| What causes cancer is less important than what | | | | not ever become a problem unless they are provided |
| causes cancer to start growing. It is impossible to | | | | with the factors that promote their growth. |
| protect ourselves against all the causes of cancer, | | | | The problem is that most of us can't successfully |
| but we can make sure we don't provide it fertile | | | | avoid all the substances and habits that initiate |
| conditions for growth. | | | | cancer. To make things worse, we consume a diet |
| Wouldn't you rather prevent cancer from growing | | | | that supports the growth of cancers. Looking to |
| than endure months of chemotherapy, radiation, and | | | | medical science to cure, or more often cut out, |
| possibly surgery? | | | | irradiate, or poison the cancer seems crazy if we are |
| Any cancer has three stages in its life: Initiation, | | | | still feeding the cancer cells and providing them an |
| Promotion, and Progression. | | | | environment that promotes their growth. |
| One of America's top cancer researchers learned | | | | Here is a list of what Cancer.gov says causes cancer: |
| how to turn cancer growth "On" and "Off" in 27 | | | | Growing older, tobacco use, (excessive exposure to) |
| years of documented, peer-reviewed, published | | | | sunlight, ionizing radiation, industrial chemicals and food |
| experiments, but this information has been kept from | | | | additives, viruses and bacteria, certain hormones, |
| the public eye. Making this critical information widely | | | | family history, alcohol, poor diet, lack of physical |
| known might offend certain powerful industries in this | | | | activity, and/or being overweight. |
| country, it seems. Read on to find out how you can | | | | Whew! That's quite a list, isn't it? Makes you want |
| gain access to this potentially life-saving information. | | | | to crawl under the bed and never come out. |
| While it is important to avoid as many of the | | | | These are the official causes of cancer, but I believe |
| substances and practices that cause our cells to | | | | you should take several of them with a grain of |
| mutate in the "Initiation" phase of cancer, it is | | | | salt. (No, wait! Is salt on the list?!) |
| impossible to completely prevent these mutations | | | | There is no time or space to go into all these risk |
| from happening in a few of the billions of cells we are | | | | factors here. |
| made of. | | | | There are four points worth noting about them, |
| What is more important is to help our body to do its | | | | though. |
| work in starving and killing off these mutant cells | | | | 1) Nearly all of them are avoidable. |
| before they begin to spread. Given the right | | | | 2) THE biggest carcinogen in our diet that you will not |
| nutrition, physical exercise, and emotional climate, our | | | | hear mentioned in official ".gov publications" or those |
| bodies are very well equipped to handle cancer cells | | | | of the American Cancer Society is not on this list. |
| on their own. (Source: Dr. Ray Strand, What Your | | | | 3) Some of our health care screening procedures |
| Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine) | | | | may increase your risk of cancer and are often |
| Researchers tell us that cancer may occur several | | | | unnecessary, always costly, and sometimes |
| times unnoticed during the average lifetime. Most | | | | damaging. |
| men over the age of forty have been found to have | | | | 4) Medical researchers have discovered a lot more |
| some cancerous cells in their prostate, for example, | | | | about which nutrients and vitamins can help |
| with no symptoms. These cancer cells may or may | | | | preventing cancer than they are telling us. |