Serious health risk for women! Read it![views:5095][posts:20]______________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 12:12pm - RustedAngel ""] If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you use tampons, read this and pass it on to your friends. For the men receiving this email, please forward it to your friends, significant others, sisters, mothers, daughters, etc.) Thanks! The next time you buy sanitary pads or tampons, check the labels and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email. No wonder so many women in the world suffer from cervical cancer and womb tumors. Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why would they do this? Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to need to use more. Why isn't this against the law since asbestos is so dangerous? Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider tampons as being ingested, and therefore, didn!'t consider them illegal or dangerous. This month's Essence magazine has a small article about this and they mention two manufacturers of a cotton tampon alternative. The companies are: Organic Essentials @ 1-800-765-6491 and Terra Femme @1-800-755-0212. A woman getting her Ph.D. at University of Colorado at Boulder sent the following: "I am writing this because women are not being informed about the dangers of something most of us use: tampons. I am taking a class this month and I have been learning a lot about biology and women, including feminine hygiene. Recently we have learned that tampons are actually dangerous (for other reasons than TSS). After learning about this in our class, most of the females wound up feeling angry and upset with the tampon industry, and I for one, am going to do something about it. To start, I want to inform everyone I can, and email is the fastest way that I know how." HERE IS THE SCOOP: Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for absorbency), and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching the products). The tampon industry is convinced that we, as women, need bleached white products in order to view the product as pure and clean. The problem here is that the dioxin, which is produced in this bleaching process, can lead to very harmful problems for a woman. Dioxin is potentially carcinogenic (cancer associated) and is toxic to the immune and reproductive systems. It has also been linked to endometriosis and lower sperm counts for men. For both sexes, it breaks down the immune system. Last September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that There really is no "acceptable" level of exposure to dioxin given that it is cumulative and slow to disintegrate. The real danger comes from repeated contact (Karen Couppert "Pulling the Plug on the Tampon Industry").. I'd say using about 4-5 tampons a day, five days a month, for 38 years is "repeated contact" wouldn't you? Rayon contributes to the danger of tampons and dioxin because it is a highly absorbent substance. Therefore, when fibers from the tampons are left behind in the vagina (as usually occurs), it creates a breeding ground for the dioxin. It also stays in a lot longer then it would with just cotton tampons. This is also the reason why TSS (toxic shock syndrome) occurs. WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES? Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached and that are all cotton. Other feminine hygiene products (pads/napkins) contain dioxin as well, but they are not nearly as dangerous. So, what can you do if you can't give up using tampons? Use tampons that are made from 100% UNBLEACHED. Unfortunately, there are very few companies that make these safe tampons. They are usually only found i! n health food stores. Countries all over the world (Sweden, Germany, British Columbia, etc.) have demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the U.S. has decided to keep us in the dark about it. In 1989, activists in England mounted a campaign against chlorine bleaching. Six weeks and America is not ..1 in every arena. 50,000 letters later, the makers of sanitary products switched to oxygen bleaching, one of the green methods available (MS magazine, May/June 1995). WHAT TO DO NOW: Tell people. Everyone. Inform them. This industry and the government are manipulating us, let's do something about it! Please write to the companies: Tampax (Tambrands); Playtex; O.B.; Kotex. All the 800 numbers are listed on the boxes. Let them know that we demand a safe product! ALL COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS... REMINDER: In order not to lose the impact of this email, I suggest that anyone who wants to forward it to! your friends, PLEASE copy this mail and paste it to a NEW message. That way it will not distort the whole message with all the forward arrows. Please do this with consideration and seriousness. <3 |
| _________________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 12:14pm - destroyyoualot ""] I use only asbestos-free anal tampons. |
| _______________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 12:15pm - the_reverend ""] \"I love my vagina\" |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 12:46pm - ~carina~ ""] yes you do, bitch |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 12:58pm - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] Owww, my ovaries!! |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 1:43pm - SUBJUGATE ""] i posted it on my myspace seeing i have 90% women on my list |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 1:46pm - ~Carina~ ""] this isn\'t new ...I\'ve gotten that email quite some time ago just fyi |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:05pm - RustedAngel ""] JUST MAKING SURE! THAT SHIT SUCKS. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:14pm - ~Carina~ ""] You don\'t need to tell me...heh queen of ovarian cysts! |
| ____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:28pm - paganmegan ""] fuck tampax .those corporate conspiring sons of bitches |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:50pm - ~Carina~ ""] no tampons for me! |
| __________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:51pm - ~Carina ""] PERIOD. heh |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:56pm - horror_tang ""] RustedAngel said:Have you heard that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons? Why would they do this? Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to need to use more. They put fiberglass in smokeless tobacco, but it has not helped the nationwide Eugenics Movement conspiracy to rid the world of rednecks and baseball players and, uhhhh, small kittens. |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 2:58pm - SUBJUGATE ""] http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBUrbanMyths.shtml#tampons |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 27,2005 3:10pm - the_reverend ""] it mentions UNH in there! |
| ________________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 12:31am - rock4retards ""] I wonder if anne armageton has ever used a tampon |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 12:44am - powerkok ""] I always wondered why chicks just didnt stuff a whole bunch of wadded up paper towels in there..... |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 12:47am - lil_jackie ""] thanks for the heads up...we really should know what we are putting in our vaginas |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 12:51am - powerkok ""] besides all that unsheathed cock, you mean? |
| ______________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 1:19am - the_reverend ""] [img] |
| _____________________________________ [Apr 28,2005 2:52am - AUTOPSY_666 ""] I saw that retard on Sunday. |