Women of the world, rejoice! Apparently, the Pill can cut your risk of developing cancer by 12 per cent.Then notices the fine print:
But what is this? Actually, this is only the case if you take it for less than eight years. Take it for more than 12, and your chance of getting cancer is actually increased by 22 per cent. Which is quite something.It means that all those women who have taken the Pill from the age of 18 through to their 30s - and there are a lot of them, believe me - are upping their chances of developing cancer by almost a quarter.
Enjoyed this observation, too:
Thank goodness I only took it for a brief time in my early twenties. It was during this spell that I realised how the Pill works as a contraceptive: it makes you so moody that your boyfriend no longer wants to sleep with you.
My body changed radically and it did so quickly. But then it would do, wouldn't it, because I was willingly pumping it full of manufactured hormones.
Right. I'm always amazed at the lengths people will go to keep chemicals out of their diet but still take the pill: we wash our daily estrogen tablets down with a gulp of range-free, hormone-free, organic raw milk. Someone oughta start marketing NFP as organic family planning.
But anyway, she makes the point, with respect to the pill & cancer, so all I have to supply is the tag line: who cares? It's only women.
