For someone who does her own research she shares a lot of stuff without looking into it. Take this statement that drinking chlorinated water increases your chance of getting cancer by 93%. Firstly, the source of the post is a one Dr (holistic of course) James Huang who, as you can tell from the second screenshot is a bit of a religious nutter (who also has a whole section on miracles). As for the source of the quote it is from a report from the US Council of Environmental Quality. However this report is from 5 studies conducted from 1978-1980. The findings were that chlorinated water increased the likelihood of rectal cancer by a RANGE of 13-93% and colon/bladder cancer by 53% with the caveat "The odds of getting cancer shown in the 5 reports are small by traditional epidemiological standards and could be produced by a moderate degree of confounding which could go undetected". Later studies found 20-40% increase in colon/rectal cancer and 38% increase in bladder cancer.
However the IARC say it is "neither a carcinogen nor a possible carcinogen".
This is because chlorination disinfection by-products (DBPs), are classed as a possible carcinogen. DBPs are found mostly in rural areas where the runoff from fertiliser fields is used as drinking water, or from runnoff where chlorine is used in an industrial process.
Guess where the first 5 studies were conducted, in a rural area where the drinking water was from runoff.
The claim has been repeated and distorted, primarily by water filter sellers (follow the money).
She shares things for shock value without any sort of 'research', it took me longer to type this than find the background for myself.
Sorry to lower the tone of some fantastic insightful responses to her new beginnings bullshit but I’m not that eloquent so I will sum up in 5 words “What a pair of cunts”
