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Accutane Cancer

It has been discovered that Accutane is most likely responsible for causing major depression and could lead to suicide.

There has been a survey done after a young man committed suicide for no apparent reason. He was using Accutane at the time and after considerable research it was found that there was a link between the two. (CNN News)

" A physician came down with colon cancer which just wouldn't quit. He had his colon removed and it came back. After another operation it came back again and was fast growing. He decided he needed to find something to slow it down at least.

He discovered that Vitamins did help significantly. It slowed the growth down considerably: Vitamins A, B6, BComplex, C, D & E. Selenium and Folic Acid
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Excerpts of Pros and Cons about Canola Oil

Before you buy your next bottle of cooking oil... Recently I [a writer] bought a cooking oil that's new to our supermarkets, Canola Oil. I tried it because the label assured me it was lowest in "bad" fats. However, when I had used half the bottle, I concluded that the label told me surprisingly little else and I started to wonder: where does canola oil come from?

Olive oil comes from olives, peanut oil from peanuts, sunflower oil from sunflowers; but what is a canola? There was nothing on the label to enlighten me, which I thought odd. So, I did some investigating on the Internet. There are plenty of official Canola sites lauding this new "wonder" oil with all its low-fat health benefits. It takes a little longer to find sites that tell the less palatable details.....

Here are just a few facts everyone should know before buying anything containing canola. Canola is not the name of a natural plant but a made-up word, from the words "Canada" and "oil". Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in Canada from the Rapeseed Plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants.
Happy Frying,

30 Oct 2000 [Another writer], Canola is an edible oil made from either of two plants, Brassica napus and Bassica rapa. An industrial-type oil has been made from Brassica napus since about the 16th century. During World War II, Canadian plant breeders bred (NOT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED) these Brassica species to have different oil qualities, thus resulting in Canola.

All plants have chemicals, plants are basically chemical factories. Chemicals in other Brassica species (i.e., cabbage, broccoli, etc.) are even known to be cancer fighting. These are the same chemicals that the article said were poisonous. So you can't eat any plant without eating chemicals. The chemicals in mustard (Brassica) are what give it its taste, and again, these are the chemicals the article your read said are poisonous. And yes, these chemicals in high concentrations may inhibit growth of fungus and other organisms, and can be used for that purpose. All chemicals have beneficial and non-beneficial uses.

http://www.canola-council.org/ (click on nutrition and education, and the english) shows a chart showing the comparison of different dietary oils. [B]
             

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