Comments on: Physical activity and cancer http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:23:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mistress Krista http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1814 Mistress Krista Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:33:29 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1814 I didn't interpret this as a blaming comment, but rather a comment in favour of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Both, of course, are important. I do wonder, as I see pink ribbons everywhere, why we are not asking more pointed questions about why the hell everyone is getting breast cancer? (Or any other cancer, for that matter.) What is in our air, our water, and our bodies? No question, sometimes it's just a weird random thing (as happened to my health-conscious mother with colon cancer) but I would very much like to know what we're soaking in to make our poor little DNAs all mutated. I didn’t interpret this as a blaming comment, but rather a comment in favour of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Both, of course, are important.

I do wonder, as I see pink ribbons everywhere, why we are not asking more pointed questions about why the hell everyone is getting breast cancer? (Or any other cancer, for that matter.) What is in our air, our water, and our bodies? No question, sometimes it’s just a weird random thing (as happened to my health-conscious mother with colon cancer) but I would very much like to know what we’re soaking in to make our poor little DNAs all mutated.

]]> By: Chaobell http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1810 Chaobell Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:03:36 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1810 Wow, Sam, seriously? I truly hope nobody you care about ever ends up with one of those diseases, then. The last thing someone who is dealing with a serious illness needs is someone else blaming them for it. Wow, Sam, seriously?

I truly hope nobody you care about ever ends up with one of those diseases, then. The last thing someone who is dealing with a serious illness needs is someone else blaming them for it.

]]> By: ephraim http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1771 ephraim Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:33:13 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1771 Also, i'd point out that just because people make life choices that aren't the healthiest from an outside perspective (which all of us do all the time, in our own different ways) doesn't mean that they deserve to die an awful, painful death. Funding a search for a cure is as important as funding prevention, whether or not we have any agency over our risk factors. Also, i’d point out that just because people make life choices that aren’t the healthiest from an outside perspective (which all of us do all the time, in our own different ways) doesn’t mean that they deserve to die an awful, painful death. Funding a search for a cure is as important as funding prevention, whether or not we have any agency over our risk factors.

]]> By: blreber.net | http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1768 blreber.net | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:36:07 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1768 [...] Physical activity and cancer :: stumptuous.com [...] [...] Physical activity and cancer :: stumptuous.com [...]

]]> By: Trishy http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1754 Trishy Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:21:59 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1754 Although I agree with your reasoning Sam, and agree that much much more needs to be done towards prevention, I must point out that healthy and fit people get cancer all the time. There are too many environmental and genetic factors there that we cannot control for and often don't even know that they exist. Some cancers are more lifestyle-related than others, such as lung cancer. But of course, non-smokers also get lung cancer, just not as much as smokers. Although I agree with your reasoning Sam, and agree that much much more needs to be done towards prevention, I must point out that healthy and fit people get cancer all the time. There are too many environmental and genetic factors there that we cannot control for and often don’t even know that they exist. Some cancers are more lifestyle-related than others, such as lung cancer. But of course, non-smokers also get lung cancer, just not as much as smokers.

]]> By: Sam http://www.stumptuous.com/physical-activity-and-cancer/comment-page-1#comment-1748 Sam Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:12:23 +0000 http://www.stumptuous.com/?p=3528#comment-1748 This is why, though it may seem cold-hearted and careless, I no longer "donate to the cure" for lifestyle-related diseases, including some cancers, heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes...in looking at the financial statements and digging down to find where the money goes in many of these "charities", I find that very little goes to prevention. Very sad. Thanks for the post!! This is why, though it may seem cold-hearted and careless, I no longer “donate to the cure” for lifestyle-related diseases, including some cancers, heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes…in looking at the financial statements and digging down to find where the money goes in many of these “charities”, I find that very little goes to prevention. Very sad.
Thanks for the post!!

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