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Sister Ann Marie,
As much as I agree with your lamentation, I assure you and the millions of other African women out there that the black beautiful skin of our sisters glows in the hearts of many of us. We accept and love those of our sisters with naturally given lighter skins but in no way does this ever debase the value and love of our Black skin. Remember the late Godfather of Soul, James Brown, say it loud "We are black and proud".
Thomas Adeetuk
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From: Ann Marie Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:32 pm
Subject: Re: Bleaching causes diabetes, hypertension, cancer
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> Unfortunately, this is a problem found all over Africa. It is
> propagated in
> women mostly by our men's preferences for lighter skinned women.
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> > Bleaching causes diabetes, hypertension, cancer
> >
> > http://www.tribune.com.ng/13042007/hlt1.html
> >
> > Good skin requires good body
> > cream, but not cream with
> > bleaching agents.
> >
> > Skin lightening appears to be a common practice among dark-skinned
> people
> > all over the world. *Shola Adekola*, however, reports that there are
> > dangers attached to the use of these skin-lightening products.
> >
> > IN Nigeria in the early 1970s, it was not common to see people using
> > bleaching cream products as people then were proud of their colour
> hence,
> > the adage, 'black is beautiful'.
> >
> > Nigerians at that time took proper care of their colour which they
> > believed was given them by almighty God who has a purpose for
> creating every
> > being in the particular colour such a person has been created. For
> whatever
> > purpose, God decided to create some people white, while others dark
> skinned
> > and He saw that what He created was beautiful.
> >
> > Prior to now, it was an abomination to find an average Nigerian woman
> > bleaching as such a person would be regarded as an irresponsible
> and an
> > ungrateful entity. For such a woman, getting married was almost impossible
> > as the woman was regarded as a cheap and wayward woman who would
> end up
> > doing anything to maintain her artificial colour.
> >
> > During the period, it was a taboo seeing a man bleaching because
> such a
> > man was then regarded as an outcast and a lazy man who cannot
> maintain his
> > home. Unfortunately, the strict adherence to culture and religious
> beliefs
> > on body preservation has been eroded almost completely under the
> guise of
> > civilisation and has made bleaching to be part of fashion that is not
> > restricted to a particular class in the society.
> >
> > A visit to rural and urban areas in Nigeria today can attest to
> this as
> > bleaching has become a common phenomenon that has eaten so deep
> into the
> > fabric of the society.
> >
> > It has also been discovered that some of these people, based on too
> much
> > usage of bleaching products, had their melanin damaged, hence
> resulting in
> > skin cancer. For such people, danger awaits them as it has been discovered
> > that the use of skin bleaching products can be risky.
> >
> > According to a survey carried out by some doctors in France and led
> by Dr
> > Antoine Petit of the St Louis hospital, Paris, it has been
> discovered that
> > complications from the use of skin-lightening products are a
> serious problem
> > for men and women of African descent.
> >
> > In the study, comprising a group of 46 people, Dr Petit and his team
> > identified two blacks with insufficient adrenal gland function that
> they
> > said was likely to be due to the use of a product called clobetasol
> which
> > has already been declared illegal in France.
> >
> > Others, according to the research, had hyperpigmentation, stretch marks,
> > skin atrophy (degeneration) and injections that could have been
> related to
> > the use of skin-lightening products which many reported being
> unable to stop
> > using even though they wanted to.
> >
> > Dr Petit and his team had earlier written in the journal of the American
> > Academy of Dermatology that: "This particular feature of skin
> lightening is
> > akin to addictive behaviour, sometimes associated with real psychological
> > suffering. "To investigate, Petit and his colleagues examined 46
> patients of
> > African descent who had changes in their skin that could have been
> due to
> > the use of skin-lightening products.
> >
> > The result of the investigation pointed out that the examined
> patients had
> > excessive darkening of the skin on the finger joints, atrophy of
> the skin,
> > stretch marks and injections.
> >
> > Twenty-five men and women in the study admitted using skin-lightening
> > products, 12 said they were attempting to stop using the products,
> seven
> > said they had used them in the past but no longer did, while two
> said they
> > had never used the products.
> >
> > Skin lightening appears to be a common practice among dark-skinned
> > individuals worldwide and has been linked to side effects ranging from
> > disfiguring scurrying to system wide health problems, the
> researchers noted.
> >
> > All people who admitted to lightening their skin said they had used
> at
> > least two products in combination, containing glucocorticoids (use
> of which
> > could lead to diabetes and high blood pressure), hydroquinone or clobetasol.
> >
> > Nine people referred to skin lightening as a true drug while many others,
> > according to the investigation, have high blood pressure and
> diabetes. The
> > researchers attributed two cases of adrenal insufficiency to the
> use of
> > clobetasol even as they noted that people in the study used up to
> 480 grams
> > weekly, while 50grams weekly is enough to affect adrenal gland function.
> >
> > Scores of women, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune confirmed that they
> > engage in skin bleaching to add to their beauty since men often prefer
> > light-skinned women to their dark-skinned counterparts.
> >
> > Some of them even said they bleach their skin to clear off some
> spots on
> > their skin, while some others engage in it just to enable them
> belong to a
> > class.
> >
> > Based on the extent to which the act had been imbibed by the
> society, it
> > is no longer strange to see men and women going about with "Fanta
> face" and
> > "Coca-Cola" body. "Following this research, there is an urgent need
> to
> > educate dark-skinned people on the nature and side effects of these
> products
> > used for skin lightening, especially clobetasol.
> >
> > The height of it all is that the victim often suffers from skin diseases
> > like cancer laced with unpleasant odour oozing from their body.
> Some even
> > lose their lives during emergency period when surgery can not be performed
> > on them.
> >
> > At this juncture, government should step up serious campaign
> against the
> > use of bleaching products through the National Agency for Food, Drug
> > Administration and Control (NAFDAC) or even come up with a law
> purposely to
> > deal with any erring person.
> >
> > To corroborate the position of Dr Petit and his team, a Nigerian medical
> > practitioner, Dr Bolaji Ladunni of Careway Hospital at No 14, Oorelope
> > Street, Egbeda, Lagos in an interview with *Your Health,* confirmed
> that
> > those who engage in the act of bleaching, particularly women do so
> with the
> > aim of looking more beautiful.
> >
> > According to him, such people knowingly or unknowingly end up making
> > themselves ugly by the time the bleaching products destroy their God-given
> > skins.
> >
> > Dr Ladunni further stated that from investigations that the
> constant use
> > of bleaching products make the skin thinner and so vulnerable to any
> > problem.
> >
> > Dr. Ladunni cited emergency situations when medical practitioners
> find it
> > tough to perform surgery or treat people that had been using bleaching
> > products as their skins would have been so delicate and any attempt
> to
> > handle such skins always becomes frustrated.
> >
> > He cited how such skins at times often resist stitches with most getting
> > torn with any little touch. People with such skins suffer in times
> of
> > accidents as their wound take longer time to heal.
> >
> > He, however, advised people to be contented with the colour God
> gave them.
> >
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