Drugs

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More Harm Than Good

14-Oct-2003

 

 

Some heavily advertised products actually do you more

harm than good. A

recent study shows that sunscreens are totally

worthless, but using them

makes people complacent, so they spend more time in

the sun, which can

lead to skin cancer. And taking too many antacids can

lead to dangerous

food allergies.

 

British Plastic surgeon Roy Sanders says suncreams

were much less

effective at blocking ultraviolet A (UVA) light, which

is what causes

the skin cancer melanoma, than UVB. "When ultraviolet

A impinges on the

skin it triggers the release of highly reactive

chemicals called free

radicals which we believe can induce a malignant

change," he says.

"Since ambient sunlight is principally ultraviolet A

and since

sunscreens protect mostly against ultraviolet B, if we

use the

sunscreens it may increase the risk of us developing a

rather unpleasant

cancer called malignant melanoma… We’re lulled into a

sense of false

security...and so people are inclined to take a much

greater dose of the

sun." Cases of malignant melanoma have doubled every

10 years since the

1950s.

 

Austrian researcher Erika Jensen-Jarolim says

indigestion pills may

trigger food allergies, because they allow food to

enter the intestines

before it is fully broken down. She gave half the

people in her study a

medicine for indigestion, while the other half got a

placebo. None of

them had any food allergies. She found that people

taking the drug

showed signs of food allergy symptoms, while none of

those in the

placebo group did.

 

Antacids are designed to reduce levels of gastric acid

in the stomach,

but this acid is necessary, because it helps the

stomach to break down

food before it enters the intestines. Low levels of

acid may result in

food entering the intestines before it is broken down.

The body's immune

system then tries to attack the food, triggering an

allergic reaction.

This reaction is less likely to happen with familiar

foods, since the

body has become accustomed to them.

 

Allergies to food can range from mild rashes to

potentially life-

threatening anaphylactic shocks. "These findings are

significant for

those people at risk for a food allergy," says

Jensen-Jarolim, "since

10% of the adult population today is on antacids."

 

 

Hill

[logcabinmama]

Very interesting post.

 

 

 

[Guest Guest]

Pardon me. I posted something here but it was not what I thought I was posting. So sorry.

 

Here is what I thought and what I intended to post here.........................

 

My generation just might have been lucky when it dealt with growing up problems.

But I have to confess something about myself.

I had a drug problem when I was young.

*I was drug inside when it got to late.

*I was drug to weddings and funerals.

*I was drug to family get-togethers and reunions no matter the weather.

*I was drug to the school when I didn't feel good and wanted to stay home.

*I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults and teachers.

*I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents.

*I was drug to neighbors to apologize when I did something I shouldn't have.

Those drugs are still in my veins;

and they affect my behavior in every thing I do, say, and think today.

They have set my moral code, values and core behaviors.

They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin,

and if today's children had this kind of drug problem,

America just might be a better place.

 

 

Hill