to NOT be getting hysterical about this?

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Just had a (well meaning, im sure) text message from a friend saying "don;t know if you buy Heinz Banana Biscotti (baby) but there is some chemical in them thought to cause cancer!! Have thrown DDs away! 13 foods found with it, including X,Y and Z!"

Now, this message was sent from the same friend who freaked out about sausages claiming one sausage a day WILL give you cancer and WILL kill you.

I messaged back that I dont buy these products anyways, but to be honest, if they were actually proven to cause cancer, then shops wouldn;t sell them. And that if we avoided all the "could be linked to cancer" foods there would be nothing else safe to eat.

Should I be getting hysterical about this?

I know seem like the bad person here for responding in such a way, but quite honestly, it just seems like dramatics to me.

She responded with "Your risk". I'm sorry, but until I can actually FIND something newsworthy (which I cannot) then no, im not gooing to not buy a product just because random gossip or hysteria is once again linking some random product to cancer.

FFS.

You are being rational and sensible. Your friend is being a tad silly...

Was it in the Daily Fail by any chance?

www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum/chillout-room/99320-daily-mails-list-things-give-you-cancer.html

Apparently perrier water has the same cancer inducing properties

You are the rational one.

Unless the shops start recalling the product/stop selling it or the FSA are all over the news warning parents I wouldn't worry.

Yanbu gnocchi, she sounds a bit OTT. What you replied makes total sense to me. Is she a bit hysterical and dramatic in general?

If we avoided everything that supposedly gives us cancer we wouldn't have time to do anything else.

YANBU. Your friend is neurotic. ('Your risk'...wtf??)

I think the thing is if your diet is crammed full of "these things" instead of fresh food made from fresh ingredients then it will have a negative impact on your long term health. But no, YANBU to refuse to panick over every little thing.

Bon appetite

My Aunt advised be not to feed my children pickled foods (gherkins and the like) because they caused mouth cancer.

People are bonkers

I agree if you listened to everything that's supposed to harm you, you'd never eat a thing.

However I do choose to avoid the likes of aspartame and MSG. Aspartame is banned in a lot of places and is due to be assessed here next year (or the year after, can't remember)

I research my own beliefs though, I don't read the Daily Mail then decide I won't drink water or something ridiculous.

Yes, Ariel very OTT about such matters overall.

I have said that I understand she wants to do the best for her DD and asked where she has read this information, as I would like to read more into it. You are right, Dances , Daily Mail - via a link on someone else's Facebook wall.

I have scoured the DM website and can't find any hint of such a story.

She has just texted back and said she has linked it on her FB page.

Im going to have a read, and will link it here, if you care to join me.

Link

Arf - the bloody article was written 20th April!!!

Gnocci send her the above link and watch her brain explode.

Then mention that the internet's on the list.

Sorry - meant this one, not yours!

www.oldskoolanthemz.com/forum/chillout-room/99320-daily-mails-list-things-give-you-cancer.html

You probably shouldn't show her this list or else she'll never eat or drink anything ever again.

Its in McVitie's ginger nuts!! I would rather die than give them up

from Trills link...

"housework prevents cancer "

I can bet a fecking bloke wrote that one!

YANBU. I hate the hysterics associated with this sort of thing.

But YABU in thinking that if shops sell something there can't be anything bad about it.

Ive posted the DM What Gives You Cancer link on her FB wall and written a very long text back.

But YABU in thinking that if shops sell something there can't be anything bad about it.

I don't think this in such general terms (cigarettes, booze etc) but I genuinely believe that if there was a proven link to cancer in a specific Heinz baby product the FSA would either demand a recipe rethink or ban it from stores.

Gnocchi it almost (I might be wrong) sounds like the sort of superior parenting where she thinks everything she does is better than others, I'm guessing that cos of her response of 'your risk'. As if you are being a bad mum for not listening to her waffle about the risks of banana biscotti.

Ha bet everyone is having a laugh at the links on her facebook

Didn't that list have Facebook as a named carcinogenic, Gnocchi? Tell her it's on there, regardless.

FAcebook causes cancer (Daily Mail link

Hahah, I shall tell her no more Facebook for her!!

She is very PFB. Very.

Yet there are things I wouldn't dream of doing that she does, so I am content with the fact that nobody's perfect.

I am also a 'bad wife' because I don't make my DH a packed lunch for work or have his tea on the table for him getting in from work.

V funny.