Murphy’s Believe it Or Not

“Artificial Growth Horomones Harm

Humans?”By Callie Dacyczyn

Do Artificial Growth Hormones Effect Medicine Working?

• Yes, The growth hormone rBGH, found in most dairy products can increase antibiotic resistance when consumed.

• The hormone causes udder infection which is then treated with the antibiotics, which end up in the by-products.

• The more humans consume antibiotics, the more likely their body gets used to antibiotics and the less effective they are.

• The less antibiotics work the more diseases we can’t cure

Do They Cause Cancer?

• Yes, Dairy cows that are injected with the hormone rBGH tend to create milk with higher levels of IGF-1, which increases the potential of cancer.

• 30% of cancer is hormone-related.• The most common and serious cancers

caused by hormone related deficiencies which are breast, prostate, ovary, testis, and thyroid cancer.

Do They Cause Early Maturity?

• Growth hormones cause humans and animals to mature faster.

• It can cause early puberty. • In the late 1970 the U.S. banned (DES) which

was known to cause cancer. They sent the remains to Puerto Rico. After thousands of children reached puberty as young as two, caused by the (DES) they consumed in their meat products

Is Wikipedia Helpful? Or Confusing?

• I found it confusing, I couldn’t find any information on Artificial Growth Hormones.

-http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/8/3232-.http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?ID=1913&type=document

-http://www.foodservicewarehouse.com/education/health-safety/growth-hormones.aspx-www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/dairy/no-rbgh

-http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/8/3232

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