The 7 deadly diseases of modern times - #2 Cancer.
PUBLIC ENEMY #2: CANCER.
The most feared disease of modern times. And for good reason - one person, somewhere in the world, will die of cancer every 3 to 4 seconds ! Billions of dollars have been spent on it worldwide but, the incidence of cancer has increased 42% since 1949 ! Breast cancer is up by 58% and Prostate cancer is up by 98% !
If cancer is the most feared disease, it is also the least understood. Most of us think that cancer is something in our genes, it strikes some families while other families don't get it. This is not necessarily so. Only 20% of cancers is hereditary. 80% is in our control ! According to a doctor in America that runs a cancer clinic, and has treated hundreds of people with amazing success, states:-
"We all have cancer in our bodies. It's just that our immune system is keeping it in check. It's the breakdown of our immune system that allows cancer to grow. If you maintain a strong and healthy immune system, then your chances of ever getting cancer are very much lessened.
Please see the category "Nutritional Supplements" in the right column of this blog for a good antioxidant to boost your immune system.
Why isn't our food good enough anymore ?
This is a first of a series of articles on your health.
Why isn't our normal food good enough any more ? Since artificial fertilizers started to be used some 60 years ago the natural minerals in world wide soils have been seriously depleted. To best realize what has happened here is an article written by a prominent nutritional scientist in the USA.
Until the 1940's, farmers returned essential nutrients to the soil by mulching, manuring and crop rotation. At the end of World War II, drug conglomerates making nitrates and phosphates for weapons were left with few buyers for their stockpiles of chemicals. They had to find new markets for their products. Earlier experiments had shown that many plants will grow on a mixture of just three minerals, nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), and potassium (K).
Armed with this knowledge, war chemical manufacturers began selling NPK fertilizers to farmers at attractive prices that made traditional soil enrichment methods uneconomical. By the 60's, in order to compete in the food market, almost all American farms had become totally dependent on NPK products in order to make a living. Mixtures of NPK, provide three of the main minerals essential for plant health. They grow fine-looking crops with abundant yields. But your body is not a vegetable. Humans need more than nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. They need selenium, chromium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, iodine, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt, boron and vanadium. NPK fertilizers do not contain the minerals essential for human health, because they were never designed for human nutrition. As each succeeding crop grown on NPK products has depleted the soil of other essential minerals, and these minerals are no longer replaced. Most produce and food animals now grown in America, have become "mineral deficient". And it's the same in the rest of the world. Farmers have been top dressing their paddocks and crop fields with NPK. So that the vegetables and meat that we eat are seriously depleted in minerals.
Please see our Nutritional Supplements Category in the right column to supplement your diet to stay healthy.
The 7 deadly diseases of modern times - #1 Heart Disease.
PUBLIC ENEMY #1: HEART DISEASE is quite a new disease. The first modern cases of it were only reported in 1915, which was extremely rare at that time. How did it go from rare to the number one killer of today ?
Heart disease kills millions of people worldwide every year. This equates to one death every 35 seconds. It's an epidemic ! 58 million people in North America have it right now ! That equates to 1 in every 3 adults.
OK but what is Heart Disease ?
It's not a disease you catch like a virus.
It's a disease you eat !
Eating the wrong diet causes plaque to slowly clog up your arteries, stopping the flow of oxygen and nutrients to your heart muscles. When these arteries finally plug up, you have a heart attack. You get no warning that this "clogging of the arteries" is happening, until the day you have the heart attack !
How can we prevent a heart attack ?
By ensuring your body gets sufficient antioxidants by taking nutritional supplements to prevent 'free radicals' !
Please see Nutritional Supplements under Categories in the right column.
See Article #3 to learn what free radicals are !
