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http://phys.org/news/2013-03-cancer-biologists-dna-damaging-toxins-common.html

Apparently cancer researchers have discovered many plant based products damage cell DNA.

So, that's awesome. Who doesn't love cancer? Fuck.

Honestly, if I avoided everything that they've found to possibly cause cancer, I'd either starve, or die of dehydration. So fuck 'em.

Gared said:

Honestly, if I avoided everything that they've found to possibly cause cancer, I'd either starve, or die of dehydration. So fuck 'em.

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Heck, if I avoided everything that causes cancer, I'd suffocate first.

Screw it. Enjoy life, and don't worry too much about these things.

bhamv3 said:

Heck, if I avoided everything that causes cancer, I'd suffocate first.

Screw it. Enjoy life, and don't worry too much about these things.

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That's true, isn't it? You'd have to live in an ultra-pure bubble house to avoid all of the toxins currently in the air we breathe.

So first coffee helps prevent cancer. Now it causes it too. Hmm. Sounds like it all cancels out to me!

I hear if you eat food you'll die eventually.

Shawnacy said:

I hear if you eat food you'll die eventually.

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I hear that (aside from that old saw, the dihydrogen monoxide poisoning gag), even clean water in too high a dose can kill you.

I don't know what the current state of research is, but what I last read was that Vitamin C helps prevent cancer... unless you take too much of it, at which point it's correlated with higher cancer rates. (I think the study was inconclusive on if it caused the cancer, or just made other cancer-causing agents to be more effective, or something like that.)

Gared said:

I hear that (aside from that old saw, the dihydrogen monoxide poisoning gag), even clean water in too high a dose can kill you.

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Ah yes, water intoxication. The cause of the death in the Hold your Wee for a Wii contest.