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DDT Pesticides found in Chinese Green Tea.

DDT In Your Green Tea?

Frances Cerra Whittelsey, In These Times

August 8, 2000

 

Hope Nemiroff thought she was living the healthiest lifestyle possible. After

being diagnosed with cancer in 1995 and having a tiny tumor removed from

her breast, she had changed her ways. She walked. She went for hypnosis

and did yoga to help reduce her stress levels. She switched to a mostly

organic, vegetable-based diet. She drank a dozen cups of green tea every day.

 

Determined to learn everything she could about her disease, Nemiroff, now

58, also became president of the Mid-Hudson Breast Health Action Project,

an advocacy group in New York. Impressed by her efforts, her oncologist

hired her to help with a study of the relationship between DDT and breast

cancer. Although she was not a subject of the study, Nemiroff says, " I got

curious. I wanted to see what [the blood] of somebody like me would look

like who was living a healthy lifestyle. " Her blood, it turned out, contained

traces of DDT. And when she later investigated what part of her diet might

be contaminated with the pesticide, the answer jolted her. A laboratory

analysis found DDT in her green tea.

 

for the full story:

http://www.purefood.org/Organic/greentea.cfm

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