Yes it does.

Although some food additives are generally considered safe, avoiding the 5 major food chemical groups listed above will help you promote better health today. Eating high quality whole foods sourced organically and locally is one of the best ways you can limit your exposure to many environmental toxins.

Eating a healthy diet is critical to living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle and reducing your exposure to toxins. Organic produced foods are more likely to have fewer toxins because their soil is healthier and natural pesticide strategies are used. The following tips are other strategies you should consider to preventing disease from developing in your body:

• Drink purified water and install a shower and/or bathtub water filter
• Avoid chemical cleaning products
• Eliminate the use of synthetic fragrances on your body (cologne, perfume) and around your home (candles, incense, air fresheners, aromatic plug-ins)
• Avoid GMOs in food
• Eat only wild caught seafood and organic animal products from 100% grass-fed sources
• Increase the time you spend outdoors and open windows in home when possible
• Use non toxic cookware such as glass and cast-iron.
• You can find more details from the following report:
• https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/materials/cancer_and_the_environment_508.pdf
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• Syed Talha Tirmizi

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Yes: there is an increase of cancer risk. Note that ca. 70% of cancers are of environmental/epigenetic and life style origin (less than 20% have a genetic etiology). But, there is no “a” toxin (out of many Thousands). It depends on the art of chemical/ toxin, its dose at exposure, duration co-exposure. Especially vulnerable populations may have higher risks than other groups.

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Remember the Doctrine of the 16th. century Swiss physician, Paracelsus:-

"All substances are harmful. There are none that are not, but it is the dose that distinguishes between poison and remedy"

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Chris Ide

Thank you for you scholarly contributions.

One evident example as my answer:

Carcinogenicity of outdoor air pollution and particulate matter

In 2013 International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified outdoor air pollution and particulate matter (PM) from outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic to humans (IARC Group 1) based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and experimental animals and strong mechanistic evidence.

Exposure to outdoor air pollution was estimated to have contributed 223 000 premature deaths from lung cancer per year worldwide (about 15% of all deaths from lung cancer).

(IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Vol. 109, Lyon France 2016)

Interesting, can you please cite your source?

Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Vol. 109, Lyon France 2016

well done.

Dear Eleonora, Not only cancer, but also many other Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for the deaths called by pollution. NCDs account for 72% of all deaths globally and this proportion is growing. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2818%2930020-2

www.thelancet.com/planetary-health Vol 2 March 2018

see also:

GBD 2015

"Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.Lancet. 2016; 388: 1459-1544"

Interesting contribution which other variables?

Dear Lygia, You are right but I have tried to answer Olatunji's question which relates cancer.

WHO: pollution of air, water and soil with carcinogenic chemicals contributes to the cancer burden to differing degrees depending on the geographical settings. Outdoor air pollution is classified as carcinogenic, or cancer-causing, for humans. It has been estimated that outdoor air pollution contributed to 3.2 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012 including more than 200,000 lung cancer deaths. Additionally, over 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels, 6% of these deaths are from lung cancer. Indoor air pollution from coal fires doubles the risk of lung cancer, particularly among non-smoking women. Exposure to carcinogens also occurs via the contamination of food, such as aflatoxins or dioxins.

See:

http://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Scientific-Publications/Air-Pollution-And-Cancer-2013

https://www.who.int/cancer/prevention/en/

The capability of cancer Development is due to body deficiency. Cancer is either stimilated or accelerated by external environmental factors.

Cancer is an extremely complex disease, not easy to control, and one about which there is insufficient knowledge in terms of etiology. To provide a solid scientific basis for cancer prevention, it is necessary to increase our knowledge about cancer etiology.

Yes . The most of environmental contaminants such as heavy metals and persistant organic pollutant are conceregenic and may could be inplicated in cancer.