I'm not suggesting there should be less awareness or consideration of breast cancer, just that those far harder cancers to treat should be given similar attention - and similar funding for research / treatment.
Prostate cancer, for example, has a comparable incidence rate to breast cancer and has very little to do with lifestyle, but gets nowhere near the same attention.
Well you can thank the pharmaceutical and insurance companies for that one. Now you know why I think everyone should be encouraged to eat at least one lemon a day. Lemons have natural cancer killers in them. I know a guy in his 80's who looks like he's in his 60's and still works out like a demon. He's healthy as a horse and never had cancer partially because he eats a spoonful of frozen lemon each meal.
I'd guess it's more to do with culture than insurance or Big Pharma.
As for lemons, meh. There are a million and one things you can eat, drink and do that have been claimed to be 'cancer killers', some of which have simultaneously been claimed to be carcinogenic.
I don't really bother taking notice. Better just to focus on a generally healthy lifestyle, and being attuned to your body so that you'll hopefully notice if something's not quite right.
As to that guy in his 80s, there have been men and women over 100 that have claimed the key to longevity is to smoke, drink and have a good time... So... I generally put that kind of thing down to genes and luck :P
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I'm not suggesting there should be less awareness or consideration of breast cancer, just that those far harder cancers to treat should be given similar attention - and similar funding for research / treatment.
Prostate cancer, for example, has a comparable incidence rate to breast cancer and has very little to do with lifestyle, but gets nowhere near the same attention.
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Well you can thank the pharmaceutical and insurance companies for that one. Now you know why I think everyone should be encouraged to eat at least one lemon a day. Lemons have natural cancer killers in them. I know a guy in his 80's who looks like he's in his 60's and still works out like a demon. He's healthy as a horse and never had cancer partially because he eats a spoonful of frozen lemon each meal.
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I'd guess it's more to do with culture than insurance or Big Pharma.
As for lemons, meh. There are a million and one things you can eat, drink and do that have been claimed to be 'cancer killers', some of which have simultaneously been claimed to be carcinogenic.
I don't really bother taking notice. Better just to focus on a generally healthy lifestyle, and being attuned to your body so that you'll hopefully notice if something's not quite right.
As to that guy in his 80s, there have been men and women over 100 that have claimed the key to longevity is to smoke, drink and have a good time... So... I generally put that kind of thing down to genes and luck :P
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True! It's not always about luck, though, but a lot of it is. I can't deny that.