For women only!!!!

[Zash]

Asalam aleykum, hope everyone is doing good....i found out this and it is natural for me to share.

 

Extremely important read for WOMEN!

 

 

Use of sanitary for more than 3 hours can cause cervical cancer & bacteria infection.

 

 

FOR THOSE OF US WHO USE SANITARY NAPKINS/PADS:

 

IF u ever wondered what were the ingredients that made popular brands so

'free! and light and carefree', well here's the bit:

 

The material that makes the pad so paper THIN, is cellulose gel. YEap,

it's not even cotton!!!!!!

 

DO NOT wear the same pad for more than 3 hours of a maximum!!! After

this duration, the genital area is prone to bacterial action and may

result in cervical cancer or other complications!!!!!!!!!!

 

REMEMBER! NEVER NEVER NEVER WEAR THE SAME PAD FOR MORE THAN 3 HOURS!!!!

 

SO yes, please pass on this message to as many women as possible and

save lives!!!!!!!!!!

 

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, wife, sisters, mothers,

daughters, etc.) Thanks!

 

Check the labels of the sanitary pads or tampons that you are going to

buy the next time 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 tumours. 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 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 @(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 much about feminine hygiene. Recently we have learned that

tampons are actually dangerous (for other reasons than TSS). I'll tell

you this - 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 set '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 menstruating 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 fibbers 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 than 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 since they are not in direct contact with the vagina. The

pads/napkins need to stop being bleached, but, obviously, tampons are

the most dangerous.

 

 

So, what can you do if you can't give up using tampons? Use tampons that

are made from 100% cotton, and that are UNBLEACHED. Unfortunately, there

are very few companies that make these safe tampons. They are usually

only found in 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 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. We are being manipulated by this

industry and the government, let's do something about it! Please write

to the companies: Tampax(Tambrands), Playtex, O.B., Kotex. Call the 800

numbers listed on the boxes. Let them know that we demand a safe product

ALL COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS

[NGONGE]

Oh! Oh! Oh! Are we doing crazy e-mails? Here, read this one. It's more dangerous.

 

 

Pass The Butter ~ ~ ~ ~ This is interesting . . .

 

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.

 

When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into

the research

wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do

with this product to get their money back.

 

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow

coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.

 

How do you like it?

 

They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

 

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?

 

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

 

Both have the same amount of calories.

 

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.

 

Eating

margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the

same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

 

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

 

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only

because they are added!

 

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the

flavors of other foods.

 

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around

for less than 100 years.

 

And now, for Margarine...

 

Very high in trans fatty acids.

 

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

 

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and

lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

 

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

 

Lowers quality of breast milk.

 

Decreases immune response.

 

Decreases insulin response.

 

And here's the most disturbing

fact....

 

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

 

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...

 

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and

anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added,

changing the molecular structure of the substance).

 

You can try this yourself:

 

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area.

 

Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

 

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that

should tell you something)

 

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value

 

*Nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weenie microorganisms will

not a find a home to grow.

 

Why?

Because it is nearly plastic.

*Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

 

Share This With Your Friends..... (If you want to

"butter them up")!

 

Chinese Proverb:

 

"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from

it, You have a moral obligation to share it with others."

 

People don't care how much you know...Until they know how much you care.

[Zash]

Hey... c'mon, start your own topic. Thanks though for the info

[Aaliyyah]

Zash thanks for the info walaal.

 

Butter is bad for your health too if consumed in large quantity.

 

wa salaam..

[Abu-Salman]

Actually, margarine may be unhealthy (basically, just like anything not naturally digested by the body), especially if it refers to Transfats or Hydrogenated Fats (already present in many so-called "light spread").

 

In fact, overuse of pure butter may even be significantly less risky than hydrogenated fats (sometimes called fat acids etc), similar to the material used in candles, and already banned in some countries (Tesco and other Stores promised to ban it "soon" but are yet to release the ingredients used in their bakeries, eg croissants, breads, cookies etc).

 

Why would manufacturers bother about issues irrelevant to their core business of making "profit" anyway, let alone replace a material with so long a shelf life, hence widely used...

 

 

PS: always keep your distances with un-natural or processed food may be a most helpful rule, not matter the marketing of new "alternatives" to a previously denunced substance (or any other not time-tested manufactured item for that matter one could avoid)!