Cancer Stats

According to world statistics, America has the highest incidence of cancer in the entire world.

Much like the Neo-fascist Republicans of the 80's thought that AIDS was in place to eliminate the gay deviants, I believe Cancer is in place to eliminate the Gluttonous, greedy, sloths- three of the seven deadly sins that the average American is most guilty of.

i believe it. i've known at least 5 people who have died of cancer. and two others who have it currently.w0lfbreeder

Jesus Christ, that is unnaturally excessive. I have only personally known one person who has had/died from cancer, and I am 34. You're social circles must be significantly different from mine...

What kind of cancer are we talking about????????

breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer......

none of these have anything to do with being lazy, glutonous or greedy.

You seem a little angry.

My dog died of bone cancer. :cry:-Jiggles-

What kind of cancer are we talking about????????

breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer......

none of these have anything to do with being lazy, glutinous or greedy.

jasperrussell

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

[QUOTE="-Jiggles-"]My dog died of bone cancer. :cry:sonicare

That dog stole my food... my money... and my heart. :(

Your links aren't very helpful.

And why would you want to compare yourself to a neo-fascist?

[QUOTE="jasperrussell"]

What kind of cancer are we talking about????????

breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer......

none of these have anything to do with being lazy, glutinous or greedy.

fellybat

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

Your links aren't very helpful.

And why would you want to compare yourself to a neo-fascist?

zeldaluff

Do you really not get it? I am suggesting that the rationality that they used against the homosexuals of the day is backfiring on the same surviving turds of today.

Cancer is seeking revenge upon their idiocy and dangerous ideological ignorance by feeding on their lifetime of rich fatty red meat indulgence by eating them from the inside-out. Just imagine it! It's beautiful!

Cancerous kids must eat a hell of a lot of red meat.

Obesity increases the risk of cancer, but it falls far short of hereditary, environmental, and habitual causes of cancer (e.g. smoking). And then there are some things we have no idea what creates a difference, such as the disparity between stomach cancer rates in the West and in Asia.

Of course, the greatest leading cause of cancer is simply old age, as we've far outlived our natural lifecycles and cancer is one of the downsides to the increased life expectancy.

Cancerous kids must eat a hell of a lot of red meat.

zeldaluff

Americans eat more red meat than any other nation on Earth, so go figure.

You might think South America or Australia/NZ, but no. They throw a shrimp on the barbie, not a huge dead mammal.

Borneo, Spain, Portugal, with their pigs...nothing comes close...

[QUOTE="jasperrussell"]

What kind of cancer are we talking about????????

breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer......

none of these have anything to do with being lazy, glutinous or greedy.

fellybat

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example. It's also frequently has a strong genetic component, as in breast or colon cancer.

Cancers are also being detected and treated much earlier than before, and people are living longer.

[QUOTE="zeldaluff"]

Cancerous kids must eat a hell of a lot of red meat.

fellybat

Americans eat more red meat than any other nation on Earth, so go figure.

You might think South America or Australia/NZ, but no. They throw a shrimp on the barbie, not a huge dead mammal.

[QUOTE="fellybat"][QUOTE="jasperrussell"]

What kind of cancer are we talking about????????

breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer......

none of these have anything to do with being lazy, glutinous or greedy.

cmdrmonkey

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example.

You certainly have a valid point, but are you suggesting that all cancers are now solely linked to viruses and not just a blatant bad diet, trans fats, stress, and lack of physical exercise?

Some people are just unlucky. Thats all there is to it.

I know guys who smoke three packs of cigs a day. They have perfectly healthy lungs, but the guy exposed to second hand smoke at work got cancer.

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"][QUOTE="fellybat"]

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

fellybat

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example.

You certainly have a valid point, but are you suggesting that all cancers are now solely linked to viruses and not just a blatant bad diet, trans fats, stress, and lack of physical exercise?

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"][QUOTE="fellybat"]

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

fellybat

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example.

You certainly have a valid point, but are you suggesting that all cancers are now solely linked to viruses and not just a blatant bad diet, trans fats, stress, and lack of physical exercise?

[QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"][QUOTE="fellybat"]

How could you possibly argue such a thing?! They are directly linked to such sedentary and processed food-infested lifestyles. Remember?

fellybat

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example.

You certainly have a valid point, but are you suggesting that all cancers are now solely linked to viruses and not just a blatant bad diet, trans fats, stress, and lack of physical exercise?

Viruses and genetic predispositioning, yes. That's where most of the scientific evidence is now pointing. Of course the environment interacts with those things.

My stepfather for example did everything right. Strict diet. He went running almost every day. He still contracted multiple myeloma and was dead in three years. He survived far longer than most people with high viscosity multiple myeloma because he was in such great physical shape, but it didn't prevent him from getting the disease.

Having watched him whither away to nothing and die, after going through a series of ultimately futile stem cell transplants that never offered him any hope of a cure, I find this thread extremely offensive. It implies that the disease was somehow his fault. The reality is that he died a senseless death because he got dealt a crappy hand in life.

[QUOTE="fellybat"][QUOTE="cmdrmonkey"]

That's a really simplistic and ignorant way to look at it. If anything, we're finding that a suprising number of cancers have a viral etiology. Cervical cancer and HPV or Lymphoma and EBV for example.

cmdrmonkey

You certainly have a valid point, but are you suggesting that all cancers are now solely linked to viruses and not just a blatant bad diet, trans fats, stress, and lack of physical exercise?

Viruses and genetic predisposition, yes. That's where most of the scientific evidence is now pointing. Of course the environment interacts with those things.

My stepfather for example did everything right. Strict diet. He went running almost every day. He still contracted multiple myeloma and was dead in three years.

I want valid answers as much as you do. I have close victims too. I may be working in the realm of green/sustainable chemistry, but let us both hope for understanding of our relatives passing, in a manner that makes sense and can be practically comprehended and worthy of an academic/intellectual...

My dog died of bone cancer. :cry:-Jiggles-

Look at all of the countries with their crappy socialized medicine that is way worse than the American system. Hey, wait a minute...

Hm, I think this just part of the CIA's liberal agenda.

According to world statistics, America has the highest incidence of cancer in the entire world.

Much like the Neo-fascist Republicans of the 80's thought that AIDS was in place to eliminate the gay deviants, I believe Cancer is in place to eliminate the Gluttonous, greedy, sloths- three of the seven deadly sins that the average American is most guilty of.

fellybat

To me, it looks like you´re giving cancer a form of higher purpose. Is it not just a side-effect of more or less unhealthy lifest yle?