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Are our commonest diseases preventable?
Preventing cancer has much to offer. Aside from plummeting health care costs, we might enjoy a healthier life free of cancer and chronic disease. Prevention requires the adoption of healthier choices and a moderate amount of exercise. The supporting evidence is observational, clinical, and partly common sense. Further investigations reveal several substances in a whole-food plant-based diet that have protective effects and an inhibitory effect on tumor development. For pancreatic cancer, the basis of cure remains a century old operation that rarely cures. With little to lose, prevention deserves center stage and additional studies.
All the results of a common cause will be related to one another. Consequently observed inter-relationships between diseases suggest some common causative factors. Certain characteristically western diseases have been shown to be related to one another in a number of different ways, including their order of emergence. This order with increasing age in western countries is the same as that of their emergence with the passage of time following the impact of western culture in developing countries. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that they share some causative factor, and the removal of fiber from plant foods has been postulated to be such a factor.
Refined Carbohydrate Foods and Disease
- D P Burkitt
- H Trowell
Burkitt, D. P. and Trowell, H., (Eds.) " Refined Carbohydrate Foods and Disease ". Academic Press, London, 1975.