And today, we're far more likely to spend hours hunting for Web sites or TV channels than foraging for food. He points out that mammals appeared about 65 million years ago and notes that only mammals have prostates and breasts, which apparently have evolved on parallel tracks. Poring over zoo records from around the world, Coffey has found that no aging mammal in the zoo dies of prostate or breast cancer. He blames this phenomenon mainly on diet. He maintains that humans have the makeup of an animal that should be a vegetarian, and their meat-eating tendencies seem to be a mistake that nature never accounted for.
Most apes eat only fruits and vegetables.
In essence, he said, human technology has outrun human evolution. So diet can control inflammation of the prostate. Coffey issued a plea for continued efforts in the study of cancer, which he describes as not only a genetic but an epigenetic disease, or one that also arises from factors other than inheritance. It is time to understand and implement prevention as well as therapy. Bob Hecker is a technical editor for the OSU Medical Center.