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