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"Hot Dogs & Leukemia"
We do have to put this risk into context, though.
Our children are seven times more likely to develop a brain tumor eating just a single hotdog a week, than using a cell phone.
In fact if our children insist on wanting to be Oscar Meyer Wieners, they are multiplying their odds of getting childhood leukemia by 950%.
Diet is the number one cause of cancer.
Cancer is therefore a preventable disease, but it does require major lifestyle changes.
Only five to ten percent of cancers is in our genes, in our family history.
The other 90-95% of cancer risk is caused by what we expose our bodies to.
Of the 90-95%, tobacco contributes about a quarter of the risk in the United States.
There are some infectious causes, particularly in people with AIDS.
But diet, if you include obesity and alcohol, makes up about 50% of our cancer risk,
and cellphones, air pollution, X-rays - everything else all just fits in to that last 10-15%.
Anything about our diet in particular?
From a massive new study in Canada last year, total meat consumption was directly related to the risk of not only stomach cancer,
but colon cancer, and *** cancer, and pancreatic cancer,
and lung cancer, and breast cancer, and prostate cancer,
and testicular cancer, and kidney cancer, bladder cancer - and more leukemia, as well.