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.

Hahaha well I must be a total bitch of a wife then, my husband gets up at 5 for some shifts, no bloody way am I going to get up then to make his lunch. And I don't always make tea, despite being at home all day. And its never ready waiting for him!

I feel bad today though as he has been at work whilst I'm sat doing bugger all and having fun on here. Mind you surely being pregnant is an excuse

Tell your friend to go back to 1955, she'd be happier there!

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

To be fair this is actually true although I think it is stomach cancer that the risk is increased for but I think you would have to eat pickled food quite a bit to be at risk.

I did once ask if she was a Stepford Wife but apparently im odd for not realising that her DH earns the money then 'its her place' to do everything else.

needless to say we are not of one mind.

Oh God, every time I see my mum she's got at least one scare-mongering health clipping from the DM waiting to show me. I HATE it so much as I'm anxious by nature and stuff like that tends to play on my mind. :(

does your friend read the daily mail perchance?

oh darn, just read thread and seen that the link i was about to post has already been done

I have a friend who is generally fairly intelligent and sensible, and who is also a nurse.

BUT (and yes, it's a big but)... she buys the daily mail. for the health section

I have posted the link to Russel Howard on FB but I fear she may be in a grump with me as she has posted

:,(

Which looks like a sadface

YANBU, breathing air now days will kill you, lol

maybe she is sad because she knows she will die of all those things now?

although, to be fair the FSA is involved this time...

Tomatoes, milk and soy sauce all give you cancer too.

That actually looks like a snowman face.

Or a smoking face

If she is so concerned about what pfb eats , why is she feeding her sugary junk like that in the first place :s

Exactly. And she lets her 8mo dd sip diet coke out of her can.

Haha diet coke but no banana biscotti?

Actually I keep thinking the banana biscotti sounds really nice, is that wrong?

See, I hear 'biscotti' and I just think "call it a bloody biscuit!"

Haha very true. But I want some. And rusks, I love those things. Don't tell me they cause cancer too!