| It is very rare for lung cancer to only have one | | | | Most of the chemicals we surround ourselves with |
| cause; we know that because not everybody | | | | these days are extracted from crude oil, in other |
| who smokes cigarettes gets lung cancer. I had an | | | | words the petro-chemical industry and they do |
| uncle who smoked most of his life and died at the | | | | effect us. 100 years ago there weren't any |
| grand age of 99. Fortunately he was smart | | | | chemicals but today we are overwhelmed by |
| enough to give up smoking in his sixties. Rather | | | | them. We breathe them in as in exhaust gases |
| than simply being caused by passing smoke | | | | from motor vehicles, we use them on our body |
| through your lungs, lung cancer is typically | | | | as in personal care products, even so called |
| triggered by many causes, smoking being the | | | | natural ones have some chemicals in them, and |
| main one. The other causes of lung cancer are | | | | we take them in directly in the form of food |
| nutritional deficiencies, toxins in your environment, | | | | additives. They are also in the homes we live in, |
| our sedentary lifestyle and sometimes emotional | | | | because of the many products used in the building |
| conflict. | | | | industry. |
| Now passing smoke through your lungs is not a | | | | The human body was designed to be physically |
| very clever thing to do, we do it at a young age | | | | active and if we neglect this basic function we'll |
| because we think we're invincible and maybe we | | | | inevitably pay the price in the form of health |
| are, but as we age we most definitely are not. | | | | problems. Some form of exercise on a daily |
| The biggest health problem with the habit of | | | | bases is very important to both avoid cancer and |
| smoking is, it inhibits the body from absorbing the | | | | to fight cancer. Once again because of the motor |
| vitamins and minerals we so badly need to | | | | car and cheap oil, we seldom get the exercise we |
| maintain our health. It also irritates the delicate | | | | so badly need. When we exercise we are |
| linings of the lungs and cancer will take hold in | | | | enriching our bodies with oxygen and cancer cells |
| some part of the body that has been weakened | | | | cannot survive in an oxygenated environment. |
| by any damage or irritation. | | | | That was proven back in 1931. |
| The food we eat on a daily basis is the foundation | | | | Emotional conflict can weaken our immune |
| of our health. Our diets today have changed | | | | system and that is well recognised. It's because |
| vastly and the typical western diet is not known | | | | we're holding onto a problem like a personal crises |
| for its health giving qualities. We may think we are | | | | in some form and it's wearing us down. The only |
| eating well but when you consider that we are | | | | solution I can suggest is to seek help to resolve |
| designed to eat only freshly grown fruit and | | | | the issues. |
| vegetables, a few whole grains and one or two | | | | Our bodies have amazing self healing powers that |
| other items one can see that we have strayed | | | | can eliminate cancer, but we have to provide the |
| far from a healthy diet. A big percentage of our | | | | right conditions to allow that to happen. The |
| food intake these days is processed food and | | | | bottom line is, you need to take charge of your |
| nearly all of it is nutritional dead food because of | | | | cancer and no one can do it for you. Appropriate |
| its processing and because it's old. Our poor food | | | | diet and lifestyle changes are your first line of |
| choices are most certainly a major contributor to | | | | defence. |
| all cancers. | | | | |