I'm going to bet my body on Pinot Noir.

Jim

On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Brenda Young wrote:

> Keith, it's late at night here, and I probably in not in the best  
> of mind-frame to address this, but I had to.  I agree with you...I  
> don't use any "Bens", either, if I can help it!!!  I am also  
> drinking chardonnary, so I AM hoping it will be decades for THAT  
> factor to come to light, lol.
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> Love,
> Bren
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> I have always avoided products (soaps etc) that contain benzene
> or benzene derivatives: any ingedient with "ben" in its name
> (like "benzoate", "paraben", "benzophenone", "benzyl" etc). I
> do this on palaeo grounds and also on my own understanding
> of science. That is, that benzene products are strong solvents
> which may act to dissolve the fatty membranes surrounding
> our cells.
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> Then I read recently about the rise in mouth cancers reported in
> the UK and the link from alcohol consumption. See this page,
> especially the blogged reader experiences:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8193639.stm
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> Alcohol is another strong solvent and so I can see how drenching
> our fatty cell membranes with a solvent could damage them,
> and that chronic repeated damage could become cancerous.
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> From a palaeo perspective, I note that environmental cancers
> take decades to develop, so alcohol consumption - even if
> it had fatal consequences over the long term - may have only
> negligible evolutionary consequences.
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> What are your thoughts on this?
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> Keith
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