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Originally Posted by quill
I think eating is only a portion of the problem. How do you answer the following?
Do you die your hair?
Do you get your nails done?
Do you use deodorant?
Do you use skin cream or lotion?
Do you use cleaning chemicals around the house?
Do you breath the gas fumes when filling your car?
Do you walk around barefoot on you lawn?
Do you wash you hands to remove chemicals as soon as you come off the golf course?
Do you use sun block rather than limiting sun exposure?
Do you use perfume?
What shampoo do you use?
On and on and on, etc
How you answer those questions are as important if not more so than how you eat. We are systematically poisoning ourselves with daily consumptions of chemicals that no one has researched. They may have researched how their own chemicals impact us but no company can go out and research how they all react together from one brand to the next. If all the vegan are watching for these things along with eating the way they do then congrats, but
I think eating is only a small portion of the big picture. I have no proof, but believe that many of our current day illness are environmental, because we do not take the time to look ate what we are exposing ourselves to.
And lastly do you wear your seat belt?
And do you drive when you have drinking?
Food for thought?
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THANK YOU.....for bringing in a big component of what has a LOT more to do with human cells mutating and going cancerous than whether we eat meat, milk, eggs, etc. or not.
I think there is a lot of confusion about the terms "genes" and "genetic" when
talking about what brings on or worsens th likelihood of cancer forming in us. Genes and genetics don't refer to just hereditary tendencies/traits. Genes and genetics also refer to the sets of instructions or codes witin cells that control how they form, work, and mutate.
This American Cancer Society page from its History of Cancer section is excellent and explains well some of the notions people rely on, thinking they can control cancer from ever forming in themselves.
Actually, only God can "control" or prevent any of this. But that would also require a person to resign from being General Manager of the Universe, to let God be in charge....and then ask him and listen for a response.
I know some are turned off by that, but read this interesting article anyway. We all learn something new every day.
"Modern knowledge and cancer causes"
By the middle of the 20th century, scientists had the instruments they needed to work on some of the complex problems of chemistry and biology that remained unsolved. James Watson and Francis Crick, who received a Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work, had discovered the exact chemical structure of
DNA, the basic material in genes.
DNA was found to be the basis of the genetic code that gives orders to all cells. After learning how to translate this code, scientists were able to understand how genes worked and how they could be damaged by mutations (changes or mistakes in genes). These modern techniques of chemistry and biology answered many complex questions about cancer.
Scientists already knew that cancer could be caused by chemicals, radiation, and viruses, and that sometimes cancer seemed to run in families. But as the
understanding of DNA and genes increased, they learned that it was the damage to DNA by chemicals and radiation, or the introduction of new DNA sequences by viruses that often led to the development of cancer. It became possible to pinpoint the exact site of the damage on a specific gene.
Scientists discovered that sometimes defective genes are inherited, and sometimes these inherited genes are defective at the same points that chemicals exerted their effect.
In other words, most of the things that caused cancer (carcinogens) caused genetic damage (mutations), these mutations led to abnormal groups of cells (called clones), the mutant clones evolved to even more malignant clones over time, and the cancer progressed by more and more genetic damage and mutations. Normal cells with damaged DNA die; cancer cells with damaged DNA do not. The discovery of this critical difference answered many questions that had troubled scientists for many years....."
Modern knowledge and cancer cause