Pure Prevention: Resources and Links

Resources and Links

For a complete guide to the environmental factors linked to breast cancer, read the Breast Cancer Fund's State of the Evidence.
Use your voice through the Breast Cancer Fund's Action Center to let legislators and corporations know that our health is a priority.

Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between
plastics and breast cancer.
NRDC provides a guide to tissue and toilet paper products for the home.
The Chlorine Free Products Association offers a guide to chlorine free office paper.
Learn more about green cleaning products from the EPA.
Download the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Plastics Guide.
Vassar College’s Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer, a program dedicated to examining the evidence around the environmental factors in breast cancer, presents practical suggestions for lessening our exposures.

Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between pesticides and breast cancer.
Food News puts out a useful organic produce guide.
To learn more about healthier meat and dairy, visit the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Smart Meat and Dairy Guide.
Tamiya King writes about preventing cancer through diet and nutrition in her 2005 article by the same name.
Jessica Fraser exposes the risks associated with eating red meat.

Breast Cancer Fund’s fact sheet on the connection between cosmetics and breast cancer.
Visit Skin Deep, an online database of over 25,000 cosmetics and personal care products cross-referenced against 50 toxicity databases. Look up the safety scores of products you use.
Download “Unmasked: 10 Ugly Truths Behind the Myth of Cosmetic Safety,” a brochure from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, at www.breastcancerfund.org/unmasked.

Wendy Bumgardner writes about the benefits of a brisk walk.
Read more about how walking can reduce your risk of breast cancer in this American Cancer Society article.