The Dangers of Talcum Powder

The Dangers of Talcum Powder
Talcum powder has been connected with fibroids and some risk of cancer. ShutterStock
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What role does diet and baby powder play in the development of fibroids and ovarian cancer? 
If you randomly select a group of women and ultrasound their uterus, most of them have fibroid tumors by age 50and by most, I mean more than 80 percent of black women and nearly 70 percent of white women. As you can see at 0:23 in my video Talcum Powder and Fibroids, half of the white women in study already had fibroids by their early 40s, while half of the African-American women had them even early, by their mid-30s. 
Michael Greger
Michael Greger
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Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, appeared on “The Dr. Oz Show” and “The Colbert Report,” and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous “meat defamation” trial. This article was originally published on NutritionFacts.org
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