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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.

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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