Underwire Bras

DanC said:
Here's another 'Health Risk Link"...
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Let us not forget looking at the CNN tower 'optical Illusion' thread when your wife walks in the room.:smash:
 
"Wrist watches causes skin cancer!?"

In the old days when they use radioactive material on a watch to cause it to glow at night, it did cause stuff. I met a watchmaker who had something from it.
 
morriefisher said:
"Wrist watches causes skin cancer!?"

In the old days when they use radioactive material on a watch to cause it to glow at night, it did cause stuff. I met a watchmaker who had something from it.
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Cheese, Louise. And it just goes on. :doh:

The radioactive material used to make watches glow is a substance called tritium. Tritium emits beta particles, a low energy particle which is almost completely absorbed by the watch itself or the crystal over the watch face.

A person wearing a tritium watch for an entire year, without taking it off while bathing or sleeping, would receive an approximate dose of radiation of 4 microsieverts.

For comparison, a person taking a single cross-continental airplane trip would receive a dose of 10-15 microsieverts.

The typical dose a human gets by simply being alive on the planet earth for one year is 2100 microsieverts.

It would be exceedingly difficult to make a case that the watch does anything, with so much other more powerful radiation all around us.
 
A watchmaker my have ingested a quantity of tritium over a career. Morrie said he had 'something' from it. Could have been glowing nosehair.
 
Who needs a nightlight when a glowing nosehair would illuminate your path?
 
'It would be exceedingly difficult to make a case that the watch does anything, with so much other more powerful radiation all around us.'

I said in the old days. That's not today......

If you did your research, & not assumed otherwise, you would have found that they used radium.

Even so, Kolb and Frame both avoid one type of radioactive antique—and startlingly, it's the one the rest of us are most likely to own. "I shy away from anything that contains radium," Kolb tells me. "In most cases, radium is not fixed in a way that eliminates the risk of contamination or ingestion." And where would Joe Public find that radium today? Simple: in old watches. "There were probably 100 million watches made in the U.S. alone during the era of radium dials," Oak Ridge's Paul Frame says. "There's so many of these things."
http://www.slate.com/id/2168398/pagenum/all/
 
we're all going to die. we spend so much time worrying about elongating our lives, we miss a lot of the stuff that makes life worth living. i say we stop worrying so much about it and just appreciate what we've got.

up with bras!
up with watches!
up with mcdonald's!
up with SUVs!
up with optical illusions!

LOL
 
DanC said:
How'd we get back to push up bras?
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I was reading thru the posts thinking "what does this have to do with underwire bras....?" How do we get so off path?
 
Thirty years of Ob/Gyn work experience/training, and, the answer is simple....no, underwire bras DO NOT cause breast cancer. Genetics, environmental factors, diet, chemical infusions......a few breast cancer causing factors. Do your monthly breast checks, get your yearly mammograph and Gyni check up, watch your diet. Helps out a lot. ;)
 
precocious said:
I've heard if you wear a push up bra....it limits eye contact.:hmmmm2:
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You know, I noticed that when I was in management. Every time I had to get something signed off, I would wear my push up bra and my low cut dress. Never had a problem!:bigok:
 
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