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Aboo Amina
Wing Ding
Claim: Growth hormones injected into chicken wings cause ovarian cysts in
women.
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2006]
Avoid eating chicken wings frequently - ladies especially a true
story...!
A friend of mine recently had a growth in her womb and she underwent an
operation to remove the cyst. The cyst removed was filled with a dark coloured
blood. She thought that she would be recovered after the surgery but she was
terribly wrong.
A relapse occurred just a few months later. Distressed, she rushed down
to her gynecologist for a consultation. During her consultation, her doctor
asked her a question that puzzled her.
He ask if she was a frequent consumer of chicken wings and she replied
yes wondering as to how, he knew of her eating habits.
You see, the truth is in this modern day and age; chickens are injected
with steroids to accelerate their growth so that the needs of this society can
be met.
This need is none other then the need for food. Chickens that are
injected with steroids are usually given the shot at the neck or the wings.
Therefore, it is in these places that the highest concentration of
steroids exists. These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it
accelerates growth.
It has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones,
this leads to women being more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb.
Therefore, I advise the people out there to watch their diets and to
lower their frequency of consuming chicken wings!
People, who receive this email, please forward it to your friends and
loved ones. I am sure no one wants to see him or her suffer!
Origins: This warning about chicken wings causing ovarian cysts first showed
up in the snopes.com mailbox in April 2004. It is a tall tale, nothing more, an
expression of widespread anxiety concerning animal products and hormones.
Agricultural advances of a nature so as to not be well understood by the
average person have instilled in us a sense of concern about the foods we eat —
we fear that unbeknownst to us what we are ingesting is loaded with substances
that are doing us untold amounts of
harm.
In particular, that anxiety focuses upon hormones and steroids that might be
lurking in animal products. We fear the meats that make their way to our tables
have been pumped full of chemicals as part of the process that went into
bringing well-fleshed animals to market and that those chemicals will similarly
affect us. Hormones are linked in our minds (as they should be) with the growth
process, which in humans is strongly tied to changes related to sexual
maturation. Ergo, that fear finds voice in stories about women exposed to such
hormones developing cysts in their reproductive systems and in stories about
men developing the physical characteristics of women (that is, growing
breasts).
[Collected on the Internet, 1998]
There was a similar story many years ago about this man who simply loved
chicken neck. He would have his daily chicken rice with all the chicken necks.
After a couple of years of this exotic diet, he noticed that his breast was
growing bigger; that got him so worried that he sought medical help. Then it
emerged that he had been on a high female-hormone course all this time.
Poultry-related fears of this nature are misplaced. As the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) notes, "residue levels of hormones in food have been
demonstrated to be safe, as they are well below any level that would have a
known effect in humans." Even if one were not convinced of the safety of
hormonal growth-promoting drugs, however, it isn't an issue where chicken is
concerned, because the FDA has ruled that "No steroid hormones are approved for
use in poultry," so chickens intended for human consumption in the U.S. cannot
legally be fed or injected with steroids. The rules governing cattle are
different, though. Says the FDA: "Certain steroid hormones have been approved
for use at very low concentrations to increase the rate of weight gain and/or
improve feed efficiency in beef cattle."
Barbara "cattle call" Mikkelson
Additional information:
Use of Steroid Hormones for Growth Promotion in Food-Producing Animals
(U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
Last updated: 19 February 2006
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