If anyone wondered what a modern lifestyle, including diet and lack of exercise, paired with pollution and other offending agents, are doing to the human body one only needs to look at the projected data on cancer incidence in the UK.
By the year 2020, half of Britons will have cancer. That's one in two. 50% of the entire population.
Only 50 years ago, the incidence of cancer was one in 8. By the 1970's it had already reached 1 in 5. by the year 2000 it was one in 3.
What we are looking at is the rapid increase in malignancy due to our modern style of living.
If anyone had any doubt about the incidence of cancer in developed countries, the health organizations have already established for example that China is now in line with Europe and other developed countries for cancer incidence. And that is without counting clusters due to environmental problems, such as 'cancer villages'.
That is because with affluence and modern living come also the habits that enhance the possibility of developing cancer.
This kind of statistic should be a warning to be heeded as quickly as possible. People need to inform themselves and act on how to diminish habits that put them at higher risk, while governments need to act to curb the pollution and other factors that contribute to the disease.
Although mortality has been reduced by modern medicine, such high incidence could collapse the health systems as we know it.
Many scientists also blame the longevity of the human race for the higher incidence of cancer. But the problem is too that not enough research has been devoted to find a cure for cancer. Progress in healthcare has made giant strides in almost any sector expect for oncology.
Source : MNT 6.7.13
No comments:
Post a Comment