“Dr. Mercola relays that, for a while, cancer has been the number two cause of death in the United States and the Western world. He believes this is due to dietary changes “because prior to 1900, I think the incidence of cancer was a half to 1%, and now it’s 33% [of] people dying from cancers.””
You see? Just a single quote like this lets one completely ignore whatever else he has to say.
Cancer is a disease mostly of old age. Pre 1900 people didn’t live to old age very often. So a breathless noting that 1/2 of 1% of people dying died of cancer pre 1900 is utterly meaningless.
Though he does have one thing right about diet. Those people age 78 in year 1899 didn’t have much of a diet, since they were already dead.
I really doubt the fatality rate from cancer has increased from 1/2% to 33% between 1800 and present.
I also seriously doubt the rest of this article, which makes anecdotal announcements as if they are clinical studies.
Besides, Balance of Nature cures everything. I know because my doctor told me “Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it”. Very scientific.
Beat me to it. Also most people were not autopsied back then and many would have died of undiagnosed cancers that were called all sorts of things.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Stage 4 Cancers Taking Off Like Wildfire: “We’re Going to See a Consistent Two to Threefold Increase”, Owen wrote: “Dr. Mercola relays that, for a while, cancer has been the number two cause of death in the United States and the Western world. He believes this is due to dietary changes “because prior to 1900, I think the incidence of cancer was a half to 1%, and now it’s 33% [of] people dying from cancers.””
You see? Just a single quote like this lets one completely ignore whatever else he has to say.
Cancer is a disease mostly of old age. Pre 1900 people didn’t live to old age very often. So a breathless noting that 1/2 of 1% of people dying died of cancer pre 1900 is utterly meaningless.
Though he does have one thing right about diet. Those people age 78 in year 1899 didn’t have much of a diet, since they were already dead.
"Just a single quote like this lets one completely ignore whatever else he has to say." ~ Owen
Do you imagine us all halting in our tracks and turning away in unison, as you'd like us to do?
If you read the article, the context refutes your nonsense and so it's your quote which I placed in itallics which lets one completely ignore whatever else you have to say.