Another Month Another Disease

Well, it's National Celebrities Who Have Breast Cancer Month, so we're all being reminded about how important it is to have a mammogram each year. Or, as I call it, the yearly Tits In A Ringer X-Ray.

While the money it costs to pay for those mammograms makes the manufacturers of those torture machines richer every October, along with the doctors that can't wait to slam your breasts into them -- there are a few other things you can do to help prevent breast cancer besides getting a mammogram.

Stop smoking for starters. Quit taking birth control pills or popping HRT if you've been loading up on either one of those horse hormones for more than five years. Of course, if you're smoking AND doing the pill, it's only a matter of time, but you're definitely getting the Big C. Might as well reserve a room at the hospital. 

While we're coming up with things you can do, nurse your babies. Nursing hormones offer protection against breast cancer for your mammary glands. The longer you breastfeed, the better. Use 'em or lose 'em.

Cheryl Crow is our most recent poster girl for breast cancer.  She's skinny enough to be one of those women who smokes instead of eats. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she doesn't. However, I'll bet she's been doing birth control for a couple of decades. You can pay a high price for being horny.

The cancer society never gives out the stats on the percentage of women who get breast cancer each year who were taking birth control or HRT.  I wonder how much the pharmaceutical companies are donating to them to keep their mouths shut? 

It's also Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Disease of Women Who Think He'll Change. But you'd never know it, considering the lack of coverage. No celebrities like to admit they've been pummeled by a partner. And the media are only interested in ordinary people after you've been punched around until you're dead.

Okay, my yearly rant is over. Don't say I didn't warn you.