What has caused the sudden human diseases and cancers??

OK.. so we cleared most of our most arable farming land to build nice homes.. then we polluted all the rivers coz we needed a strong economy..

Then we were so busy working we invented fast food and since been raised on a diet of foods filled with preservatives.. additives and so force we cook using teflon.. known now to cause cancer.. we built homes using asbestos.. also causes cancer.. and we all now use mobile phones.. which believe me.. cause cancer..

Does anyone sniff a conspiracy to kill people going on here.. or are we humans just a pack of idiots??

If you disturb the genes cells become sick and die.. and there's your cancer!!

if you get rid of the toxins in our life.. i would bet we get rid of cancer.. and eat more fruit and vege.. which soon will cost as much as a mortgage repayment..

anyone agree??

sudden?

agree.. alot of everyday things we consume are actually carcinogenic(cancer causing)/teratogenic(cause birth defects). simple items such as caffine in coffee.

to rid our modern life of such un-natural/toxic stuff is almost impossible and takes a longggggggggg time.

and even if we do, cancer happens naturally as well... it can take place in everyone's bodies.

so, live life healthy and be happy! =)

yes i agree but i dont think the asbestos walls or the mobile phones are a danger
The risk factors for cancer are:
Poor dietary habits (30%)
Smoking(30%)
Hereditary factors(15%)
Infection(5%), Workplace-related exposure (5%), Alcohol(3%), Obesity and lack of exercise(5%), UV-ray exposure(2%), Drugs(2%), Pollution(2%), Other(1%),

let me quote the book:"We may well acknowledge the considerable and the undeniable positive effects of industrialization and technological advances on lifestyle, but the repercussions of industrialization on the nature and quality of foods available to consumers are completely catastrophic. Western consumers are confronted on a daily basis with an avalanche of processed foods prepared on an industrial scale using poor-quality ingredients. The flour used in preparing breads and pasta is bleached, refined, and far too finely ground: eating these products leads to the release of phenomenal amounts of sugar in the bloodstream. Vegetable oils are extrected at high temperatures, which changes their chemical makeup and leads to the formation of potentially toxic fats, such as trans fats. Mnay products such as cured and smoked foods contain preservatives that may be converted into carcinogenic substances in the body. The pervasive witch hunt that has recently
targeted all types of fats has led to the production of foods so tasteless and lacking in interest that huge amounts of SUGAR must be added to give them some kind of flavour....
The contemporary Western diet has almost nothing in common with what made up the essence of human diet scarcely two generations ago. The modern diet contains at least twice as much fat, a percentage of saturated fat relative to unsaturated fat that is much higher, barely a third of the fibre, an avalanche of SUGAR to the detriment of complex carbohydrates, and, paradoxically, reduced amounts of essential nutrients compared to a traditional diet".

i agree but all the things you listed are somehow or the other essential to live a successful life in todays 21st centuay fast paced life!!!
so avoiding it is not the solution and blaming things doesn't help anyone!
things change and we as humans have learned long since to adapt! that can be good or bad for us, as the consequence may be!
so essenially i think we are now at such a stage that getting rid of all the toxins are not plausible! so we ought to learn to prioritize- that seems to be the only solution!
and besides i love fruits n veg!!!

after reading this now i feel sick
i think you might be on to something

In order to survive, the expanding mankind must subject themselves to toxicity! Until we can build more disease resistant DNA our expanding population and its demands to live a comfortable quality of life will place us all in more an more danger. Genecide has been contemplated, but is that what we want? I suggest we all get our scientific thinking caps on and correct the situation or our bodies wont be able to keep up with the changes.

Humans are a pack of idiots. No one forces people to live the way they do and you can make the choice to avoid these things.
OK,some things are unavoidable,like pollution,but no one NEEDS a cell phone or a McDonald's hamburger or a nonstick pan. It's a choice not to eat fruits and vegetables-they are widely available.

Our bodies were simply not designed to flush out the sheer amount of toxins we encounter simply by existing in today's society.

Dr. Don Colbert, author of "Toxic Relief" says that we are "digging our own graves with a knife and fork." It'll take a long time, but it'll happen sooner or later.

It seems like people are starting to wise up just a bit, though; for example, when I first learned of the harmful nature of trans fats, it was nearly impossible to find anything in the grocery stores (aside from fruits and vegetables) that was free of them. I unintentionally lost ten pounds just by refusing to eat trans fats.

But over the past few years, it seems like a small revolution has started... law requires trans fats to be labeled, and just the past year I've noticed a LOT more organic and all-natural products being introduced. I used to have to drive forty-five minutes to shop organic, but now I can go to a local grocery store and find at least a decent portion of what I need in organic form.

It's hard to be one of the few that think this way in today's society... for some reason, it's easier for most people to believe that cancer "just gets you," and there's nothing we can do about it. They don't want to believe that they might be causing it themselves, or that the world we live in might vastly play a part in it. Remember, not quite twenty years ago, when someone finally wised up and decided that CIGARETTES WERE CARCINOGENIC? Before that, even DOCTORS were saying they weren't harmful. I'm sure there were people before that who thought along the same lines as we do... and they were probably scoffed at.

All good revolutions start small... it's the bad ones that happen overnight. Be the change you want to see in the world. :)

Asbestos has not been used in building in decades, and there is no proof of your other claims of carcinogenesis, especially phones. Relax and eat a big steak.

I think it's something to do with the polluted environment, the polluted food, the pesticides... because before the world got so polluted, like 50-60 years ago, cancer was not so common. Even today, in the vilages in India, where the air is clean and people eat clean farm grown food, cancer is unheard of.

Well, what we may be seeing is survival of the fittest and natural selection. Not everyone who is exposed to carcinogens gets cancer, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, not everyone exposed to fatty foods gets cancer . . . some people seem to have a 'natural' immunity to cancer . . they do everything 'wrong' . . smoke, drink, work in a factory, cook with teflon, eat foods filled with perservatives, work around pesticides and toxins, talk on cell phones, and they never get cancer. The question would be is . . . why? And, we may never know that because at the moment we assume that the potential exists for ALL of us to experience cancer at some point. But, what if it is just the opposite . . what if those who do not get cancer are the ones who are building immunity against cancer into the gene pool for the human race. :-P

If only more of us felt this way, the world would be a better place. The conspiracy is run by the pharmaceutical industry who has paid off the AMA and the media. Vaccines and prescribed drugs actually cause death and disease. If we got healthy, the pharmaceutical companies would cease to exist. So they must keep americans sick so they can survive. It's a clever plan that the people are eating up. I caught on to their scheme 30 years ago. I eat organic and whole foods and am prescription and disease free! I wish there was a way to educate the public, but the only way is word of mouth, and that's just not enough for mass migration. However, there do seem to be more people aware of what's going on. I just feel so sorry about the people who don't.

Everyone also has to remember that cancers have latency periods of 10-40 years. Some of the increase in cancer we are seeing is caused by the fact that we are living long enough to get cancer. As we increase life spans, this part of the cancer picture will continue to increase. So being healthy and living longer can actually increase your chance of getting cancer when measured over your lifetime.

Much of what you say I agree with. People are not idiots, they became to trusting in technology, in governments will to protect their well-being. How or if this can be reversed is the question. Money is the big talker these days. Seems people are expendable. So sad, that most of us eat far too much, & live in house 50x what they need. Consumming natural resource at an alarming rate. Yet 3\4 of the world population are starving & homeless. Something wrong. Think so.