Not Everything Causes Cancer!

I was at Target looking at a new cosmetic line that they are carrying that is supposed to be more natural and pure than conventional brands. I picked up a moisturizer and saw "methylparaben" on the ingredient list. I commented to the product spokeswoman that I was surprised to see a paraben preservative in a line that was advertised to be even somewhat natural with all of the research linking them to cancer. Her response was, "Yeah, but everything causes cancer these days." REALLY?

I am so tired of hearing this excuse for not making healthy choices! NO, not 'everything' causes cancer! YES, most processed, altered, "foreign,"fake foods/products probably are linked to cancer. But, I highly doubt that we'll ever see a study linking quinoa or coconut oil or organic carrots to cancer.

It's very unfortunate that the vast majority of the grocery and health products available do have ingredients that are cancer-linked. But, it's inaccurate to think that it would be impossible to make healthy choices and avoid a good bit of the risk-raising products.

Since so many of our food and health products are filled with GMOs and artificial everything, it's true that a huge majority of the available foods/products are dangerous at some level. The pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used on conventionally grown crops, and the manmade artificial colors, preservatives, and flavors that are put in so many non-organic, processed foods, and the GMO feed, appalling farming techniques (feeding corn and chicken feces to cattle!), hormones, and antibiotics associated with modern animal production are the real problem.

It's not fair to say that "everything causes cancer" or that "there's a new study everyday saying that a food/product is unsafe." In reality, more accurate statements would be that "everything artificial causes cancer" and that "there's a new study everyday saying that an artificial food/product is unsafe. I'd hardly say that veering away from artificial, refined, and processed food and health products is far from impossible.

When the only goal of conventional food production is to make the most money while spending the least, would you really expect that the products that come out of this industry to be beneficial to your health? It's generally only after newly-invented, manmade products have been on the market for a while that researchers (and consumers) start to notice the harmful side-effects of these products. **Cue the daily reports on which products are unsafe and cancer-causing**

That's my rant for the day/week(?)... What is your take on the topic?