If you didn't burn yours in the 'Sixties, you might want to put
it away now. "Bras cause breast cancer. It's open and shut," says
medical researcher Syd Singer.
The Singers became breast cancer sleuths in 1991. On
the day Soma discovered a lump in her breast, the husband-wife team
was studying the effects of Western medicine on Fijians. In the shower,
Syd noticed that Soma's shoulders and breasts were outlined by dark
red grooves. He remembered a puzzled Fijian woman asking his wife
about her brassiere:
"Doesn't it feel tight?"
"You get used to it," Soma had replied.
Could bras be constricting breast tissue, Syd wondered,
hampering lymph
drainage and causing degeneration? Soma decided to stop wearing hers.
But when Syd searched the medical literature he found no known causes
of breast cancer, which rarely appears before a woman's mid-thirties,
most often after 40. The highest death rates from breast cancer are
in North America and northern Europe, with the developing world catching
up fast.
The World Health Organization calls chemical toxins
the primary cause of cancer. But poisons accumulating in breast tissue
are normally flushed by clear lymph fluid into large clusters of lymph
nodes nestling in the armpits and upper chest. The Singers found that
"because lymphatic vessels are very thin, they are extremely sensitive
to pressure and are easily compressed." Chronic minimal pressure on
the breasts can cause lymph valves and vessels to close.
"Less oxygen and fewer nutrients are delivered to the
cells, while waste products are not flushed away," the Singers noted.
After 15 or 20 years of bra-constricted lymph drainage, cancer can
result.
Looking at other cultures, Soma and Syd were struck
by the low incidence of breast cancer in poorer nations awash in pesticides
dumped by northern nations. They didn't find peasant women wearing
push-up bras. Instead, they discovered that the Maoris of New Zealand
integrated into white culture have the same rate of breast cancer,
while Australia's marginalized aboriginals have virtually no breast
cancer. The same trend held for "Westernized" Japanese, Fijians and
other bra-converted cultures.
In Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and
Bras, the researchers also observed that just before a woman begins
her period, estrogen floods her system, causing her breasts to swell.
If she continues wearing the same bra size, life-saving lymphatics
will be even more tightly squished. Had they found the "estrogen link"
to breast cancer?
Childless women never fully develop their breast-cleansing
lymphatic system. Nor do women who have never breast-fed. Working
women who wear bras everyday and postpone having children could be
at higher risk, the Singers warn.
Even worse, a young woman's coming of age is often "marked"
by her first bra. Like the ancient Chinese practice of foot-binding,
"breast-binding" at puberty can eventually lead to severe medical
complications.
Could bras be the "missing link" in a growing epidemic
of breast cancer? Beginning in May, 1991, Soma and Syd Singer's 30-month
"Bra and Breast Cancer" study interviewed some 4,000 women in five
major US cities. All were Caucasian of mostly "medium income" ranging
in age from 30 to 79. Half had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Almost all of the women interviewed were unhappy with
the size or shape of their breasts. Women who chose a bra for appearance,
ignoring soreness and swelling, had twice the rate of breast cancer
of those who did not.
But the most startling statistic was that three out
of four women who wore their daytime bras to sleep contracted breast
cancer. So did one out seven women strapped into a bra more than 12
hours a day. Bra-free women have just a one in 168 chance of being
diagnosed with breast cancer, says Singer. The same as bra-free men.
"Don't sleep in your bra!" Syd Singer pleads. "Women
who want to avoid breast cancer should wear a bra for the shortest
period of time possible -- certainly for less than 12 hours daily."
Syd also submits that some 80% of bra-wearers who experience
lumps, cysts and tenderness will see those symptoms vanish, "within
a month of getting rid of the bra."
Not everyone is ready to hang up her halter. As one
woman told the team, "My tits will sag all the way to my navel without
a bra." But Surgeon Christine Haycock at the New Jersey College of
Medicine says that inherited traits -- not ligaments or breast size
-- are the reason some breasts give in to gravity. Bouncing bosoms
help clear the lymphatics.
Well aware that their findings were "explosive," the
Singers sent their survey results to the heads of America's most prestigious
cancer organizations and institutes. None responded. Like the cancer
business, the bra business is huge. Multiply how many worldwide women
buy several $25 bras every year and you end up with a multiple of
the $6 billion-a-year US bra business.
Syd Singer says that establishment censorship of the
bra-breast cancer connection is killing women. Pointing to the biggest
commonality among breast cancer patients, he's emphatic that it's
bra-squeezed lymphatics.
Going bra-less for all occasions, Soma began dressing
to de-emphasize her breasts. She also began regular breast massage
and bicycle riding, vitamin and herbal supplementation, and drinking
only purified water.
Two months later, her lump disappeared.
At the first frightening sign of a lump, an angry Syd
Singer says, "women should take their bras off before they take their
breasts off." Why wait,when you can liberate your lymphatics now.
IF YOU MUST WEAR A BRA:
Push-up and sports bras are out. Choose loose-fitting
cotton bras. Make sure you can slip two fingers under the shoulder-straps
and side-panels. The higher the side-panels, the more severe the restriction
of major lymph nodes. Don't wear this disastrous device to sleep.
Take it off at home. Massage yourbreasts every time you remove your
bra. Sing your lymphatics into health -- or at least breathe deeply.
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