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Cumulative factors causing Iowa’s cancer rate
Ken Krizan
Sep. 3, 2024 6:00 am
Iowa is having increased diagnoses of cancers in the population from young to old.
The cause is from a cumulative effect of eating more processed foods with ingredients that are indigestible; chronically breathing pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer fumes and absorbing hydrocarbons as well as household toxins through the skin.
Processed foods slow down normal gastric functions promoting the accumulation of waste resulting in many consequences.
Harmful chemicals taken into the lungs enter the blood stream and then some are trying to filter out going through both the liver and the kidneys.
Skin exposed to poisons transfers them into the circulatory system.
These are basic reasons we have increasing rates of cancer in Iowa.
How do we know?
Look at the statistics.
Ken Krizan
Coralville
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