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How long would u live if cancer and coronary heart diseases were curable?

March 1st, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Heart Diseases

2 comments to How long would u live if cancer and coronary heart diseases were curable?

  • Steve F
    March 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 am

    Uh, those diseases are totally preventable and reversible, so I guess they are curable. :) You won’t get that from the medical community unless you go to the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (pcrm.org I think). That said, assuming no other health issues, you’d only die when your bodily enzymes can no longer function and/or run out. Then you die of old age. It depends on how well you’ve behaved for your whole life. How well did you take care of yourself and how well did you eat? How many toxins/poisons from drugs did you subject yourself to? How much oxidative damage have you caused your body from how you ate? It has a huge impact on your health. You won’t get that from the medical community either…

    I’d agree with the poster below on western diet and how third world countries do. Except that if they adopt a western diet, they start getting western diseases. That’s why I say these diseases are curable. They don’t exist in non-western countries. If those countries, however, had enough to eat and ate a *good* diet of largely raw fruits and vegetables, they’d do well. Meat is a problem, it’s a luxury food that is clearly not essential and only causes shorter life spans, especially when eaten in quantity. You do need a little fat and cholesterol in your diet to maintain optimum health, but not anything near what is done in the U.S. Protein is way over-rated, it’s in a much more usable form in plants and vegetables.

  • Ohene
    March 6th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    The immediate answer that comes to mind is 3 scores and ten plus another ten. Eighty years (80y) in total. Cancer and heart disease are definitely the number 1 and 2 killers in the western world and you would think that by eradicationg them, you might double your lifespan. The problem is that cancer (many) and heart diseases are caused by environmental factor (things we do to ourselves for example, smoking, too much alcohol, too much of the wrong foods and lack of exercise). If you don’t correct these, you may live as long as you want, but you will suffer all the way past 70y with bad knees (arthritis from carrying too much weight), poor bones (osteoporosis), poor kidney function etc…
    If you remove malnutrition and infections from 3rd world countries (as is the case in emerging economies), they get the heart disease and cancers of the West. If you remove the latter from the western societies, you are left with an aged society with poorer quality of live.

    That is my view (rather long winded)……..what’s our take on the matter?

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