People CHOOSE to get cancer - 90% of the time!
It seems I keep coming to the same themes in my quest to get health information out, I say one thing that sounds like a no-brainer and then a few months or years later, studies come out “discovering” what really is common sense. Cancer is no different.
I didn’t choose to get cancer
Let’s review, as much as 90% of ALL cancers are caused by lifestyle, the other 10% have strong genetic influences, for those unlucky 10%, I am truly sad for your plight and you have my deepest sympathies. If your entire family has gotten breast cancer by the age of 40 - there is a high likely hood that YOU will get it as well. What I don’t understand is why people simply accept this as a fact instead of doing lifestyle changes to reduce this likely hood. No, many people have not chosen to get cancer, nobody wants this condition but they do daily actions (knowingly or unknowingly) that lead to its development 90% of the time!
Two interesting studies to review if you have or worried about cancer
Here is a summary in plain English as to why people get cancer
1) Alcohol, inactivity, bad diet (dare I say fast food) and you guessed it, OBESITY!
2) Every 22lbs of fat you carry around on your body increases your likely hood of getting cancer 18%!!! With more then 50% of the industrialized population considered obese, no wonder cancer (and diabetic) is an epidemic!
3) Environmental pollution causes cancer
http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/20060720.html
http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20060727.html
So what have we discovered from these two studies? NOTHING NEW! We all know this already but still society either keeps it head in the sand or does further studies to make sure there where no problems with the first studies. This is insanity!
Here is my list of things people do BY CHOICE to achieve the undesired goal of getting cancer:
1) Breath in contaminated air (smoking, smog, ozone, exhaust, particulate matter)
2) Eat contaminated food (fast food, processed food, junk food and “enriched” foods)
3) Sit on their ASS
4) Live within a contaminated body (if you maintain an unhealthy body, you are a cesspool of cancer causing agents waiting to get activated)
5) Drink unfiltered water (by the time city water gets to your tap, it has picked up so much junk that a mud pond is probably healthier to drink out of, reverse osmosis or distillation is the only way to go)
6) Avoid the doctor and dentist - these are your friends, a problem is easier to fix if you catch it EARLY.
Now, maybe I am being unfair but study after study after study all indicate that Cancer and many other diseases are on the rise, when will our society wake up to the fact that we are the ones causing these diseases! You spend 2 hours commuting back and forth to work… YOU ARE KILLING YOURSELF by sitting for so long and KILLING OTHERS by polluting our collective air.
But I have to…
Most of us live in a free society, we CHOOSE to go to work, we CHOOSE to commute, we CHOOSE to purchase junk food… the CHOICES are endless - if you make choices to stay in an unhealthy environment, then it is a choice. Don’t pass the buck and blame others or your boss, company, society or anybody else out there… YOU must make the choice. How important is your health to you? Well… how important is it? For me, my health is number one, above friends, family… anybody or anything. Without my health, I am nothing and neither are you.
“ME” Society
Right now, we live in a society that is “individualistic”, people prefer their own cars over public transportation, people want their own office instead of sharing, people want their own this, that and everything else. Cancer and many diseases are a warning sign that this kind of thinking is not healthy for any of us collectively as a species… natural selection is simply pecking off the weaker of us (genetically, habitually etc.) as it works it way up. Why are you obese? Because you don’t care about yourself… it’s that simple and guess what, others don’t care about you if you can’t take care of yourself.
Treatment vs Prevention
What does our society do in the wake of an epidemic? Forget about educating the public into doing some real action to prevent it, lets create a multi-billion dollar industry called “cancer treatment” whose sole focus is treating the people who have enough money to be able to undo the damage they have caused to themselves (again, directly or indirectly). We need a REAL change in our world societies, not this mickey mouse half-assed stuff we have done so far because of FEAR. EMBRASE change, don’t fear it!
The Bottom Line
Maybe I sound a bit rash, but I want you to get in your head that cancer in 90% can be traced back to lifestyle CHOICES, no matter how indirect. I am willing to wager that many other diseases would drop off the map as well.
