| Most people will tell you that nearly all cancers are | | | | Surgeon General report on the dangers of |
| hereditary and that there is nothing we can do to | | | | smoking and its relations to lung cancer in 1964 , |
| prevent getting it if we have the genetic | | | | we have known about the dangers, but there are |
| predisposition for getting cancer in the first place. | | | | more people smoking now than back then. |
| But is this really true? | | | | As it turns out a lifestyle change has been |
| But as more data is gathered about cancers their | | | | rejected by most Americans, and we go on living, |
| causes and effects, scientists are now stating | | | | and eating, and engaging in the things that causes |
| what some of us have already known for | | | | this deadly disease. One in every four adult |
| centuries. The lifestyle, eating habits, and | | | | Americans still smoke. Yet close to 90% of the |
| environmental influences are the cause of most | | | | cancers of the lung, lip, mouth, tongue, throat, |
| cancers. | | | | esophagus could be prevented if people are |
| As it turns out many cancers are do-it-yourself | | | | simply stop using tobacco products. |
| diseases. We increased our risk of developing this | | | | In men the second and third most frequently |
| straight disease by credit exposure to certain | | | | occurring cancer are of the prostate and colon. |
| lifestyle and environmental factors. What we eat | | | | And for women it is a cancer of the breast and |
| and what we drink where we live in where we | | | | colon. Most of these cancers are linked directly to |
| were, and what we breathe may well determine | | | | two much that, and animal protein, in the diet. |
| whether we become a cancer statistic. | | | | Carcinogens that is cancer producing chemicals are |
| Even though medical science claims to continue to | | | | a concern in modern diet, especially due to the |
| make strides towards super cancer drugs, early | | | | fact that most of the food that we eat are highly |
| detection, and improved treatments, the fact of | | | | processed, and contains additives, preservatives, |
| the matter is that the overall death rate for | | | | flavor enhancers, pesticides, and other chemicals |
| many cancers continues to increase at an | | | | that we use in producing and packaging of our |
| alarming pace. One in four American now dies of | | | | food. |
| cancer. | | | | Compared with diets around the 1900s, the |
| The rise in cancer that we see in our society | | | | average American now eats one third more fat, |
| today could be easily reversed. If we would | | | | and one third less fiber. In parts of the world |
| simply take the proportions, and adopt | | | | where fat intake is little in fiber intake is high |
| preventative medicine, then 70 to 80% of | | | | incidence of colon cancer, breast cancer, and |
| cancers that devastates Americans could be | | | | prostate cancers are negligible. In contrast, |
| prevented. | | | | countries such as the United States, Canada, New |
| Most people will tell you that they would be willing | | | | Zealand, where diets are low in fiber but high in |
| to do just about anything to avoid getting cancer | | | | fact, the rates for these kinds of cancers are |
| and died of cancer. But this almost anything, it | | | | way higher. |
| seems stops short of a lifestyle change. An | | | | The best way to avoid most of the cancers in |
| example of this is lung cancer. Lung cancer kills | | | | our society is drastic and radical lifestyle changes. |
| more men and women in the United States than | | | | Changes in the way we eat, what we eat and |
| any other type of cancer. Lung cancer claims | | | | and when we eat. |
| over 128,000 people a year. Even though the | | | | |