WHY ARE CANCER AND KIDNEY FAILURE ON THE RISE ?

The science and technology are advancing with unprecedented speed and medical science is not far behind. In fact the average life-span has increased substantially after the development of modern medical science. The mortality rate has definitely gone down and we have successfully eradicated some diseases. What is disappointing is that recently some disease like cancer and failure of kidney have reached an alarming level and the number of cases related to these diseases are still increasing.

I feel that some of the factors contributing to proliferation of such disease are:

• Modern stressful life.


• Diversion from traditional food habits to INSTANT FOODS most of which is 'Junk'.


• Excessive consumption of alcohol.


• Excessive use of pesticides in agriculture.


• Excessive use of chemical fertilisers resulting in increase of salinity of soil which in turn results in increase of salt level in water beyond the permissible.


• Excessive use of insecticides to kill insects like flies and mosquitos.


• Excessive and sometimes needless use of vehicles contributing to pollution.