‘The American Way….what could possibly be wrong with that?”
AN EXCERPT: The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 percent across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy “Westernized” lifestyles, a study said on Friday….Many developing countries were expected to see a rise in living standards in coming decades, said the paper from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.
But those advances could come at a cost — an increase in cases of cancers linked to poor diet, lack of exercise and other bad habits associated with affluence and linked to diseases like breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, it added.
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