Cancer of the prostate is usually preceded by a benign condition in which the prostate becomes enlarged. The enlargement is caused mainly by accumulation of cholesterol crystals.

Cancer of the uterus

   This form of cancer is associated with obesity, and women fifty pounds or more overweight are ten times more susceptible to its development. Overweight diabetics have the highest risk.

Skin cancer

   There are three distinct types of skin cancers:

1. Basal cell carcinoma.
2. Squamous cell carcinoma.
3. Malignant melanoma.

   The first two are far more common and less dangerous than melanoma because they are less aggressive and have little tendency to metastasize by way of the lymph or blood circulation.

   It is generally accepted that most skin cancers are caused by overexposure to strong sunlight because the cancer appears on the face and other exposed areas of people who spend a lot of time in the sun. As would be expected, the incidence of skin cancer is greater in countries with sunny climates and greater among fair-skinned people than in dark-skinned people.

   However, as with lung cancer and other cancer, the incidence of skin cancer more closely correlates with the level of blood fats and cholesterol, and regardless of exposure to sun, skin cancer does not readily occur among people on very low fat/cholesterol diets. As with other cancers, sun damage is merely the trigger effect which initiates cell division.

   According to Dr George Engel, a dermatologist in Illinois, the number of deaths from malignant melanoma in the USA doubled in the 25-year period to 1978. As American exposure to sunshine has not apparently increased over that period, the reason for these increased deaths cannot be ascribed to the sun. The same situation exists in Australia, where a recent study showed that melanoma incidence has doubled in the last 30 years.

Kidney cancer

   Australia has the highest incidence of kidney disease and kidney cancer in the world. This fact reflects not only the excessive intake of protein, fat and cholesterol in the diet, but also the enormous consumption of analgesic painkillers taken in the form of tablets and powders. High as the general incidence of kidney cancer is, it is ten times higher again in women who take these drugs regularly. (See Analgesic Addiction, Chapter 21.)

General observations

   A report from Holland said that people living within 150 feet from a busy highway suffered a nine times higher cancer incidence. This would no doubt be due to high levels of carbon monoxide although a report from Japan described high incidence of lead poisoning from exhaust fumes. Remember that carbon monoxide has affinity for combining with the red blood cells to the exclusion of oxygen.

   Smokers who smoke filter-tipped cigarettes to avoid the intake of carcinogenic tars still inhale the deadly carbon monoxide, and people in their proximity inhale up to 50% of the amount too.

   Dr D. J. Field, Lancet, September 21, 1974, reported that polyunsaturated fats inhibit the white blood cells from fighting infection.

   Dr R. K. Boutwell, Cancer Research, 9:741, 1949: "The stimulating effect of fat on the rate of formation of certain types of tumors is well established".

   Dr C. A. Baumann, American Journal of Cancer 35:213, 1939: "An increase in the fat content of the diet exhilarated the appearance of tumors due to ultraviolet irradiation (skin cancers)."

   Dr H. P. Rusch, Cancer Research 5:431, 1945 showed similar results in animal tests with ultraviolet rays (as in sunlight) when their diets were high in fat.

   Dr Ernst Wynder, American Health Foundation, stated: "Both epidemiologic and animal data suggest that colon cancer is due largely to high fat consumption".

   Dr E. R. Pickney, American Heart Journal 85:723, 1975: "There is certainly a reasonable epidemological association between a diet high in polyunsaturates and the increased incidence of cancer (especially gastric) in humans." He went on to say that his research showed that 78% of people who used more polyunsaturated fats showed marked "clinical" signs of aging and that 60% had had skin lesions removed because of suspected malignancy.

   It appears that polyunsaturated fat inhibits the function of the white cells. It has a discernible effect on red blood cells, causing them to aggregate, ie. stick together, restricting circulation.

   A Lancet report, August 16, 1969, stated that in the UK on the average a person annually consumed 3 lbs of chemicals, not naturally present in food. Dr Ben Feingold of the Kaiser Permanent Medical Center, San Francisco, author of Why Your Child is Hyperactive, puts the American figure at 5 lbs.