Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago

Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by AskewEgret on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:43PM (#15760432)

Nanoparticles. They irritate your lungs in ways that are very similar to asbestos irritation. And of course, it's your body's reaction to the irritation that kills you.

Example: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b01873

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Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by copperx on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:14PM (#15762472)

So I'm assuming that includes zinc oxide sunscreen, which is touted as the "least harmful sunscreen" there is.

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Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by vanderZwan on Thursday November 23, 2017 @05:39AM (#15764202)

Well, that a cream, not dust. So is more of a skin issue, so then the question there is whether it penetrates the skin and turns out to do stuff to the tissue underneath.

I guess that the problem with a lot of these things is that we don't have good (enough?) predictive models for long-term damage.

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Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by KozmoNau7 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @06:51AM (#15764459)

I sure hope not, as it's the only type of sunscreen that really works for me.

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Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by copperx on Thursday November 23, 2017 @09:20PM (#15769060)

Do you get burned when using other sunscreens?

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Re:Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link ... by KozmoNau7 on Friday November 24, 2017 @03:41AM (#15770126)

I have to use at least SPF 50, and if I'm out in the sun all day, even that is definitely reaching its limits, I need the physical sunscreen as well.

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