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One major reason for the deadly disease cancer to strike us is the pile of toxins and toxic damage in our body. This source of these toxins can be external as well as internal. We are subjected to both internal and exter¬nal poisoning. Toxins – read free radicals are generated from natural body metabolism. The external factors that add to the toxins are many right from the food we intake to air we breath to water we drink apart from various infections. Our bodies are exposed to a wide variety of external carcinogenic pollutants daily. Examples are the benzoprene found in cigarette smoke, the lead and gasoline vapors of industrial and automotive emissions, the pesticides, herbicides, and hor¬mones that infiltrate our food chain.

Our body does have some natural mechanism to fight this toxic free radical damage but in many people this defensive process fails. Can¬cer is an indication the clean up process of the toxins in our body fails. This is a long slow process. Our body needs to clean out dangerous and damaging free radicals on a constant basis. Cleaning it up every now and then will not suffice and nor will the results of this cleaning up process be visible immediately. Antioxidants are this toxic clean up agents. They scavenge the free radicals and flush them out before damage is done to our body. Cancer occurs when the body has more free radicals than it’s capable of processing. The cellular damage begins to accumulate continuously and eventually the situation is serious and perhaps irreversible.

There are others factors that cause cancer like genetic predisposition to cancer and cancer being a normal part of the aging process. But cancer is not unavoidable. A significant percentage of genetically very high risk individuals never get cancer. Similarly so many elderly in their 90s never get cancer. In China and Japan the incidence of cancer is much less among elderly and there are more tobacco consumers in these countries than in America. While one in three American has a chance of contracting cancer in their life time this statistics is far lower in Japan and China.  Much of the answer clearly lies in diet and lifestyle.

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