Hi Pat- Researchers tell us that most cancers are a direct response of genetic and lifestyle factors. The more I learn about our current food delivery system the more I am alarmed about how everyday foods are making society ill. Cancer appears to have been with humans for eons. Early human fossils have shown evidence of cancer, but the rate of cancer diagnoses in today's society is alarming. Collectively, we need to address the way food is grown, distributed and prepared/processed. Warning labels are useful in educating the public, but they have little effect on deterrence. It would be more cost effective to allow us to eat foods that were truly healthful rather than pushing cheap processed foods on the public and suffering the consequences in astronomical health costs down the road. Clearly, this will need to be a grassroots effort if we are to ever realize systematic change.
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Hi Pat- Researchers tell us that most cancers are a direct response of genetic and lifestyle factors. The more I learn about our current food delivery system the more I am alarmed about how everyday foods are making society ill. Cancer appears to have been with humans for eons. Early human fossils have shown evidence of cancer, but the rate of cancer diagnoses in today's society is alarming. Collectively, we need to address the way food is grown, distributed and prepared/processed. Warning labels are useful in educating the public, but they have little effect on deterrence. It would be more cost effective to allow us to eat foods that were truly healthful rather than pushing cheap processed foods on the public and suffering the consequences in astronomical health costs down the road. Clearly, this will need to be a grassroots effort if we are to ever realize systematic change.
February 10, 2010 - 10:19amThis Comment
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