I have read much research on cancer and alternative ways of “preventing cancer”. It makes sense that when the body is put under any strain it opens up the doorway to cancer – due to the bodies own healing process!! (For instance, smoking causes lung cancer). So obesity is a SURE SIGN of cancer on the particular organs that are stressed through the “over-eating” process.

Since obese people eat too much food (often highly processed) or the “wrong types of foods” for their metabolic type, they strain their body (like the smokers), and therefore they cause cancer (just eating too much food, would strain the body). Because the diets of these people wouldn’t contain the foods that safeguard against cancer; they practically INVITE cancer in – and it makes even more sense that obesity would speed the return of colon cancer, since the obesity would have causes the cancer in the first place!

The best way to stop cancer, is PREVENTION!

Very good reasons for maintaining and ideal body weight.  However, if you are following the food pyramid guidlines you are in for some trouble to maintain your weight.  The food pyramid tends to be heavy on the starch foods and not put enough emphasis on fruits and vegatables.

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One of the precursors toColon cancer is colon polyps.  It is my belief that a major contributing factor to colon polyps is the huge amount of soy found in our food supply.  The phyto-estrogens stimulate growths in the intestines as well as other parts of the body. When we consume meat from animals that have been fed large amounts of genetically-modified corn and soy, we are not only going to gain large amounts of weight but are likely to develop colon polyps along with bloating and other unpleasant side effects.  For young children to now be developing diverticulitis, obesity, and precocious puberty should be a wake up call to conventional medicine that something in our food is causing these things to occur.  I agree that prevention is key, but the average consumer has little knowlege of what is necessary to turn around the cancer and obesity epidemic.

I would have to disagree with the comment above to some extent. There are too many Americans eating too many fruits and veggies, as well as other highly processed foods. This equals sugar, not matter if it is good for you or not. That equals weight gain secondary to insulin resistance. I feel that protein and especially fats are forgot about.

When I analyze clients food logs as part of my assessment, most are void or contain about 20% protein and fats. This is what has to be stressed more. Yes a balanced diet, but fat does not require insulin to break it down, neither does protein.

As for cancer, wow, this is a big topic. From a physical perspective, Americans lives are full of stressors/toxins (physical, chemical, nutritional, EMF, mental, emotional, etc). If we don't take the time to change this, the bodies detox pathways become overloaded. In short, this can cause most of the autoimmune and inflammatory diseases that are out there. Over time, if the toxins and stress keep building up, well cancer is the next step.

From a more esoteric perspecitve, some beleive that emotions that are kept in can cause cancer. Example, in chinese medicine the lung and large intestine are a coupled pair. The lung downbears qi to the kidney's, as well as qi to the rest of the body, and the large intestine downbears waste fromt he small intestine. When we hold things in, we do not poop. Emotional consitpation is the same as constipation. All those toxic materials are being held in the colon over time, that can be another cause.

The lung/LI are correlated with the skin, reg fluid in the body and the emotion of grief or sadness. How many truely happy Americans do you know that are not putting up a facad? Most are so unhappy, lonely, scared and fearful inside, but pretend on the outside. We are taught that men can't cry and women are too emotional. It would be interesting to see a study to see if men have more colon cancer than women. Anyway, this is a short version of my thoughts.