• lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    It’s about giving rabbits cancer so we can test new cancer drugs on them. Assuming we make that illegal, how do you propose new cancer treatments should be tested?

    I’ve read an interview with a doctor who was outraged that at medical school he learned nothing about food and nutrition. Therefore he decided to go live for more than a year with indigenous people in Africa, and study them, taking blood samples. Conclusion : These people in Africa have no cancer at all but yet they do die (unlike in the West) because of other diseases because of no antibiotics. These people do hunt and with that getting physical exercise so to say. These people also fast sometimes because sometimes they simply have no food. This doctor, back in the West, now talks to his patients and asks them about their bad life style habits and he said that “we” in the West we do too little physical exercise, we eat too much and too often. We have an unhealthy life style. Fasten from time to time is good, it gives the body time to relax. So I would say : How about putting the insane millions spend on the massive medical industry in for example “sugar tax” and informing all people about a more healthy life style. Abolish McDonuts and B*rgerKing and KFC, and learn to not over eat. I’ve read that in the blue zones in Japan people have learned to eat for 80% instead of eating more than that.

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      5 months ago

      Must have nothing to do with the fact that people have a life expectancy under 60 years old… Nah, it’s because they fast and do exercise…

      Cancer isn’t a new thing, cancer in human has existed for as long as humans have because it existed before human were a thing.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I’ve noticed that cancer rates seem particularly low in infants. Maybe that means breast milk and baby food fights cancer? This needs funding, fast.

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      5 months ago

      What’s the life expectancy among these indigenous people, and what is the life expectancy in the Western country the doctor is from?