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Summary: Personal reflections about "Get It Off!"
Review: "Get It Off!" follows "Dressed to Kill" by the same authors. Sydney Ross Singer and his wife, Soma Grismaijer. Medical Anthropologists, the co-authors are dedicated to uncovering the cultural causes of disease. They have a courageous willingness to stand up to the profit-oriented, treatment-focussed medical system. But this is not a doctor-bashing book. Their insights into the reasons why women develop breast cancer can be easily grasped by the reader, and touches of subtle humour help lighten what is essentially a most serious subject. If women were to accept bra-free living as normal, the book explains how women can help themselves avoid breast pain, cysts and cancer. Breast cancer is explained as a culturally caused disease. Scientific evidence supporting the link between bras and breast cancer is contained in "Dressed to Kill". The "Little Breast Play" in "Get It Off!" has been performed as a musical entitled "The Booby Trap" in Manhatten.When more women take notice of the words of wisdom in "Get It Off!" there will be far less concern about breast cancer. It is a unique book. The drift I got from reading "The Little Breast Play" was that it can help people overcome their conditioning from early life experiences - that for women to wear a bra is normal. It isn't! I've been surprised, speaking to women of all ages about the content of the book, how they could, very simply and virtually at no expense, reduce their chances of breast cancer. But what a lukewarm reception my suggestion has received! Most of us get a few jolts in our lifetimes and, if we are sufficiently open, we can change direction. Winston Churchill is quoted along the lines: "Some people stumble on the truth and most, when they do, pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened." I'm unsure of the "truth" to which Winston Churchill was referring, but the truth of the link between bras and breast cancer leaps out from the pages of Sydney and Soma's books. Every woman who wears a bra would gain much insight from Sydney and Soma's enlightened understanding.
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Summary: Personal reflections about "Get It Off!"
Review: "Get It Off!" follows "Dressed to Kill" by the same authors. Sydney Ross Singer and his wife, Soma Grismaijer. Medical Anthropologists, the co-authors are dedicated to uncovering the cultural causes of disease. They have a courageous willingness to stand up to the profit-oriented, treatment-focussed medical system. But this is not a doctor-bashing book. Their insights into the reasons why women develop breast cancer can be easily grasped by the reader, and touches of subtle humour help lighten what is essentially a most serious subject. If women were to accept bra-free living as normal, the book explains how women can help themselves avoid breast pain, cysts and cancer. Breast cancer is explained as a culturally caused disease. Scientific evidence supporting the link between bras and breast cancer is contained in "Dressed to Kill". The "Little Breast Play" in "Get It Off!" has been performed as a musical entitled "The Booby Trap" in Manhatten. When more women take notice of the words of wisdom in "Get It Off!" there will be far less concern about breast cancer. It is a unique book. The drift I got from reading "The Little Breast Play" was that it can help people overcome their conditioning from early life experiences - that for women to wear a bra is normal. It isn't! I've been surprised, speaking to women of all ages about the content of the book, how they could, very simply and virtually at no expense, reduce their chances of breast cancer. But what a lukewarm reception my suggestion has received! Most of us get a few jolts in our lifetimes and, if we are sufficiently open, we can change direction. Winston Churchill is quoted along the lines: "Some people stumble on the truth and most, when they do, pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened." I'm unsure of the "truth" to which Winston Churchill was referring, but the truth of the link between bras and breast cancer leaps out from the pages of Sydney and Soma's books. Every woman who wears a bra would gain much insight from Sydney and Soma's enlightened understanding.
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