Cancer is winning—but why?
The top three reasons given are, in order: tobacco; alcohol consumption; and processed foods.
I find this interesting. Interesting because ‘man’ has been smoking tobacco and consuming alcohol since the days of the Pharaohs, and probably longer. I recall reading an article some time ago pointing out that we drink less alcohol less often than was the case 250 years ago when in many circles wines and beers were consumed throughout the day. So why are they blaming a forecast 70 percent increase in cancer over the next 20 years on tobacco and alcohol?
Then they go on to say the biggest killers are lung cancer in men (16.7 percent), breast cancer in women (25 percent) and then bowl cancer. I will not pretend to be an expert on cancer. Far from it really. But does smoking cause breast cancer? Does alcohol cause breast cancer? Does alcohol cause lung cancer? Hmmm.
I can probably see, maybe, how alcohol might cause bowel cancer, but then again isn’t any alcohol metabolised before it gets to the bowel?
To my way of thinking there is something else going on here. Maybe it is all down to the processed foods. Maybe. But I suspect in about 20 years they are going to find out that there is was some other cause. Something we are not seeing right now. Something in the air. Something in the water.
Could it be as simple as the increased stress loads that modern ‘man’ has to cope with? The link between stress and cancer is widely documented, as is the higher stress ratios we cope with in our modern world. Maybe it is not the alcohol at all, but the stress that people drinking the alcohol are trying to relieve.
Or could the higher rate of cancers be a side affect of other prescribed drugs we take to help offset the stress?
