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Comparing road deaths to cancer deaths

18/10/2012

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Continuing on from my previous blog, it is salutary to consider the attitudinal differences between the threats of immediate and long term deaths.

If we were to apply the same efforts and costs presently spent on avoiding road accidents to avoiding the cause of chronic diseases, initiated years before the time of death, we could simply eliminate most of these deaths and their associated suffering.  

A cynic might conclude that the immediate effect of a traffic death creates the opportunity for a huge road safety industry; whereas the insidious development of a cancer or heart disease is unobserved until, at the last minute, there is a cry of “save me”, creating the opportunity for a huge medical repair industry.  If there was less money poured into the medical repair industry and its promotion, we might take more care of what we ate to avoid health accidents.

A seat belt hardly saves lives compared to driving with care.  By the same token, eating with care saves lives more effectively than medical intervention.  Medicine may sustain us for a while but not with huge success.

There is ample proof that we should be viewing chronic diseases and their untimely deaths far more seriously than the many immediate fears we presently express, such as death from accident or other statistically insignificant causes. 

Animal protein is directly linked to cancer and heart disease.  It may not necessarily be the direct cause of the problems but it creates the perfect nursery for these conditions to develop and kill us.  

“Warning – animal proteins and fats can kill”.  

2 Comments
alice wilson milne
18/10/2012 08:06:44 am

yep, punchy stuff. labels on food for first entry possibly could read ' may kill, rather than can kill.... need to woo not fight people's belief systems.

we need assistance dealing with social situations...a brunch meeting, food supplied by host - fat sandwich with salad, heaps salad dressing, salami, grated cheese...we ate it. how not to offend...I guess is to think ahead...but we had no idea there would be breakfast....

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James Wilson
21/10/2012 06:02:53 am

Thanks for the comments. I would rather put will kill, rather than can or may!

Eating out is always problematic, especially when there is no warning. Worst case so as not to offend is choose the least offensive and take very little. Funny thing is that if you were under doctors orders you can comfortably say that you are and so cause no offence, but if it is seen to be your own health choice you may cause offence. In the end the problem is the offended, but socially that is not satisfactory.

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