Breast Cancer and Environment Links
- For a complete guide to the environmental factors linked to breast cancer, read the Breast Cancer Fund's State of the Evidence.
- Use your voice through the Breast Cancer Fund's Action Center to let legislators and corporations know that our health is a priority.
Healthy Home Links
- Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between
plastics and breast cancer.
- NRDC provides a guide to tissue and toilet paper products for the home.
- The Chlorine Free Products Association offers a guide to chlorine free office paper.
- Learn more about green cleaning products from the EPA.
- Download the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Plastics Guide.
- Vassar College’s Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer, a program dedicated to examining the evidence around the environmental factors in breast cancer, presents practical suggestions for lessening our exposures.
Eat Smart Links
- Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between pesticides and breast cancer.
- Food News puts out a useful organic produce guide.
- To learn more about healthier meat and dairy, visit the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Meat and Dairy Guide.
- Tamiya King writes about preventing cancer through diet and nutrition in her 2005 article by the same name.
- Jessica Fraser exposes the risks associated with eating red meat.
Safe Cosmetics Links
- Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between cosmetics and breast cancer.
- Visit Skin Deep, an online database of over 25,000 cosmetics and personal care products cross-referenced against 50 toxicity databases. Look up the safety scores of products you use.
- Download “Unmasked: 10 Ugly Truths Behind the Myth of Cosmetic Safety,” a brochure from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, at www.breastcancerfund.org/unmasked.
Get Outside Links
- Wendy Bumgardner writes about the benefits of a brisk walk.
- Read more about how walking can reduce your risk of breast cancer in this American Cancer Society article.
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