Where have we heard this message before? The big news of the day is that being overweight is the cause of cancer. By becoming super slim and exercising every day, eating mostly vegetables and fruits and grains, cutting down on red meat, sugar, salt and fats, we can prevent cancer.

Are we then to ignore all the information we have received about the pollution of our environment with toxic cancer causing chemicals and radiation? Just eat and exercise right and we will be alright! I wish it were that simple, then we could all shape up and live right. Join a little club and exercise together! It’s not that simple. Cancer is a multi-factoral disease. Genetic susceptibility contributes. Neither obesity nor genetics is the whole story. Without carcinogenic causing agents, we would not be having an epidemic of cancer.

Yes, our chance of getting cancer can be reduced if we are healthy. However, the burden of toxic chemicals, the increases in ionizing radiation, in electromagnetic radiation in our biosphere can overwhelm even a well-functioning immune system. So can a long history of continuing or frequent lower level assaults on the immune system. Let us try to keep healthy while we work together to get these toxins out of the environment of all living things!