We are bodies, minds and spirits. Health necessarily involves all these components, and any program intended to improve health must address all of them. Conventional medicines only pay attention to the physical body.
Rats given varying doses of aspartame -- the second most widely used artificial sweetener in the world -- experienced a statistically significant increase in the incidence of malignant tumors, lymphomas and leukemias in a recent study. The effects were observed at a daily dose of 20 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of body weight -- which is less than the current acceptable daily intake for humans.
Of the seven million worldwide cancer deaths reported in 2001, 35 percent were attributable to nine well-known behavioral and environmental risk factors. The nine risk factors are overweight and obesity; low fruit and vegetable intake; physical inactivity; smoking; alcohol use; unsafe sex; urban air pollution; indoor smoke from household use of coal; and contaminated injections in healthcare settings.
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