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Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:54:33 -0500

WC Douglass

Goop science

 

Daily Dose

 

July 15, 2003

 

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Suspect screen

 

According to the Chicken Littles I introduced you to in the

last Daily Dose, dermatologists are " worried because their

skin cancer patients are younger and younger when first

diagnosed. "

 

This leads me to ask: If they are " younger and younger, " and

the use of skin protection goops has grown enormously, then

doesn't that mean they have received less sun exposure than

their less protected parents?

 

" I've been in practice 17 years, " says Dr. David J. Goldberg,

who practices at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York

City. " Seventeen years ago, I saw people in their 50s. Now, I

see fair-complected (sic) women in their 30s. " Since these

women are probably dousing themselves with more sunscreen

than their moms did, because of the incessant propaganda

about " sun-causes-cancer " from the sunscreen companies and

the doctors, maybe there is some link between the screens and

the increase in skin cancer. Let me reword that: are the skin

screens causing skin cancer?

 

Let's look at this from another angle. If children are

getting skin cancer (specifically melanoma) 20 years sooner

than their parents, then they have had much less exposure to

the sun from the point of view of time. So then, how can the

sun be blamed for the increase? Is the treatment causing the

disease? Is INSUFFICIENT sunlight the cause? All cancers,

including melanoma, are more common in the northern

latitudes, which receive much less sun.

 

My advice to you: Forget the anti-sun propaganda. Have a nice

day at the beach, don't get sunburned, wear your Bikini - and

that cute hat if you want to.

 

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Is seeing believing? Maybe not...

 

It's a commonly held belief in the medical establishment that

showing people the effects of their bad habits will help them

to quit engaging in the risky behaviors - that information

alone can change people's lifestyle. But I, for one, don't

buy it...

 

After all, seeing an ever-increasing number of obese American

men and women waddling past the window doesn't seem to make

us shun those shakes, fries, and McNuggets, does it? Uh-uh.

 

And does showing our middle- and high-school students

photographs of black, smoke-damaged lungs in health class

keep them from picking up the smokes? I don't think so.

 

Also, has all this talk of condoms over the last decade

stopped the spread of sexually transmitted diseases - seeing

as how an estimated one in four adults will end up infected?

Nope.

 

It's the same story for 40-something adults at risk for heart

disease, a new study suggests. Here's what I mean: There's a

new test in town that's suddenly all the rage among heart

doctors called the EBT (electron beam tomography) - and

apparently, it can detect tiny calcium deposits in the

arteries that signal an increased risk of heart disease later

in life. This should be good news, shouldn't it? People could

find out if they're at risk and change their lifestyles in

plenty of time to make a difference, right?

 

Wrong. Apparently, even the most negative projections based

on this hyper-accurate new scan fall on deaf ears. A recent

study of 450 adults between 39 and 45 who'd had EBT performed

reported no significant changes in lifestyle or habits a full

year later - even when the test had shown significant

calcification that indicates an increased risk for heart

disease!

 

But wait - this mass complacency IS good news! Why? Because

if people were all of a sudden swayed in large numbers by

this new test (which, like drugs, is now marketed directly to

consumers), they'd ask their doctors " What should I do? "

 

And then those doctors would tell them all the wrong things:

Eat less animal fat and protein, eat more grains and sugary

fruits, give up the coffee and guzzle water from dawn to

dusk, start running marathons and bench-pressing Buicks...

 

Then they'd REALLY be at risk for heart trouble.

 

A sun worshipper forever,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

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