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re: How much can general health do to prevent cancer?
Posted on 10/22/18 at 9:59 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 10/22/18 at 9:59 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Lol, like I'm going to post what I know and get myself killed by the Illuminati
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Posted on 10/22/18 at 10:12 am to Hussss
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Way back in the day everyone got the proper nutrition from fruits and vegetables.
I'm currently reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer and have a family member battling Leukemia so I've educated myself about cancer a tiny bit over the past few months. First off, more people are getting cancer now than 100 years ago because most people weren't living long enough to get cancer 100 years ago. As a post above me states, the average life span has gone up considerably in the last century. 1900 life expectancy at birth was 47 years. in 2000 it was 75 years.
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Also people didn’t get vaccinated like they do now. Nobody knows what is in the vaccines.
It's not the secret formula for Coca-cola. D you think a mad scientist injected random things into people until they stumbled upon a vaccine and then never bothered to find out what was in it? How do you even mass produce something if you don't know what it is?
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Some cancers (especially colo-rectal cancers) are almost all preventable through a healthy lifestyle. Diet and exercise are the most important factors for the growth of colon cancer. There can be some hereditary causes but with a healthy diet and moderate exercise, most people who get colon cancer would not have gotten it.
One of the passages in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer discusses that in the early part of the 20th century some of the products used to pickle vegetables turned out to be carcinogenic. Otherwise healthy people were unknowingly ingesting a carcinogen though out their lives. This led to a spike of stomach and colon cancer.
This post was edited on 10/22/18 at 10:17 am
Posted on 10/22/18 at 11:01 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Another factor that a lot of people don't realize is just plain shitty luck. A normal healthy person will produce a thousand cancerous cells in their body daily. The immune system is pretty good about killing them off and the healthy person is none the wiser. But there is always a extremely slim chance (in terms of how often this back and forth happens over a lifetime) that even in a healthy person that one slips through the cracks and manages to grow past the point of the human body being able to kill it on its own.
Imagine rolling a million sided die, and on only one of those million sides results in cancer the disease. Now imagine rolling that dice a thousand times every day of your life. Out of billions of people, it is statistically certain that eventually some will get a bad roll .
Imagine rolling a million sided die, and on only one of those million sides results in cancer the disease. Now imagine rolling that dice a thousand times every day of your life. Out of billions of people, it is statistically certain that eventually some will get a bad roll .
This post was edited on 10/22/18 at 11:11 am
Posted on 10/22/18 at 11:46 am to biglego
All my recently deceased grandparents and such died from self imposed ailments. Heart disease, lung cancer (smoking), diabetes, etc. Here’s to hoping we are less cancer prone and just stubborn!
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