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Spray on Tanning and Spray-on Suncreen may cause cancer

11/20/2009 in Health | 6 comments

Every time I go to a new gym, I become familiar with the resident “orangies” who are perpetually tan, most of them bordering on the orange spectrum.  For weight trainers like myself there is something to be said for being buff AND tan.  Spray on tans are by far the most common alternative to frying your skin in the cancer coffin on a regular basis.  I’ve tried the spray tan booth a few times myself and was hard pressed to avoid breathing in the spray.  Holding your breath for 15 seconds while being doused with dye.  I inevitably inhaled the stuff.

Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have conducted studies on nano particles found in paint, vitamins, tanning sprays, spray-on suncreens, cosmetics, toothpastes, etc.  Their focus especially was on titanium dioxide nanoparticles.  Results suggested that continual exposure whereby the nanoparticles were allowed to enter the body (through digestion or inhalation) caused cancer in mice.  They also suggested that the nanoparticles are not able to penetrate the skin, but upon entering the body, they are able to move around freely causing oxidative stress and cell death.

“It could be that a certain portion of spontaneous cancers are due to this exposure,” Schiestl said. “And some people could be more sensitive to nanoparticles exposure than others. “I believe the toxicity of these nanoparticles has not been studied enough.”

The studies warrant further research on the effects of nanoparticles on the body.  Until then, think twice when stepping into that tanning booth, spraying on the sunscreen or powdering your face.  You may be flirting with lung cancer.

Find out more at Science Daily.

What is really in Cool Whip?

11/17/2009 in Health | 1 comment

Foods like this never find their way into our home, but it is still fun to see what disgusting crap goes into “food” like Cool Whip .  This Thanksgiving, will you be eating food or “food”?

From Wired Science

Shroud of Turin replicated

10/08/2009 in Atheism And Religion | No comments

In the past year I can recall 3 conversations with Catholics where a debate about religion has resulted in them saying “well, how can you be an atheist when you have miracles like the Shroud of Turin?”  This happens when I succeed in asking a series of questions that blows down their reasons for believing.  It usually happens after the “well I just have Faith” excuse when logic fails them.

Previously Scientists have carbon dated the Shroud to 1260-1390 A.D.  Despite the unknown origin of the cloth and the scientific evidence dating it to the time period when it was “discovered”.

Italian scientist Garlaschelli successfully replicated the Shroud using materials that would have been available the middle ages.  Yet Garlaschelli doubts such evidence will convince Shroud advocates that the cloth is a hoax.

“If they don’t want to believe carbon dating done by some of the world’s best laboratories they certainly won’t believe me,” he said.1

Despite the Catholic Church’s stance that the Shroud of Turin is not authentic, many followers treat it as evidence of the god Jesus.