JAPAN
Three Out of Four Die of Cancer
There has been a big increase in Japan recently in the number of cases of elderly diseases like high blood pressure, stroke, cardiac problems and diabetes due to an increasingly western diet. During the mid-60's, diseases of brain (e.g. cerebral infarction, cerebral homorrhage, etc) were the number one killer but now it is cardiac related problems and cancer.
From Welfare Ministry White Paper, the Major Disease Data shows that 3 out of 4 die of cancer but one must be aware that these are mere statistical data and that there is another fact lurking behind these figures.
Pregnant but ...
Based on Unsuccessful Pregnance - Tokyo (1955 - 1988), the percentage of unsuccessful births (due to one reason to another) in 1978 was 9.5%. In 1955, it was 8.3%. That was the year of the Morinaga case in which arsenic was found in milk. This, howerever, was not the only contributing factor; in those days, miscarriages had a stronger tendency to happen in first pregnancies. The data depicts the year to year movement of the trend.
The percentage starts getting bigger after 1960. Incidentally, it coincides with the period when instant noddles came onto the market. In the ensuring years, there were increasing numbers of chemicals, drugs and food additives being used which unavoidably affect the life of Japanese. And there are increasing numbers of "fetal patients", i.e. newborns affected by harmful chemicals like PCBs, etc. absorbed by mother during the pregnancy stage. The use of additives have spread like wildfire and there are official reports saying that an adult on the average takes 100mg of food additives a day.
Instant food and vending machines have definitely made life very convenient for everyone in that one can eat or drink anytime or anywhere. Of course this purchasing power of the Japanese has enabled Japan's GNP to be Number 1 in the world but at a price; the unnatural life style has resulted in the appearance of health problems related to the use of food additives and drugs. A survey in 1974 showed that the average Japanese enjoyed freedom and abundant lifestyle but has had to put up with the kinds of health problems brought about by an unnatural lifestyle.
Even those new born are not spared; there is an increasing trend of babies being born with congenital diseases because of chromosomal abnormalities. Atopic Dermatitis is probably one of them. It is really pitiful.
Reprinted from:
The Miracle Of Pi Water - by Makino Shinji. Ph D
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