{"id":2328,"date":"2015-06-16T21:03:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2015-06-16T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:03:55","slug":"ddt-linked-to-fourfold-increase-in-breast-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/ddt-linked-to-fourfold-increase-in-breast-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"DDT Linked to Fourfold Increase in Breast Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nearly everyone in the 1950s and 1960s was exposed to the pesticide, and its use continues in Africa. Three generations of women are involved in the research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/06\/15616-breast-cancer-ddt-pesticide-environment\">DDT Linked to Fourfold Increase in Breast Cancer Risk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text0:0\">Women who were exposed to the pesticide during the 1950s and 1960s are just now reaching the age of heightened breast cancer risk.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text1:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".r0.1:4:1:$comment10204629754248010_10204630011334437:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text2:0\">&#8220;Everyone born during those years was exposed to DDT, so it&#8217;s possible that on the population level, DDT could be driving quite a lot of breast cancer risk,&#8221; says Julia Brody, executive director of the Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit research group studying breast cancer and the environment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly everyone in the 1950s and 1960s was exposed to the pesticide, and its use continues in Africa. Three generations of women are involved in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}