Bully get the message: To This Day Project - Be mindful that actions have consequences

Published on Feb 19, 2013

Shane Koyczan "To This Day" http://www.tothisdayproject.com Help this message have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying. Please share generously.

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"My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

Schools and families are in desperate need of proper tools to confront this problem. This piece is a starting point." - Shane

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E-cigs Fast Growing Trend

This electronic-cigarette space is on fire - According to a Wells Fargo analysis of the e-cigarette market, it has found that it is a $300 million industry.  The CEO of Logic, one of the largest companies in the space, Eli Alelov is available for interview on e-cigs and the tremendous growth of the industry.

Logic e-cigarette has grown over 600 percent between 2011 and 2012, to 8 figures in annual revenue– and is a much safer alternative than classic, deadly tobacco.

There is a 2009 FDA study on e-cigs which is very outdated – and according to Alelov, the government hasn’t spent enough time researching the effects of electronic cigarettes. 

Alelov says the government should encourage Americans to try this new alternative rather than regular tobacco.  They can also save on taxes – and any store can tell you e-cigs are flying off the shelves.

When a person takes a drag of an e-cigarette, a battery-powered metal coil inside heats a cartridge, vaporizing liquid nicotine within. The smoker exhales odorless water vapor.

The experience is intended to simulate the smoking of a regular cigarette, and e-cigarettes also do not produce the kind of noxious smell that tobacco does. 



Smoking kills 400,000 Americans a year. 

 source:
E-cig Fast Growing Industry says Wells Fargo - Company CEO Available For Interview... - 

Alcohol said to have big role in cancer deaths

[ Note:  My experience and what I've read about other MS'ers, is that alcohol does more harm than good ... if you have balance problems, they will be much worse under the influence of alcohol, as one instance of alcohol compoundoing your problems... ]

A study released Thursday by the American Journal of Public Health found:
Total deaths: Alcohol use accounts for 3.5 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths, or between 18,000 and 21,000 deaths a year.

Lost years: About 18 years of potential life are lost per cancer death. That means a person who died at age 60 from alcohol-related cancer would have otherwise probably lived to 78.

Number of drinks: The majority of alcohol-related cancer deaths occurred among those who drank more than three alcoholic beverages a day, but about 30 percent occurred in those who drank less than 1.5 drinks a day.

Even moderate alcohol use may substantially raise the risk of dying from cancer, according to a study released Thursday offering the first comprehensive update of alcohol-related cancer deaths in decades. 



"Alcohol has been known to be related to causing cancer for a long period of time. 

We talk about cancer prevention, screenings and tests. This is one of those things that seems to be missing in plain sight." 


In 2009, 18,000 to 21,000 people in the United States died of alcohol-related cancers, from cancer of the liver to breast cancer and other types, the researchers said. 

That's more than the number of people in the United States who die every year of melanoma (9,000 in 2009) or ovarian cancer (14,000 in 2009).

How alcohol contributes to cancer is not fully understood, the study notes. 

Previous research has shown alcohol appears to work in different ways to increase cancer risk, such as affecting estrogen levels in women and acting as a solvent to help tobacco chemicals get into the digestive tract. 

The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is the first major analysis of alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in more than 30 years. 



Researchers said the lack of recent research on the subject may contribute to a lack of public awareness of cancer risks.


"People are well aware of other risks, like the impact of tobacco on cancer, and are not as aware alcohol plays quite a bit of a role," said Thomas Greenfield, one of the study's authors and scientific director of Public Health Institute's Alcohol Research Group in Emeryville.


Researchers examined seven types of cancers known to be linked to alcohol use: cancers of the mouth and pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast. 


To link the cancer to alcohol use, they relied on surveys of more than 220,000 adults, 2009 U.S. mortality data, and sales data on alcohol consumption. 

Breast cancer accounted for the most common alcohol-related cancer deaths among women, with alcohol contributing to 15 percent of all breast cancer deaths. 


Among men, cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus accounted for the most alcohol-linked cancer deaths. 

The study drew some criticism.   

The study failed to take into account several important factors, such as the pattern of drinking rather than just the amount of alcohol consumed. He said consuming small, consistent amounts of alcohol is much healthier than occasional binge drinking. 

"They're mixing alcohol abuse, which leads to all of these cancers as they've clearly shown, with the casual drinker, where the risk is very small," said co-director of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research and  professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine,  Dr. Curtis Ellison,
 

"Advice needs to be individualized," Klatsky said. "The advice one would give to 60-year-old man who has no problem with alcohol but is at high risk of heart disease due to family history is quite different than the advice we give to a 25-year-old woman whose mother died of breast cancer." 

The study's authors acknowledged alcohol can have health benefits but said alcohol causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents. 

There's no known safe level of drinking, they said. 

"The safest level for cancer prevention is that people don't expose themselves to any potential risk," said Nelson of the National Cancer Institute. 

"The bottom line means for people who choose to drink, their cancer risk will be lower if they drink lower amounts." 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Alcohol-said-to-have-big-role-in-cancer-4280659.php#ixzz2LETn4Jna

 Source:
Alcohol said to have big role in cancer - SFGate

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Alcohol-said-to-have-big-role-in-cancer-4280659.php

Alcohol said to have big role in cancer deaths

A study released Thursday by the American Journal of Public Health found:
Total deaths: Alcohol use accounts for 3.5 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths, or between 18,000 and 21,000 deaths a year.

Lost years: About 18 years of potential life are lost per cancer death. That means a person who died at age 60 from alcohol-related cancer would have otherwise probably lived to 78.

Number of drinks: The majority of alcohol-related cancer deaths occurred among those who drank more than three alcoholic beverages a day, but about 30 percent occurred in those who drank less than 1.5 drinks a day.

Even moderate alcohol use may substantially raise the risk of dying from cancer, according to a study released Thursday offering the first comprehensive update of alcohol-related cancer deaths in decades. 



"Alcohol has been known to be related to causing cancer for a long period of time. 

We talk about cancer prevention, screenings and tests. This is one of those things that seems to be missing in plain sight." 


In 2009, 18,000 to 21,000 people in the United States died of alcohol-related cancers, from cancer of the liver to breast cancer and other types, the researchers said. 

That's more than the number of people in the United States who die every year of melanoma (9,000 in 2009) or ovarian cancer (14,000 in 2009).

How alcohol contributes to cancer is not fully understood, the study notes. 

Previous research has shown alcohol appears to work in different ways to increase cancer risk, such as affecting estrogen levels in women and acting as a solvent to help tobacco chemicals get into the digestive tract. 

The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is the first major analysis of alcohol-attributable cancer deaths in more than 30 years. 



Researchers said the lack of recent research on the subject may contribute to a lack of public awareness of cancer risks.


"People are well aware of other risks, like the impact of tobacco on cancer, and are not as aware alcohol plays quite a bit of a role," said Thomas Greenfield, one of the study's authors and scientific director of Public Health Institute's Alcohol Research Group in Emeryville.


Researchers examined seven types of cancers known to be linked to alcohol use: cancers of the mouth and pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast. 


To link the cancer to alcohol use, they relied on surveys of more than 220,000 adults, 2009 U.S. mortality data, and sales data on alcohol consumption. 

Breast cancer accounted for the most common alcohol-related cancer deaths among women, with alcohol contributing to 15 percent of all breast cancer deaths. 


Among men, cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus accounted for the most alcohol-linked cancer deaths. 

The study drew some criticism. Dr. Curtis Ellison, professor of medicine and public health at Boston University School of Medicine, said the study failed to take into account several important factors, such as the pattern of drinking rather than just the amount of alcohol consumed. He said consuming small, consistent amounts of alcohol is much healthier than occasional binge drinking.
"They're mixing alcohol abuse, which leads to all of these cancers as they've clearly shown, with the casual drinker, where the risk is very small," said Ellison, also co-director of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research. 
 

"Advice needs to be individualized," Klatsky said. "The advice one would give to 60-year-old man who has no problem with alcohol but is at high risk of heart disease due to family history is quite different than the advice we give to a 25-year-old woman whose mother died of breast cancer." 

The study's authors acknowledged alcohol can have health benefits but said alcohol causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents. 

There's no known safe level of drinking, they said. 

"The safest level for cancer prevention is that people don't expose themselves to any potential risk," said Nelson of the National Cancer Institute. "The bottom line means for people who choose to drink, their cancer risk will be lower if they drink lower amounts." 

 

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Alcohol-said-to-have-big-role-in-cancer-4280659.php#ixzz2LETn4Jna

 Source:
Alcohol said to have big role in cancer - SFGate

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Alcohol-said-to-have-big-role-in-cancer-4280659.php

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