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Security guards face daily dangers because of their job as peacekeepers. However, there is another danger that security guards should be aware of, especially if their work requires a constant use of airport scanners.

If you are a security guard that works to protect the peace in your local airport, you would need to understand how your job could affect your health, too. By understanding these dangers, you will have a better chance of protecting yourself from the harms present in your job. This article will discuss how airport scanners could cause serious problems in the future.

Airport security guard jobs usually include the use of the airport scanners to detect any dangerous materials in the body of the passengers. In bigger airports, these scanners are able to do a full-body check. The scanning process would require the passenger to be exposed to a small amount of radioactive waves.

This type of wave can penetrate through clothing, so it helps the security personnel to detect harmful devices. As verified, being exposed to a small amount of radioactive waves is far from dangerous. However, as for the security guard who handles this job and the actual machine, the every day shift would include a dangerously high dosage of radioactive waves.

Recent studies indicate that this would increase ones chances of having skin cancer. Since your skin will be repeatedly exposed to the terahertz waves, or T-Waves, of the airport scanners, your cells might be altered. This would eventually lead to skin diseases, like the incurable cancer.

To lessen the effect of the T-Waves in your body, you would need to lessen your time near the airport scanners. As much as possible, you should stay away from the source of the waves. Although many security guard jobs require you to operate the scanners, you can prevent too much exposure by moving away from the inside part of the scanner where most of the T-Waves are generated. You can also wear thicker garments for extra protection.

Cancer is a terrible problem all around the World. For most people with cancer your lives will be an uphill battle. Therefore it is extremely important you try to have happy moments when you can. In this article we will talk about a few ways you can have these fun experiences that can help give you extra strength to overcome your obstacles.

The first way to have good experiences is to plan and go on vacation. If you are stuck in a bed you should plan your ultimate dream vacation. This will give you something to look forward to when all your treatment is done. For example I would choose somewhere warm to go because I like the way the sun makes me feel. So you would start out by trying to find a funny sunny place to visit. My favorite is the St George Utah Real Estate area. Here there is great hiking, Las Vegas nearby, fun people and more.

Once you have chosen your destination you can begin planning your activities. Choose activities that will be fun and promote a healthy lifestyle. Once your ultimate vacation is planned all you need to do is go on it. You will find that by planning and going on vacation you get the necessary break to overcome and obstacles.

A recent study from researchers in Sweden, has suggested a link between pancreatic cancer and eating too much processed meat.  The findings suggested that eating even an extra 50g of meat which has been processed would increase the risk of contracting this cancer by about 19%

Just for information that’s about the amount in a single sausage.  It should be highlighted though, that it is a relatively rare cancer and the chance is still low.  Of course as with all these studies the findings should be viewed with a little skepticism. Isolating the exact cause of any increased results is extremely difficult, in fact the World Cancer reserach Fund has suggested the link may actually be down to obesity rather than the consumption of the meat itself.

However there is already a suggested link between processed meat and bowel cancer.  The UK Government has updated it’s health recommendations in response to these and other studies – people should not eat more than 70g of meat every day.  The professor in charge of the study, Prof Susanna Larsson has informed the BBC that she realised these links were quite controversial.  So how much data was involved in these studies?  Well I checked online and via a couple of videos I was able to access using my BBC Iplayer proxy seemed to be 11 trials and around 6,643 pancreatic cancer patients.

It’s definitely worth considering this research carefully, especially as pancreatic cancer has a very poor survival rate.  But the chance still equates to about 1 in 77 chance for men and 1 in 79 for women for contracting this cancer during a lifetime.

Numerous studies in the last decade have linked ink to cancer.  Most recently a Swiss study actually found the ink printed on cereal boxes can be highly toxic.  Few question what seems to be a relatively harmless liquid that is literally intertwined with most aspects of daily life.

Sadly it’s true that ink can contain mineral oils that can pose serious health risks to humans.  Certain oils have very real links to issues like inflammation in internal organs, and even cancer directly.

Perhaps one of the most commonly overlooked inks is the type used in tattoos.  In less scrupulous tattoo parlors investigations have revealed chemicals in the ink, including toxic metals and compounds known to be potent skin carcinogens.  While the FDA has launched investigations into these concerns about ink safety, the more than 45 million Americans sporting tattoos these days seem unphased by the risks.  To be sure we’ll see studies in the near future that tie tattoos to cancer, and given the increase in te popularity of tattoos are likely to see the incidence of cancer rise even further.

Even seemingly harmless, empty ink cartridges pose a real risk to us all.  Each year millions of inkjet and laser printer cartridges find their way into landfills.  In these cases the ink is less of a concern than the actual plastic casing.  Plastics used in ink cartridges actual contain toxic oils which over time can leech into ground water, just one additional way our critical water sources come in contact with potential carcinogens.

While the research is indeed troubling, it’s an important step in highlighting the dangers that lurk all around us.  Thankfully recent studies have grabbed the attention of groups like the FDA who can certainly do something about it.  It’s certainly not a problem that is going to be solved overnight, and the fallout from ink-related cancer will certainly continue for many decades.

When you are in your 20′s, 30′s, and probably 40′s most people give little thought to cancer. I mean, the word “cancer” is a concern because it is so deadly but it is not really on the tips of people’s tongues who are that young.

I can tell you though that once you hit 50, something like cancer becomes much more of a reality. It started with my yearly physical when the doctor looked at my birth date and said what I knew he would: it was time for my first colonoscopy and cancer screening. I knew it was coming but still……ugh!

The cancer screening was easy as he took a small blood sample and sent it off to the lab. Of course the colonoscopy was a much worse but I got through it. Luckily for me, all is okay so far but it really gets you to thinking about the future and how fragile our lives are.

Cancer has been around for all our lives so the chances are we all know someone who has had it or died from it. And most of know that it is a killer that doesn’t discriminate: it can attack anyone at any age but your chances of getting it go up with age. Now that I have turned 50, I suddenly am VERY interested in a cure being found for this evil. It is amazing that a cure has alluded humanity for so long.

When you think of how to make money, one of the ways to do it is to invent something or contribute to science by making a big breakthrough. There is no doubt that the company, organization, or person that someday does find a cancer cure will make hundreds of millions, if not more. It is something that should be rewarded financially just because of the numbers of people that will be saved. It is frustrating that with all the manpower and dollars spent finding a cure, nothing has happened and it is also frustrating that no matter how high the reward, little progress has really been made.

I hope to live to see the day when some breakthrough can be made and now that I am older, that hope has become more personal. I may be cancer free today but who knows what will happen the next time I take those tests 10 years from now. I’m hoping that those tests results won’t be as scary next time due to the fact that cancer has been cured!