Cancer-Causing Substances In Our Food & Products
Electron micrograph of a single breast cancer cell.
Carcinogenic substances are substances that cause cancer within the human body.
The Report on Carcinogens, Eleventh Edition, referred to as the “RoC,” lists cancer-causing agents in two categories — “known to be human carcinogens” and “reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens.” The report now contains 58 “known” and 188 “reasonably anticipated” listings. Federal law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to publish the report every two years.
We are seeing an epidemic in cancer rates because we are bombarding our bodies with foods and substances that cause cancer on a regular basis. The bright-side of the research is that over 90% of cancers are entirely preventable. A significant portion of this prevention is simply awareness of what causes and prevents cancers.
The Report on Carcinogens, Eleventh Edition, referred to as the “RoC,” lists cancer-causing agents in two categories — “known to be human carcinogens” and “reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens.” The report now contains 58 “known” and 188 “reasonably anticipated” listings. Federal law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to publish the report every two years.
We are seeing an epidemic in cancer rates because we are bombarding our bodies with foods and substances that cause cancer on a regular basis. The bright-side of the research is that over 90% of cancers are entirely preventable. A significant portion of this prevention is simply awareness of what causes and prevents cancers.
Carcinogenic Toxins In Our Food & Products
Aspartame: Known as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure has been shown in some studies to cause cancer, in particular brain cancer. It is a dangerous excitotoxin that damages neurons amongst other tissues. {Important Article}
- Aspartame administered in feed, beginning prenatally through life span, induces cancers of the liver and lung in male Swiss mice.
- Artificial sweetener consumption and urinary tract tumors in Cordoba, Argentina.
- Life-span exposure to low doses of aspartame beginning during prenatal life increases cancer effects in rats.
- Aspartame consumption and incidence of hematopoietic and brain cancers.
- Results of long-term carcinogenicity bioassay on Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to aspartame administered in feed.
- Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk in a network of case-control studies.
- First experimental demonstration of the multipotential carcinogenic effects of aspartame administered in the feed to Sprague-Dawley rats.
- Increasing brain tumor rates: is there a link to aspartame?
Fluoride: Sodium fluoride (NaF), fluorosilicic acid (h2SiF6), sodium fluorosilicate (Na2SiF6) commonly found in drinking water has been shown to be a carcinogenic substance in addition to being an neurotoxin. This suggestive evidence is more equivocal unlike some of the other ingredients.
- Clastogenic activity of sodium fluoride to rat vertebral body-derived cells in culture.
- Cancer incidence and mortality in workers exposed to fluoride.
- Results and conclusions of the National Toxicology Program's rodent carcinogenicity studies with sodium fluoride.
- NTP Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Sodium Fluoride (CAS No. 7681-49-4)in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice (Drinking Water Studies).
- Sodium fluoride-induced morphological and neoplastic transformation, chromosome aberrations, sister chromatid exchanges, . . .
Titanium Dioxide: Found within food, nurtitional and cosmetic products. Some data suggests it has anti-cancer properties as well.
- Investigation of genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of micro- and nanosized titanium dioxide in six organs of mice in vivo.
- An increase in mouse tumor growth by an in vivo immunomodulating effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles.
- Genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide in HEp-2 cells. (not cancer but interesting genotoxicity found)
- Titanium dioxide nanoparticles induce DNA damage and genetic instability in vivo in mice. (not cancer but interesting genotoxicity found)
- Nano-scaled particles of titanium dioxide convert benign mouse fibrosarcoma cells into aggressive tumor cells.
- DNA double-strand breaks by asbestos, silica, and titanium dioxide: possible biomarker of carcinogenic potential?
- Toxicology of engineered nanomaterials - a review of carcinogenic potential.
Acrylamide: Typically found in heated foodstuffs, especially potato products and other baked or fried high-carbohydrate food-stuffs. Page 25 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
The potential routes of human exposure to acrylamide are ingestion, dermal contact, and inhalation (Manson et al. 2005). Acrylamide has been found in a number of food products. In 2002, a Swedish study reported that acrylamide was formed in heated foodstuffs, especially potato products and other baked or fried high-carbohydrate food- stuffs (Tareke et al. 2002). The acrylamide content of food items is directly related to the amount of reducing sugars and asparagine in the raw product and the cooking temperature used in the preparation (Pedreschi et al. 2004). Studies have quantified acrylamide content in foods such as potato chips (up to 3,700 μg/kg), French fries (up to 12,000 μg/kg), cereal (up to 1,346 μg/kg), bread (biscuits and crackers, up to 3,200 μg/kg), gingerbread (up to 1,660 μg/kg), nuts and nut butters (up to 457 μg/kg), and coffee (up to 16 μg/L) (Friedman 2003, Andrzejewski et al. 2004, Hoenicke et al. 2004, Aguas et al. 2006). Average U.S. daily dietary intake for all individuals over the age of two years was estimated at 0.43 μg/kg of body weight; however, the estimated exposure of children aged two to five years was 1.06 μg/kg (Manson et al. 2005).
Acrylamide may also be ingested in drinking water contaminated by polyacrylamide flocculants used in water treatment (Brown et al.
1980a, Howard 1989). Residual acrylamide concentrations in 32 polyacrylamide flocculants approved for water-treatment plants ranged
from 0.5 to 600 ppm (Howard 1989). Acrylamide remains in water after flocculation with polyacrylamides because it is very water soluble and is not readily adsorbed by sediment (Brown et al. 1980b, Howard 1989).
PDF with Clinical References
N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine: Typically found in tobacco smoke, baby-bottle pacifiers, soybean oil, cheese and smoked or cured meats. Page 303 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
The routes of potential human exposure to N-nitrosodi-n-butylamine are ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact (HSDB 2009).
N-Nitro sodi-n-butylamine has been detected in a variety of products as a result of the nitrosation of amines present in these products.
N-Nitro sodi-n-butylamine may be formed from secondary or tertiary n-butylamines and quaternary ammonium salts by reaction with ni-
trosating agents, such as nitrite, in the stomach or during cooking processes. The degree of this potential exposure is unknown. N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine has been measured in soybean oil at a concentration of 290 μg/kg, in cheese at 20 to 30 μg/kg, and in smoked or cured meats at up to 3.9 μg/kg. It has also been detected in tobacco smoke at a concentration of 3 ng per cigarette. N-Nitrosamines fre-
quently are produced during rubber processing and may be present as contaminants in the final rubber product. Potential exposure de-
pends on the ability of the nitrosamine to migrate from the product into the body. Nitrosamines present in pacifiers and baby-bottle nipples can migrate into saliva, which could result in ingestion of nitro- samines (IARC 1974, 1978).
PDF with Clinical References
N-Nitrosodiethanolamine: Typically found in cosmetics, lotions, shampoos, cutting fluids, certain pesticides, antifreeze, and tobacco. Page 304 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
As of 1980, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had analyzed over 300 cosmetic products and found that over 40% were contam-
inated with N-nitrosodiethanolamine. It was detected in facial cosmetics at concentrations of 42 to 49,000 μg/kg, in lotions at up to 140 μg/kg, and in shampoos at up to 260 mg/kg (IARC 1978). Cosmetics at least five years old had higher concentrations of N-nitroso-
diethanolamine than new samples of the same products, indicating that the formation of N-nitrosodiethanolamine limits the shelf-life
cosmetic products (Matyska et al. 2000). N-Nitroso diethanolamine was also measured in 35 of 140 soap and shampoo products at concentrations of 23 to 992 μg/kg (Schothorst and Somers 2005).
PDF with Clinical References (page 3 of this report)
N-Nitrosodiethylamine: Typically found in tobacco smoke, drinking water, various fish, salt-dried fish, cured meats, alcoholic beverages, soybean oil, soybeans and cheese. Page 304 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
The routes of potential human exposure to N-nitrosodiethylamine are ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The general population may be exposed to unknown quantities of N-nitrosodiethylamine present in foods, beverages, tobacco smoke, drinking water, and indus-
trial pollution (HSDB 2009). Intake from exposure via air, diet, and smoking has been estimated at a few micrograms per day. N-Nitros-
odiethylamine has been measured in a variety of foods, including cheese at concentrations of 0.5 to 30 μg/kg, soybeans at 0.2 μg/kg,
soybean oil at 4 μg/kg, various fish at up to 147 μg/kg, salt-dried fish at 1.2 to 21 mg/kg, cured meats at up to 40 μg/kg, and alcoholic beverages at 0.1 μg/kg. N-Nitrosodiethylamine was detected in tobacco-smoke condensate at concentrations of 1.0 to 28 ng per cigarette
(IARC 1978). Up to 8.3 ng per cigarette was found in mainstream smoke and 8 to 73 ng in sidestream smoke. N-Nitrosodi ethylamine
was found at concentrations of up to 0.2 ng/L in indoor air polluted with tobacco smoke and at 10 ng/m3 in the smoking compartment of
a train (Brunnemann et al. 1977, Brunnemann and Hoffmann 1978).
PDF with Clinical References (page 5 of this report)
Exposure
The potential routes of human exposure to acrylamide are ingestion, dermal contact, and inhalation (Manson et al. 2005). Acrylamide has been found in a number of food products. In 2002, a Swedish study reported that acrylamide was formed in heated foodstuffs, especially potato products and other baked or fried high-carbohydrate food- stuffs (Tareke et al. 2002). The acrylamide content of food items is directly related to the amount of reducing sugars and asparagine in the raw product and the cooking temperature used in the preparation (Pedreschi et al. 2004). Studies have quantified acrylamide content in foods such as potato chips (up to 3,700 μg/kg), French fries (up to 12,000 μg/kg), cereal (up to 1,346 μg/kg), bread (biscuits and crackers, up to 3,200 μg/kg), gingerbread (up to 1,660 μg/kg), nuts and nut butters (up to 457 μg/kg), and coffee (up to 16 μg/L) (Friedman 2003, Andrzejewski et al. 2004, Hoenicke et al. 2004, Aguas et al. 2006). Average U.S. daily dietary intake for all individuals over the age of two years was estimated at 0.43 μg/kg of body weight; however, the estimated exposure of children aged two to five years was 1.06 μg/kg (Manson et al. 2005).
Acrylamide may also be ingested in drinking water contaminated by polyacrylamide flocculants used in water treatment (Brown et al.
1980a, Howard 1989). Residual acrylamide concentrations in 32 polyacrylamide flocculants approved for water-treatment plants ranged
from 0.5 to 600 ppm (Howard 1989). Acrylamide remains in water after flocculation with polyacrylamides because it is very water soluble and is not readily adsorbed by sediment (Brown et al. 1980b, Howard 1989).
PDF with Clinical References
N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine: Typically found in tobacco smoke, baby-bottle pacifiers, soybean oil, cheese and smoked or cured meats. Page 303 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
The routes of potential human exposure to N-nitrosodi-n-butylamine are ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact (HSDB 2009).
N-Nitro sodi-n-butylamine has been detected in a variety of products as a result of the nitrosation of amines present in these products.
N-Nitro sodi-n-butylamine may be formed from secondary or tertiary n-butylamines and quaternary ammonium salts by reaction with ni-
trosating agents, such as nitrite, in the stomach or during cooking processes. The degree of this potential exposure is unknown. N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine has been measured in soybean oil at a concentration of 290 μg/kg, in cheese at 20 to 30 μg/kg, and in smoked or cured meats at up to 3.9 μg/kg. It has also been detected in tobacco smoke at a concentration of 3 ng per cigarette. N-Nitrosamines fre-
quently are produced during rubber processing and may be present as contaminants in the final rubber product. Potential exposure de-
pends on the ability of the nitrosamine to migrate from the product into the body. Nitrosamines present in pacifiers and baby-bottle nipples can migrate into saliva, which could result in ingestion of nitro- samines (IARC 1974, 1978).
PDF with Clinical References
N-Nitrosodiethanolamine: Typically found in cosmetics, lotions, shampoos, cutting fluids, certain pesticides, antifreeze, and tobacco. Page 304 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
As of 1980, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had analyzed over 300 cosmetic products and found that over 40% were contam-
inated with N-nitrosodiethanolamine. It was detected in facial cosmetics at concentrations of 42 to 49,000 μg/kg, in lotions at up to 140 μg/kg, and in shampoos at up to 260 mg/kg (IARC 1978). Cosmetics at least five years old had higher concentrations of N-nitroso-
diethanolamine than new samples of the same products, indicating that the formation of N-nitrosodiethanolamine limits the shelf-life
cosmetic products (Matyska et al. 2000). N-Nitroso diethanolamine was also measured in 35 of 140 soap and shampoo products at concentrations of 23 to 992 μg/kg (Schothorst and Somers 2005).
PDF with Clinical References (page 3 of this report)
N-Nitrosodiethylamine: Typically found in tobacco smoke, drinking water, various fish, salt-dried fish, cured meats, alcoholic beverages, soybean oil, soybeans and cheese. Page 304 of 507 in Report on Carcinogens Twelfth Edition 2011 (Download PDF for free on Official Government Website).
Exposure
The routes of potential human exposure to N-nitrosodiethylamine are ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The general population may be exposed to unknown quantities of N-nitrosodiethylamine present in foods, beverages, tobacco smoke, drinking water, and indus-
trial pollution (HSDB 2009). Intake from exposure via air, diet, and smoking has been estimated at a few micrograms per day. N-Nitros-
odiethylamine has been measured in a variety of foods, including cheese at concentrations of 0.5 to 30 μg/kg, soybeans at 0.2 μg/kg,
soybean oil at 4 μg/kg, various fish at up to 147 μg/kg, salt-dried fish at 1.2 to 21 mg/kg, cured meats at up to 40 μg/kg, and alcoholic beverages at 0.1 μg/kg. N-Nitrosodiethylamine was detected in tobacco-smoke condensate at concentrations of 1.0 to 28 ng per cigarette
(IARC 1978). Up to 8.3 ng per cigarette was found in mainstream smoke and 8 to 73 ng in sidestream smoke. N-Nitrosodi ethylamine
was found at concentrations of up to 0.2 ng/L in indoor air polluted with tobacco smoke and at 10 ng/m3 in the smoking compartment of
a train (Brunnemann et al. 1977, Brunnemann and Hoffmann 1978).
PDF with Clinical References (page 5 of this report)
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Words From Doctors
"More people live off cancer than die from it."
Dr. Deepak Chopra, M.D.
"What she (Dr. Johanna Budwig) has demonstrated to my initial disbelief but lately, to my complete satisfaction in my practice is: CANCER IS EASILY CURABLE, the treatment is dietary/lifestyle, the response is immediate; the cancer cell is weak and vulnerable; the precise biochemical breakdown point was identified by her in 1951 and is specifically correctable, in vitro (test-tube) as well as in vivo (real)... "
Dr. Dan C. Roehm M.D. FACP (Oncologists and former cardiologist) in 1990
"The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil……..We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.
First, I would not even check in with a conventional oncologist, particulary not one from a prominent cancer institution. Their expertise is in implementing the erroneous paradigm that cancer must be purged from the body with toxic methods. This is, in my opinion, no more valuable than maps from the Flat Earth Society. When there is a paradigm shift---and we definitely are in the middle of one with cancer treatment---those sitting on the lofty perches of authority are the last to make the change, because they are guarding the paradigm about to be replaced. I don’t buy maps of a flat earth, and I wouldn’t go to the NCI or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Centre for cancer treatment.
I’d turn my back on 50 years of institutionalised expertise, because it follows the wrong paradigm. Everything that is done in medicine today or in any other discipline fits some paradigm. The paradigm I use for cancer is that it is a systemic problem in which the normal control mechanisms of your body are altered. Your immune system likely bears the largest burden for this control; thus, all techniques that enhance it are promising. Those that damage it are not."
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D.
"As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good."
Alan Nixon, Ph.D., Past President, American Chemical Society
"Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy……The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure---Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma."
Ralph Moss, Ph.D. 1995 Author of Questioning Chemotherapy
"We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison."
"Chemotherapy is an incredibly lucrative business for doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies…..The medical establishment wants everyone to follow the same exact protocol. They don’t want to see the chemotherapy industry go under, and that’s the number one obstacle to any progress in oncology."
Dr. Glen Warner, M.D. Oncologist
"The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Ley former Commissioner of the FDA
"What made Dr Burzynski a threat to the cancer industry from the beginning was the prospect that antineoplaston therapy represented a successful alternative to toxic and dangerous chemotherapy drugs, upon which most of the cancer industry’s profits depend. Did the NCI pick up the tab for completing his research? Did the ACS help with favourable publicity? Of course not. The minute NCI saw evidence of antineoplastons working they distorted the data by withdrawing the 2 successful patients and thus the evidence. NCI’s conduct towards him is a striking example of how an agency presumed to be objective can set up a study that will either prove or disprove anything it wants. In this case, there is clear evidence that NCI wanted to prove antineoplastons didn’t work."
John Diamond, M.D. & Lee Cowden, M.D.
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors."
Allen Levin, MD UCSF The Healing of Cancer
"More people live off cancer than die from it."
Dr. Deepak Chopra, M.D.
"What she (Dr. Johanna Budwig) has demonstrated to my initial disbelief but lately, to my complete satisfaction in my practice is: CANCER IS EASILY CURABLE, the treatment is dietary/lifestyle, the response is immediate; the cancer cell is weak and vulnerable; the precise biochemical breakdown point was identified by her in 1951 and is specifically correctable, in vitro (test-tube) as well as in vivo (real)... "
Dr. Dan C. Roehm M.D. FACP (Oncologists and former cardiologist) in 1990
"The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil……..We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.
First, I would not even check in with a conventional oncologist, particulary not one from a prominent cancer institution. Their expertise is in implementing the erroneous paradigm that cancer must be purged from the body with toxic methods. This is, in my opinion, no more valuable than maps from the Flat Earth Society. When there is a paradigm shift---and we definitely are in the middle of one with cancer treatment---those sitting on the lofty perches of authority are the last to make the change, because they are guarding the paradigm about to be replaced. I don’t buy maps of a flat earth, and I wouldn’t go to the NCI or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Centre for cancer treatment.
I’d turn my back on 50 years of institutionalised expertise, because it follows the wrong paradigm. Everything that is done in medicine today or in any other discipline fits some paradigm. The paradigm I use for cancer is that it is a systemic problem in which the normal control mechanisms of your body are altered. Your immune system likely bears the largest burden for this control; thus, all techniques that enhance it are promising. Those that damage it are not."
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D.
"As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good."
Alan Nixon, Ph.D., Past President, American Chemical Society
"Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy……The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure---Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma."
Ralph Moss, Ph.D. 1995 Author of Questioning Chemotherapy
"We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison."
"Chemotherapy is an incredibly lucrative business for doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies…..The medical establishment wants everyone to follow the same exact protocol. They don’t want to see the chemotherapy industry go under, and that’s the number one obstacle to any progress in oncology."
Dr. Glen Warner, M.D. Oncologist
"The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Ley former Commissioner of the FDA
"What made Dr Burzynski a threat to the cancer industry from the beginning was the prospect that antineoplaston therapy represented a successful alternative to toxic and dangerous chemotherapy drugs, upon which most of the cancer industry’s profits depend. Did the NCI pick up the tab for completing his research? Did the ACS help with favourable publicity? Of course not. The minute NCI saw evidence of antineoplastons working they distorted the data by withdrawing the 2 successful patients and thus the evidence. NCI’s conduct towards him is a striking example of how an agency presumed to be objective can set up a study that will either prove or disprove anything it wants. In this case, there is clear evidence that NCI wanted to prove antineoplastons didn’t work."
John Diamond, M.D. & Lee Cowden, M.D.
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors."
Allen Levin, MD UCSF The Healing of Cancer
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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
Thomas H. Huxley
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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
Thomas H. Huxley
______________________________________________________________________
All info is copyrighted except humor photos © 2009-2018 Body Epiphanies Massage & Nutrition
Professional Member of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals | Board Certified by NCBTMB
760 E. Warm Springs Ave. | Suite S | Boise, ID 83712 | (208) 870-9753 Boise Massage Therapist & Nutritionist