A real meteor shower hits the human race every day. We call it death. Who dies of old age, stroke, accident or at work, suicide, hunger, thirst, gunshot wound, falling from a building piano, airway obstruction with a banana and I could go on for days but forget too the causes of someone's death. But what interests me in the post for today is the death that occurs following the course of cancer, we talk about cancer, cancer of the notorious. Hey, that sadness away, those long faces, I will not speak of human larvae and hospital beds, we must dispel this fear, we can even joke above, for today. My grandmother cancer calls it the "ugly evil", I thought it did not scare children, but then I discovered that many use this expression even talking to adults, perhaps because fear is so great that you do not list cancer not to summon him, you never know ... you'd almost be ashamed to have it. Cancer ... what a name, a crustacean stellar ... then what does? They could give it a different name? It has so many, it is true, but if you say you already know that cancer is a malignant tumoraccio cursed. They could call it another way, without evoking the zodiac sign for example. But oh well ... let's go further.
We are trying to defeat the cancer, some are cured, some are not, but we're working, we are working. Maybe you spend more money on space research, but that's okay, you would like to die of cancer while watching the Orion nebula lying in a crater on the moon? Maybe you spend more to cure erectile dysfunction, Viagra and Cialis, and so to the sound of spam, but die with swollen cock is priceless. All right, however there are many people that it takes the soul and we are working on. From what it seems, however, in medicine, as in other fields, they work more on prevention than on cure. I'm not a doctor, but if you had to do with doctors and psychologists could you give me reason you go to a psychologist for panic attacks and come out with a prescription for anti-depressants or anxiolytics without, in many cases, look for the causes that trigger the disease. Are you obese? We work, we cut the stomach, intestine and excess fat and you can go back to eating like a pig. That's fine, mind you, if you are sick you need to find a cure and apply it, but how do I reduce the risks and to avoid getting sick?
As for cancer, for example, there are new carcinogens every day and everywhere: in the non-stick pans in plastic bags, in the shell of Eternit, the exhaust gases, the vapors of gasoline and a thousand other substances to which we are all exposed i giorni. Il cellulare? Ci sono studi che sostengono che il suo utilizzo aumenti il rischio di tumore al cervello, prima ci abituano, lo fanno diventare una necessità, poi si scopre che se lo tieni in tasca ti fai i marron glaces. Poi ci sono le reti wireless, i ripetitori, le stazioni radio. Provocano il cancro? Per adesso, chi lo sa? Non ci sono studi sufficienti per dimostrarlo. E la saccarina, l'aspartame, il radon, la formaldeide, il fumo di sigaretta, l'alcol, i coloranti, i conservanti, i detergenti, i solventi, i carburanti? Prima li produciamo e li distribuiamo in tutto il mondo, nella catena alimentare, nell'aria, nelle case, nei giocattoli, poi dobbiamo smaltirli, incenerirli e seppellirli in some landfill and, finally, study them and discover that someone is dangerous.
What I mean is that it is right to find a cure for cancer, just, but it would just remove the causes even more radically. The state should not sell cigarettes, for easy and immediate profits, and then would increase health spending. People living in industrialized countries is exposed throughout life to irritants, toxic, noxious and carcinogenic and, therefore, the risk of getting sick is very high. Of course, we have acquired wealth through the industrial revolution, and most do not die of starvation or tuberculosis, but we die of lung cancer, liver cancer, prostate, pancreas, brain, breast, cervical, bone, testes, skin, throat ... What we would be willing to give up for less risk? We keep the phones, sports cars, detergents that can not be whiter, whiskey and cigars? Of course we keep them. Increase the GDP. But the illnesses, accidents and deaths, then? Better yet, although health spending increases the GDP of a country. Ah, yes.
Now that we are accustomed to the convenience is hard to go back, even just a few steps. We prefer to live in comfort and play Russian roulette sometimes hoping, deep down, that the projectile nose if our neighbor.
Happiness!
PS: Needless you do the kind of moral "are you complaining about pollution and food, then smoke as a turkish", so does not stick. A person who has been starting a unconsciousness addiction what should be done, spray with exhaust pipes? Cross the highway blindfolded? Going on a trip to Chernobyl '? As a smoker should try to kill themselves in other ways? At most, besides not wanting to handle the asbestos, will also try to quit smoking. And then the decision to smoke or not is at the discretion of an individual to choose.
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