According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 34,000 people a year die of cancer that has been caused by environmental toxins. That means that at least 6% of all cancer deaths per year are caused by cancer causing agents in our environment. For the medical community to announce such alarming statistics and to freely admit that toxins cause cancer really ought to sober up our awareness.
We have to also readily add here that another source, the President’s Cancer Panel, has stated that the percentage was “grossly underestimated” . More research will be required to determine the exact number of deaths that are caused by cancer causing chemicals each year.
In light of these facts, and knowing that we all share the same environment, we must take action now in three respects.
- First, we must what toxins cause cancer.
- Secondly, we must avoid exposing ourselves to these cancer causing agents immediately, if possible, and learn how to protect against future exposure.
- Thirdly, we have to proactively pursue detoxification of our bodies to get rid of cancer causing toxins that are already stored within it.
Two very dangerous types of cancer causing chemicals, dioxin and PCBs, are known to be carcinogenic. Sometimes they are found in the most unlikely of food sources. For example, many people have taken to eating salmon to gain the health benefits this type of fish offers. However, it is been found that farm-raised salmons can contain as much as 10 times the amount of dioxin and PCBs as wild salmon.
Not only do these toxins cause cancer, but they particularly imperil brain development in fetuses and nursing infants. Pregnant women in particular should avoid eating farm-raised salmon and purchase only fish caught in the wild. This whole idea of fish-farming is unhealthy to begin with. Farms create pollution and operate as breeding pools for diseases that in turn jump out into the environment and begin to afflict the wild populations of fish still roaming the oceans.
This serves as only one of many examples of how many products marketed as healthy are actually not-healthy as a result of how they are produced. “PCBs” stands for polychlorinated biphenyls, and they are in found in many seemingly innocuous food products such as farm-raised fish. There are many other types of toxins that cause cancer, however, in addition to PCBs. Mercury, many pesticides, and dioxin are poisonous not only to humans, but to the entire ecosystem. Animal life is protected by immune systems within organisms, and it takes less than a millionth of a gram of cancer causing chemicals and agents to impair autoimmune functions.
These, in turn, make human beings more vulnerable to certain forms of cancer such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This horrible disease has killed some of the best and brightest of our kind, and studies continue to confirm that PCBs in the blood increase the risk of its onset. Switching to an all-organic diet immediately can drastically reduce our exposure to PCBs and other carcinogenic agents.
Once we stop ingesting these agents, we must also invest in products such as Oxy-Powder that, among other cleansing functions, help detoxify the body of certain toxins that cause cancer. While the body can, to some degree, detoxify itself of poisons on its own, many cancer causing chemicals can build up in the system that require organic and natural products to be dislodged sufficiently for the body to expel them.
