Of course it is not always possible to avoid most illnesses entirely. However, we can do a lot more than many think, at least to reduce our risks, of many of the major killers in our culture today. Often one of the most feared and distressing diseases is cancer. For many this miserable condition seems just to appear out of the blue and we have absolutely no control over the roll of the dice. And for some this is probably the case. However, , the latest researched reported by the BBC ( read article here) showed that nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year – over 130,000 in total – are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.
Tobacco is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report. Next comes a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in men’s diets, while for women it is being overweight.The report is published in theBritish Journal of Cancer. Its authors claim it is the most comprehensive analysis to date on the subject.
Lead author Prof Max Parkin said: “Many people believe cancer is down to fate or ‘in the genes’ and that it is the luck of the draw whether they get it.
“Looking at all the evidence, it’s clear that around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we mostly have the power to change.”
This looks all very interesting, however the respected Alliance for Natural Health (Read the report ) has looked beneath the surface and sees this report in a different and much more critical light. They expose a number of potential deficits to the report that show not all may be as it seems. As they say;
“We are concerned that the effect of this study will be to further perpetuate the cancer racket, where people continue to feed industry by buying into health-destroying behaviour, before finally developing cancer and turning to industry’s cancer wing to be patched up or not. It does absolutely nothing to cause any kind of a shift in the cancer industry juggernaut, a sector of medicine that has been pushed wildly off course by the profit motive. So why not check out the major life style causes of cancer and decide to do something in 2012 to change your risks in the areas that you CAN control?”
So as usual, not much in the public domain is as it seems!
