Daily Mail list of things that give you cancer

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Do we slit our wrists now, or later?

AGE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449783/Women-birth-age-30-double-risk-breast-cancer.html

AIR POLLUTION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-358875/Pollution-cars-linked-child-cancer.html

AIR TRAVEL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200443/Frequent-fliers-raise-cancer-risk.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-591109/Cancer-risk-frequent-fliers.html

ALCOHOL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-147083/Drink-day-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-471910/Bowel-cancer-danger-just-glass-wine-day.html

ALLERGIES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-324732/Child-allergies-raise-cancer-risk.html

ARTIFICIAL FLAVOURS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-55023/Cancer-causing-chemicals-soy-sauce.html

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-391267/Artificial-light-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html

ASBESTOS (as if it wasn’t bad enough already) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170584/Asbestos-schools-kill-pupils-warns-teacher-dying-lung-cancer.html

ASPIRIN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205490/Asprin-link-cancer-risk.html

BABIES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-157683/Birth-size-link-breast-cancer.html

BABY BOTTLES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1038697/EU-rejects-ban-baby-bottles-linked-early-puberty-breast-cancer-miscarriage-infertility.html

BABY FOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-199887/Baby-food-cancer-alert.html

BACON http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1102368/Additives-used-bacon-ham-chicken-make-cancers-grow.html

BARBEQUES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-326153/Australians-warned-backyard-cancer-risk.html

BEEF http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393666/Alarm-beef-link-breast-cancer.html

BEER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1161843/Just-pint-beer-day-raise-risk-prostate-cancer.html

BEING A BLACK PERSON http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1064547/Black-men-times-likely-prostate-cancer.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-508753/Black-women-develop-breast-cancer-decades-earlier-white-women.html

BEING A WOMAN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-63976/Cancer-risk-higher-women-smokers.html

BEING A MAN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-306543/Men-twice-likely-die-cancer-women.html

BEING SOUTHERN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1027331/Why-affluent-women-South-likely-die-breast-cancer.html

BISCUITS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-126342/Cancer-foods-avoid.html

BLOWJOBS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-453843/Oral-sex-cause-throat-cancer.html

BRAS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-182370/Is-bra-bad-you.html

BREAD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-411506/White-bread-increases-cancer-risk.html

BREAST FEEDING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-178756/Whos-risk-breast-cancer.html

BREAST IMPLANTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-41443/Breast-implants-cancer-scare.html

BROKEN HEARTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-450049/How-heart-broken-grief-send-early-grave.html

BUBBLE BATH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-403703/Is-bubble-bath-safe.html

BURGERS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-467360/Cancer-scare-food-colour-added-sausages-burgers.html

CAFFINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1127473/Coffee-raise-child-cancer-risk-New-evidence-caffeine-damage-babies-DNA.html

CALCUIM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052127/Fatal-cancer-risk-men-high-blood-calcium-levels-say-US-researchers.html

CANDLE-LIT DINNERS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1207726/Candles-release-scents-laced-cancer-chemicals-warn-scientists.html#ixzz0dufFps6a

CANNED FOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-44676/Gender-bending-chemicals-tin-cans.html

CARBOHYDRATES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-313227/Low-carb-diets-beat-breast-cancer.html

CARS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-358875/Pollution-cars-linked-child-cancer.html

CEREAL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html

CHEESE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1002424/Italy-shuts-mozzarella-production-toxin-fears-spread.html

CHICKEN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429303/Families-risk-toxic-imported-foods.html

CHILDLESSNESS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-474820/SUZANNE-MOORE-Im-sick-told-fault.html

CHILDREN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-506501/Prostate-risk-having-family-according-new-study.html

CHILDREN’S FOODhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201390/Health-warning-childrens-food.html

CHILLIS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-347287/Cancer-checks-spices-new-food-dyes-alert.html

CHINESE MEDICINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-75547/Warming-cancer-risk-Chinese-medicines.html

CHIPS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-487571/Parents-told-chips-cause-cancer.html

CHLORINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431777/Chlorine-bathwater-linked-cancer.html

CHOCLATE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-386625/Cancer-fears-chocolate-snacks.html

CITY LIVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-496495/City-life-blamed-higher-risk-breast-cancer.html

CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-452789/Warmer-climate-mean-thousands-deaths-skin-cancer.html

COCA COLA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-337178/Carrot-day-reduces-cancer-risk.html

COD LIVER OIL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-379918/Cancer-fears-cod-liver-oil-capsules.html

COFFEE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3027/How-healthy-cup-coffee.html

CONSTAPATION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-193698/Atkins-diet-cancer-risk.html

CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-181273/Cancer-risk-45-higher-Pill.html

COOKING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-382571/Frying-increase-cancer-risk.html

CORDLESS PHONES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-515970/After-cancer-warnings-mobiles-home-phone-putting-health-danger.html

CRAYONS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6706/Safety-alert-best-selling-crayons.html

CURRY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-342632/Cancer-dye-Grossman-curry-sauce.html

DEODRANT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205705/Deodorants-linked-cancer.html

DIETING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-73056/Is-diet-lifestyle-putting-risk-breast-cancer.html

DOGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-490581/Can-dogs-breast-cancer-Bizarre-medical-theories-experts-claim-actually-true.html

EGGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-50995/Cancer-chemicals-eggs.html

ELECTRICITY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449679/Power-lines-link-cancer-new-alert.html

ENGLISH BREAKFAST http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1049142/Traditional-English-fry-raise-risk-bowel-cancer-63-cent.html

FACEBOOK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html

FALSE NAILS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1174768/Having-nails-skin-cancer-doctors-warn-women.html

FATHERHOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-506501/Prostate-risk-having-family-according-new-study.html

FIBRE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4903/Fibre-cancer-risk-warning.html

FISH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-117840/Fish-cancer-scare.html

FLIP FLOPS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025915/Wearing-FLIP-FLOPS-skin-cancer-doctors-warn.html

FLY SPRAY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-459938/Using-pesticide-sprays-home-double-risk-brain-tumours.html

FRUIT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-371260/Breast-cancer-drug-cuts-death-risk.html

GARDENS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-326153/Australians-warned-backyard-cancer-risk.html

GRAPEFRUIT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-468559/Eating-grapefruit-increase-breast-cancer-risk-third.html

HAIR DYE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1017259/How-using-hair-dye-increase-risk-cancer.html

HAM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-490845/Is-safe-eat-Cancer-report-adds-bacon-ham-drink-danger-list.html

HEIGHT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1064454/Bigger-taller-baby-girls-higher-risk-breast-cancer-says-study.html

HONEY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429303/Families-risk-toxic-imported-foods.html

HOT DRINKS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html

HRT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1214782/HRT-increases-risk-dying-lung-cancer.html#ixzz0dueJ7qOY

INTERNET http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-312505/Cancer-patients-risk-websites.html

IVF http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-148228/How-IVF-raises-cancer-risks.html

KIDNEY TRANSPLATS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-459097/TV-prize-kidney-carries-risk-cancer.html

LAMB http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-446559/Red-meat-link-higher-risk-breast-cancer.html

LARGE HEADS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-370870/Big-headed-babies-prone-cancer.html

LEFT-HANDEDNESS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-363477/Left-handers-likely-breast-cancer.html

LIPSTICK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-499967/Is-lipstick-giving-cancer.html

LIVER TRANSPLANTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207838/Cancer-liver-transplant-killed-husband.html

MENOPAUSE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-395201/Weight-gain-menopause-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html

MENSTRUATION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-68946/Do-women-need-periods.html

METAL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1081692/The-metals-daily-glass-wine-linked-cancer-Parkinsons.html

MILK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-328863/Milk-linked-ovarian-cancer.html

MOBILE PHONES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-473553/Orange-remove-mobile-mast-tower-doom-cancer-rate-soared.html

MODERN LIVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-474157/Modern-living-blame-cancer-epidemic.html

MONEY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025375/Wealthy-background-raise-risk-cancer-teenagers.html

MORPHINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1230208/Pain-drug-morphine-cause-cancer-spread.html#ixzz0dudlHqN2

MOUTHWASH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1113422/Mouthwash-causes-oral-cancer-pulled-supermarkets-say-experts.html

NUCLEAR POWER (there is no hint of irony in this article) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-42066/New-study-links-nuclear-sites-cancer.html

OBESITY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-245997/Obesity-raises-risk-cancer.html

OESTROGEN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4098/Oestrogen-link-breast-cancer.html

OLDER FATHERs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1223025/Why-older-fathers-likely-children-genetic-disorders.html#ixzz0dudLlJsP

PASTRY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html

PEANUT BUTTER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164417/Food-watchdog-warning-peanut-butter-brand-containing-cancer-causing-fungus.html

PERFUME http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1051130/How-perfumes-scented-creams-make-unborn-baby-infertile.html

PICKLES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html

PIZZA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-341698/New-food-dye-warning.html

PLASTIC BAGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1207840/Plastic-decomposes-sea-releases-cancer-causing-chemicals-study-warns.html#ixzz0duexZlFs

PORK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093039/After-alert-Irish-pork-safe-beef.html

POTATOES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-115037/Cancer-chemical-link-cooked-food.html

POVERTY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-474820/SUZANNE-MOORE-Im-sick-told-fault.html

PREGNANCY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-82458/Breast-cancer-risk-career-women.html

RADIOACTIVITY (again, just no irony whatsoever) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-421140/As-radioactive-spy-buried-bar-staff-served-facing-cancer-risk.html

RICE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-444222/Rice-tainted-arsenic-raises-risk-cancer.html

SAUSAGES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-550729/Why-eating-just-sausage-day-raises-cancer-risk-20-cent.html

RETIREMENT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1220446/Oh-Work-good-especially-youve-retired.html#ixzz0ducbviCE

SEX http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-191219/Did-sex-cancer.html

SHAVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-206459/Shaving-raise-cancer-risk.html

SKIING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-206243/Skiers-warned-cancer-risk.html

SOUP http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1132814/Salty-soups-increase-cancer-risk-says-expert.html

SPACE TRAVEL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1015482/How-astronauts-risk-cancer--premature-ageing--travelling-space.html

SUN CREAM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-592076/Cancer-fear-childrens-sun-creams.html

TALCUM POWDER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1063040/Cancer-alert-talc-Women-using-powder-day-risk.html

TEA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-87131/Too-tea-treble-cancer-risk-women.html

TEEN SEX http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1237530/Girls-sex-teens-greater-risk-developing-cervical-cancer.html#ixzz0dudvXOF7

VITAMINS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-320006/Vitamin-pills-cause-early-deaths.html

WATER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13620/Cancer-link-tap-water-radon-hotspots.html

WI-FI http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-456534/The-classroom-cancer-risk-wi-fi-internet.html

WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-338899/Dye-alert-spreads-school-meals.html

WORKING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1031934/Why-men-desk-jobs-higher-risk-prostate-cancer.html

X-RAYS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207035/X-rays-bring-risk-cancer.html

[Quillan]

In a way it goes some way to proving my theory about cancer. I have long been of the opinion that we all have the ability to create cancer cells but that ability lays dormant. Some people have a susceptibility to these cells being triggered where others don't. DNA technology has advanced quite a bit now and you can have tests to see if you might be susceptible to certain types of cancer. What your list indicates to me is that its a list of 'triggers'. Bit like smoking and cancer, my mother-in-law gave up 28 years before she succumbed to lung cancer whilst my grandmother who smoked 60 un-tipped Capstan Full Strength a day was only months short of her 100th birthday when she died of old age.

[Dog]

My first wifes grandfather had a lung removed in the early sixties and carried on smoking.

He used to make me laugh he'd sit there smoking, puffing away saying smoking had never done him any harm, with one hand clamped over his chest as smoke escaped through his fingers from the hole in his chest. Seems the surgery in the sixties didn't stretch to closing the hole.

[tegwini]

Hi Richard

That list must have taken you days to compile!  Your 'staying power' is much admired.

You haven't got cabin fever perhaps ?

Tegwini

[AnOther]

If I gave up everything on that list (not that I indulge in them all of course !) I think I'd be that miserable I'd want to be dead [:'(]

Tragically a colleagues wife very recently succumbed to lung cancer at age 43 having never smoked a cigarette in her life, he is a non smoker too, go figure !

[Théière]

Don't want to appear to not like the press, however the word cancer seem to crop up as many times as Daily Mail, is there a link?

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

[quote user="tegwini"]

Hi Richard

That list must have taken you days to compile!  Your 'staying power' is much admired.

You haven't got cabin fever perhaps ?

Tegwini

[/quote]

Copy and paste from another forum :)

However, someone must have done it. Perhaps it was the same bloke who sat down for 40 years comparing snowflakes to find out no two snowflakes are alike....

[Judith]

[quote user="Quillan"]In a way it goes some way to proving my theory about cancer. I have long been of the opinion that we all have the ability to create cancer cells but that ability lays dormant. Some people have a susceptibility to these cells being triggered where others don't. DNA technology has advanced quite a bit now and you can have tests to see if you might be susceptible to certain types of cancer. What your list indicates to me is that its a list of 'triggers'. Bit like smoking and cancer, my mother-in-law gave up 28 years before she succumbed to lung cancer whilst my grandmother who smoked 60 un-tipped Capstan Full Strength a day was only months short of her 100th birthday when she died of old age.[/quote]

Q, you sound just like my OH - as a scientist he says such things like that, though in this case I agree with you both.  That is why the idea of cancer fills people with so much dread - it is not a respecter of persons, and one cannot ever know, or take all precautions.  And certainly not to the extent of making your life miserable, as said by another poster here.

[Judith]

[quote user="Mr Coeur de Lion"]Do we slit our wrists now, or later? [/quote]

No - just ignore it!!:-))

[cooperlola]

Maybe we should add "Stress caused by reading silly newspaper articles" to the list.  Even if it doesn't cause cancer, it can't do your general health any good. 

Much more interesting and informative than the Daily Rag is

http://www.badscience.net/

[Weedon]

Having read the list so kindly posted by RDL  it looks as if I am safe from most of those.  A little disturbing though is that, although it's not on the list, I am guilty of misreading stuff posted on forums and have just emptied cornflakes all over my kitchen table to try to disprove the 40 year old study that no two corn flakes are identical.

I am also fond of grilled blue cheese on sliced banana but don't tell the Daily Mail.

NB. By the way I wasn't able to match any two of the cornflakes.

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Well, that's another of life's questions answered. There are no two cornflakes alike in the world.

[Bugsy]

[quote user="cooperlola"]

Much more interesting is

http://www.badscience.net/

[/quote]

Right again Coops.

I love this article [:D]

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