Originally published April 6 2004
Hair coloring products linked to lymphatic cancer
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Long-term use of hair dye promotes lymphatic cancer, says this new
research from Yale University. The finding isn't surprising: the toxic
ingredients used in hair dyes have long been known to be highly
carcinogenic. It's yet another example of the health dangers of personal
care products like deodorant, perfume, shampoo and soap: all of which
contain toxic ingredients that are inevitably absorbed through the skin
and enter the bloodstream. The FDA openly allows personal care
product manufacturers to use highly toxic ingredients by hiding behind
the ridiculous position that such products are for external use only
and, therefore, don't present a health hazard to the public. It wasn't
too many years ago that most doctors and health researchers thought the
skin was impermeable. But today, the FDA must certainly know that the
skin is porous, since the agency has approved so many "patch" drugs that
deliver chemicals to the bloodstream through the skin (such as the
nicotine patch, for example).
Yet the FDA continues to allow
personal care product manufacturers to use openly carcinogenic and toxic
ingredients in their formulas, without any requirement whatsoever to
even list those ingredients on the labels! An analysis of one popular
perfume product, for example, showed it to contain more than forty toxic
compounds known to cause liver cancer. None of the cancer-causing
chemicals were listed on the label, and the FDA seems to be in no hurry
to require such labeling. Can you imagine? "Poison: Yes, it's really
poison."
That hair dyes have been linked to cancer is really no
surprise to those familiar with the toxicity of personal care products.
Practically every popular product contains at least one cancer-causing
chemical, and hair dyes are near the top of the list.
Yale researchers have found that lifetime users of hair coloring
products have an increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
(NHL), a cancer that attacks the lymphatic system, part of the body's
immune system.
"An increased risk of NHL was found only among women who began using
hair-coloring products before 1980," said principal investigator
Tongzhang Zheng, associate professor of epidemiology and environmental
health at Yale School of Medicine.
Zheng said previous studies on hair dye use and NHL have been
contradictory and inconclusive.
This is the first study to examine the impact of hair dye use with
time period of use as a key factor.
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