Hot Dogs & Leukemia
How much cancer risk can be avoided through lifestyle change?
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Hot Dogs & Leukemia,
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Transcript
We do have to put this risk into context. Our children are 7 times more likely to develop a brain tumor eating just a single hot dog a week than using a cell phone. In fact if our children insist on wanting to be Oscar Myer weiners, they are multiplying their odds of getting childhood leukemia by 950%.
Diet is the number one cause of cancer. Cancer is a preventable disease, but it does require major lifestyle changes. Only 5-10% of cancer is in our genes, our family history. 90 to 95% of cancer is caused by what you expose your body to. Of the 90-95%, tobacco contributes about a quarter of the risk in the United States. There are some infectious causes, particularly in people with AIDS, but diet, if you include obesity and alcohol, makes up about 50% of our cancer risk, and cell phones, air pollution, x-rays, everything else all just fits into this last 10-15%.
Anything about our diet in particular? From a massive new study in Canada last year, total meat consumption was directly related to the risk of not only stomach cancer, but colon cancer, and rectal cancer, and pancreatic cancer, and lung cancer, and breast cancer, and prostate cancer, and testicular cancer, and kidney cancer, and bladder cancer, and more leukemia as well.
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Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel "Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?". Also, there arehttp://nutritionfacts.org/topi... covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!
Also, be sure to check out my associated blog posts: Breast Cancer and Diet andAdding FDA-Approved Viruses to Meat.
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