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How to Prevent Cancer
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Did you realize that many cancers are turning out to be do-ityourself diseases? What we eat and drink, where we live and
work, and what we breathe may well determine whether we
become a cancer statistic. Today we want to talk about the good
news of how to prevent cancer.

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Medical science continues to makestrides toward earlier detection
and improved treatments for many cancers. But these efforts are
largely after the fact. The sad truth is that the overall death rates
for many cancers continue to rise.

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For example, one in four American lives are now being claimed by
cancer. This trend, however, could be reversed. If we would
simply take the precautions that wealready know about,

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70 to 80 percent of cancers could be prevented.
Won’t people do just about anything to avoid such a terrifying
disease?
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Almost anything, it seems, except change their lifestyles.
Take lung cancer, for example—the cancer that kills more men
and women in developed countries than any other. We’ve known
for fifty years that lung canceris directly related to cigarette
smoking, yet millions of people continue to smoke.

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Worldwide more and more people are using tobacco. And it’s not
just lung cancer….

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…close to ninety percent of the cancers of the lung, lip, mouth,
tongue, throat, and esophagus could be prevented if people simply
stopped using tobacco.
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It would alsoprevent half the bladder cancers.

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Overall, tobacco use is responsible for approximately one-third of
all cancer deaths.

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But that’s not the whole story. By age sixty, smokers are ten times
more likely to die from heart disease and stroke than non-smokers.

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Thousands more smokers die by slow suffocation from
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If you smoke, determine now to get help to stop-smoking;
Seventh-day Adventists have one of the most successful stop
smoking programs in America. Why not give them a call?

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People don’t realize that diet—what people choose to eat—relates
to as many, or more, cancer deaths as tobacco.

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Most researchersnow agree that 33% of cancers could be
prevented with an improved diet,2 and others put the figure even
higher.
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Food? You may ask. How can food cause cancer? Is it because of
the chemicals and pesticides used to grow and preserve our food?
Carcinogens, which refer to cancer producing substances, are a
concern, especially with the array of…

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…additives, preservatives,flavor enhancers, pesticides, and other
chemicals that are used in producing and marketing much of our
food.
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However, only two percent of cancers can be reliably linked to
these substances.

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In contrast, evidence of the connection between cancer and such
dietary factors as fiber and fat grows stronger every day.
Compared with diets at the turn of thecentury, the average
Westerner now eats…

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…thirty-six percent more fat, and one-third less fiber. In areas
around the world where fat intake is low and fiber consumption is
high, there is a negligible incidence of the more common cancers
such as colon, breast, and prostate cancers.
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In countries such as the UnitedStates, Canada, and New Zealand,
where diets are low in fiber and high in fat, rates for these kinds of
cancers are much higher.

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How can things such as fiber and fat influence cancer?
Not all the answers are in yet, but cancer is associated with
carcinogens – chemical irritants that can produce cancerous
lesions over time.

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