The World Health Organization classified processed meats as a Group 1 carcinogen; meaning there is strong evidence that consuming excessive amounts of processed meat does cause cancer (Walker, 2012). At the start of World War II, pesticides were introduced into the American diet and have been stimulating the growth of existing tumors ever since. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans have over 100 toxic chemicals in their blood and urine, along with high levels of pesticide residue (Walker, 2012). These factors, combined with extremely decreased levels of physical activity, cause the death of 7.5 million people per year and continue to dumbfound a society desperate to change these outrageous statistics but puzzled on how to change their cancer-causing
The World Health Organization classified processed meats as a Group 1 carcinogen; meaning there is strong evidence that consuming excessive amounts of processed meat does cause cancer (Walker, 2012). At the start of World War II, pesticides were introduced into the American diet and have been stimulating the growth of existing tumors ever since. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans have over 100 toxic chemicals in their blood and urine, along with high levels of pesticide residue (Walker, 2012). These factors, combined with extremely decreased levels of physical activity, cause the death of 7.5 million people per year and continue to dumbfound a society desperate to change these outrageous statistics but puzzled on how to change their cancer-causing