cancer is a man-made disease ?, page-26

I'm surprised that no one mentioned the obvious, which is that we are living beyond the normal human 'use by date'. Sure, cancer rears it's ugly head and will randomly strike a young person out of the blue. But for the rest of us, we are living well longer than our ancestors giving us a far greater chance of being struck down with the insidious disease.

What the hell are we doing by pumping 80, 90 and 100 year olds full of medication to keep them alive for? Who really benefits when the end result is someone who is in constant discomfort from the natural ailments of living beyond their years? You think it's normal for someone with worn out joints, no teeth, no strength to potter around waiting for something better to happen for once?

We know that in the past most human adults did not live beyond the age of 40 if lucky, but realistically the average age of death was well below that. And it was only a few 100 years ago where around half of children would not make it past 4 years of age. Put these factors together and you had humans fighting the forces of nature by having children from a very young age of 13 and even lower, and a much higher number - like 10 per family. With ten babies they knew that they should at least have 3 reach adulthood - that was their superannuation.

Cancer was never something that was feared unlike viruses and bacterial infections that wiped out nations in just a few months of an outbreak. These were the real issues, because they provided the greatest reason for an early death. Cancer? Wasn't that something that you got for eating tubas (potatoes)?

A dentist also told me that teeth, without fluoride, brushing, treatment, etc, will rot very quickly, and it was one of the significant causes for preventing animals and humans living beyond their means - no teeth meant a drastically reduced chance of eating the volume of food to maintain health and strength.

The pattern we see with humans and cancer is replicated by domestic cats and dogs - in the wild these animals would last no more than 5 years. But with our pets we are seeing them live past 15 years with ease. And what is a common disease for these ageing pets...cancer!

So environment is playing an important part in the rising rates of cancer. But seeing we are living far longer than we are supposed to then it's logical that the 2 factors go hand in hand in raising cancer rates. The way I see it, environment plays a secondary part for cancer to strike simply because we a giving it a chance to make its presence felt - by giving it time to make an impact!