Does Smoking Really Kill?

Can we fight disease when we are not causing health?

This is the question we must ask ourselves when the United States Surgeon General's July 1988 report states that two-thirds of all deaths in the US are related to diet.

Between 1965 and 1986, the percentage of adult cigarette smokers dropped 35 percent, from 40 percent to 26.5 percent. However, the cancer death rate continued to climb. This is more than interesting because smoking is blamed by medicine as the major cause of cancer.

While we may not question the strong case linking lung cancer to smoking, related factors exist.

Before 1930, there was an abundance of long-term heavy smokers, and lung cancer was a very rare disease. Why was lung cancer so rare in the 1920's with a higher percentage of adult male smokers than today. Could it be that it was before the age of toxic agri-chemicals, depleted soils, and junk foods?

Can we suppose that artificial fertilization, ever-increasing and under-regulated amounts of highly toxic insecticides like DDT, chlordane, toxaphene, and lindane, and dangerous compounds called organophosphorous compounds, sprayed on tobacco fields, might have a role to play?

The act of smoking vaporizes these residues as they are inhaled into the smoker's lungs. Add to this a new generation of humans exposed to severe air pollution of lead, chlorinated napthalene, and other waste products of combustion, industry poisons, increased radiation, junk food, and general deficiency. And smoking may just be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

In other words, smoking may just be the longest nail in the coffin lid, but not enough to hold it down alone.

The cancer rate has continued to climb despite a significant reduction in alcohol consumption.

The cancer rate has continued to climb despite significantly increased spending on health care and legal drugs.

Heart disease is still the Number One killer, and half of all men die from it.

While the use of antibiotics has increased at a mind-boggling rate, the death rate attributed to septicemia (the presence of bacterial toxins in the blood) has soared.

Death rates from pneumonia have also soared.

More money, more doctors, more research, more surgery, more disease, more death.

All your immune system is trying to do is to get rid of the bacteria that is building up too high. When the body is too toxic and weak, there is too much pollution in the system. Waste has built up in the intestines, liver, kidneys, spleen, and lymph glands, and generally in the blood and tissues. The bowels get very sluggish.

The body wants to generate heat and the thyroid's not able to do it.

Enter the common cold or flu. What does the flu do? It's a turbulent detoxification reaction of the body. Every symptom of a cold or the flu is a symptom of detoxification.

High fevers burn waste and bacteria. The pores open for profuse sweating. The bowels dump via diarrhea. The chills generate internal heat. Vomiting is the process of coughing up and getting rid of respiratory mucus. All cleansing actions.

This is the way that the body can violently and quickly get rid of the unprocessed metabolic waste in the system. The waste is a smorgasbord of bacteria.

And what are we told to do, by TV and billboard advertising, and well-meaning loved ones? We start taking all kinds of anti-histamine cold pills and drugs, to try and stop the body's correct clean-up response because we misunderstand what's going on.

Let's return to the early 1920's, when an epidemic of coronary heart attacks began in this country. It soon became clear that, as vitamins and other nutrients were being discovered, some protective factors in our food supply were being stripped out.

So can we continue to blame smoking and ignore the fact that we are eating a diet of highly processed chemicals and nutritionless components?

Is there even a chance that we can return to more sane practices, as I said in my last blog, return to the kitchen, and heaven forbid, maybe return to the garden, be it in the back yard or on the apartment patio? That's where REAL organic, non-chemical produce has a chance to live.

Take back control, folks. We are pawns, being played by big business.

If we want optimum health, yes, quitting smoking is a necessity. But so is eating a real, healthy, and nutritious diet, with minimal processing, and maximum vitamin and mineral content.

I'd like to remind you that I write this blog in order to support people to live healthy, robust, productive, and consequently happy lives. I can help you lose your first 20 pounds of Body Fat in 90 days in a healthy manner, and set you on a path where you can regain control of your entire future.

If you'd like more information on the Get Your Body Back 10 Step Program, that has successfully worked for many others, send me an e-mail at getyourbodyback@hotmail.com and receive a free, no-obligation consultation.

"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness..." Edward Stanley 1826 - 1893

To your superior health and longevity...Billie