Asbestos Stomach Cancer

Fast food represents a major health cost to society. This decade, under serious legal pressure, the McDonald’s corporation agreed to:

+ Include healthier food items.
+ Provide more nutritional information about fat and calories.
+ Stop supersizing.
+ Warn customers not to eat in their restaurants more than once each week.

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Is it enough? If we treated a cheeseburger or french fries like a pack of cigarettes:

– there would be no advertising,
– there would be a health warning,
– the food would be taxed excessively, and
– if you were under the age of 18, you could not buy it.

But seriously, the fast food industry may face the same types of lawsuits that the asbestos manufacturers and tobacco manufacturers faced. How can we as a society deal with the huge cost burden of fat and out-of-shape people?

Is a french fry like a cigarette?

What are your thoughts?

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Were there any type of compensation offered from a company or the government?
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My roof is being replaced and all the shingles have to be torn off and disposed of. I learned that the shingles all contain asbestos (old house), and my wife is pregnant. How much should I worry? What should I know, or where should I go to ask.

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Mesothelioma has been called “a death sentence in powdered form” and a “silent death sentence”. This is because the damage that asbestos and other mesothelioma-related agents often silently wreak havoc on the body for years, sometimes decades before any physical indications of the disease are apparent. It is for this reason that mesothelioma symptoms, the silent killer has become known as a disease from which recovery is virtually impossible.

Yet, major advances in detection and treatment are beginning to commute the death sentence to a lesser charge. According to Dr. Harvey Pass, professor of cardiothoracic surgery and director of the division of thoracic surgery and oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center and its NYU Cancer Institute former chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation and winner of the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s 2008 Pioneer Award, “mesothelioma is still laughing at us but it is starting to look over its shoulder”.

According to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) current treatment options for patients diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer of the lung or pleura are limited to resection (surgical removal of a part), chemotherapy or both and that future research could help to develop therapeutic methods to interfere with the development of asbestos-induced lung and pleural disorders to cause the disorders to regress once they are established But more aggressive treatments and early detection strategies are adding years to the lives of individuals exposed to asbestos.

Although there is, to date, no actual cured for mesothelioma more and more individuals are realizing longer lives due to the aggressive pursuit of the medical community in regard to research.

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so im doing some remodeling and i was removing the painted popcorn ceiling in my 1971 home…when after i removed about a third of it and was covered in dust did i stop to think about asbestos. i took a sample to the lab, and it tested 2% positive of chrysotile and 98% non fibrous material. what should i do now and should i be worried???

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I have heard of people who worked with this stuff for life and never had a problem and I have also herad the opposite. I may need to have 16′ of the stuff removed.