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One result of this opposition is that the emphasis in cancer research is almost NEVER on prevention and always on CURE.

The people who are directing cancer research have a vested interest in keeping the scientists away from the study of cancer prevention and focused on drug cures that can be patented, marketed, and huge obscene profits made from them by the corporations. Some people believe the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in total collusion with this because they have set up a system that requires hundreds of millions of dollars and 10 years or more of testing to get a new drug approved. (The same protocol is followed in the UK and Australia) This high cost prohibits all but the few largest and richest pharmaceutical companies in the world from participating in the FDA approval process. For individuals or small companies with limited funding, it is a financial impossibility to even consider trying to develop an entirely different protocol for cancer treatment based on a natural approach. It appears obvious that the cancer establishment is focused on making huge profits from treating cancer rather than on helping people with prevention and low cost therapies.

If we want to live healthy disease free lives, then we must each take personal responsibility for preventing cancer in our lives in the first place and educating our families and loved ones to the preventative approach, rather than the cut out and destroy approach of the medical profession (Cut, Poison & Burn). Take care now and make sure you start checking some of those personal care products and toiletries you use for toxic chemicals. See how many chemicals you can find listed on things like toothpaste, shampoo, moisturiser deodorant etc. If you can't pronounce the chemical names on your skin care products and toiletries then would you consider eating them? Of course not! You know, it would be safer to eat most of these products than put them on your skin! This deals with what cancer is and some of the measures you can take to prevent it.

READ ON What is cancer?
One of the characteristics of cancer is that it is related to our advances in life-style as a civilized society. In past centuries, cancer was a rare disease, and it is still very rare in isolated societies that are insulated from contact with the synthetic chemical products, toxic chemicals and polluted atmospheres that are so common in our modern world. So how can this be? Cancer is not considered an infectious disease caused by a virus or bacteria, or by a "germ" of any kind. (Although some research did appear to point at that at one stage.) It is not a disease that you can "catch" as such from someone else. Rather it is a disease caused by the body's natural immune systems being gradually overwhelmed by toxins or other carcinogens (cancer causing substances) through constant exposure over time. This breakdown of the immune system may be accentuated by nutritional deficiencies due to poor eating habits, a depletion of essential trace elements and minerals in our food due to non sustainable farming practices and/or an over dependence on processed and nutritionally defunct fast foods. In fact, scientific research does indicate very strongly that diet, good or bad, and an adequate or inadequate intake of good phyto-nutrient rich and mineral dense food, does play a major role in the prevention or the onset of cancer.

As our body's age they tend to lose the ability to purge the toxins and residues of toxic chemicals, cell mutations occur which reproduce and grow, gradually replacing healthy cells. Some researchers seem to think that it is a healing process of the body that has gone awry and doesn't know when to stop. In time, the damage caused by the mutated cells becomes so extensive that critical life processes are interrupted and death occurs. We even see children being struck down in ever increasing numbers from cancer - so it is a process that can start occurring very early in life for some people. Cancer can occur in many forms and locations throughout the body. And, some cancers are more frequently found amongst people in geographic areas or among certain population groups. Some cancers are faster growing than others and some are more difficult to treat than others, but all are similar, in as far as they involve the proliferation of mutated cells which have built a protective protein shield around themselves. Most scientists agree, at least 80% of all cancers, are caused by toxins and carcinogens, (often toxins in very small so called "safe" levels) and other damaging factors in our environment that we are... REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO.

Cumulative affects.
Over a period of many years repeated exposure to these "safe" chemicals and toxins, although the exposure may be small at any one time, the effects can be and ARE CUMULATIVE... similar to the long drawn out process involved in lung cancer with cigarette smokers. Toxins build up in the body if the liver can't manufacture the specific enzymes to deal with them and dangerous mutations at the cellular level causes ongoing damage. Eventually the body can no longer resist the effects of these harmful toxic elements, and mutated cells, that is cancer cells, begin to form en-masse. This is the beginning of cancer in a once healthy body For most of us, our level of exposure to potentially cancer causing factors (carcinogens) is determined by the choices we make. However, deciding to make changes in our life-style and reduce our exposure to these toxins and carcinogens requires a level of awareness that most people don't have. We must first know the sources of the problems before we can choose to avoid them.

Cancer causing factors.
What are common examples of cancer causing factors in our environment that most people would be aware of? There are two common causes of cancer with which we are all familiar due to extensive public education campaigns conducted over many years. These are both causes of cancer, which are based on life-style choices. In both cases, it is the person's actions, which allow the damaging factors to be introduced into the cells of the body. The first of these involves the carcinogens found in cigarette smoke, which is inhaled into the lungs. This is a good illustration for our discussion. It is a commonly accepted fact that smoking increases a person's chance of developing cancer as well as heart disease and other serious illnesses such as emphysema. Not all smokers develop cancer, but their likelihood of getting cancer increases with the number of years they have been smoking. This is entirely consistent with the concept that the build up of toxins, in this case from cigarette smoke, gradually overwhelms the body's ability to remove them and detoxify itself, thereby causing cells to mutate into cancer. With some people, their immune system is stronger in their ability to resist these toxins than others. Some people, despite smoking, still lead a healthy lifestyle, eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and supplement their diet with anti-oxidants, trace minerals and probiotics and will not develop cancer. They do tend to be, very much the exception to the rule however!

The vast majority will develop cancer in the long run. That's if heart disease doesn't claim them first! We can protect ourselves against this cause of cancer by not smoking and by avoiding prolonged exposure to 2nd hand smoke. This is an obvious solution of course, which any thinking person would embrace immediately - wouldn't they? Perhaps not! Despite disgusting photos of cancer cells and damaged and destroyed lungs and other shocking evidence and warnings on cigarette packets that smoking WILL KILL the person doing the smoking - people continue to buy cancer sticks and smoke them every day of their lives! Many of these people are totally indifferent to the people around them who have to inhale their side smoke. So it makes me wonder just how much thought many people give to their own health and the health of their loved ones, when they are prepared to spend a large amount of money and time doing everythng they can to destroy their own health and probably develop cancer and heart disease.

Another example, which we are all familiar with, is skin cancer, which is tied to excessive exposure to intense sunlight. The sun's rays are composed of A, B, and C rays. The B rays cause sunburn on the surface of the skin, and most chemical based sun block lotions will reduce exposure to B rays. The effects of C rays are largely unknown. We do know however, that A rays penetrate deeply into the layers of the skin and damage cells well below the surface. This can lead to wrinkling, a leather-like texture, and the potential to develop skin cancer. Here again, some body's are far better able to resist this damage than others, but prolonged exposure to the sun generally results an increased likelihood of skin cancer developing later in life. We can protect ourselves from sun damage by limiting our exposure, staying covered as much as possible, and seeking out a high quality non-toxic lotion that blocks the full spectrum of A, B, and C solar rays. (Conversely many if not all over the counter sun block creams and lotions contain known carcinogens and toxic chemicals which will build up in your body, and when used over time, just like cigarette smoke will cause lung cancer, the toxins contained in sunscreens will predispose sun bathers to melanoma! Scary! Once again we have come to the end of the report. So take care and start checking out some of those products you have been using for potentially dangerous chemicals. It really is best not to expose yourself to toxic chemicals anymore than you need to.

For today's exercise see if you can find formaldehyde in any of your products. Formaldehyde is used as a preservative in bubble bath for children and it is also used as embalming fluid for preserving bodies and as a preservative in vaccines. It is also a component of particle board and industrial glues. It is a known carcinogen and the warning label clearly states that it causes irreversible health damage.