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POPSDance If You Love Breasts and Pink Gloves You can help Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR by watching the video. Once this reaches 1,000,000 views they will be eligible for a large donation (including free mammograms for the community) from Medline, the manufacturer of the gloves.
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POPSHot Mormon Moms Pose for Calendar After looking at the calendar "website" it is obvious that these are not "active" Mormons. The site selling both the "hot mom" and "hot missionary" calendars also has anti-Mormon bumper stickers.
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POPSCancer From The Kitchen "I asked these doctors what they do in their own homes to reduce risks. They said that they avoid microwaving food in plastic or putting plastics in the dishwasher, because heat may cause chemicals to leach out. And the symposium handed out a reminder card listing “safer plastics” as those marked (usually at the bottom of a container) 1, 2, 4 or 5. It suggests that the “plastics to avoid” are those numbered 3, 6 and 7 (unless they are also marked “BPA-free”). Yes, the evidence is uncertain, but my weekend project is to go through containers in our house and toss out 3’s, 6’s and 7’s. "
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POPSVitamin D3 - The Miracle Nutrient Fantastic article by Nurse Practitioner and Health Columnist Pamela Egan about the importance of Vitamin D3, and the benefits of ingesting this particular form of Vitamin D, as opposed to Vitamin D2, which is found in most common supplements.
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POPSLieberman – "it is a matter of his principles"; Really??? Hey Socialists? Looks to me like your Public Option Holy Grail is Kaput. That it is a Socialist Ploy to turn the United States of America into a Socialist Country is now clearly understood by enough Americans to reject it, is a fact. Pisses you off, huh? Americans? Donate to the Susan G, Koman for the Cure in the Name of Hadassah Liberman. Show The Socialist Scumbags that Two Can Play that game. We can do it from the Moral High Ground. H/T To Le gal In sur rec tion for his idea of how to Support Hadassah Lieberman! Please click on the following link to donate in Hadassah’s name: Le gal In sur rec tion Komen Foundation Supports Hadassah Lieberman " Time to Support Komen Keep reading ' Go to link to read FULL post @ votingfemale Speaks! http://bit.ly/5lbcvg
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POPSBarbara Ehrenreich: The uproar over the new breast cancer screening guidelines
More: So welcome to the Women’s Movement 2.0: Instead of the proud female symbol -- a circle on top of a cross -- we have a droopy ribbon. Instead of embracing the full spectrum of human colors -- black, brown, red, yellow, and white -- we stick to princess pink. While we used to march in protest against sexist laws and practices, now we race or walk “for the cure.” And while we once sought full “consciousness” of all that oppresses us, now we’re content to achieve “awareness,” which has come to mean one thing – dutifully baring our breasts for the annual mammogram. …the numbers are increasingly insistent: Routine mammographic screening of women under 50 does not reduce breast cancer mortality in that group, nor do older women necessarily need an annual mammogram. In fact, the whole dogma about “early detection” is shaky… the idea has been to catch cancers early, when they’re still small, but some tiny cancers are viciously aggressive, and some large ones aren’t going anywhere
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POPSLooking at the SCIENCE behind the new mammography recommendations More: So the panel, which does not take cost into consideration when making its reports, no longer recommends regular breast screenings for this population. For women between 50 and 59, the evidence shows that a mammogram every two years preserves the benefits without increasing the harms. Though even for them, mammograms are far from a panacea. (The recommendations for prostate cancer screenings have similarly declined, as have tests for colon cancer.) Mammograms are so unreliable—as many as one in 10 gives a false positive reading— a woman is nearly guaranteed of having a false positive test in her lifetime . These lead to biopises (not a painless procedure) and sometimes radiation and chemotherapy for tumors that were so slow growing they would never have killed you anyway.
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POPSBreast exam guidelines now call for less testing So, now it begins. When once-upon-a-time our health care services were geared toward preventive medicine NOW we are moving towards more *rational* routines. I have had several *scares* and been grateful for the outcomes, but that has not been several of many of my friends. Just fancy talk to make us more complacent and willing droids to what is coming. If you get cancer, you're not worth the treatment...too expensive under this health care bill.
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POPSCountdown Goes To Free Clinic: 'Hard To Believe I Was In America' Eighty-three percent of the patients they see are employed, they are not accepting other government help on a large scale, not "welfare queens" as some would like to have us believe. They are tax-paying, good, upstanding citizens who are trying to make it and give their kids a better life just like you and me. Ninety percent of the patients who came through Saturday's clinic had two or more diagnoses. Eighty-two percent had a life-threatening condition such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or hypertension. They are victims of a system built with corporate profits at its center, which long ago forgot the moral imperative that should drive us to show compassion to our fellow men and women.
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POPSPart ONE: Whats WRONG with AMERICA
H is for Health insurance (or lack thereof) – Just another financial scam to enslave Americans in a medical police state while denying them access to real health services. I is for Intellectual Property laws – Corporations already own patents on 20% of the human genome, including your genes. J is for Junk food – Is it junk? Or is it food? It looks like food, but nourishes like junk. Let’s all eat some more… K is for Krispy Kreme doughnuts – Because as long as we’re all gonna be clinically obese, we might as well die with a smile on our faces and donut powder on our lips. L is for corporate Lies – Just when you thought they ran out of ‘em, they miraculously come up with new ones. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027483_S…) M is for Mainstream Media and Mammograms – The Mainstream Media pushes mammograms, a brilliant technology for causing breast cancer and heart damage. N is for National debt – It’ll never be paid off, but it’s fun to watch it expand. I wonder what happens
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POPSEating It? BPA Found in Surprising Places Canned foods are thought to be the predominate route of BPA exposure. * Buy prepared foods in jars when possible–especially tomatoes and tomato sauce. * Opt for fresh produce when you can, choose frozen produce over canned. * Use dried beans instead of canned beans ---------------------- Enfamil formula appears to have the highest concentrations of the 20 tests. The only solution here is to use alternatives to canned formula --------------- avoid #7 plastics, especially for children’s food. Plastics with the recycling labels #1, #2 and #4 on the bottom are safer choices and do not contain BPA.
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POPSThe Quandary With Mammograms: Get a Screening, or Just Skip It? More: Some researchers estimate that as many as one-third of cancers picked up by screening would not be fatal even if left untreated. But right now, nobody knows which ones. So what are women supposed to do? …Hoping to make sense of it all, I consulted several experts. All said mammograms were still important — after all, breast cancer kills 40,000 women a year in this country — but they differed about who really needed them and how often. All agreed that research was badly needed to figure out how to tell dangerous tumors from the so-called indolent ones… Dr. Formenti said the emphasis on screening by groups like the cancer society might have misled the public into thinking that screening could prevent cancer. “It’s a giant misconception,” she said. “…I have to confess that I’m happy if the public gets offended or infuriated” by the debate…"I want taxpayers to say: ‘You have no clarity. Study it. Stop telling us you are a good girl if you get a mammogram.’ ”
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POPSCarly Fiorina Enters California Senate Race to Unseat Barbara Boxer
I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go." True to her word, she wasted no time going directly after Boxer. "Sometimes I wonder whether California even has two U.S. Senators," Fiorina said. "There's Dianne Feinstein and then there's...what's her name?" Fiorina charged that during Boxer's 17 years in Washington, she had passed only three pieces of legislation and written two fiction novels. "What do you say we work together to give Barbara Boxer the chance next year to be a full-time novelist?" The Boxer campaign responded immediately to the assertion that Boxer had not produced meaningful legislation in the Senate. "Fiorina is just plain wrong about the Boxer record. More than 1,000 of Senator Boxer's provisions have been adopted and enacted into law," the campaign said in a statement. During a question and answer session following her speech, Fiorina was asked if she favors term limits. Yes, she said, she favors them and believes Boxer demonstrates why limits
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POPSMost Creative Breast Cancer Awareness Ads When that word is mentioned, cancer, it’s like a tremble through the heart. I can't stress how important it is for early diagnosis. If there is anything going on in your body - ANYTHING - that is unusual - go get checked. "If only women paid as much attention to their breast as men do..." Sounds funny, but it's true.
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POPSA woman dies of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the United States *** BOOBIES ALERT *** Colleges around my area are promoting National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A paper I was handed by a student indicated that every three minutes a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer? It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women and the chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is about 1 in 8. African-American women are more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. Lesbians are at a higher risk of breast, cervical, and ovarian cancers because they are less likely to have children by age 30, if at all. Just wanted to pass this information along. I'm doing my best to keep abreast of the situation.
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POPSThey Still Don't Get It Heartless morons in Illinois. Just had to ruin the driver's day, with a load of BS. I hope those folks never have to deal with the reality of any kind of Cancer in their family. Plus I'd like to know just who turned him in.
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