We hunted wild game that was not penned up, or force-fed with hormones and antibiotics. There was a continuous round of New Moon Ceremonies, Feast Days, Fasting Days, and Dances that kept us in harmony with our surroundings and each other. We had Seven types of Medicine People, from Herbalists and Midwives to Priests. You only need to look around you to see that the health of our People today is not what it was in the past. Our people, both old and not so old, suffer from diabetes, high blood-pressure, heart problems, alcoholism, depression, AIDS and yes, cancer.
Cancer is quite rare among the so-called primitive people of the world.
The more industrialized the country, the more cancers. Cancer is not the result of bad luck. It's not a matter of bad genes or a single virus. Most cancers are caused by the way we live, think, what we eat, and the environments we live in. Breast cancer and prostrate cancer have been linked to the high levels of pesticides in our diets, to the excessive use of meat and dairy products that are full of added hormones, hormones so strong that many countries refuse to buy American beef, and that was before the Mad Cow disease scare.