Cancer is a killer disease that strikes fear in most people. It's the great "mystery" disease that causes people to cross their fingers and hope that they will never get it. Yet, more and more, people are attacked with cancer each year. Statistics predict that one out of every three people in the United States will develop the dreaded disease. After heart disease, it is the number two killer and it is threatening to take over as number one.

One of the reasons that cancer is such a fearful disease is because many doctors, whom most revere as the experts on healing and health, say, "we don't know what causes cancer." Anytime you are facing an enemy and you know little about that enemy, you are at a tremendous disadvantage. Make no mistake about it, cancer is a deadly enemy and the better informed we are about this disease, the greater the odds are that we get total victory over it. If we can unveil the cause of cancer, we can simply reverse the cause and get well and stay well.

        From a Biblical point of view, it's clear that cancer, like all other diseases, is not the will of God; but it is the will of our spiritual enemy. Jesus said in John 10:10, "The thief (that's Satan) comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I am come that you might have life and that more abundantly." The scriptures teach that cancer is evil (Deuteronomy 28) and we should resist it through faith in God's Word (1 Peter 5:8 and Proverbs 4:20-22).

        Many students of the Bible know these and other scriptures concerning healing. But, where they often fail is that they know little to nothing about how to nourish and take care of their bodies. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6. People, including people who love God, try to adhere to God's moral and scriptural laws; but they totally ignore His principals and laws concerning health.

        I heard a pastor say, "I eat whatever I want. I just bless it." That same pastor died of liver cancer at the early age of 51. Another Christian, who happened to be a medical doctor, had cancer and said he was believing the scriptures which teach that Jesus paid the price for our diseases when he died on the cross and rose from the dead (Isaiah 53 and Psalm 103:2-3). When friends came to him to try to convince him to change his diet, he ate horribly, he said, "My faith is in the Word of God - not in what I eat." He died of the cancer.

What Causes Cancer?

        When you begin to investigate the disease of cancer you will arrive at the same conclusion that I have - that cancer is primarily a by-product of our modern day lifestyle. People are giving themselves cancer mainly by what they eat and how they live. Dr. Ernest H. Rosenbaum MD, chief of Oncology at French Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, wrote, "It appears that our affluence - our ‘good' life - is the major contributor to the high death rates we have from cancer."

        The scientists and researchers behind Prevention Magazine Health Books states, "80% to 90% of all cancers are the result of things we do to ourselves."   The Harvard School of Public Health admits that at least 65% of all cancers could be prevented by a change in diet and lifestyle. This is a great admission on their part; however,in my opinion, the figure is 90+%.

        In 1909 the average American ate 300 pounds of grains and 200 pounds of potatoes yearly. By 1985 the amount of grains and potatoes eaten had dropped by 50% and the amount of meat eaten had increased by 50%. Also, milk consumption had increased 100% and the amount of chicken eaten had increased by 300%. In 1909 your chances of getting cancer was 1 in 33; now your chances of getting cancer are greater than 1 in 3.

        Linus Pauling, Ph.D. states in Antioxidants, A Powerful Cancer Defense, "cancer is not, as some people think, a thunderbolt of fate, striking at random with no cure or cause." There is overwhelming evidence that cancer and other diseases that cause Americans to die are directly related to bad diets and unhealthy lifestyles.

        Dr. Lorraine Day is an orthopedic trauma surgeon who, in 1992, was diagnosed with breast cancer that spread to the muscles of her chest. Because she "saw too many people die", she refused the standard treatment of surgery and chemotherapy and changed to a total vegetarian diet of no animal products whatsoever and no meat, fish, dairy or eggs. Within 18 months, she was completely healed! Her plan included daily prayer with Bible reading, a diet of whole foods and large quantities of freshly made vegetable juices daily.

        On her web site she says, "virtually all disease is caused by a combination of three main factors:

•1.       Malnutrition - we eat empty calories, processed food that is high in fat, protein and sugar but very low in vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

•2.       Dehydration - we lose 10 glasses of water from our bodies every day just by living. Water is a necessary architectural component of every cell. If our cells are deficient in water, they can't function properly. Therefore, our bodies and our brains start to break down.

•3.       Stress - when we are stressed our adrenal glands pour out harmful hormones into our body that suppress our immune system"

        I could go on and on quoting doctors, scientists, researchers, health experts and studies that all show the same irrefutable results. These results are to change from your diet of the typical American diet that consists of cooked and processed foods that are high in meat, dairy and sugar and low in fiber; they weaken the immune system and promote cancer. Go to a natural diet of mostly raw fruits and vegetables including fresh vegetable drinks daily like carrot juice. Your chances of ever getting cancer will be drastically reduced to almost zero.

        Sir William A. Lane is a world authority on medical matters and long regarded as England's foremost abdominal surgeon. While being entertained by the staff of John Hopkins Hospital he said, "Gentlemen, I will never die of cancer. I am taking measures to prevent it...It is caused by poisons created in our bodies by the food we eat...What we should do, then if we would avoid cancer, is to eat....raw fruits and vegetables; first, that we may be better nourished; secondly that we may more easily eliminate waste products. We have been studying germs when we should have been studying diet and drainage. The world has been on the wrong track. The answer has been within ourselves all the time...Drain the body of its poisons, feed it properly, and the miracle is done. Nobody need have cancer who will take the trouble to avoid it."

        You can attack cancer. First, by trusting God and getting His promises of divine health firmly rooted in your heart through daily Bible reading and prayer. Secondly, by changing your diet from the harmful meat based processed food diet that most Americans consume to a diet rich in the natural foods from the earth that God has provided for us to nourish our bodies. As William A. Lane said, "Nobody need have cancer who will take the trouble to avoid it."