Büstenhalter...

Breast cancer is only found in cultures

where bras are worn. Where there are no bras, there is virtually no breast cancer.


Hunderte von Artikeln beschäftigen sich in den U.S.A. und Kanada mit den möglichen Folgen des Tragens von BH's.

Untersuchungen zeigen offenbar, dass das Tragen von BH's das Brustkrebsrisiko sowie das Risiko anderer Knoten deutlich erhöhen kann.

Bei uns in Deutschland ist es noch lange nicht soweit, dass dies ernsthaft diskutiert wird.

Aber das war ja bei der Diskussion um die Gefahren des Rauchens nicht anders... Bis zu Überlegungen dieses zu verbieten (unabhängig vom Sinn solcher Verbote) hat es noch viel länger gedauert.

Mal sehen, wann auch in D die BH-Frage diskutiert wird.

BHs können Brustkrebs fördern Amerikanische Wissenschaftler haben jetzt herausgefunden, dass BHs Brustkrebs fördern können. Push-Ups schnitten bei der Studie besonders schlecht ab. An der Studie haben 4.700 Frauen teilgenommen und sie erwies eindeutig, dass das Risiko bei den Frauen ohne BH geringer ist als bei denen mit BH. Nicht länger als zwölf Stunden sollte man einen BH tragen und außerdem kann zur Vorbeugung eine Brust-Massage helfen. Stern-news.de 5.10.04	Gefährliche Büstenhalter NEUNBURG (gag). Beim öffentlichen Vortragsabend zum Thema „Felder, Wellen, Strahlungen“ kürzlich im Pfarrsaal St. Georg (MZ berichtete) befasste sich Referent und Buchautor Karl Dietl mit einem hoch sensiblen Thema: „Brustkrebs als Todesursache Nummer eins für Frauen“. Dietl bezog sich auf ein Schreiben von Dr. med. Veronika Carstens, in dem sie ein „Totschweigen des Brustkrebsrisikos in den Medien“ beklagt. So sei eine Studie namhafter Anthropologen nach Untersuchung von 4700 Frauen zu folgendem Ergebnis gekommen: Die Chance an Brustkrebs zu erkranken liege bei Frauen, die 24 Stunden am Tag einen BH tragen, um 125mal höher als bei Frauen die keinen BH tragen. Bei zwölf Stunden am Tag sei die Chance immer noch 21mal größer. Der Grund dafür liege zwar noch im Dunkeln. Doch spiele die Tatsache, dass BHs permanent lymphatische Gefäße blockierten „eine bedeutende Rolle“. Auch die Veränderung von magnetischen und elektrischen Feldern im Brustbereich bei Frauen mit BH könnte hier verantwortlich sein. Damit bezog sich die bekannte Naturärztin (Gattin des früheren Bundespräsidenten Karl Carstens) auf einen Brief von Dietl, der an verschiedenen Synthetik- BHs elektrische Spannungen von bis 10 000 Volt gemessen hatte. Zudem hatte er Dr. Veronika Carstens darüber informiert, dass zum Beispiel an BHs mit Stahlbügel Feldstörungen von bis zu 500 Mikrotesla gemessen wurden. Das magnetische Feld (Magnetostatik) an den Bügeln könne noch auf dem Rücken der BH- Trägerin nachgewiesen werden. Karl Dietl erklärte zusammenfassend, dass er mit dem bekannten deutschen Baubiologen Wolfgang Maes der Meinung sei, dass „extrem hohe magnetische und elektrische Gleichfelder am BH eine große Rolle bei der Bildung von Brustkrebs spielen können“. Deshalb empfiehlt der Referent allen Frauen, zumindest nachts auf einschnürende BHs mit Metall und hohem Synthetik- Anteil zu verzichten. Meldung vom 28.02.2005, 19:56 Uhr Mittelbayerische Zeitung
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Bras and Breast Cancer by Ralph L. Reed, Ph.D. Although I am an environmental chemist (Ph.D in biochemistry), I have been doing a lot of literature research on breast cancer since I saw an article on the National Library of Medicine database over a year ago. That article documented an increase in breast cancer rates between women who do wear bras versus those that do not. That Harvard study fascinated me and I searched the medical literature for possible explanations. In January 1996, I discovered the book by Singer and Grismaijer and their explanation of impaired lymphatic flow intrigued me. I have since read everything that I can find on lymphatic flow. What I have found has amazed me, but that is another story. I can supply you with lots of info if you like. In essence, what Singer and Grismaijer found was that the odds of getting breast cancer dramatically increased with bra-wearing over 12 hours per day. * Women who wore their bras 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of developing breast cancer (in their study, n=2056 for the cancer group and n=2674 for the standard group). * Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of 7 risk. * Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk. * Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting breast cancer. The overall difference between 24 hour wearing and not at all was a 125-fold difference. The results of this study are compelling, even considering that it was not a "controlled study" for other risk factors. Bear in mind that known (published in medical journals) risk factors for breast cancer are mostly in the range of less than three-fold differences. It should also be noted that Singer and Grismaijer surveyed bra-wearing behavior of the past, which is excellent for a disease with such a long development period. In their book, the authors show how most of the known risk factors can be related to bra-wearing behavior and/or the lymphatic system. For example, breast feeding and pregnancy cause full development of the mammary lymphatics. Also, women of higher economic status have higher breast cancer rates, and one would expect that they would wear their bras more hours per day. Women who excercise have lower risk, which could relate to better lymphatic circulation (and I would add, more breast movement). To this discussion, I would like to add that lymphatic circulation in many tissues (especially the primary lymphatics) are highly dependent on MOVEMENT. When you sit for a long time on an airplane flight, your feet and ankles can swell, because lymphatic circulation goes to near zero. Wearing a bra, especially a constricting one with underwires, and especially to bed, prevents normal lymphatic flow and would likely lead to anoxia (lower than normal oxygen content), which has been related to fibrosis, which has been linked to increased cancer risk.	Women evolved under conditions where there was BREAST MOVEMENT with every step that they took when they walked or ran. My reading of the scientific literature about lymphatic flow shows me that this may be as important as the constriction factor. Every subtle bounce of the breast while moving, walking, running, etc. gently massages the breast and increases lymphatic flow and thus cleans the breast of toxins and wastes that arise from cellular metabolism. Of course, there may be other mechanisms for the damage that bras apparently cause. One such mechanism could be temperature. Breasts are external organs and have a naturally lower temperature. Cancers can be temperature-dependent. Breast cancer is hormone-dependent. Temperature can alter hormone function. Breast temperature changes throughout the monthly cycle. All these facts are from the medical literature. By whatever mechanism, someone will eventually explain why Singer and Grismaijer found a 125-fold difference in cancer rates between bra-free breasts and those constricted by 24-hour-per-day bra-wearing. If you haven't already done so, I suggest that you read the book by Singer and Grismaijer ( Dressed to Kill,Avery Press, 1995). (By the way, I have no connection to the authors; I think that they live in Canada.) Also, just for an interesting experiment, the next time you walk down the street, notice visually how constricting bras are. On many women you can actually see "dents" around the sides of their chests where there bras are, even in something as opaque as a black t-shirt. A physical therapist friend of mine, after reading Dressed to Kill, said that she was amazed at what she saw in her practice at a local medical clinic. She noticed how many women have red creases and grooves on the their bodies caused by their bras. Singer and Grismajer also suggest that you simply stop wearing one for two weeks and see how you feel. By the way, I have heard that they are currently working on a new study. The research is to study whether benign fibrocystic breast disease can be treated by stopping bra-wearing for eight weeks. That should be very interesting; this time they are involving medical doctors, from what I've heard. Years ago, many people thought that the idea of cigarettes causing lung cancer was funny. Even if further research with highly controlled studies only shows a difference of 5-fold, or even 2-fold, it will be no laughing matter.
January 1996 Bras can cause breast cancer? by Tedd Koren, D.C. Yes, I laughed too. In fact, I thought it was a joke when I first heard it. Bras can cause breast cancer? Give me a break. But "Dressed to Kill, The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras" by Singer and Grismaijer (New York: Avery Publishing Group, 1995) is no joke. The authors, with backgrounds in anthropology, biochemistry and medicine, behavioral science, ecology and environmental health are very serious. One of them (Grismaijer) developed a breast tumor and that's what inspired their research. Their findings raise some very intriguing questions. It was undoubtedly due to the unique educational backgrounds of the authors that they began looking at the connection between dress and health. The authors are medical anthropologists and they've developed a completely new specialty. "Every branch of science has its own point of view about the world and about the correct method for conducting research. We have employed a new research approach for understanding breast cancer: applied medical anthropology... We try to find the biological consequences of certain cultural practices. We refer to the disease caused by culture as culturogenic diseases. Heart disease, for example, is predominantly a culturogenic disease because it is produced by certain lifestyles, particularly those bearing high stress, a poor diet and minimal exercise." (p.ix) Singer and Grismaijer looked at their subjects' culture (Western civilization) as anthropologists would as if they were studying a remote tribe. They took nothing for granted, including their subjects' dress. They wondered about that contraption that Western women often wear: the brassiere, a piece of clothing unique to their culture. That there is a cultural connection to disease is nothing new. For example, Japanese women have one of the lowest breast cancer rates in the world. When Japanese women come to the U.S. they still have low breast cancer rates. But their children and grandchildren have incidence rates that approach those of American-born Caucasian women. As the authors state: "This evidence suggests that the place where a woman lives -- the natural environment and/or the human (cultural) environment -- rather than heredity, is a major player in this disease." (p.45) Is the lower breast cancer because Japanese women who come to the U.S. continue their native dress habits? Their daughters and granddaughters who adopt Western style dress begin to have breast cancer rates of their bra wearing co-Americans? Is it because of bra use? How can wearing a bra cause cancer? The answer according to Singer and Grismaijer is that bras alter the breasts' anatomy and physiology, particularly affecting the lymphatic circulation causing lymphatic constriction. What is lymphatic constriction? As we know, our lymphatic system is our drainage system. Our cells are constantly dumping unwanted products, toxins, cellular debris and fluids into lymphatic vessels that travel throughout our body. Although some of the waste is taken up by the capillaries, most waste enters the lymphatic vessels which, because they have no heart or muscles in their walls to move the fluid along, depend on body movement for circulation. The lymphatic vessels ultimately drain into our heart and from there the lymphatic products enter our kidneys, liver and lungs for detoxification, cleaning and excretion. Without our lymphatic drainage system, we'd back up with fluid and literally explode! But what if there were a chronic long-term mild impairment of lymphatic function? The kind that bras are known to cause? The lymph vessels would close or be constricted and lymph would not properly drain. The arteries, veins and capillaries would remain open so the tissues would be nourished, but due to the lymph buildup, cleansing and oxygenation of tissues would be less effective. Toxins would then accumulate, poisoning the cells. "The poorly drained tissue is bathed in toxins and its own waste, and sees little in the way of nutrients and oxygen from the bloodstream. After years of this, cancer -- the ultimate form of tissue degeneration -- could result." (p.51) Are women's breasts chronically lymph constricted? Are women suffering from a buildup of lymph in their breasts due to bra use? The evidence builds when the authors quote Vicki Selzer's "Every Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer" which states that approximately 90% of all women in the United States will experience a breast cancer scare by discovering a breast lump during their lifetime. A large majority of these lumps will be benign, consisting of lymph filled sacs. Why do childless women have a higher incidence of breast cancer than women who have had children? The authors see the bra-lymphatic connection here. "With pregnancy comes a greater blood supply to the breast and greater lymphatic drainage of the tissue. The breasts of childless women do not have a chance to undergo full development --development that includes their lymphatic system. Given their underdeveloped drainage system, it follows that constriction of the breasts with a bra could cause even greater damage, further compromising an already limited drainage system. Women who have not breast fed also have a greater incidence of breast cancer, possibly because of this same mechanism." (p.55). The authors conducted original research of their own, the Bra and Breast Cancer (BBC) Study, wherein they examined the history, attitudes, and behaviors of women with and without breast cancer in five major cities in the United States. The authors interviewed over 4,700 women between 1991 and 1993 to test their bra-breast cancer link theory. "When we tested this theory the findings were astounding. The connection of bras to breast cancer proved greater than our original expectations. And the implications of our research go far beyond breast cancer." (p.3). How about other constricted garments? Under the heading "Victims of Fashion" other articles of clothing implicated in health problems are examined: shoes ("feet were not designed to be enclosed in an airless, snug, stiff case"), briefs ("the use of briefs has been implicated in male infertility because this type of underwear holds the testicles close to the body, not allowing them to cool properly") and panties with nylon crotches ("associated with yeast infections"). True to the authors' backgrounds, the material in this book includes fascinating historical information on the history of garments designed to make the female figure more appealing to males including corsets and girdles, as well as brassieres. Of course the link between breast cancer and bras is the most serious disease to be tied to the wearing of tight or constricted clothing. It is a serious subject and deserves serious consideration. As the authors say, "If you still think the connection between bras and breast cancer is funny, perhaps it's time to examine your own cultural prejudices." Our own cultural prejudices, conditioned by society's attitudes towards beauty and fashion do not take health into consideration at all. Perhaps it's time we did. I think the following words from Singer and Grismaijer best sum up their thesis: "We believe that we have found a trigger for breast cancer. It is a trigger that is pulled by women themselves -- but the gun is loaded by society... We understand that, on first blush, the wearing of bras being linked to cancer is an easy target for humor... All we ask is that the facts in this book be judged fairly. Nothing more, nothing less." (p.xv). ("Dressed to Kill, The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras" by Singer and Grismaijer is available from Koren Publications and costs $11.95, plus shipping and handling. To order call 1-800-537-3001.) © Copyright The Chiropractic Journal	Breast Cancer: A Pinch of Cancer Can Wearing a Bra Kill You? by William Thomas If you didn't burn yours in the 'Sixties, you might want to put it away now. "Bras cause breast cancer. It's open and shut," says medical researcher Syd Singer. The Singers became breast cancer sleuths in 1991. On the day Soma discovered a lump in her breast, the husband-wife team was studying the effects of Western medicine on Fijians. In the shower, Syd noticed that Soma's shoulders and breasts were outlined by dark red grooves. He remembered a puzzled Fijian woman asking his wife about her brassiere: "Doesn't it feel tight?" "You get used to it," Soma had replied. Could bras be constricting breast tissue, Syd wondered, hampering lymph drainage and causing degeneration? Soma decided to stop wearing hers. But when Syd searched the medical literature he found no known causes of breast cancer, which rarely appears before a woman's mid-thirties, most often after 40. The highest death rates from breast cancer are in North America and northern Europe, with the developing world catching up fast. The World Health Organization calls chemical toxins the primary cause of cancer. But poisons accumulating in breast tissue are normally flushed by clear lymph fluid into large clusters of lymph nodes nestling in the armpits and upper chest. The Singers found that "because lymphatic vessels are very thin, they are extremely sensitive to pressure and are easily compressed." Chronic minimal pressure on the breasts can cause lymph valves and vessels to close. "Less oxygen and fewer nutrients are delivered to the cells, while waste products are not flushed away," the Singers noted. After 15 or 20 years of bra-constricted lymph drainage, cancer can result. Looking at other cultures, Soma and Syd were struck by the low incidence of breast cancer in poorer nations awash in pesticides dumped by northern nations. They didn't find peasant women wearing push-up bras. Instead, they discovered that the Maoris of New Zealand integrated into white culture have the same rate of breast cancer, while Australia's marginalized aboriginals have virtually no breast cancer. The same trend held for "Westernized" Japanese, Fijians and other bra-converted cultures. In Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras, the researchers also observed that just before a woman begins her period, estrogen floods her system, causing her breasts to swell. If she continues wearing the same bra size, life-saving lymphatics will be even more tightly squished. Had they found the "estrogen link" to breast cancer? Childless women never fully develop their breast-cleansing lymphatic system. Nor do women who have never breast-fed. Working women who wear bras everyday and postpone having children could be at higher risk, the Singers warn. Even worse, a young woman's coming of age is often "marked" by her first bra. Like the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding, "breast-binding" at puberty can eventually lead to severe medical complications. Could bras be the "missing link" in a growing epidemic of breast cancer? Beginning in May, 1991, Soma and Syd Singer's 30-month "Bra and Breast Cancer" study interviewed some 4,000 women in five major US cities. All were Caucasian of mostly "medium income" ranging in age from 30 to 79. Half had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Almost all of the women interviewed were unhappy with the size or shape of their breasts. Women who chose a bra for appearance, ignoring soreness and swelling, had twice the rate of breast cancer of those who did not. But the most startling statistic was that three out of four women who wore their daytime bras to sleep contracted breast cancer. So did one out seven women strapped into a bra more than 12 hours a day. Bra-free women have just a one in 168 chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer, says Singer. The same as bra-free men. "Don't sleep in your bra!" Syd Singer pleads. "Women who want to avoid breast cancer should wear a bra for the shortest period of time possible -- certainly for less than 12 hours daily." Syd also submits that some 80% of bra-wearers who experience lumps, cysts and tenderness will see those symptoms vanish, "within a month of getting rid of the bra." Not everyone is ready to hang up her halter. As one woman told the team, "My tits will sag all the way to my navel without a bra." But Surgeon Christine Haycock at the New Jersey College of Medicine says that inherited traits -- not ligaments or breast size -- are the reason some breasts give in to gravity. Bouncing bosoms help clear the lymphatics. Well aware that their findings were "explosive," the Singers sent their survey results to the heads of America's most prestigious cancer organizations and institutes. None responded. Like the cancer business, the bra business is huge. Multiply how many worldwide women buy several $25 bras every year and you end up with a multiple of the $6 billion-a-year US bra business. Syd Singer says that establishment censorship of the bra-breast cancer connection is killing women. Pointing to the biggest commonality among breast cancer patients, he's emphatic that it's bra-squeezed lymphatics. Going bra-less for all occasions, Soma began dressing to de-emphasize her breasts. She also began regular breast massage and bicycle riding, vitamin and herbal supplementation, and drinking only purified water. Two months later, her lump disappeared. At the first frightening sign of a lump, an angry Syd Singer says, "women should take their bras off before they take their breasts off." Why wait, when you can liberate your lymphatics now. IF YOU MUST WEAR A BRA: Push-up and sports bras are out. Choose loose-fitting cotton bras. Make sure you can slip two fingers under the shoulder-straps and side-panels. The higher the side-panels, the more severe the restriction of major lymph nodes. Don't wear this disastrous device to sleep. Take it off at home. Massage your breasts every time you remove your bra. Sing your lymphatics into health -- or at least breathe deeply.