Angelica _ann wrote:Bigchick wrote:kaka2za wrote:washiku wrote:This monster Cancer, again!!!
Me thinks there is something we are missing about this new plague!
Me too.And its very scaring.
Though a medical practitioner told me its all in whatever we put into our bodies.The food we eat and the air we breath in.
Hizo fertilizers,pesticides,preservatives etc.
Prostrate is now a major killer for the 60+ wazees. how come we never witnessed this in the earlier years. 3 main reasons.
People have always died, only difference now is that they go to hospital and whatever is ailing them is given a name. In the past people still died but they did not have a name to label the death. Short illness, long illness etc.
The second one is your grandmother who died at 90 was probably 1 in 100 to survive childhood. There was a time only the fittest survived to see adulthood. The now 60 and 50 year olds had some medical attention in their childhood and more of them survived so there is a bigger pool which means even if the disease affects the same percentage of people the number is greater with more people.
3rd I think is deserving a thread of its own. There is something very drastic that happened to the Kikuyu population that lived through the emergency years as children and latter found prosperity. My hunch is that they went through a period of great malnutrition through their childhood years that affected their general well being. Find any well to do 60 year old Kikuyu that grew up poor and I can almost bet 99% of them are diabetic and have high blood pressure.