A serving is the amount you can hold in the palm of your hand. If organic produce is too expensive or not easily available, still make vegetables and fruits a larger part of your diet as we work to eliminate pesticides and reduce the prices of organics. Avoid pesticide use at home and find out if pesticides are being used in and around your school. Pest control doesn't have to be toxic and some cities such as San Francisco are eliminating pesticide use in schools. Talk to your teacher and principal about writing Governor Davis asking him to make schools safer with a law that will ban pesticide use in and around schools.
More research is needed to find out what preventable exposures increase breast cancer risk.
We are beginning to learn about the connection between diet and breast cancer, but we need to study the effects of other environmental exposures as well. Many of the 70,000 chemicals in our air, food, water and soil are deposited in our body's fatty tissue. Because breasts are mostly fat, they become targets for these chemicals, some of which can cause cancer in animals. We need scientific evidence of what toxic chemicals are present in women's breasts. This kind of research is called biomonitoring.