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Every year, about a million americans are diagnosed with cancer, of which, meaning the 75 million americans now living will eventually have cancer, and one in five will die of this disease.
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And there's a lot of places that this cancer can be caused, smoking, you know, diet, chemicals, etc.
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And so we're spending a lot of money, millions and millions of dollars on treatments, but we're not spending as much on prevention.
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So should we try to prevent it or treat it? where should we devote more money towards? well, my philosophy has always been that you should always try to prevent something rather than fix it because that's frankly just the more feasible alternative.
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For example, the analogy that i like to use is that if you're already fit, then maintaining that fitness is much easier than being unhealthy and working your way back to being fit...