{"id":309,"date":"2009-12-10T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-12-10T23:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:18:33","slug":"cancer-from-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Cancer from the Kitchen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Nicholas D. Kristof, NEW YORK TIMES, December 5, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/amazonview_img_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"amazon view_img_0\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/amazonview_img_0_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"amazon view_img_0\" width=\"94\" height=\"119\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleInline\">\n<div id=\"inlineBox\">\n<div>But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast cancer in the United States has less to do with insurance or mammograms and more to do with contaminants in our water or air &#8212; or in certain plastic containers in our kitchens? What if the surge in asthma and childhood leukemia reflect, in part, the poisons we impose upon ourselves? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/opinion\/06kristof.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This column in the Times by Nichols Kristof, introduces us to endocrine disruptors, chemicals that are involved in almost everything we use and are suspected of causing a wide range of diseases, including cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}