What Causes Cancer?

What causes cancer is less important than whatnot ever become a problem unless they are provided
causes cancer to start growing.  It is impossible towith 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 fertileavoid 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 growingthat supports the growth of cancers.  Looking to
than endure months of chemotherapy, radiation, andmedical 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 learnedHere is a list of what Cancer.gov says causes cancer:
how to turn cancer growth "On" and "Off" in 27Growing older, tobacco use, (excessive exposure to)
years of documented, peer-reviewed, publishedsunlight, ionizing radiation, industrial chemicals and food
experiments, but this information has been kept fromadditives, viruses and bacteria, certain hormones,
the public eye.  Making this critical information widelyfamily history, alcohol, poor diet, lack of physical
known might offend certain powerful industries in thisactivity, and/or being overweight.
country, it seems.  Read on to find out how you canWhew!  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 theThese are the official causes of cancer, but I believe
substances and practices that cause our cells toyou should take several of them with a grain of
mutate in the "Initiation" phase of cancer, it issalt.  (No, wait!  Is salt on the list?!)
impossible to completely prevent these mutationsThere is no time or space to go into all these risk
from happening in a few of the billions of cells we arefactors here.  
made of.There are four points worth noting about them,
What is more important is to help our body to do itsthough.
work in starving and killing off these mutant cells1) Nearly all of them are avoidable.
before they begin to spread.  Given the right2) THE biggest carcinogen in our diet that you will not
nutrition, physical exercise, and emotional climate, ourhear mentioned in official ".gov publications" or those
bodies are very well equipped to handle cancer cellsof the American Cancer Society is not on this list.
on their own.  (Source: Dr. Ray Strand, What Your3) 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 severalunnecessary, always costly, and sometimes
times unnoticed during the average lifetime. Mostdamaging.
men over the age of forty have been found to have4) 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 maypreventing cancer than they are telling us.