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If most cancers are caused by bad luck, why are we getting less lucky?

game-diceAt the start of 2015 the press carried claims from scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US, that the majority of cancers are NOT linked to environment or lifestyle. These findings conflict with many other findings. If most cancers are caused by bad luck, why, according to World Health Organisation reports in 2014, is the number of cancer cases worldwide on target to increase by 70% over the next two decades? This includes the spread into less developed countries where a Western lifestyle is being adopted.

Can we really be getting less lucky?

Independent studies throw up potential connections between our adulterated food supply, ingredients in our personal care products, and the pollution of our environment, to disruption of our bodily systems, damage to our DNA, and cell mutations that can lead to cancer. Stressors on our system may include herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, additives, and the genetic modification of our food, and synthetic, petro-chemically derived, and hormone-disrupting ingredients in what we touch, breathe, or put on our skin. Some vaccines have been found to contain known carcinogens. There are widely used pharmaceutical drugs which cause tumours in animal tests. Being overweight (often through over-consuming a processed diet high in empty calories, and full of artificial ingredients), is a huge risk factor for diseases, including cancer.

Given that we are also now exposed to high levels of ‘electro smog’ from electromagnetic radiation, a ‘possible’ carcinogen, and many other cancer causing pollutants, our 21st century lifestyle means that we are all at risk of poor health. Can this be seen as bad luck, or simply that governments, who esteem growth and profit, have allowed a free-for-all by polluting companies, at the expense of public health?

For the polluting companies, a report that says ‘Most cancers are caused by back luck’ will be welcome as another tool against people seeking to hold them liable for cause and effect. It is indeed difficult to blame one particular product or cause, when we are consuming or being subjected to an untested combination of numerous unnatural stressors every day of our lives, wearing down our body’s ability to deal with its toxic payload. It is then that we can become sick, and since we are all individual, what will cause cancer in one person, can manifest in another as an entirely different disease or condition.

Faced with this seemingly overwhelming onslaught on our health, it’s important not to give up and leave your fate entirely to ‘luck’. Whilst some of the risk factors are now so pervasive in our environment that they are beyond our control, we do have choice over many others. You can help yourself and your family enormously by knowing more about diet, lifestyle, and natural health. Good nutrition reduces the overall toxic burden on the body, giving it the ability to help deal with the stressors we can’t change. It provides your body with the building blocks needed to improve your defences, including by making your cell walls less susceptible to mutations that can lead to cancer, and by promoting a good supply of natural killer cells to help identify and destroy cells that do begin to mutate. Conversely, bad nutrition will leave your body in the worst possible position to do these things, making you more vulnerable to the overall toxic payload that we all now carry.

hermann-keppler-3Understanding the impact of nutrition on health, and that everything you do, and use, has an effect on your health, will help you respect your body’s amazing capacity for achieving balance if given the right tools. Good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle CAN help you load the dice of ‘luck’ in your favour. Start today!

By Hermann Keppler, Founder and Principal of CNM (College of Naturopathic Medicine). CNM offers Diploma training courses in Naturopathic Nutrition, and other natural therapies.
January 2015

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