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[Nightshade]

Something from the news I found interesting...

Pill use 'may cut risk of cancer'

Using the contraceptive pill cuts the overall risk of a woman developing cancer, research suggests.
Any increased risk of breast and cervix cancer linked to pill use appears to be cancelled out by long-term protection from other cancers.

However, the British Medical Journal study found using the pill for more than eight years was associated with an increased overall risk of cancer.

The University of Aberdeen analysed data from a 36-year study.

The study began in 1968, and updates on the women's health were provided every six months by their GPs.

Even if women eventually moved to a new GP the researchers were able to obtain details of whether they developed cancer, or died from NHS central registries.

The researchers found that the risk of...
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[Bakiryu]

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Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Ladies, I have just found out to get perfectly smooth elbows and soft knees. Anyone interested? (Mine are not scaly anymore!)


Bakiryu, tell us please.

Ok-pokey!

I was playing around with some moisturizers and such when i found some shea butter anti-stretch mark cream. I decided to see what it did if i put it on my arms and legs (I'm crazy like that). I fell asleep and when I woke up: My elbows were pink! They have been gray since before third grade but now they are as soft as a babe's and so are my legs!

You can find this at Walmart for under 3$, it comes in a medium sized tub ( fist sized) and its yellow. It's awesome, it made my stretch marks fade too!

[SleepyWitch]

hey that's cool Baki. what do you mean by grey elbows? mine are like the skin of a chicken, is that what you mean? I'll definitely try that shea butter thingy

[Shalot]

Something from the news I found interesting...

That was pretty interesting. I think I read somewhere that women who don't have children and/or have never been pregnant have a higher risk of developing breast cancer, and since the pill works by sort of tricking your body into thinking it's pregnant (sorry, I know that's awkwardly put but I am at a loss as to how to describe it) then that article makes sense.

I was always afraid of the pill because I smoked and didn't want to have a stroke. And then when I took it for a while, I thought I was having blood clots in my legs (I read the pamphlet and was convinced that the risks that they listed were happening to me ) so I stopped. One thing the pill did do was get rid of cramps.

[Bakiryu]

what do you mean by grey elbows?

When they're all dry and scaly and old-people looking (Sorry old people! No offense intended!)

I didn't know the pill could help with that, so if you don't take it, could you be at risk? and why so many women have breast cancer nowadays?

[motherhubbard]

breastfeeding reduces your risk of breast cancer. if you were breastfed as a baby for the first year your risk is reduced by about 25%. then the mother's risk is reduced over time, the more time you spend breastfeeding the greater your reduction. if you go seven years (that can be shared between all of your kids) then it would be a freek of nature to get breast cancer. It could of course still happen, but it is around .01% likely.

[Bakiryu]

What if you don't have any kids?

[motherhubbard]

well, that's why the risk is higher. But I know moms who breastfed their adopted babies. you don't have to have ever been pregnant to breastfeed.

[Shalot]

well, that's why the risk is higher. But I know moms who breastfed their adopted babies. you don't have to have ever been pregnant to breastfeed.

I thought you had to be pregnant in order to produce milk. i am so confused. someone inform me. I don't have kids and probably won't ever have kids of my own so i guess it's okay that I don't know this, but now I am curious. i always thought the pregnancy was directly related to lactation and i thought that if you're not pregnant you don't produce milk. I'm not trying to challenge the statement or anything--I literally do not know.

[Bakiryu]

Yeah, I agree with Shalot. Can you please explain Mhubbard?

[motherhubbard]

well, there is a relation between pregnancy and lactation, but you don't have to have ever been pregnant to lactate. it's about demand. if there is a consistent demand there will be milk. I was shocked when I learned about all of this too. I was a la leche league leader for a while and I had to learn all kinds of stuff. Did you know that there have been times when men have produced milk for their children. I guess if it's that or the baby starve to death- but I can't imagine my husband's hairy nipples doing the job

[Bakiryu]

Really? That's amazing!

hairy nipples

ew. Thanks for putting that image in my mind.

[motherhubbard]

love ain't always pretty!

[applepie]

I think you can also take some hormones that would simulate the end of pregnancy if you adopt a baby and wish to breastfeed. It is really amazing how the whole thing works.

[Bakiryu]

Doesn't breastfeeding make your breasts all saggy?