Bras can cause cancer. Yes, you read that right. Brassieres cause cancer. Read on.
According to an article written by Lynda Arredondo, Nutritional Consultant for Sebring Clinic and the manager and founder of Nature's Nutrition, and published in the Wimberley Valley News and Views, this important tidbit was discovered in the 1980s by a couple of Harvard MD's, but the major medical journals would not publish their findings. After all, the brassiere industry would stand to lose millions in revenue. It's all about money and greed. Their findings were finally published in a small journal in England.
Further evidence of this finding was backed by a study conducted by a couple of anthropologists. They looked at 4,700 women, half with a history of breast cancer. They asked the women about their bra wearing habits. Currently, one in eight women will get breast cancer. That rate drops to one in 168 if a woman never wears a bra. If she takes her bra off as soon as she gets home, one in 152. If she takes it off when she goes to bed, one in seven. If she wears it through the night, three in four. None of these researchers could ever get their findings published until they finally wrote a book in 1991 called "Dressed To Kill."
Designed to replace the corset, the bra was invented in 1911 and 30 to 40 years later breast cancer rose dramatically. It's not the materials bras are made from that cause cancer, it's the restrictive movement which seals off lymphatic drainage and breasts cannot detoxify. One of two metabolic pathways turns estrogen into a harmless molecule, but if it becomes oxidized (and it will oxidize if held in place by a bra) it's turned into a quinone that causes genetic mutations which develop into breast cancer. Breasts are designed to move and larger breasts move more which promotes a natural lymphatic drainage.
I was a bra burner in the 70s but for different reasons. As it turns out, ditching the bra was a better idea than I originally thought. For all of you men out there and society in general, bras are uncomfortable, restrictive and a major health hazard. Men, how would you like to wear something strapped around your chest all day long? The ONLY reason we are FORCED to wear them in public is because society has placed a stigma on women if they don't wear one. They're tagged as being "loose," "wild," "classless," "trashy," "disgusting." What's disgusting is that society has forced a way of life on women that has been PROVEN to be detrimental to our health.
The only time I wear a bra is when I have to go out in public. As soon as I get home, it's the first thing that comes off. I've always done this and will continue to do this and I encourage all of you women out there to do the same. I think it's time for another bra burning only this time for reasons that affect everyone. Women who die from breast cancer lose an average of 22.9 years off of their life.
So ladies, it's OK to take off your bra!! Let the girls run free and breathe!! This deserves national attention so get the word out!
