Cure? Why isn't 50% of all research dollars going to breast cancer prevention and nutrition research!

WOW!  I had no idea so many corporate sponsors of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure were food and beverage manufacturers. I so wish they would steer 50% of the research $$$$ to support breast cancer prevention and nutrition research but how can they when the very industries they would be "investigating" give them so much money.  UGH!

http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.aspx

Americans have never been fatter or sicker and we can't seem to figure out why.

Common sense is not so common.  - Voltaire

p.s. Thanks for all the support (on and off line). I think breastcancer.org would be the perfect place to start our 50% research towards nutrition and breast cancer prevention.

YES?

Former President Bill Clinton no longer eats dairy! Check out the interview

• Veggie Libel Laws: Is Bill Clinton saying he doesn't eat meat or dairy?

WOW! Guess former president Bill Clinton is not concerned about the "veggie libel law's" that sued Oprah over "mad cow" beef.  This is serious stuff my friends.  Whether or not you agree with his politics he's basically saying, "the food I've been eating made me sick." 

From Wikipedia, "Food libel laws typically allow a food manufacturer or processor to sue a person or group who makes disparaging comments about their food products. In some states these laws also establish different standards of proof than are used in traditional American libel lawsuits, including the practice of placing the burden of proof on the party being sued.^[1]"

[1]Collins, Ronald (1998-03-23). "Veggie-Libel Law Still Poses a Threat". http://www.cspinet.org/foodspeak/oped/candm.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-28.

Excellent Post on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Breast Cancer from The Ethical Nag

The haunting of medical journals: how ghostwriting sold hormone replacement therapy

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Carolyn Thomas

I’ve been writing about (and against) medical ghostwriting since I first learned about this Big Pharma marketing practice. In fact, my gobsmacked reaction to this very subject is largely why the Ethical Nag site was launched in the first place last year. I had just learned about lawsuits filed in the U.S. by thousands of women diagnosed with breast cancer – a diagnosis suspiciously linked to their hormone replacement therapy (HRT). And this week, the journal Public Library of Science Medicine (who with the New York Times originally broke the story) published an unprecedented analysis of the issue that caused the link.

The poster child of medical ghostwriting is Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now owned by Pfizer, the world’s biggest drug company) who were then the makers of the best-selling HRT drugs on earth, Premarin and Prempro. Wyeth’s ghostwritten medical journal articles attempted to:

• mitigate the perceived risks of breast cancer associated with HRT
• defend the unsupported cardiovascular “benefits” of HRT
• promote off-label, unproven uses of HRT such as the prevention of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, vision problems, and wrinkles.

But first, what exactly is medical ghostwriting? And why is it so bad?  

Is something seriously wrong with our food system?

Dear SuperMom101,

"We apologize to everyone who may have been sickened by eating our eggs" - Jack DeCoster, founder of Wright County egg empire, testifying yesterday to Congress. This time, we need more than an apology.

Kids served Cheetos with cheese for lunch, half a billion dangerous eggs recalled, obesity and diabetes at record levels - there is something seriously wrong with our food system.

But whenever factory farms ignore food safety, McDonalds crafts their next campaign to lure kids inside, or politicians write laws to keep school lunches frozen, they don't take into account one thing - a massive grassroots movement mobilized for the fight to make food good, clean and fair.

More Frankenfood coming to a shelf near you - Genetically Modified Salmon

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/200042.php

 "Genetically Modified Salmon As Safe To Eat As Normal Atlantic Salmon"

According to the article in Medical News Today,"it has been modified by adding a growth hormone regulating gene from another fish."  Since my breast cancer tumor was hormone receptive (and most are) I'll steer clear of this Frankenfood.