WHY ARE CERTAIN CANCER TYPES INCREASING SO MUCH?
According to Swedish researchers (Gerhardssen and Donahue, 1988) the number of all cancer cases in males could be reduced by at least 30-40% (and in females by at least 60%) by making changes in what gets absorbed into our bodies by crossing the lining of gastrointestinal tract. Other estimates increase this percentage up to as high as 70% (Doll and Peto, 1981).
Over the past 50 years, the breast cancer rate in U.S. women has doubled. Now, one out of every eight women in the U.S. can be expected to be told she has breast cancer if she lives to the age of 85 (Harris and Lippman, 1992). The breast cancer rate in the more affluent English-speaking countries is now between 10 and 15 times the rate in poor countries such as Thailand or El Salvador. Why is that? In the poorest countries, people cannot afford many meat or dairy products, so they eat lots of fruits and vegetables. From an inspection of figure 1, it can be seen that the slavic countries are in the middle, between the two extremes (Cohen, 1987).
In 1992, Harvard Medical School researchers reported that low fat diets were particularly effective in lowering the incidence of colon cancer (Willett et al, 1992). In a review of 88 studies of 10 different types of cancer, 76 of them concluded that when a diet high in fruits and vegetables is used, the risk of those types of cancer is dramatically reduced (Steinmetz and Potter, 1991). The risk of uterine cancer, for instance, is slashed by approximately two thirds.
