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- From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
- Subject: Re: baby powder
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:42:54 GMT
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- nola@cats.ucsc.edu (Nola Van Vugt) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan14.173533.8366@informix.com> cathl@odin (Catherine Lyman) writes:
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- >>> One final note--don't *ever* use the talc-based stuff on your own
- >>> body. There's a high correlation between talcum powder use and
- >>> ovarian cancer in women.
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- >>What do people do with talcum powder to get ovarian cancer? Drink it?
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- >No, they dust it on their crotch (sic). Talc is powdered stone and it's
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- True, talcum powder is powdered stone (talc).
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- >full of asbestos fibers. Apparently the stuff travels up through your
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- Talcum powder is powdered *talc* not powdered *asbestos*. Would
- talcum powder even be on the market if it contained asbestos fibers?
- I'll believe this assertion if someone can show me references.
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- >vagina and eventually migrates to your ovaries.
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- The vagina does not not allow foreign particles to "migrate" to the
- ovaries, else the ovaries would be continuously contaminated and
- infected. There is a natural flow *out* of the female reproductive
- system that keeps foreign paticles away from the inner-regions. While
- it is true that asbestos fibers can become embedded in human tissue,
- by what mechanism could they migrate the distance from the vagina to
- the ovaries, against the natural flow? This really sounds just too
- farfetched.
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- -Alan Harder
- ash@math.ams.org
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