CANCER TRACED TO EATING.
"Ottawa Herald," April 19, 1921, page 8, column 5.
London - The toll of cancer is increasing in Britain. More than 42,000 persons died in England and Wales in 1919, and the first half of 1920 the death roll was 21,356 against 20,570 in the same period of 1919.
The imperial cancer research fund, the medical research council and other agencies are working unceasingly to combat the scourge, but medicos admit that there is something about cancer they have yet to learn.
According to their deductions and investigations cancer has been attributed to: Excessive tobacco smoking, excessive drinking, hurrying over meals, taking food too hot, eating pork, war wounds, mental worry, severe blows on the body, smoky chimneys, heredity, living in "cancer houses."
"Cancer houses" have been proved to exist and are usually residences with rotten timbers that are either worm eaten, or affected by dry rot. In one such house-a rectory-eight clergymen contracted cancer within forty years and in two adjoining cottages five cases of cancer occurred within twelve years.
While research work is steadily going on as to the cure of cancer, many doctors express the opinoin that the prevention of cancer can be effected by not eating so often. According to one authority some people not only eat too often, but they also eat too much.
"Particularly," he siad, "we ought to allow longer intervals to elapse between our meals. We should have intervals of six, seven or eight hours between meals. Up to 35 or 50 years of age we should content ourselves with two meals a day. After 50 the wise man will eat only once a day."
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