cancer/diet poll

[MerlinsHope]

chlorine is NOT one of the least causes of cancer

You're absolutely wrong about that one.

Just because the EPA has not classified chlorine as to its human carcinogenicity, does not mean there are no links to cancer -

In the chlorination process itself, chlorine naturally combines with natural available organic matter decaying vegetation to form potent cancer causing trihalomethanes (THM’s) and/or haloforms. This is a well known dangerous process and the EPA has been cautioned of this since 1920.

The amount of THM's is apparently 'regulated" by the EPA, although the maximum amount allowed by law is 100 ppb, a 1976 study showed 31 of 112 municipal water systems exceeded this limit. IN 1986 the EPA itself issued a guideline that if one lives in an area with chlorinated water, NOT to drink it.

I can't believe what I'm reading here. Right now one of the leading causes of cancer in women is chlorine.
Anyways, let's agree to disagree on that one. Keep drinking chlorinated water then!

Here's a good read.
Breast Cancer and Chlorine Fact Sheet
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site...XLdPaE&b=84502