They also found that this chemical alteration was passed on to the unborn fetus. A recent study showed that adolescent girls eating high fat diets containing mostly of hormone-ridden meat and dairy, had increased levels of sex hormones in their blood which have been related to breast cancer in adults. (Women's Health Weekly) .
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Worldwide there are reports of declining sperm counts and reduced rates in births of male babies. Without the capacity to reproduce, a species ceases to exist. Extinction is forever: a .
species loss has never been reversed. (Sherman 2) .
It's always been easy to say that it's our fault for getting cancer, that we were smokers or we drank a lot or ate the wrong things. But what about the people getting and dying from cancer that are the healthiest people you know? Many women, after seeing their grandmothers and mothers suffer and die from the disease, try everything to prevent it. Exercise, diet, spiritual practice, yoga and meditation to name a few, only to still be diagnosed. .
Terry Tempest Williams, an ecologist and wildlife researcher, tells a story of her Utah family, whom she labels "a clan of one-breasted women." Ms. Williams contrasts the life-affirming awareness of the Great Salt Lake wildlife refuge against the erosion-of being, as cancer takes away the women in her family: her mother, her grandmothers, and six aunts. (Sherman 4) She writes, " I cannot prove that my mother Diane Dixon Tempest, or my grandmothers, Lettie Romney Dixon and Kathryn Blackett Tempest, along with my aunts, developed cancer from nuclear fallout in Utah. But I can't prove that they didn't." (Williams 358) September 7th 1957 when Ms. Willliams was a little girl she sat on her pregnant mothers lap as they drove past a golden-stemmed mushroom cloud that made the sky vibrate with an eerie pink glow. Minutes later, a light ash was raining on the car.
