Cancer - Are They Hiding The Cure For Profit?

[boaz]

We all theoretically could live to 120 with proper diet and medical treatment, just think of how many times that means to look for the keys.

 

[tonini3059]

My great Grandmother lived to be 104. She only ate junk food and hot dogs. She loved cookies and coffee, she would boil water and add the grounds to it. Her diet was very far from good!

ETA: She did not believe in doctors either. She went to the doctors once when she was 96 cause she fell and they ran tests on her and said she was perfectly fine, no high BP or cholesterol. She never took pills.

 

[Rosalind]

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^^THIS^^

Breast cancer runs in my family. It has run in my family for a long, long time. My great-grandmother ate the veggies and meat she raised herself on the family farm, before pollution, pesticides and modern medicine were even invented. She died of breast cancer in an incredibly agonizing way at the age of 50, in a time when all they could tell you was to go home and put your affairs in order.

My aunt was a nurse, and followed all the recommendations for healthy eating, exercise, etc. that were available in the 1970s and early 80s. She got breast cancer, had a radical mastectomy and the harsh, nasty, super-toxic chemotherapy, which was standard treatment at that time. She is still alive today, almost 30 years later. However, in that time she has gone through four plastic surgeries to have her breasts reconstructed, and she went into early, permanent menopause from the chemo.

My cousins and I have all had benign lumps. If we were to get breast cancer, we would have lumpectomies, local radiation at the tumor site, and possibly Herceptin, aromatase inhibitors or tamoxifen if the histology called for it--mild, highly tolerable chemotherapies with few side effects. We would most likely survive, keep all our hair, perhaps go on to have children afterwards (OK, not me, but my younger cousins maybe).

Medicine has come a long way.

 

[GrayDragon]

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Now those are great words

 

[Wifezilla]

Nutrition is all well and good, but it doesn't take into account two variables:

1 - Genes/metabolisms

2 - Random mutations


That's why I'm 5'2" tall and large breasted, and both my sisters are nearly six-foot tall stick figures.

Oh yeah. Those play their part too. And yeah...my sister is built like you and I am 6' tall. Not a stick though.​

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Oh yeah. Those play their part too. And yeah...my sister is built like you and I am 6' tall. Not a stick though.

I think we are just predisposed for some things. I take after my dad, probably have a big ole' heart attack, but my mom died of pancreatic cancer which increases my risk 5% above the "normal" danger of getting it. My husband on the other hand, bless his heart, inherited EVERYTHING from his mother. Diabetes which has affected his kidneys, high blood pressure, chlor., and triglycerides. He has two siblings who also have it, one sister is already on dialysis. They didn't eat or behave any differently than the other three kids, who also have health issues, but it just was in their genes to have it. I have always been short and stocky, (o.k. chunky monkey) but my two sisters are not tall, but thin as reeds. . .I tell people its in "your genes, and I am not talkin' about your blue jeans!!!" I think we should just value and treasure each day we have, and make the best of it. If I want a doughnut, I eat it, because that trolley of life may come by tomorrow and hit me, and I will be laying there under the wheel thinking, "dang, should have had that doughnut!" No sense crying over stuff we can't change, and while YES, I know you can do things do alter your body's betrayal, there is still no guarantee that something else is not going to get us. Most of what causes a lot of today's issues is the food we eat, and we need to get back to the land, and grow our own stuff and KNOW what we are eating.

One thing that I have stopped using is microwave popcorn, because the bags have something really toxic in it. I figure for ME to eat it at this point and time in my life probably won't take that much time off, BUT for my 9 year old, yes, it MIGHT just affect him.

Another thing is oil. Did you know that when oil comes to a boiling point ONE time it becomes cancerous, and think of what we eat at fast food places and how many times that oil is brought to boiling!!!!!!!!!!!! Scary. My chiro told me he didn't let his daughter eat the french fries at the fast food places because research has shown there is a definite correlation between breast cancer and that oil. So, if you have breast cancer in your family, and you have daughters, that might be ONE thing you can do to help lower their chances . . .

 

[Wifezilla]

I think we are just predisposed for some things.

I am predisposed for diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, gout, and arthritis. I was already fat and well on my way to type 2 diabetes before I hit 30. My blood pressure was very high (readings around 149/98). I completely reversed my hypertension (last reading 106/68). I also eliminated the wild blood sugar swings by eliminating grains, starches and sugars. My weight is down considerably. I am dodging a lot of predispositions by those diet changes. If I kept eating high carbohydrate foods, I would most likely be like 2 of my uncles who both died in their 40's. I am now 46 and healthier now than I was in my 20's.​