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Why we get Cancer?
Cancer, our number two killer, our modern day scourge has, since the end of the last Great War, been skyrocketing. Despite a huge
amount of money being spent on research, are we any closer to finding a cure for the disease?
I’ve been lucky enough to have travelled and when in other countries I like to observe how other people live. One fact with cancer
that is clearly obvious is that the more developed the country, the more chance one has of getting it. Looking at cancer statistics for all
cancers from the “World Health Organization” (WHO) for the year 2002, for every 100 people that get cancer in the United States of
America,
90 will get it in New Zealand.
70 in Greece
50 in Chile
30 in China
15 in Botswana
10 in Vanuatu.
We are still travelling and are at present living on a yacht. Over the last 3 years we have spent many months in Vanuatu. We have
got to know many of the local people, especially in the isolated northern islands. They don’t get cancer, but we in New Zealand do so
why?
Let’s look at the different ways these people live, firstly at the food they eat.
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Vanuatu
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New Zealand
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The majority of their food is fresh, grown locally where they live. They don’t use
fertilizers or sprays.
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Our foods are commercially grown using artificial fertilizers and sprays.
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The only processed foods they use are a little rice, flour and maybe
sugar.
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Processed foods today form a huge part of our diet.
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They eat very little meat, some chicken, free range of course and home grown
pork.
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We are a big meat-consuming nation.
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They eat no dairy products.
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We eat dairy products everyday.
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They don’t use salt.
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Statistics tell us we consume 10 grams per person per day.
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They quench their thirst with coconut milk or water.
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We drink tea, coffee, soft drink or alcohol.
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Children have as a snack, paw paw, banana or some taro.
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Our children eat as a snack biscuits, chippies or lollies.
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They live in houses that are made of natural products.
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Our houses are made of products that use many chemicals, boric-treated timber and
formaldehyde an insidious poison that’s in curtains, carpets, upholstery and particle board flooring.
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They don’t use personal care products.
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We have a vast array of products that we apply directly to our porous skin; nearly all are
from the petrochemical industry and many are known to be carcinogenic.
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They get plenty of exercise because there are no roads so they have to walk
everywhere.
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We no longer get exercise as we have a car to take us where we want to
go.
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Now I’m sure you don’t want to live the way they live or eat the foods that they eat everyday, but we can learn from
them.
Cancer is a disease of a weak immune system which has become weakened through a lifetime of wrong eating, the use of too many
chemicals and our lack of exercise. The first requirement of a person with cancer is to strengthen their immune system which is of course
your guardian angel, our built-in repair system that keeps us free of degenerative diseases like cancer.
The ways to strengthen your immune system is to eat the foods that are designed for the human being, and they are fresh fruit and
vegetables. One also needs to remove the foods that suppress the immune system, and they are processed foods and foods that are high in
fat, salt and refined sugar. In addition, one should remove all chemicals that are building up toxins within the body and get some
exercise. We need exercise as it’s only through muscular activity that the immune system will function properly. It doesn’t have a pump
like the heart; but relies on muscular contractions to circulate the lymph, which is the immune system fluid.
The importance of oxygen in the body was discovered back in 1931 by Dr Otto Warburg, a German biochemist who won his first Nobel
Prize for the discovery that oxygen deficiency and cell fermentation are part of the cancer process. He stated that cancer is caused by a
lack of oxygen in the cells and that cancer will occur whenever a cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.
So you see that cancer doesn’t have a single cause but hundreds of contributing factors and they are a combination of wrong choice
of foods, too many toxic chemicals and our sedentary lifestyle.
We don’t have a cure for cancer today but only treatments. The problem with these is that they deal solely with the symptom of the
disease and give scant regard to the all important reason why the disease arrived in the first place. We all know someone who has had their
cancer treated medically with seeming success only to find a few months or years later it has returned. The way to become cancer free is
through knowledge and education and applying a bit of common sense. When one removes the factors that caused the problem in the first
place, the human body with the aid of a healthy immune system has a greater ability to remove the cancer, slowly and surely and
permanently. Isn’t that what we are trying to achieve?
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