HIGH LIVING AND CANCER

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3556, 30 October 1926, Page 2

HIGH LIVING AND CANCER

New York, October 28,

Dr Whiter Chipman, the new president of the American College of Surgeons, told a convention of the

most eminent surgeons in the world that there is a connection between modern high living and cancer.

He said that over-eating, overdrinking and overloaded nutrition inevitably bring on old age, disturbing' the balance between the tissues. Thus bodily degeneration will induce a prc-cancerous state and then some local irritation sets the whole process alight. American statistics show that beyond the age of 40, one male in every twelve ami one female in every eight manifests the disease and the increase is at the rate of 2$ per cent, per annum.

No tissue or cell in the human body is ever at rest, and with the onset of senescence thd demand for cell production decreases. If by chance, cell production outlasts cell demand, there is a loss of tissue. The balance of these excess cells find no work to do, and becoming a lawless rabble within the tissue they only require some local irritation to; start a cancerous growth. Diet is a factor both in respect of quantity and quality and the vegetarian did not escape. The rule for cancer prevention, the doctor stated, is a simple life, and the maintenance of a sound mind in a diligent, useful body.