The C word

Originally Posted by Baile

Exactly, and while the health advice in this thread is great, the fact is cancer just happens regardless, and for many different and unrelated reasons. Nothing more to it than that, and not a lot one can do about it either..

That simply is not so....

The things that help to generate cancer has become far more pervasive... but the idea that cancer is inevitable, or is overly mysterious, or could strike surprisingly at any time, is more a sign of our times, and not an historical norm. As a child I knew very few people who died of cancer... I'm 58... that was not that long ago... now it's nearing the 50% mark, becoming something of a norm... why is that? There is something going on that has changed over the last 50 years or so that I've been watching happen in real time... so why do the folks living today get cancer, when the folks living back then rarely did? Why is type two diabetes, what used to be an old persons disease, (over 65) why is that now starting to show up in children? Why is this also becoming common among adults?

To just close ones eyes and assume it's a mystery is to relinquish ones control, and to assume one is helpless... a victim of being physical.. oh well...

No thank you.... a brief look into how we've immersed ourselves into chemicals (in our food, our cleaning products, our building supplies, in our car, in our health care goods), at how our foods have been demineralized, GMO'd, grown commercially and repetitively on exhausted grounds... much of all this has changed fairly recently, certainly within my lifetime, just since the second world war there's been around 100,000 new chemical compounds that's been added to the mix...

This is not a big mystery... we can look right at the causes... the idea that we're stuck with this, and that cancer just happens, is not only untenable but it's a relinquishing of our innate ability to both problem-solve and to then move firmly toward a more wizened solution...