Educational videos and tips on environmental estrogens and breast cancer

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Not sure if this belongs in health or environment or science forum? Also an environmental education tool that talks about what goes down the drain or into landfills.

Summary here, and it links to the videos; video pages link to the science behind the summaries.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June08/bcerfVideos.sl.html

Tips at the end of this article:

* Avoiding cosmetics and personal-care products with parabens, placenta extracts and benzophenomes or other ultraviolet screens that are estrogen mimics.

* Avoiding hard-plastic sports bottles that have been scratched or heated (including those left in hot cars or on the beach), because heat and wear and tear can cause estrogenic chemicals to leach out from the plastic into beverages.

* Using stainless-steel containers instead.

* Never microwaving food or liquids in plastic containers.

* Recycling cell phones and other electronic devices and rechargeable batteries to keep estrogenic heavy metals from leaching into the environment.

* Using biodegradable detergents that use plant- or vegetable-based surfactants, since these types of ingredients don't form estrogenic chemicals that can contaminate the environment.