Monday, December 14, 2009

Cooking Up Cancer in the Kitchen


Cooking Up Cancer in the Kitchen
How much does cancer have to do with contaminants in our water or air -- or in certain plastic containers in our kitchens?

The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines.

But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast cancer in the United States has less to do with insurance or mammograms and more to do with contaminants in our water or air -- or in certain plastic containers in our kitchens? What if the surge in asthma and childhood leukemia reflect, in part, the poisons we impose upon ourselves?

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