by Barbara Minton
(The Best Years in Life) Every year more than 14 million healthy Americans follow the dictate of the medical establish to have a colonoscopy. Of this number, an estimated 70,000 are killed or seriously injured by colonoscopy related complications, according to statistics published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. But here is the real shocker – that 70,000 is a larger number (by 22%) than the total number of people who die from colon cancer in the first place!
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Other interesting facts about colonoscopy include:
*According to an April 21, 2014 release from the National Institutes of Health, no large clinical trials have been completed to support the need for colonoscopy screening. The American Cancer Society is in agreement with this statement.
*Radiation exposure from one colonoscopy increases the lifetime risk of cancer by 20%. Since you are supposed to get your first colonoscopy at age 50 and then in five year increments, by the time you reach the age of 70 your cancer risk will be 100%.
*Research has shown that colonoscopy screening increases mortality from all causes. The Telemark Polyp Study I revealed a 157% increase in mortality among colonoscopy screened patients compared to those not screened.
*An estimated 95% of all polyps are benign, and may actually serve a protective purpose in the colon.
*Removing polyps profoundly increases a patients’ risk of death from hard to detect internal bleeding which may lead to stroke, myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac death.
*About half of Americans age fifty and older get screening colonoscopies. So if removing polyps were an effective intervention, we should be witnessing at least a 50% reduction in incidence of colorectal cancer. But in reality we are seeing a 22% increase in incidence of the disease.
As has been repeatedly shown in research, cancer is a lifestyle disease. The choices you make determine your outcome, even when hereditary factors are present.
Choose pineapple to prevent colon cancer
Instead of subjecting yourself to the horrors of colonoscopy, protect your colon by adding pineapple to your diet, or by getting the an enzyme found in pineapple, known as bromelain, which can be bought in capsule form.
Two recent research studies have shown that bromelain from pineapple has powerful action against colon cancer. In the first, scientists from Italy evaluated bromelain for its ability to stop the proliferation of cancer cells and cause them to die on time through a process known as apoptosis. When cancer cells die on schedule, they are not threatening.
The researchers found that bromelain exerts anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects in colorectal carcinoma cells, and it is effective in stopping the genesis of cancer in vivo. They concluded that both eating pineapple and taking the bromelain enzyme alone are highly effective at cancer prevention.