The True Cause of Cancer

What causes cancer?

Many people believe that it’s all in your genes. Others say it’s the pollutants in the water we drink and the air we breath that are to blame.

In other words, cancer is beyond your control. It’s something that “just happens” to you.

But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

According to a decades-long investigation conducted by the National Cancer Institute, the pollution around you and the genes within you don’t play that big of a role in the development of cancer. Pollution only increases the risk for cancer by about 5% and your genetic makeup by about 10%.

So which factor plays the biggest role? Smoking, drinking, or drug use, perhaps?

Good guess, but no. Alcohol’s potential risk is less than 5% and medications even less than that. Tobacco ranks pretty high at just under 30%, but it isn’t the highest.

The stressor that increases your risk potential for cancer to almost 60% is, drum roll please…

Your diet.

Give Up the Meat and Milk

Ever heard of the China-Cornell-Oxford Project? Don’t worry, most people haven’t. And that’s really a shame because it’s the most comprehensive nutritional study performed to date!

The China Project (or China Study), conducted in 1983, looked at 6500 Chinese men and women from 65 counties in China. Blood and urine samples from each individual were analyzed and questionnaires administered. In addition, the diet of each person and his or her family was monitored for 3 days and food samples from marketplaces across China were taken for analysis.

The findings? There is a very strong correlation between animal consumption and cancer. It goes something like this: the more animal products (including meat, milk, butter, cheese, and eggs) you consume, the more likely you are to get cancer.

And I’m not talking about just one type of cancer. I mean colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, and also diabetes and heart disease. All of these diseases have been linked to animal and animal by-products in the diet.

And of course, I can’t forget about high cholesterol. From the book The China Study:

At the outset of the China Study, no one could or would have predicted that there would be a relationship between cholesterol and any of the disease rates. What a surprise we got! As blood cholesterol levels decreased from 170 mg/dL to 90 mg/dL, cancers of the liver, rectum, colon, male lung, female lung, breast, childhood leukemia, adult leukemia, childhood brain, adult brain, stomach and esophagus (throat) decreased.

This means if you want to dramatically cut down on your risk for cancer, you have to severely limit (no more than 10 ounces per week) any and all meat, milk, eggs, butter and, yes, even cheese, from your diet.

Get in the Fruits and Vegetables

In addition to giving up meat and milk, The China Project also showed a connection between cancer reduction and plant consumption.

For instance, lower incidences of large bowel were associated with higher intakes of plant foods (predictably because of the increased fiber intake). And those Chinese who ate more vegetable matter also had a lower risk for stomach cancer.

Plant consumption also appears to play a role in weight management. Again from The China Study:

Average calorie intake, per kilogram of body weight, was 30% higher among the least active Chinese than among average Americans. Yet, body weight was 20% lower…

Chinese consume more calories both because they are more physically active and because their consumption of low-fat, low-protein diet shifts conversion of these calories away from body fat to body heat. This is true even for the least physically active Chinese.

Oh, and the China Project researchers actually found a positive correlation between plant protein and height. It seems Mr. Gorilla is right…plants do make you big and strong!

Speaking of protein…

Can’t Get Enough Protein Without Animal Flesh?

Wrong.

I’ve been eating a low fat raw vegan diet since 2007 and yet protein intake is the least of my worries. That’s because getting enough protein on a vegan diet, even a RAW vegan diet, is so easy.

All you have to do is eat enough calories from sweet fruit and supplement your diet with tender greens and non-sweet fruits. I regularly EXCEED the recommended amount of daily protein for my weight simply by eating lots of fruit and finishing the day with a big, delicious salad.

Go raw, give up the meat and milk, and be fit,

Swayze

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