aren’t willing to settle for the less than natural look of breast implants, and until there are more natural looking breast implants on the market, they are trying other options to enlarge their own breast tissue – and guess what, it can actually work!
There is a lot of buzz in health news about our exposure to various chemicals and what effect they may have not only on your breast health, but also on our overall health. One of the chemicals that is a source of controversy and concern in recent years is BPA. See our past stories on BPA’s and breast health.
BPA’s chemical name is bisphenol-A . BPA is actually a synthetic estrogen that is found in a huge array of products we use everyday. Included items are reusable cups, hard plastic water bottles, older water coolers and the lining of metal food and beverage cans.
The BPA in metal cans is from the epoxy resin used to line the cans. Another source of BPA exposure is from the thermal paper used for receipts from restaurants, grocery stores, airlines and many other retail stores.
The FDA, in 2008, came to the conclusion that BPA exposure posed no real health threats. That finding has been challenged by a number of studies since that date as new data keeps coming in about the potential effects of BPA exposure. Many health issues are being linked to high levels of BPA exposure through various studies.
Health issues linked to high BPA exposure are increased risk of heart disease and diabetes, developmental effects in infants and changes in fetal development. Since BPA is synthetic estrogen, it has been linked to early onset of puberty and an increase in aggressive behavior.
Research backs up that a top source of high BPA levels comes from canned food. A Harvard School of Public Health study found that 75 participants had an increase of 1000 % in their BPA levels after eating canned soup for 5 days.
Of major concern is the effect of BPA on infants and children. Canada led the way in banning BPA use in plastic baby bottles in 2010. In the U.S., 10 states have enacted laws that ban the use of BPA in the manufacturing of baby bottles and training cups.
Other studies on the health effects of BPA exposure point to alterations in breast tissue that can lead to breast cancer (see related story about estrogen creams and sprays causing early breast development). Again, this is because it is a synthetic estrogen.
Studies of pregnant women found that high BPA levels in the mothers were linked to their baby girls having poor emotional control. These baby girls exhibited high anxiety, hyperactivity and depression.
The study followed the babies to age 3. Curiously, the baby boys were unaffected by the pregnant mother’s high BPA levels. One way to decrease your exposure to BPA is to avoid eating canned foods as much as possible. Parents of infants can make sure they buy baby bottles, formula and food that is packaged with a label that says it is BPA free.
Hey readers. It’s the big V day today, and you know how you can always surprise your sweetie. Any red blooded man with a pulse swoons when you buy a new sexy bra to sport your breasts looking their best with cleavage and the whole nine.
Some of the best bras are now push ups with a little extra added “bounce” in them to make your cleavage look more natural. Some even tighten in the back until your breasts are squished together to make them look not only huge but particularly alluring to men, who love to look at cleavage (I think they’re genetically programmed for this).
My favorite bras to wear when I really want to maximize cleavage and increase the size of my breasts are the ones that have the little water bags in them. They often also come with adjustable straps and tightness controls so that you can control basically how uncomfortable you’ll be until the bra gets ripped off.
And hey, as a woman who is pretty liberated, let me tell you, I don’t like the idea of wearing something super tight on my boobs and they do make me uncomfortable, but they don’t stay on long and it gives my husband such a rush and makes him feel loved, so what the heck, right?
It’s important not to wear these types of tight, restrictive bras for very long though. Only reserve them for short term special occasions, where you’ll be switching out of your loose, perfectly breathable bra into the restrictive bra only for an hour or less.
I do believe that tight bras are not healthy for our breasts, but in small dosese it’s fine. Try getting a bright red or pink one for Valentines day. Or if you’re feeling a bit naughty, get a black one with pink accents, like the colors that are so prominent in Fredericks of Hollywood and Victorias Secret catalogues.
I just got done reading an interesting story about a south of the border woman who apparently blamed her large chest on something that it seems was more likely due to a dalliance with the bottle. A Floridian woman was pulled over after being witnessed going left of center and then parking and taking up two spots.
She was suspected by the officer pulling her over of being under the influence when she apparently began slurring her speech and exhibited other signs of being under the influence of alcohol.
When asked to exit the vehicle by the cop who pulled her over, she uttered a half complete sentence – something about being big breasted and how you can’t walk straight if you have big breasts like hers. Well, maybe she could have if she focused on not making excuses right away, but hey, I guess desperate people take desperate measures.
It gets better from there. Instead of walking, the women reportedly started dancing and then tried to show the officer how big her breasts were. The officer, integrity intact and all, then asked her to stop trying to take her shirt off.
Of course, the woman was booked later on. I’ve heard of lots of things big breasts get blamed for – back pain, neck pain, unwanted attention and stares and difficulty finding bras. Heck, I’ve heard breast implants being pinned as the reason someone’s life was saved (such as our past story on women being saved from bullet by her breast implants).
But this one’s a first. I’m sure it won’t be the last either!
Hello folks. This is a continuation of a previous discussion we started to have about how important hormone balance is to women, and how often our hormones fluctuate during turning points in our life such as purberty and change of life.
Another common cause of both depression and lethargy is a vitamin D deficiency. This deficiency is being seen more commonly in recent years. If a test is not ordered for this and you have complaints of chronic fatigue, you could request it of your doctor. A vitamin D deficiency can be corrected through supplementation and diet.
Thyroid disorders are common in women. Testing for thyroid function is very important for complaints of low energy and weight gain. The thyroid directly affects metabolism and energy. There is some debate recently over levels that are “normal” for our optimum functioning. A delicate balance is needed to feel our best. Too much thyroid medication can affect the heart’s health and cause it to beat too quickly. Too low of a level leaves us sluggish and fatigued with a low metabolism.
Cortisol levels often are not regularly checked unless certain symptoms are apparent on top of fatigue. Your cortisol levels indicate the quality of the functioning of your adrenal glands. A holistic doctor is more likely to do a saliva test for adrenal function more regularly before seeing signs of adrenal failure.
Progesterone levels decreasing as women age can cause PMS symptoms, headaches and menstrual irregularities or excessive bleeding. These levels can be checked and progesterone can be given. Progesterone supplementation, however, has been linked to a higher risk of breast cancer. So, the benefits and risks need to be carefully assessed.
People do not think of women needing a healthy level of testosterone but we do need a certain level of that hormone also. A drop in the normal level can lead to a low libido and low energy. Women should not ignore excessive fatigue or extreme metabolic changes or think it is an inevitable part of aging. It is well worth a visit to the doctor to rule out medical causes so you can be more vital and engaged in life as you age.
Along with the aging process, it is not unusual to see some loss of energy along with changes in your metabolism and also some changes in the thickness and texture of your hair, particularly for women. However, chronic fatigue, constantly gaining weight and a notable hair loss could point to a physical imbalance of a number of hormones or another physiological cause.
If you are in this situation, it is time to make an appointment to see your doctor to determine why you are feeling poorly. Many women still choose to go on hormone replacement therapy to address these types of issues, however there are still many risks associated with hormone therapy.
For excessive fatigue, you can start to assess your diet to rule out an extremely high intake of sugary refined carbohydrates as the cause. If your diet is unhealthy in this manner, you can make adjustments accordingly to see if you feel better when you eat healthier.
Also, look at your sleep patterns and exercise habits. Readjust your lifestyle if you are too sedentary and get moving. If you are not sleeping well or just not getting enough sleep due to time constraints, try to rearrange your schedule if at all possible.
After these causes are ruled out and you are still feeling as if it is a strain just to get through your activities of daily living, make a trip to your physician. There are many hormone related imbalances that are common in women that may be causing your malaise. Hopefully, you have a physician that you have a good rapport with. While some loss of energy and metabolic changes naturally occur in the mid -30′s and beyond for women, it is a question of degree of these symptoms that would indicate a possible medical condition.
Open communication with your physician is necessary to get your concerns addressed properly. Some areas a physician may test are for possible anemia, vitamin D levels, thyroid function, cortisol levels, progesterone and testosterone.
A common cause of lethargy is anemia. It has long been known that low iron levels equal low energy. Depending on the level of the deficiency, anemia may be corrected by eating foods that are high in iron or iron supplementation – and women who are taking natural breast enhancement pills are especially advised to eat a certain type of diet to increase the effect of their natural breast enhancement regimen. More to come in our next post on women’s hormones. This is a very important issue and affects just about every women at some point in her life.
My husband and I have been totally obsessed with the show Friday Night Lights lately. I know we’re a little late to the game considering the show started its run over five years and ago and recently ended with its fifth and final season, but that’s how we roll. We always start shows late so we can just watch as many in one night as we want – it’s pretty fun actually!
Friday Night Lights is a show about highschool football in a small Texas town called Dillon, where football is everything. The townspeople have enjoyed a great highschool football team for years, and the tradition is that they continue to be great and expect great things from the coaches and the players due to the embedded tradition and mentality that it means so much.
It has a great cast and some really superb acting, and another thing it has is a lot of push up bras, bouncing boobs and generally women with big assets. I think it’s trying to be true to the good old Texas tradition of boobs and cleavage everywhere and those hearty Texan women showing off what they got. It’s great, and I’m sure my husband loves to watch it too.
Connie Britton, who I only ever saw up to this point in the spooky and depressing “American Horror Story” couldn’t play a more different role, She is happily married to the coach Eric Taylor. She is one of the ones that wears a lot of low cut and somewhat revealing shirts, and I’m not sure if she’s wearing padded bras, but she looks terrific!
Now, I’m not sure that the school guidance counselor and then principal should really be wearing some of the stuff she does to school – in reality her skin hugging outfits may raise some eyebrows in any other small town, but all the more power to her – I love this actress and I think she is the epitome of natural beauty and natural breasts.
Aimee Teegarden is a teen in the show, and she’s definitely well developed already. They don’t really draw too much attention to this, but it’s pretty obvious that the actress is well endowed and started to be that way at a fairly young age. She even made a cameo appearance in the last Scream movie at the beginning as one of the killer’s well endowed victims, no doubt the movie makers played up her chest!
Then there is Minka Kelly, who plays good girl Lila Garrity. She’s all natural too, and while she may not be as well endowed as some of the other actresses, the producers do a great job of making the most of what she’s got on her thin athletic frame – she’s shines and is gorgeous as well.
Another castmate, whom I do suspect has had some surgical enhancement, is Adrian Palicki. She’s not only a giant, she’s gotta be over six foot tall, but she is amply endowed for how thin she is everywhere else. Her breasts also don’t move much and have a suspiciously round appearance, which is usually a dead giveaway of breast implants. Nonetheless, this talented actress lights up the screen with her bad girl persona.
Great show!
There’s no denying that Katy Perry is a beautiful woman. She’s a beautiful woman who also happens to be a very talented performer. Sure, she may not have the most vocal range, but she’s a hell of an entertainer. Her videos are engrossing and funny and engaging. Her personality is sparkling, and it’s no wonder she’s become the mega success story that she has in a relatively short time period amongst other more pretentious “artists” like Lady Gaga.
Of course, men also love Katy Perry. They love her not only for her fresh faced, unique look but also of course because she has a fantastic set of boobs. And guess what, her breasts appear to be all natural! That’s right – they look to be the real deal, just as she has claimed for years when asked since they are obviously so mesmerizing to men and women alike.
Sometimes it amazes me how celebrities have all the money and admiration in the world and somehow they still have their down times too. Even after all the adoration of fans, the money and all the material things that go with such meteoric success, Katy has definitely had a rough couple weeks as of late.
First, she and her soon to be ex husband Russell Brand, the outrageous Brit comedian who seemed like an explosion of a marriage waiting to happen in the first place, announce they were divorcing. This was not surprising as there were constantly rumors that they were on the rocks, and usually where there’s smoke there is fire (although admittedly there are a lot of complete falsehoods spread in the media when it comes to celebs too).
Then, as if that wasn’t enough, her father, and evangelical preacher, came to a town that’s only about a half hour away from me in Westlake Ohio and gave a sermon that made national news. In his sermon to a church full of people, he made some pretty disparaging remarks about Jewish people. Ms. Perry of course instantly put a distance between her father’s comments and her, making it known she does not share his views.
After a couple weeks like that, it’s no wonder she pulled out of some of the awards shows she was expected at. Sometimes even the most famous people need to take a break and regroup, and be out of the public eye. She’ll still always have a great rack!
Avastin, a cancer drug that was a hopeful for breast cancer treatment when it got in its more advanced stages, is apparently showing promise for another type of female cancer. Ovarian cancer patients saw about four months added to the time it usually takes for ovarian cancer to progress into very serious territory.
Basically, the drug may not actually save lives, but may extend them further beyond what they currently span when ovarian cancer reaches the point of no return, so to speak. Because of this though, it may have further implications in treating various female types of cancer on the market, and may be studied further to see if it has any therapeutic benefit.
In a seemingly converse twist, the women who paired Avastin with the other cancer therapies they were on for their ovarian cancer in the study did not live any longer than the women that did not take Avastin in addition. This begs the question, why even bother with the additional drug if it did not, as an end result, extend the actual lives of the women?
Not to mention, what should really be looked at with these drugs is whether they are extending the life, or the progression of the disease while also increasing the quality of life? If they are not, and they are merely extending an existence of pain and suffering, then one must ask, is this really right?
If you recall, we discussed Avastin not too long ago as it related to breast cancer treatment. The FDA recently revoked its previous approval for complementary breast cancer treatment due to significant health risks.
These health risks imposed on women who had avanced breast cancer were simply not worth the less than stellar results the drug had on extending their lives. The risks had to do with perforations found in the intestines that were linked to the drug which could potentially be life threatening, and add yet another health problem onto women already beleagured with health issues stemming from the cancer and all the medications they are on – all of which have serious side effects.
As you can tell, I take a fairly mistrustful stance on many medical establishment status quos when it comes to medications and treatments for such serious ailments as cancer. I think it takes a very critical eye to really figure out what works, and what is really forced on us as being the only potential treatment for these cancers, which scare the heck out of people.
I know we’ve been harping away at this big news story about the french company that sold thousands of faulty implants many of which were unfortunately implanted in a lot of patients. But this stuff needs to be aired out so it can ensure that no other companies will be able to pull off such a widespread scandal and hurt so many women potentially as this has.
The governments of the countries where women are most affected by the dangerous implants have actually offered to pay for women to get the implants removed if they choose to do so. However, on of the government bodies, Venezuela’s in fact, is saying they will pay for their removal if patients are worried, but they will not pay for their replacement.
In other words, the women who had the implants can get them removed, but they have to pay for the implants to be put back in, which may amount to just as much money as it did anyway had they paid for the entire thing themselves.
To remove the implants costs one amount, but it is a whole ‘nother procedure to get the implants replaced, and I think that is where the government is stopping short. I can see why, as they cannot send the message that they will pay for plastic surgery to improve one’s appearance, but they can pay to remove something hazardous from their citizen’s bodies.
However, I can also see this from the patients end as well. If I had these faulty breast implants in my body, I’d sure as heck want someone who is responsible (there are also companies that sold these to women as middle men) to actually pay for a replacement as well.
You get used to having breast implants, and it’s not all that fair if suddenly because some manufacturer screwed up, you have to have them yanked out. It becomes a matter of equity – they should be “made whole” by the wrong that was done to them, and this offer is really only doing half the job.
Sure, it’s all legal ease, but I guarantee that’s the angle these women’s lawyers will be taking, and that they should in order to make their clients whole again.
Remember that scandal that broke where thousands of woman potentially have a toxic time bomb in their bodies thanks to a French breast implant company that put industrial (not medical) grade silicone in their breast implants to save money?
Well, there’s apparently more to the story as we’re now finding out, and it appears the faulty implants have been on the market quite a long time which is surprising considering these are devices that go into people’s bodies.
The company, which goes by the acronym PIP (Poly Implants Prostheses) had apparently received numerous complaints from regulators and concerned surgeons and clinics years before this recent story broke into the mainstream.
The implants apparently not only contained the wrong grade of silicone, which has its own problems in and of itself, but they also were more likely to break in the body, which is a concern that went unheeded after reported.
This does not look good for the French company. It’s one thing when a company did not know its products could cause harm to people, but when a company knows there is a higher likelihood of harm and simply asks that it be concealed, that puts them into a whole new light in the public, as well as legal eye.
It appears the company was deceiving several entities, including its own insurance company. While this seems shocking, it’s also alarming to know how long this went on and that it is all just now coming into the public’s awareness.
If you think about this one incident, and how many more incidents with breast implants there may be that we don’t know about, it makes you consider breast implant alternatives as an option if you were thinking about doing it, that’s for sure.
Going under the knife is a big enough deal without throwing in the potential to have a toxic product being implanted into your body, or the complications that could results in thousands more dollars being spent to correct or rectify.
And we don’t even know the long term effects or dangers yet of the commercial grade silicone used in these implants.
Lindsey Lohan’s much ballyhooed Playboy spread ended up being a letdown to some of her fans. Why? Because the hot mess of a star was airbrushed to death like all the other beautiful, busty women who are featured in the men’s magazine, much to the disappointment of their fan base which has been dwindling for years.
Of course, their membership has been dwindling because the plethora of naked women shown on the internet for free, but also there is speculation that a lot of avid male and female readers are tired of looking at one airbrushed body after another. They need to keep it real and start showing these beautiful women in all their glory – flaws and all.
I mean, isn’t THAT what is really sexy about the human form? Not women who all are made to look like some semblance of a cartoon because of so much makeup caked on? To me, they all look like they are the same person, only vaguely morphed into some new costume or a somewhat different twist on their makeup.
Lindsey Lohan’s spread features her in traditional fifties bombshell “suicide blonde” hair, with brigh tred lips and deeply colored eyes. I guess you can see some of her freckles, which is refreshing, but sheesh, can’t they at least show us a little more realistic appeal?
I know this is riduculous coming from a woman, but I feel that I sort of understand the male psyche about what is truly sexy, and I think Playboy has missed the mark on truly sexy for a while now. Hefner must be giving in to the modern guys on his staff, because you know he’s gotta be old school!
With the economy in the dumper the way it’s been for the past couple of years, women are looking for less expensive and more natural ways to increase their breast size. While there are plenty of products on the market that can help to enhance the beauty and perkiness and firmness of the breasts, there are a few that can really help to increase their size naturally.
There are two families of products when it comes to natural breast enhancement products, which are usually sold as supplements since one must really take a supplement in order to initiate the biological changes within their body to make their breasts grow.
Herbal : Herbal pills are by far the most popular because they can be very cost effective. These are often filled with herbs and vitamins that have some sort of estrogenic effect on the body. They are also called phytoestrogens. These active plant chemicals travel about the body and interact with the thousands of other natural biological hormones and chemicals in the body as estrogens would.
For this reason, they can also increase the size of the breasts – making them fuller and sometimes even tender during the process. These types of products can also come in tandem with an enhancing cream to help externally increase firmness and increase circulation to help the breasts lift and appear larger from the outide as well.
Herbal breast enhancers can work very well on some women, and on others they can fall flat – it’s a matter of experimentation really. Then there is another kind of natural breast enhancement supplement that is fundamentally different in that it uses an animal-based technology to naturally enhance breast size.
Non Herbal Breast Enhancement – This primarily consists of a product called Bountiful Breast, which is a non-herbal therapy that is designed to increase breast size gradually, over a period of anywhere from 4-9 months by using a therapy that stimulates certain glands in the body which are responsible for breast growth.
This can take time, but also women have reported that they feel a difference right away. The regimen is often supported with protein shakes, which help to increase the effectiveness of the breast enhancing properties of the supplement taken. Also, it is recommended you supplement with another common, inexpensive supplement you can find anywhere else to really add bang for your buck and get great results.
For more info on this product see our Bountiful Breast Forum and Review.
I’ve heard so many women, including friends, coworkers and family members who have had a scare with breast cancer. It seems like the older you get, the more likely you are to have one, and more women I know who are past fifty have had a scare at one point or another.
A “scare” can range anywhere from simply feeling something you feel might be a lump, bump or mass in the vicinity of the breast, to you going in, having the doctor feel something or see something, and having to get it biopsied. Neither one feels too good, and you feel anxious until it is proven to be a false alarm.
I actually had a scare a couple years ago myself, and I’m only in my mid thirties now. I had this small hard bump that I started to notice just because I was running my hands over that part for something. I thought to myself it could just be an odd part of my sternum sticking up that I just hadn’t noticed before, because quite frankly that’s what it felt like it could be – bone.
But then I started to get in my head about it, and started to wonder if it really was something. I even had my then-boyfriend, now-husband feel it so see what he thought. It was not even really on my breasts at all, but higher up on my chest, so I couldn’t tell if I was just being crazy about it or not.
So, rather safe than sorry, I ended up going to the Doctor I always see for things like this where I work, which is really convenient and I thank my lucky stars I have that. She concluded that it was simply my sternum, but she was glad that I came in to have her check it out because she said often times women don’t do that because they think they’re imagining it or that it could never happen to them.
As a woman from a family with breast cancer in the female side, I really wanted to use precaution over my pride, so I’m glad I went. In the end, all I was out was a little worry, and a small copay
The arm of the government in France that deals with health and medical devices, sort of like our FDA here in the US, has issued a warning to French women who received a particular brand of silicone breast implant recently that they may want to get screenings.
They even said the women may want to get the implants removed as a precaution due to the health issue these particular implants may cause. And what is that issue you ask? These implants were illegally manufactured with a grade of silicone that is not surgical or medical grade, but rather manufacturer grade.
In other words, the silicone used to make them was not considered “safe” for human consumption or contact. This means that it could potentially cause cancer, possibly some sort of immune response or nervous system response, or other yet-unknown interactions with the human body that we don’t know about that would become evident if they ever leaked – which they often do as they break down in the body over time.
Silicone is typically an industrial grade material that makes everything from sealants to car parts. It is a very flexible material that feels soft and pliable, which is the reason it was used as both the shell and filling for breast implants for women who wanted a softer feel to them than the saline ones that are on the market and widely available.
The problem arose of course, when women started to report back in the late nineties that they were having problems with these types of implants. Silicone was implicated in autoimmune and nervous system health issues.
Women claimed that their implants essentially caused their ailments, and this prompted an FDA review and subsequent ban on this type of implant from the open market.
Silicone was still allowed to be used in certain reconstructive surgeries though, and continued to be available for women who needed reconstruction of one or more breasts because of its extremely flexible pliability and realistic appearance and feel.
Regular silicone has been allowed back on the market, but of course only cosmetic grade can be used in implants, which is why these French implants are not safe nor healthy.
Health officials have told women that have them they may want to get them removed, but it is not necessary nor cause for immediate concern, just as an FYI since removing breast implants is a very costly procedure. The company that made the commercial grade silicone implants is now insolvent.
HAPPY NEW YEAR READERS!!!! What is your new years resolution? Come on, don’t pretend like you don’t have one. We know you do, even if you’re not willing to tell it. Let’s face it, one of the reasons we don’t set resolutions for ourselves is because we are afraid we will let ourselves down.
Or, if we actually say the resolution out loud, we are afraid other people will know we didn’t stick to it, or they will think it’s shallow, or weird, or just plain silly. Well, it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks, you should have some sort of resolution every year.
And it doesn’t always need to be getting to the gym more and losing weight Matter of fact, maybe you should specifically make the rule that you can’t have the same new year’s resolution twice in a row.
This way, you can round them out and diversify your goals a little more. This also gives you an opportunity to get to know yourself better. Your strengths, your weaknesses, and your inner most desires.
Let’s say thanks for a great 2011 and have hopes for the new year 2012.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
E! News correspondent Guiliana Rancic, formerly Depandi, has made news several times lately for her battle against breast cancer. She’s young, so it’s always a shock when women younger than fifty five have breast cancer, but it’s actually more common than people think, we just don’t catch it until later stages because of higher rates of checkups and mammograms.
The whole reason Mrs. Rancic even had a mammogram and hence the breast cancer was detected is that she was seeing a fertility doctor in an effort to get pregnant when it was discovered. Her fertility doctor needed to make sure 100% that she didn’t have any hormonally fueled cancer before he started treating her with more hormones.
So needless to say, she was shocked most likely. We all would be if we were diagnosed with this cancer before the age of 40. Her decision was to go with a double mastectomy to make sure the cancer was totally gone.
It is not clear whether both of her breasts tested positive for cancer or not, but I suppose that doesn’t really matter since it’s a totally individual decision to get something this intensely personal done to make sure the breast cancer is eradicated.
She opted to get both breasts removed and to have instant reconstructive surgery afterward. Her husband Bill Rancic, who was the winner of one of Donald Trump’s “Apprentice” shows and ran a cigar shop business, seems to have a sense of humor about it all.
She talked recently about how they went to decide what type of new breasts she was getting, and she was joking that her hubby opted for bigger. Gee, what a shock!
In all seriousness, what do you think about double mastectomies? It’s a scary thing for women to undergo and takes a lot of courage to say yes to it. The surgeons we have nowadays and the options for reconstruction of the breast after removal are pretty awesome, so that’s one thing we have really working in our favor as survivors of breast cancer.
We’re pulling for your Giuliana! You’re a brave woman, and I’m sure they will come out looking fannnntastic!
 It’s Christmas Day! I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas. Thank you for reading us again this year, and we hope to bring you lots of news, tips, and information on breast health and everything breast related this coming year. Have a happy, safe and wonderful holiday with family and friends.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
It is easy to think that mammograms save lives when so many women espouse their belief that the mammogram saved their life because it detected their breast cancer much earlier on than say a self breast exam would have.
But I just read a very interesting perspective from another specialist who says that mammograms may not actually save as many lives from breast cancer metastatis as you would think – when you look at it his way at least.
Keep an open mind, I’m sure this is just the beginning of our understandings of this potentially deadly disease, and we are only now beginning to crack the codes on various types of cancer to begin with.
One perspective is that mammograms do detect breast cancer very early, however, many of these extremely early detections may actually be for breast cancers that are not very agressive, are very slow growing, and may have never come to a point where they would be life threatening.
In other words, many women may carry the seeds for potential breast cancer, but the cancer cells in their breasts are so slow growing that they likely would not be a threat to their lives. His take is that these very early detections of non-agressive cancer cells may actually lead to unnecessary treatment as well as unnecessary biopsies and partial masectomies in women as well.
In other words, perhaps women are being scared into getting therapies that, themselves are dangerous to our health such as chemotherapy and radiation, when they are told they have very early breast cancer. They may be getting these treatments, which can lead to other health issues, when in fact their breast cancer would likely have never grown out of control or ever even become symptomatic.
However, many consider that big “if”. It’s a very controversial view of course, but if you take a step back and really examine it, it has a lot of valid points and if you keep an open mind it is definitely something to contemplate and consider.
While there are several types of foods you can eat to help sustain and enhance the health of your breasts and to help avoid the likelihood of breast cancer in every lifestyle way you can (there is always a genetic component unfortunately in this type of cancer), there are also several types of foods to avoid or severely minimize in your daily diet if you can help it.
These foods are the biggest contributors to what many consider carcinogenic factors in the diet. They have usually been proven in one way or another to help trigger abnormal cell growth, irritate the cells in certain areas of the body, or simply have DNA mutating capabilities that should be cautioned against.
Foods to Avoid if You Want Healthy Breasts :
1.) Anything in cans or any processed foods. Canned foods contain a lining with BPA, or bisphenol A, a chemical that is used in plastic linings. You should especially avoid canned tomatoes, as the acidity in the tomatoes leeches this dangerous chemical into your food even more. Bisphenol A is linked to hormonal disruption and unsafe increases in synthetic estrogens.
2.) Microwave popcorn – This handy food may seem healthy, especially if it is of the light variety, but it actually gives off toxic chemicals and is not safe when consumed in high qualities according to some health experts.
3.) French fries and other cooked potatoes. Potato chips, french fries and other potato-based foods that are cooked at extremely high temperatures give off a chemical called acilymide. This chemical has shown carcinogenic properties.
4.) Transfats – Avoid any food rich in transfats as these are not good for your tissues, including breast tissue. Avoid anything with ingredients that say partially hydrogenated. This means that the fats used in the product are transfats, a cheaper version of fat that is used to increase shelf life of products and to increase the flavor.
5.) Sugars. Sugar has been shown to increase cancer cell growth. It is essentially a fuel for many types of cancer as it promotes inflammation and also promotes spikes and drops in the blood sugar, which can promote cancer.
6.) Saturated fats. These types of fats have been shown to increase the likelihood not only of heart trouble, but also are linked to increased risk of several types of cancer. Unsaturated fats, such as the kind found in almonds, walnuts, fish, and grass fed beef, are healthy, and should be consumed.
How many times do we have to see before and after pictures of actresses and women in the public spotlight accompanied by the question “did she or didn’t she?” before we say we’ve had enough? Why can’t a woman just go and get herself some plastic surgery without being the subject of ridicule and speculation?
Sure, these women have often chosen to be in the public eye, but does anyone really deserve to be pondered over that much and criticized, made fun of or judged for her choices about her own body? Not that long ago LeAnn Rimes was the subject of tabloid speculation for an eating disorder due to her thinner than normal frame.
She was dogged by questions about it, and also about her divorce and subsequent hook up with a married costar. Maybe she was going through some stress. Now with new pictures surfacing of the singing star in a tight dress sporting seemingly new, never before seen curves, there is speculation that the formerly flatter chested star has gotten breast augmentation surgery.
And so what if she has gotten herself some breast implants? Is it not the right of every person to tend to their bodies as they see fit? If she wasn’t happy with her body the way it was, what is so bad about getting a little help from the plastic surgeon? It’s just that when it goes to extremes that it becomes problematic.
And even then, it’s still none of anyone’s business except maybe that person and her family. Actresses are always under so much more intense media scrutiny than actors are. Sure, a guy might be targeted if it looks like he’s had facial surgery, but the media really tends to focus on women and what they’ve had done.
It’s no wonder these women feel so much intense pressure to be pefect when they notice how much the media is noticing their appearance, and how much the public is obviously eating up the stories about their appearance.
The breast cancer drug often used as a last resort called “Avastin” has finally been formally recalled by the FDA. The FDA had previously approved the drug for breast cancer that was not responding to other more conventional treatments. It has now come to the conclusion that Avastin presents too many other health risks, and presents no clearly definable extension of life in breast cancer patients to remain on the market as an option.
This is not without the protest of some patients who have lobbied for the drug to stay on the market, thinking that it may be another option to women who have run out of other alternatives and for whom nothing else that is typically used is working any more.
The side effects that are not acceptable for which the FDA has revoked approval of the drug are high blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack, serious bleeding, and holes in the heart and the intestines. Yikes, that is some pretty serious stuff if you ask me! It got me wondering why some are still lobbying to keep the drug alive and well.
The FDA claims that there was no proof the drug even helped to delay or stop the growth of breast cancer tumors. Which begs the question of why the drug was ever on the market in the first place. But then I realized that the drug is actually used in several other types of cancer successfully.
It was probably allowed for the treatment of advanced breast cancer since it was already being used with some success in other types of cancer. Sometimes, once a drug is regularly being used, problems simply make themselves apparent. Look at Vioxx, the painkiller drug that resulted in heart problems, and other medications like Phen Fen which slowly showed to be deadly.
Huh? Wait what? That was how I looked at the headline that suggested that drinking alcohol, something that has long been linked to increasing the risk of developing breast cancer in women, may actually help to prevent the spread of the deadly disease.
I though I was either reading it incorrectly or that it may be one of those cleverly titled misleading news items that really wasn’t what it seemed at all when you really started to read the substance of it. But no, it really did mean just that. Alcohol apparently helps to stop the spreading of breast cancer, once a woman has already gotten it though.
That’s the rub here. Women who already have active breast cancer are the only ones who may actually benefit from drinking alcohol. It has shown promise as helping to halt the metastatis (spreading) of cancerous cells. However, the link between women developing breast cancer and drinking alcohol still stands.
It sounds like some very illogical reasoning if you ask me, but I’m not the scientist and I guess we’ll just have to leave that up to the lab men and women who come up with these intresting findings. Then again, this theory may soon be proven wrong, as so many are eventually about this hot topic.
The study on alcohol and breast cancer was carried out on mice. Often times studies are carried out on this animal because they have some physiological similarities to the human body, and they are very useful for determining how the human body might react to similar situations, although they are not 100% reliabel and alike.
The mice that had breast cancer tumors were given small amounts of alcohol. The other group of mice had the breast cancer tumors and were not given the servings of alcohol. The mice who got the alcohol actually showed that their breast cancer growth was slowing down or stopping whereas the non-alcoholic group did not show any benefit.
The alcohol-mice were showing about a 60% reduction in the spread as compared to the other group, so it’s not small potatoes either. Still baffling is why alcohol would be a causal factor for getting breast cancer, but may help to halt its spread once it has initiated into the body.
There’s a lot to be said about having a baby. You’re new to breast feeding and the whole nine yards. You’re never sure if you’re doing the right thing when you’re making decisions about your child’s health, or even what times you should be breastfeeding them – and you feel isolated and often alone for the first few months.
Of course, daddy needs to step in here as well, but often times women are the primary caregivers during the first months of a child’s life. Postpartum depression is a fairly common occurrence for new mothers. It can happen after childbirth and persist for a few months or even up to a year. The symptoms are sadness, fatigue, anxiety, irritability and changes in eating or sleeping patterns.
Women often feel guilty about feeling depressed as they think they should be happy about having a new baby. Factors that contribute to postpartum depression are the enormous change in lifestyle, hormonal changes and possible preexisting mental illness.
Postpartum depression differs from postpartum exhaustion or the more transient “baby blues”. The postpartum exhaustion improves after adequate sleep. The “baby blues” will pass and are less severe in the symptoms.
Additional symptoms of postpartum depression are low self esteem, hopelessness, guilt, emptiness, social withdrawal, feelings of inadequacy, spells of anger, and panic attacks. Risk factors that will increase the chance of developing postnatal depression include a poor social support, poor marital relationship, infancy colic, prenatal anxiety, single parenthood, poverty and an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy.
Postpartum depression has a serious effect on, not only the mother, but hinders the bonding and care of the infant. A clinically depressed mother will not respond with positive emotions toward the new baby. This will negatively effect the mother to baby relationship.
The mother may be emotionally detached and avoid caring for the infant. The infant of a mother with post partum depression will feel less secure. The stigma and guilt the mother feels about her postnatal depression may hinder her from seeking help for her depression.
The medical community should be screening for risk factors and be aware to intervene at an early point to treat this type of hormonal and situational depression. Proper nutrition and exercise should be addressed to help to decrease the risk of depression.
Treatment for postpartum depression can include support groups, psychological counseling, a healthy diet and developing consistent sleep patterns. Sometimes, antidepressant medications are used. Safety is always an issue if a new mother is nursing and using medications for depression and it should be discussed with her physician.
According to research, it is estimated that 15% of women experience postpartum depression. Health care professionals in OB-GYN need to know to bring up the conversation about the prevalence of postpartum depression. Information should be given to new mothers on resources available for help.
Health care professionals should be screening for depression around 24 to 26 weeks during the pregnancy itself, and 4 weeks after delivery. Early intervention can vastly improve life for the new mother, her infant and her family.
The Mediterranean diet, as it has been termed, is really more of a common sense, all around healthful approach to eating than a diet to me. It only got its name because those that live in the Mediterranean have easier access to several of the foods on the diet, and a lot of the foods are heavily consumed by people in this geographic area.
However, a lot of people in the US have been eating these same foods for the past several decades – just maybe not at the same concentration as those in the notorious sea area. So, this particular diet regimen has been linked to lower blood pressure, weight loss and an array of other health benefits.
These health benefits likely include improved breast health and prevention of breast cancer and also increased fertility – the latter being a recent finding on the diet. The study was funded by Spain, and it found that women who follow a largely principled diet on this regimen by eating lots of fish, veggies and whole grains, are much less likely to have problems with fertility.
In other words, these women had much less of a problem with conception of a child. Of course, if their partner was also on the same diet, they would have even greater chances of conceiving without any glitches.
The thought is that, among the other numerous health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, it helps to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Healthy blood sugar levels make a woman and a man more fertile simply by producing an ideal environment for the conception of a child within the body.
This, combined with lower blood pressure, likely a lower body acidity and toxicity, and a healthier heart and other organs, makes for a much better environment more condusive to healthy sperm, healthy eggs, and healthy reproductive organs in the body of both a man and woman.
The health effects of this diet are still being studied. Of course, there are plenty of other diet regimens that are also healthy, but this one seems to still be one of the diets du jour that is getting lots of attention. We’ll of course talk more about the health benefits for breast health of this diet as more comes out.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my treasured readers out there. Have fun indulging in pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, tom turkey and dressing and all that ooey gooey sugary dessert! It’s our day to indulge in foods we love and be with those we love. Enjoy and have a wonderful, safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
With the Fukushima disaster (which eerily has not been in the news for a long time for being such a disaster), many men and women were exposed to toxic levels of radioactive materials. These radioactive materials can seep into the water supply, the ground and the produce that springs forth from the ground, making it lethal for years to come.
That’s the scary part – when we pollute our environment, the effects are often a lot longer lasting than we usually fancy. This is why organic produce that is certified is required to be in clean unpolluted ground for several years before it can be considered certified organic produce (thank God).
But the toxins we are surrounded with every day, even if no disaster, is quite scary as well. For example, just the foods we eat and the products we use on our bodies, or that come into contact with our skin on a daily basis, can be toxic to our systems.
One such toxin that is pervasive still in many body care products are parabens. These are chemical preservatives that are used to extend the shelf life of consumer goods ranging from toothpaste and lotion to deodorants and shampoos.
The rub here is that they don’t just sit on the surface of the skin. They actually absorb into the skin and then enter the blood stream. Parabens are known endocrine disruptors. This means that they can interfere with the natural balance of female and male hormones in both men and women, causing a disruption in the natural balance of these important hormones.
They are found in abundance in both the urine and breast milk of women. These, along with other toxins found in scented products and other hygiene products are found in the bodily fluids. Phthalates are another common chemical that is used to stabilize scented products and haircolor and things of that nature.
DMDM is another chemical commonly found which is a derivative of formaldehyde, a highly toxic chemical.
Aluminum has even been found in women’s breast tissue when biopsied from women with breast cancer. This lead to the infamous link between aluminum and breast cancer that had many women searching for safer alternatives to commercial aluminum-containing deodorant.
There are scores of other chemicals that can be found in the breast milk, too numerous to even list here. One of the ways you can help avoid toxin saturation like this is to use only all natural body care. This way, you aren’t adding even more to your toxic load by simply trying to look and feel your best.
There have been two recent confirmations of something that has long bees suspected and used as a common sense prevention method against most types of cancer, including breast cancer. The first is to really limit your intake of alcohol.
The research on alcohol intake has been fairly mixed. Some studies suggest that those with drink moderately actually live longer and have less heart troubles. Some suggest that even moderate to light drinkers put themselves at a higher risk for cancer.
Now, newer research seems to be confirming that breast cancer at least, is more likely for those that are even light to moderate alcohol drinkers. That means if you just have drinks a few nights a week and are very moderate with your habit, you still will increase your risk of breast cancer.
Of course the increase may be fairly small, but it is nonetheless there and cannot be ignored. Light drinking, for purposes of this study, is about three drinks per week. Even this small amount of alcoholic beverage seems to increase the risk of breast cancer a small amount. Moderate and hard drinking, of course, increases it even more.
Women who drink more than this amount have an increased risk of breast cancer of about 15% or more than non drinkers. If you drink more, you risk higher weight, potentially more heart health issues, diabetes, and all kinds of other health issues in addition to an increase in the risk for several different types of cancer, not just cancer of the breasts.
Sitting too much has been targeted as a major factor in not only the likelihood of getting certain types of cancer, but also in having heart and blood pressure problems, and of generally being a more sickly person all around. Sitting too much turns off our genes that help to keep us thin and lithe, active and energetic.
When these genes turn off, we gain weight and can become lethargic and more sickly. Moving around and exercising is key to the reduction in cancer risk as well as for general longevity. Plus, you actually feel good about yourself and your life when you are getting regular exercise.
Evelyn Lauder, who is related to the cosmetics magnate Estee Lauder, has passed away. But she is not only notable for her relationship to one of the biggest names in cosmetics and ingenuity. She is actually the creator of the pink ribbon that is used for breast cancer awareness as we know it today.
Lauder has championed breast cancer awareness for decades now. She passed away from form of ovarian cancer. She was 75 years old. Evelyn herself struggled with breast cancer, and was diagnosed later in life with the ovarian cancer which eventually took her life.
The woman had a reputation of being tough, and she attributed that to her growing up as a refugee from Nazis. After coming over to the states, she ended up marrying into the Estee Lauder family, where she eventually took a position as a leader in the company.
Through her own struggle with breast cancer, she became a voice of awareness and raised millions of dollars for research into a cure through her Breast Cancer Research foundation. She made little noise about her own struggle with the disease, which made her efforts all that much more noble and admirable.
It is because of women like Lauder that there is so much awareness about breast cancer and finding a treatment for it today. However, I feel that the awareness and all the money that is being raised could be going toward more nontoxic treatments than are what currently out there today such as chemotherapy and radiation.
I would love to see a movement toward more alternative therapies, as well as more of this money going not to the major pharmaceutical companies but to women who are going through treatment and need the money to support themselves and their families.
When it comes to most types of breast cancer, there is one fact that is pretty much undisputed. That fact is that excessive estrogens, especially those of a synthetic nature that did not originate in the female body itself, via its own natural processes, may actually accelerate breast cancer.
However, it is unknown specifically what types of hormones. For example, we now know that synthetic hormones in HRT, Hormone Replacement Therapy, can acccelerate breast cancer and even cause heart problems. There has been no definitive link between hormones used in IVF, or In Vitro Fertilization, or birth control pills or drugs.
However, that doesn’t mean that they certainly are not under a cloud of suspicion by not only doctors, but natural health specialists, consumer advocates, and patients and informed consumers themselves.
The question was really brough to light when an anchor for a popular television show, Giuliana Rancic, was diagnosed with breast cancer and publicized it. She also happened to be undergoing fertility treatments, and was only tested for breast cancer because her fertility doctor refused to put her on fertility hormones until he confirmed 100% that she did not have breast cancer.
She did not even think there was a chance she could have breast cancer since she’s still fairly young at age 36. Most women have the conventional thought process that they are not at risk for breast cancer until after they hit their forties and fifties.
The current conventional wisdom is that the risk goes up after age forty and the risk is very low for women under forty. However, there are instances where women can get breast cancer “younger”. Often times when diagnosed younger, it may be a more serious form of breast cancer.
However, the cases we’ve seen so far in the public spotlight haven’t been that way. Cases like Christina Applegate and other younger actresses seemed to be resolved very quickly and were easily treatable. So it seems very unthreatening. But in reality, when younger women get breast cancer, it can be a real cause for concern.
Hormones that are given for medical purposes should be carefully considered, whether they are for birth control reasons or for some other reason like the control of menopausal symptoms. The reason is, they can very well fuel breast cancer if it is already present, or they perhaps can even initiate the growth of breast cancer cells.
We just don’t know enough about them yet, so it’s best to play on the side of caution.
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Merry Christmas Readers!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!