The Checkup: Birth Control Pill Linked to Prostate Cancer
Yes, you read that right.
• Here’s a health outcome I’m sure nobody saw coming: Researchers in Toronto think that birth control pills that women take might be increasing rates of prostate cancer among men. The connection’s this: women on birth control secrete estrogen in their urine, so it enters the water supply. And low levels of estrogen have been shown to cause cancer, particularly prostate cancer. So … voila? CBS News has more.
• Thank you, MSNBC’s Body Odd blog, for this headline: “Right-handed people don’t care about reggae.” Checks out with me. How about you?
• Oh, Congress. Why must you insist that our kids be fat? And for the record, no, tomato paste is not a vegetable.
