The Cancer: How it All Began

The commonness of cancer in the ancient world wasbecame a part of the society's regular diet, the
very rare.morbidity of cancer dieses increased.
It was a different world where the balanced diet wasIn 1988 the world's health organization announced that
based on,cereals, vegetables and fruits and very littlethe delegation of the diet is the reason to 40% cancer
from the wild (meat, milk, eggs, fish, sea food).in men,and 60% cancer dieses in women.
A world that water and air pollution were very minimal,By these statistics the world's health organization
a world that was clean from industrial waste andsuggests to increase consuming cereals, fruits and
insecticides, a world that radioactive and electrovegetables, and decreasethe consumption from the
magnetic radiation was missing.wild (meat, milk products, eggs, fish, see food, etc').
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who livedAs more as the average life expectancy is rising, so
in Greece in the 5th century B.C., was the first toas the morbidity of cancer diseases. If 50 years ago
discover and describe cancer.only 1 out of 8 people, in the industrial countries had
The cancer started to be more frequent years after,cancer, today with the growing life expectancy it
with the beginning of the industrial revolution in Europestanding on 1 out of 3.
in the 17th century.the symptoms were chemicalIf the morbidity from cancer will keep increasing like
changes in the body tissues,today, by the year 2050, every citizen of the western
And it became even more frequent in the beginning ofcountries will have some kind of cancer. The morbidity
the 20th century.will rise and will be as a plague.
The commonness of cancer in the western society isIn order to stop this very sad prophecy, its necessary
much higher then it is in the traditional society.to increase the awareness of the people, young and
Its agreed that a big part of cancer dieses are causedold, that the cancer is preventable. Prevention is easy,
by an unbalanced diet and bad eating habits, thatnot painful, and even cheap. Whereas healing is a long,
caused by exaggerated consuming of proteins, fats,painful, complicated expansive process that its
diabetes, and processed food that contains a lot ofchances are not guaranteed.
chemicals. Once this exaggerated consumption