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Researchers looking at almost a thousand mummies found that only a handful suffered from what now kills nearly on in three people, cancer. In industrialized societies cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as cause of death. Prof Rosalie David at the University of Manchester and a colleague Prof Michael Zimmerman concluded after all these studies of mummified Bodies from Egypt and South America going back 3000 years that there is nothing in natural environment what will cause cancer. The researchers showed that rates of the disease have risen dramatically since the Industrial revolution, in particular childhood cancer, proving that the increase is not simple due to people getting older.
The findings suggest that cancer is man-made, a disease probably caused by our modern way of life, poor diets, pollution of the environment. food, and lack of activities. However they did find examples of diseases related with the hardening of the arteries and arthritis. Most modern maladies are caused by prolonged exposure to a combination of negative lifestyles and toxic environmental factors, including junk food and malnutrition, pesticides, antibiotics, microwaves, chemical pollution of food, water and air, lack of exercise and chronic stress.
In Japan, where sea vegetables make up 10% of the diet, the incidence of many cancers and of obesity is low - statistically the lowest in the developed world. such illnesses due to the lack of man-made substances affecting their food supplies. In the West too, nutrition and health experts now believe that the relationship between rapid changes in a population's diet resulting in rapidly changing disease and mortality profiles and reflected in general health/problems. The importance/value of the old natural healing by living in harmony/balance with nature proven again. Not to destroy nature but use it. The ecological healing, a healing that takes into account our place in the circle of life. Different diets lead to different diseases and have effects on vitality and ageing. The understanding how dietary habits of different groups of people related to their degree of health important. There is a big difference for example between uptake of iodine in the countries who do use a lot of seaweed like Japan and other who do not. Both clinical research and epidemiological studies, which compare the rates of diseases in populations with different dietary habits, point to Japan.
Old Irish Traditions has it that you should combine the use of land based plants with products of the sea. They were well aware that we are water born and arose from the sea and our internal bodies still reflect this. The components of the major edible algae or seaweeds can affect physiochemical properties (e.g., hydration, water and oil-holding capacity, ferment ability, binding capacity, etc.) and therefore of nutritional importance. The effects of marine alga/seaweed consumption on growth and body weight, mineral availability, lipid metabolism, blood pressure, and antioxidant properties is now well documented. |
