Re: glyoxal v. formaldehyde

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> NOT alt related, but lately there have been a number of people whom I know or 
> know of who have gotten brain tumors at comparatively young ages--been 
> perfectly healthy and then presto, numb arm or sudden headache, brain tumor 
> diagnosis, dead within 3 wk or 3 months.  I think it is cell phones.  No, 
> seriously, it is weird and it is easy to think it is more prevalent nowadays 
> and why? But then I look at these books:  Mutter Museum Historic Medical 
> Photography and A Morning's Work by Burns.  Both have lots of alt prints in 
> them, honest!  But the images are of medical conditions that make Joel Peter 
> Witkin's work look contrived.  The neat thing about them is that the Mutter
Chris, a local weekly had an article some months ago by a fellow who sets 
about proving that cell phones do cause brain tumors... He makes a case 
that the risk has been dismissed too readily... That's one I don't worry 
about since I barely can tolerate a landline, let alone a cell... but the 
article was backed up with statistics and did seem knowledgeable.

And what about autism?  Maybe that's caused by radio waves, too... ?

J.



> book has a bunch of photos in it of conditions that were pre-surgery and 
> then the after surgery pic is also shown so at least in some instances 
> there is a modicum of hope (Anyone into large mammaries, btw, should see 
> the picture of the woman with hypertrophy of the breast--the combined 
> weight of both was 60 some pounds!  She, too, had them removed.  BTW, 
> they grew in 3 years!!! It puts this day and age of implants into 
> perspective.)
>
> I got onto this track because someone on this list recommended Max 
> Aguilera-Hellweg's Sacred Heart book, which is worth buying used..Gorgeous 
> color surgery photos taken with a 4x5 that do not leave one's memory.
> Chris