June 7, 2006 -
Day 1 - Week 10 - Pg. 45 Earth’s Killer C’s
On June 4th I began
a series of daily writings that gleaned material
from a book I wrote about the environment. My
intention is to build a base or a platform from
which to launch a personal compendium of useful
material and ideas so future generations, or at
least my own children and grandchildren, and perhaps
those of my extended family and friends as well, can
be armed with information to prevent cancer. Cures,
treatments, vaccines, and alternative therapies are
in the hands of well qualified experts. I learn
from them and incorporate their teachings into my
living. However, my agenda is clear; I want to help
in the fight to prevent cancer from occurring in the
first place. With this is mind let us return to
what I wrote 14 years ago.
“We are not helpless in the
face of cancer’s growth and the environment’s decay.
The late Norman Cousins,
another of our Healing C persons of the 20th
century, (Cousteau being another), encouraged
people with cancer to use humor and a positive
mental outlook to help in the healing process. He
was well aware that a good external attitude helped
maintain a good internal environment. He knew that
stress and anger, on the other hand, may potentially
harm the healing process. In similar fashion, a
positive attitude about helping restore, heal and
preserve the external environment is essential
today.
Members of the healing
professions are also a very important component of
an emerging environmental awareness in this
country. A significant coalition that will help
deter the spread of cancer and fix the environment
is an alliance between the helping professions and
environmental activists. This team would accelerate
increased awareness about the connection between
cancer and the causes.
Doctors, healers,
psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors, by
waving a discussion of the environment into their
office visits, will help heal millions of sick
people. Sensitivity to diet, attitude and lifestyle
coupled with keeping air, food and water clean will
become the leading health delivery system in the
next few years.
Cancer clusters, or unusual
amounts of cancer in one area (for example:
Delano and McFarland California, in the heart of the
farm belt, southern Louisiana which is known as
chemical ally) happen for a variety of reasons.
A coalition of cancer cops and healers might be just
the antidote researchers have been trying to find
for years.
“Fix the environment and
CURE CANCER” should be stenciled on every
automobile, water deliver system, smokestack, and
factory in the nation. “Fix the environment and CURE
CANCER’ posted on the front door of every doctor’s
office and health food cooperative would remind us
that each of us can take responsibility for our won
health and long term well being.”
Ideas to ponder. In retrospect
I might have done a better job of pondering my own
words.
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