The Drug of Choice
Today we have more technology than ever. Il Nuovo Body Building Moore's Law states that technology doubles every 18 months. That means we know twice as much today as we did a year and a half ago. Well, that's no longer true. Today technology seems to double every 18 minutes! With all this technology, how is it then that we have more disease now than ever? In my opinion, technology actually contributes to disease and I'll explain why.
Let's take cancer, for example. Do you know that cancer has just surpassed heart disease as the top killer in Canada? It's true. What's scary is that every day 500 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer and 200 will die from it! The sad part is that a majority of these cases are caused by the environment and can be avoided.
Lung cancer is by far the top cancer killer and tobacco is the number one cause of death period claiming about 17% of all Canadian deaths (20% in males and 12% in females). And it may come to no surprise that second-hand or "passive" smoking can be just as detrimental to your health. According to the Health Sciences Institute, an eight-hour shift spent working in a smoky environment may have the same effect on the cardiovascular system as smoking an entire pack of cigarettes!
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