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Posted: Wednesday October 18th, 2006 12:32 |
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To put it in perspective:
African-American men are 65 per cent more likely to develop prostate cancer than Caucasian-American men, and the risk of an African-American man dying of prostate cancer is about 100 times that of a Chinese man living in China.
That last phrase, "a Chinese man living in China," is important. Asian men living in Asia have low rates of prostate cancer, but their risk of the disease rises the longer they live in Western cultures. Diet, genetics and lack of vitamin D may play roles in these racial / national differences.
Several genes that put men at greater risk of getting prostate cancer are at higher levels in Blacks than Caucasians, and higher levels in Caucasians than Asians. There are also small differences in hormone levels like testosterone between races, which may predispose some groups to the disease.
Prostate cancer rates are highest in Scandinavian countries (22 cases per 100,000 population) and lowest in Asia (5 per 100,000). This difference may be the result of different amounts of exposure to sunlight and Vitamin D.
-comment, maybe we should stay in Africa
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Posted: Wednesday October 18th, 2006 16:01 |
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Ocacia,
Yep! Go to the West where the quality of life isn't always the best. I believe that many Asian countries have the best live spans because they have great diets and they lead more active lives that people in the west. I was looking at a documentary about the country of Micronesia. It was said that Before the 1940's, how the native would eat food that was naturally grown and fished by their own people, but when people from the west came over with their fattening diets, they developed more diesease. Unfortunately, it is said that 1 out of three Micronesians have diabetes as a result of the Western way of eating.
Sometimes when I look at medical reports about Black men having/dyingmore, in this case, prostrate cancer than Whites Asians and others, I often used to wonder why, then I realize that a majority of it may have to do with diet. Another thing that bother sme about about these statistics that they are somewhat biased. These study's are donr on a whole. What I mean by that is that they never compare the rates of cancer to other Black people of the Black diaspora. If you look at the reports, it make it seem that if you're Black, you're automatically predisposed to the diesease but they never explain clearly of why is that? If you look at the Black people from other countries, they are not as unhealthy as Black people in the states. Those especially in Africa are far healthier than we are. Even in Israel , where the Black Israelities are, all of those people are Israeli Born African-American people. The medical experts did tests on them and it was shown that most of the people there were healthy. When they asked one of the men about this finding. he said that they lead natural lives with no stress and they eat naturally.. Another test was done on another test on Alzheimer's dieseasewas done on older Nigerian men and older African-American men. It was found that the Nigerian men that was tested for it , only one had it and with the AA men at least four had the gene.
Yes , there are some ailments that Black people are predisposed to, but in order for diseases to passed down from one generation to another the descendant had to neglect themselves. I have long thought about this after I was talking with a woman about mental illness( Bipolarism) being genetic in her family. One medical doctor and one pyschriatric doctor asked if anybody in her family druck moonshine. When she told them yes, they found the genetic " Gene" to the family problem. Poor diets, too much stress and or inactivity is why were all in this mess today.
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Posted: Wednesday October 18th, 2006 16:49 |
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strange
But when i am in Africa you dont hear of many diseases, like hayfever etc. And that thing about testostrone is strange so they saying Africans have more of it than other races. I just cant believe location could make such a diference
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