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If we weren’t so in love with the 80,000 chemicals in common use, maybe the Cancer Panel report would have come out much sooner.

Last week, on May 13, 2010, the President’s Cancer Panel released a 200-page report finally catching up to what most of us know…that our lack of regulation of chemicals is having negative effects on our health. When I saw this report I immediately thought that the timing for the Susan B. Koman Cancer Foundation to get in bed with KFC couldn’t be worse. The only cancer foundations I support are the ones that recognize the environmental causes of cancer and try to educate people how to avoid them.

Instead of just recommending more doctor visits and screening for cancer as the way to “prevent” it, this report actually makes recommendations that I can stand behind. Like eating organic food, checking radon levels in the home and microwaving food in glass containers rather than plastic. Of course, I would rather you not use a microwave at all.

While it’s extremely important to reduce the chemicals in our environment, this report might induce more fear into people who are already afraid of cancer. But think of it this way, you don’t “catch” cancer. Not everyone who is exposed to chemicals gets cancer, so cancer doesn’t have to affect you.

In my study of Total Biology, I learned that cancer can be the body’s attempt to “solve a problem”. Usually the problem is some huge stress that is too much for the mind to “fix”, so the solution is sought in the body. I know that may sound like a lot of gobbledygook but the premise is that our bodies are highly intelligent and they’ve been solving problems for eons.

If a mother is worried about a child who is extremely ill, then her breast tissue can respond. The breast wants to “nurture the problem” by increasing milk production (even if the child is long past weaning). When the danger to her child passes, the breast tissue breaks down – that’s the time when allopathic medicine calls it cancer. There is obviously much more to it than this simple explanation but it helps me understand the dynamics of cancer.

So, for all you folks out there, look into ways of reducing your chemicals and reducing your stress, and remember, you don’t have to let cancer into your universe. The sky fell on Chicken Little but it doesn’t have to fall on you.

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