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Cancer From Food
The study of other cultures is a good way to view the American diet from 'outside of the box.' Just as environmental pollutants cause disease in animals, chemicals in our foods create the same body reactions in humans. Outside the United States in countries less overtaken by technology and mass-manufacturing of foods and pharmeucticals, cancer rates more clearly illustrate the effects toxic foods have on human health.
COLON CANCER
Colon cancer is at its highest level in the United States today because the American ‘diet of convenience’ has promoted the highest fat, lowest fiber, fried-food and processed diet in the world.
The lowest colon cancer rates are found in Japan because the Japanese have diets low in processed fat. Mormons also have a low colon cancer rate because they eat a natural food diet, especially a diet high in natural fiber. Seventh-Day Adventists have a low colon cancer rate, too, because they eat very low to no fatty fried foods and also have high fiber diets.
STOMACH CANCER
Stomach cancer poses the highest risk in Japan and South America because a high degree of salted and pickled foods is consumed in these two countries. They also add nitrates to their soils and water, and have an average low intake of vitamins C and E. Stomach cancer is the lowest in the United States because Americans have available year round fresh fruits, salads, and vitamins C and E.
And beware. The fat substitute Olestra® absorbs the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. This is bad news for the body’s immune system, cardiovascular system, and digestive system, and particularly the liver. Each of these body systems depend on the above vitamins to keep them healthy. Essential fats should be natural, and the body can expel them easily with a good B-vitamin and some vigorous exercise. The liver and gall bladder cannot assimilate unnatural chemical, processed fats, anyway. Human bodies haven’t evolved that ability.
BREAST CANCER
Breast cancer is the highest in the United States and Western Europe due to the ‘Western’ high-fat, chemical-fat diet. The lowest is in Japan as a result of their low fat diet.
PROSTATE CANCER
Prostate cancer is the highest in the United States and Scandinavia because of high fat contents. The lowest is in Japan due to low fat consumption.
ESOPHAGUS CANCER
Esophagus cancer is the highest in France, Eastern Iran and Central China, and within the lower socioeconomic groups in the United States. France and the United States have high risk factors of alcohol and tobacco use. Iran and China have very low levels of vitamins C and A available, and the possible use of opium causes esophagus cancer.
So, foods do make a difference. My grandmother used to say, “You don’t live to eat; you eat to live.” Grandmommy lived to be 102 years old and passed-on in her home of 100+ years outside Atlanta, Georgia.
Posted September 2004 | Permanent Link
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