colon cancer

For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.

Although the addition of folic acid to cereal grains, flours, pasta and rice was orginally thought to have reduced the chances of getting colon cancer, scientists now claim that it may be a contributing factor to the rise in cases each year.