A NEW STUDY REVEALS...WEEK 8TV Linked to Cancer? - "An environmental medicine specialist called yesterday for an inquiry into a possible link between a 'cancer cluster' and a TV transmitter." The Guardian, 30th March, 1992 School Loses Its Marbles - The Headmistress of Hillside Country First School has banned marbles in the playgrounds "because she believes they are too dangerous". There are "Fears that glass marbles could shed tiny shards and could cut or blind a child. No such accidents have occurred at the school but teachers have been concerned for some time. "We decided that, before it became too dangerous, maybe it was time to call it a day." The Times, 18th November, 1993 Doctors Call for Stricter Control Over Dogs as Public Health Risk Rises - "Man's best friend can be one of his worse enemies when it comes to ill-health and accidents, and much tougher controls are needed for dogs, according to doctors at Manchester University." Financial Times, 4th September, 1984 The Noble Art of Brain Damage - "A serious health warning should be attached to boxing as to cigarettes." The Times 9th May, 1986 The Dangers of Cycling - "There must be few of us who have not seen the ill effects of over-exertion on a bycicle. It can produce dilation of the heart which shows the great strain put on it and can be very difficult to cure" The Sunday Telegraph, 23rd June, 1991, and British Medical Journal The Dangers of Intercourse - "[In women] the side-to-side movement of the pelvis produces unnecessary strain on the back and loins and also friction against the sensitive external genitals and may lead to bruising, excoriations and other effects on the sexual system which we need not to paricularize." The Sunday Telegraph, 23rd June, 1991 Rice and Women - "Eat rice. Have faith in women. Our dairy diet reflects and reinforces our cosmology, our politics. It is as though we could say 'eating rice is faith in women." Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory, Polity Press, 1990 Cancer in Electric Blankets? - "Cancer experts are planning the first nationwide investigation into links between electric blankets, home computers, pylons and childhood tumours." The Observer, 1990 Drugs Conference to Debate Disability of Ban - "Doctors and academics at an international alcohol conference are to debate calls for a world-wide ban on alcohol. The 36th Congress on Alcohol and Drug Dependency, which opened yesterday in Glasgow, will discuss whether a total ban on alcohol is a realistic or medically worthwhile goal." The independent, 18th August, 1992 The Dangers of Dental Fillings - "...Frightening diseases of unknown aetiology should be part of the picture. An American researcher obligingly claimed that dental amalgams could cause Alzheimer's disease." Form 1994 BBC Panorama: "The Poison in Your Mouth"
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