Re: OT...Are we killing ourselves...or what?

Posted by mike on January 13, 2004 at 11:49:32 from (66.170.4.122):

In Reply to: OT...Are we killing ourselves...or what? posted by Sad in SD on January 13, 2004 at 06:50:33:

Well, I haven't done any research so I don't have any numbers and cannot say for sure, but I do not believe that there is a preponderance of cancer victims in rural areas. That is to say that there is at least no more in rural areas than in urban ones.

Cancer and heart disease are the two largest killers of people in this country. The reason for that is because we are living longer by average and have eradicated many things that killed more in the past. Accidents and complications from simple infections used to kill many more. Since that is no longer the case, we live longer and fall to other things like cancer and heart disease.

I go to farm auctions from time to time and are sometimes appalled by the poor physical conditon that many older farmers are in. Moreover, many are NOT getting their preventative care like annual physicals. That is very evident when I see morbidly obese individuals with rotting teeth just kind of waddling around. Many simply do not go to the doctor until it is too late. Cancer is one of those things that really must be caught early.

Some of the cancers and heart problems are a result of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle as well as poor diet. Eating right and exercising properly will reduce those things to a certain extent.

Now, I am sorry to hear about your friends and maybe there is some kind of problem localized to your area. That could very well be the case. There were a lot of toxic things in the 40s and 50s that we used daily without knowing that they were dangerous.

That being said, I do NOT believe that cancer is some sort of government conspiricy that has been perpetrated on dwellers of rural areas. That is just too silly to contemplate seriously.

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