The way we now live has changed and the increase of cancer now has paralleled this change. Our food is different thanks to supermarkets; we live a more sedentary lifestyle with motorcars for transport and television to entertain us. We are exposed to hundreds of chemicals which come in many forms, many of which are in the homes we live in. This way of living is called modern and one of the side effects is cancer and that’s because these are the factors that are causing it.

Cancer doesn’t have a single cause; it has many contributing factors but the main one is the food we eat. Our health is related to the food we eat everyday. In the modern world we now live in most of our food comes from supermarkets and much of this food is processed. We buy it because it’s appealing, it reads well on the label, it’s not expensive and most taste great but unfortunately this type of food is nutritionally deprived because of the way it’s processed.

Nearly all processed foods contain a high proportion of fat, salt and or refined sugar and these three items are also known contributors to cancer. Also most processed foods have additives, many of which are artificial and have no place in the human body. When heat is applied to food during processing it destroys the natural enzymes within that food. Digestive enzymes play a critical role in our health by enabling our bodies to digest and utilize all the important nutrients that these foods contain.

The reasons why exercise is important is because all cancers are a disease of an immune system that’s been weakened by our modern way of living and that has allowed normal body cells to mutate or grow without control. So common sense should tell you to strengthen it and there is no quick fix treatment to do that. What our complex immune system needs is exercise everyday because it relies on muscular activity to keep it working effectively.

Another trait of modern living is using lots of personal care products including hair dyes in the hope of keeping our skin and our hair looking great. Nearly all of these products including so called natural ones contain chemicals that have been extracted from crude oil and when applied to the skin are absorbed into the bloodstream through our pores. There are also many chemicals used in the building industry and in the contents of our homes such as formaldehyde, a known carcinogenic substance. They do affect us and they are known to contribute to cancer.

Cancer is not a disease you can catch, it is a disease that slowly develops over a period of years because of the way we live so you need to figure out why it first appeared and make some changes. All cancers can be beaten and if you are serious about it then it means a total lifestyle change forever. Unfortunately making lifestyle changes for most of us can be very difficult.

With our current way of treating cancer which focuses on removing just the growths, is only dealing with symptoms instead of the cause of the problem? What you need to do is to treat the reasons why it first grew because if you don’t it will just come back which it then becomes serious.

For the last 30 to 40 years we have been told that a breakthrough or cure for cancer is just around the corner, but that is not so. While they are just treating the symptoms and not the causes they will never solve problem.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the cause of cancer, it’s simply the modern way we now live.