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I stress that I am no expert. I have read quite a lot, and continue to be amazed that instead of developing a more detailed understanding each door I open simply leads to a series more.
The way the body works is it appears unimagineably complex.
Yes genetics play a part but they do not explain the explosion of western disease in the mast 60-100 years.
Environmental factors play a part but they do not obviously explain why Eskimos, Japanese, South African indigenous fisherman, Greek Islanders etc have much lower rates of BC and prostrate cancer.
There is a factor and I agree with those muttering quitely in corners that it is probably diet based and quite likley to be to do with the balance of omega threes and sixes added to poor diet which leads to such imbalances, plus on top environmental factors etc as the icing.
The problem is that if this is an explanation it is a rather embarassingly simple one, and leaves rather a lot of egg splashed around, requires many red faces ....and apart from egos, it has huge financial, employment, agricultural, food manifacture and sale, diet, life style, environmental impact, drugs research production and sale, the way we run the health service, where research funds are targeted..etc..etc.... and so may take some time to filter through the levels of resistance in the same way smoking did - only hopefully not as long.
Alternatively us mutterers may by wrong, but personally I do not think so.
The three six balance is not a pancea, but for those looking for a key factor as to the western increase in disease I'm definatively with the mutterers.
RB
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