Advanced Wellness Solutions

In this blog, you’re going to read a lot about the properties of various foods and their effect on health. My personal family history is one riddled with cancer of various forms.

My father lost his larynx to cancer nearly 25 years ago (and he’s still alive and kicking, despite a couple of skin cancer scares in the interim). My mother’s sister lost her battle with colon cancer when she was only 42.

When you consider that my father was an only child and my mother had only one sister, 2 out of 3 members of the generation before me battled cancer. While I’m “fortunate” that neither of these cancers are considered “hereditary”, I’ve devoted my spare time to researching how to prevent cancer.

I am not a scientist nor am I a doctor, but I believe that most disease (including cancer) is the result of poor nutrition. My father’s battle with cancer has changed the way he eats and is probably the biggest reason that a quarter of a century later, he’s approaching 70 and still living an active, vital life.

During the first few decades of my life, I viewed food as the “enemy”. Food made me fat or threatened to make me “fat”. Now, as I enter the 2nd half of my life, I recognize that food can indeed be my friend and even my ally as I try to avoid my obvious genetic pre-disposition to cancer.

I recently found “scientific proof” of my own personal theory. In their white paper, Cancer Prevention and the Environmental Chemical Distraction, Bruce Ames and Lois Swirski Gold take a new look at cancer prevention.

In this paper, Ames and Gold assert that

The major causes of cancer (other than smoking) do not involve exposures to exogenous chemicals that cause cancer in high-dose tests; rather, the major causes are dietary imbalances, hormonal factors, infection and inflammation, and genetic factors. Insufficiency of many vitamins and minerals,which is preventable by supplementation, causes DNA damage by a mechanism similar to radiation.

I welcome your own comments and personal experiences to make this blog a richer and more rewarding place to learn how to avoid cancer and other ills through good nutrition and healthy living.