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meindzai wrote:
Mawkish1983 wrote:Has anyone mentioned the Daily Mail cancer list?

(My favourite entries: Working and retirement. Huh?)
Fibre is on the list, but not fiber. So it's ok to have it in the United States.

-M
The X Ray one is of course true. Dont let your dentist boost his income by bombarding you with X Rays...make him find another solution.
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Don't panic, I heard life is the main factor for cancer and furthermore someone said life on its own is a sexually transmitted disease which leads to death in the end in most cases...
I wouldn't bother much lingering on trivialities...

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Annapurna wrote: I'm a little sad about the mockery here, and bow out.

I wish I hadn't posted this, since the echo is so overwhelmingly negative.
Ah don't take it personally, Anna... Online information passed around by email is a bit like Chinese whispers.
People latch onto the major sounds, make up their own message, and it all gets turned upside-down.

Don't believe everything you read, without analysis and examination first.

Nobody's mocking you, are they?

And I see nothing overwhelmingly negative, but I do see a lot of posts putting matters into perspective, and rectifying some misunderstandings....

Simply because the information you posted was a little inaccurate, it doesn't make the responses negative.

The point is, do your research, keep an open mind and live wisely.

Says it all, really!

:namaste:
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Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

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Fede,

I have you on my ignore list, and I told you so.

I would not continue to reply to someone who gives me such a clear signal that I caused him or her so much suffering that he had to resort to this.

I'm sorry that I have to be so direct.
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....What....?

:jumping:

caused me suffering?

it takes a lot more than a few posts on a forum to cause me suffering.
You cause me no such thing, don't worry.... :coffee:

Whatever, if makes you happy..... :shrug: :rolleye:
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

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YOU caused ME suffering.

Thanks for withdrawing.
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Mawkish1983 wrote:
Mawkish1983 wrote:There are LOADS of reasons to avoid bottled water (environmental, financial, ethical...) --- fear of cancer shouldn't be one of them ... Yet I sit his hypocritically sipping from a bottle of water
Wow, what a typo. It's supposed to say I sit HERE hypocritically. Sorry if anyone thought I was calling Ben a hypocrite: I wasn't, I was calling myself one!
Oh poo, and I edited that post rather than quoting it and only just noticed. I really MUST be tired!

Right, just to clarify, I've called no-one a hypocrite except myself!! :)

Edit: soooo, :focus: ?
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Hi Anna,
Annapurna wrote:
Ben wrote: A couple of thoughts...

...then forget it!

Hello, Ben,

I'm not sure if we are all free of misunderstandings here....

...I wish I hadn't posted this, since the echo is so overwhelmingly negative.
My apologies if I appear to come across as mocking you, as it was not my intention.
As for the claim regarding heated plastic water-bottles causing cancer, I am unapologetic.
Any claim of a substance or process as being carcinogenic should be scrutinized and exposed for what it is. Its very easy to whip up fear and sensationalism with misinformation regarding purported carcinogenic properties of substances. Its always good after reading such an article or chain e-mail is to ask 'where is the evidence?' And if there is no evidence in the form of at least one leading peer-reviewed medical journal article nor a material data safety sheet, then it is what it is - and I don't think I need to tell you what I think that is.
kind regards

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annapurna wrote:On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her breast cancer.
Looks like she didn't.

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Fede wrote: The Oprah ain't oven until the fat lady singes.... :jumping:
Singes?
You're going to blow-torch her??
:jawdrop:
:rofl:
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Viscid wrote:
annapurna wrote:On the Ellen show, Sheryl Crow said that this is what caused her breast cancer.
Looks like she didn't.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medica ... -water.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story..... :jumping:
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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Kim O'Hara wrote:
Fede wrote: The Oprah ain't oven until the fat lady singes.... :jumping:
Singes?
You're going to blow-torch her??
:jawdrop:
:rofl:
Kim
No, just stick her in the car on a sunny day, for a while...see what happens to all that plastic (surgery)......
"Samsara: The human condition's heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Elizabeth Gilbert, 'Eat, Pray, Love'.

Simplify: 17 into 1 WILL go: Mindfulness!

Quieta movere magna merces videbatur. (Sallust, c.86-c.35 BC)
Translation: Just to stir things up seemed a good reward in itself. ;)

I am sooooo happy - How on earth could I be otherwise?! :D


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Okay.
You could certainly use a car as an oven, here in Queensland, but Oprah didn't seem to deform much when she visited recently. Perhaps she's more genuine than some of us thought?
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Back to the (fairly? pseudo?) serious stuff.
This arrived in my email last week:
Denmark, who would have thought?

This is so like the bay in Japan about which the very moving doco film was made; and it was by petitions like this, that eventually the film was shown in Japan, and something was done about it. The doco eventually won an international humanitarian film award; so very deserving. So a petition like this can work.
Anyway it can help to raise awareness, so if you care, do add your name and send it on.
Please keep list going around the world....hit forward then delete my e-mail address, then add your name to the bottom of the list before you send it on to people (Note send it on - bcc so a harvester cannot gather people's addresses for marketing) !

Denmark is involved in a shameful practice.

The sea is stained in red and currently it's not because of the climate effects of nature.
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It's because of the cruelty that the human beings (civilised human) kill hundreds of the famous and intelligent Calderon dolphins.
There is more, but that's enough to give you the idea.
It was forwarded to me in good faith by a family member who is not, perhaps, as internet-savvy as I am - just as the plastic/breast-cancer email has been circulated. It has no date and is anonymous - not a good sign. I searched on a phrase from the text and tracked it back to 1994, and it may be even older.

There is another one which surfaces from time to time, about turtle egg poaching in Costa Rica. That one I *did* manage to track to its origins. It uses genuine photos of a legitimate activity to illustrate a story of 'environmental vandalism'.

In all such cases, a certain amount of scepticism is a good idea and Snopes http://www.snopes.com/ is a good resource. When I do discover that one of these chain letters is blatantly wrong, I propagate that information back up the chain. It will never kill the myth but it may slow its spread.
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xkcd is on to it: http://xkcd.com/882/
:spy:
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