[grc] Heartland Radio Stories This week

[Charlie Knower]

HEARTLAND STORIES:CYNTHIA BARSTOW, FOUNDER OF PROTECT OUR BREASTS
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Heartland Stories
<http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Heartland+Stories&>  Cynthia
Barstow, founder of Protect Our Breasts
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Charlie Knower <http://audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=2580&>
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Summary: Featured speakers/guests:
For Cynthia Barstow, Senior Lecturer of Marketing at Amherst Isenberg
School at the University of Massachusetts and Founder and Executive
Director of Protect Our Breasts, the fight against breast cancer is
personal. In 2010, a routine mammogram led to her own breast cancer
diagnosis"something faced by nearly 300,000 women each year. As her
treatment began, so did a deep dive into breast cancer research, especially
what causes the disease. Tune in to learn more about:

" Her personal story of going through breast cancer and how the idea for
her organization was born;

" The window of susceptibility, the period of developmental stages when a
woman may be most vulnerable to environmental exposures, starting from the
womb all through puberty;

" Protect Our Breasts, an organization with 53 chapters in the USA, Canada,
UK and India that empowers women to make safer choices to protect their
breasts during the most vulnerable periods of their lives, and shares the
conversation about chemicals in everyday products found on grocery shelves;

" Why packaging is as important as the ingredients when it comes to toxins,
as they can leak into the product;

" The endocrine system explained;

" How 85,000 synthetic chemicals have been introduced into the environment
and only 7% have been tested for effects on human health;

" How men can get breast cancer as well;

Cynthias a-ha moment that its younger women (up through their first
full-term pregnancy) who are most susceptible to harmful chemicals and
carcinogens that can lead to breast cancer later in life lead her to burst
into tears. Every day looking out on the sea of faces of those that I
teach, those women were the ones that were susceptible. They were going
through life believing it was their mother and their grandmother and their
aunts, but it was them. She realized that getting information to younger
women about positive choices they could make to steer clear from certain
ingredients in everyday products was more important than ever.

To learn more about her work and Protect Our Breasts go to:
https://protectourbreasts.org/.  Cynthia Barstow
Notes: Credits:
Heartland Stories Radio is a weekly 29-minute radio show that is also
available as a podcast, sponsored initially by the Heartland Study, a non
profit research project dedicated to protecting the health of pregnant
women and their babies. Each show engages listeners on the issues and
challenges in food, farming and global health. While the team is in the
Heartland, where much food is produced, our issues and interviews are with
change makers, influentials and everyday people from all over the globe. We
present solid information about what we all can do together to assure a
healthy and just food system for the 21st century.
Episodes are available on Audioport. Search for Heartland Stories or follow
this link:
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Heartland+Stories
Or on our Podcast page:
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  Host, Theresa Marquez
Topics
Factory Farming | Organic Farming | Food and Nutrition

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