I didn’t watch it. I skipped over those channels. Purposely. I know, I know, my dad has pancreatic cancer. I should have watched it. My dad is among the 5% who survive pancreatic cancer, thanks to the good doctors at Stanford and their experimental medication and chemo study. But still, I didn’t watch it. Too much money and prestige involved in the search for the cure for me to stomach.

I agree 100% with your assessment; however, I have another theory that I want to throw out there. As little as one generation ago, food was almost completely organic. Now there are toxins in everything we eat. As human beings, we are incredibly adaptable. Will the bodies of future generations adapt (read: mutate!) to these changes in our dietary regime? Human beings have adapted over the last centuries to advances made in the world. But is change occurring too fast for our bodies to adapt to those changes? Take my dad for example. He grew up eating food that his family grew on their farm in Holland – 100% organic, including the milk.

*Intermission* Funny story. If you know anything about European farm houses, you know the barn is attached to the house. The bathroom or “WC” (water closet) is usually located in the barn itself. Whenever I would visit my Opa and Oma in Holland, we would stay at their house in the loft, only accessible via ladder. If I had to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I would have to exit the kitchen door right into the barn, where there usually was a wooden pen literally as you walked through the door. There was usually a cow either giving or about to give birth or a pig and her piglets in the pen. Talk about making an impression upon a young American boy! In the winter time you had to use a stick to break the layer of ice in the toilet before you used it. And if you thought your toilet was cold in the winter… *Back to our regularly scheduled programming*

My dad also ate as organic as he could once me came to America. His whole life was spent eating healthy and exercising. Cancer does not run in his family. Yet, he still got pancreatic cancer. I firmly believe that his body could not adapt as an adult to the toxins he was introduced to when he came to America. The rest of us? Well, we took in those toxins as we grew up so our immune systems most likely mutated to some extent. I wonder how my own kids will turn out.

*Another side note: we never really thought about the milk we drank. We went to the local store and bought it. That’s it. Our three older boys had no visible problems with it. Then came our daughter. When she was around 2 years old we noticed she was developing fatty tissue around her breasts. We were alarmed to say the least. We immediately switched to organic milk and the fatty tissue dissipated. From milk!?!!?!

I am a recovering engineer so i hold a lot of value in properly understanding the variables that go into a study or experiment. The problem with the data that much of these decisions are made on is not looking at all of the variables that contribute to cancer.

If you are wanting to change something in your life you can look at what you are going to add or you can look at what you are going to get rid of. My wife and I have chosen to change our eating habits and what we purchase to reduce the excessive chemicals that surround us and we have chosen this based on what has worked for humans for thousands of years of trial and error of living not on a 2 year study.

Josh Bulloc
Kansas City, MO
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