Marma

thanks for giving me a very good laugh, It is amusing to see paranoid rants against the US government which you equate with insurance companies with no apparent logic. Plus where on earth did you ever get the idea that the OCF posters who exercise, eat nutritious foods and sleep are "extremely rare"? Certainly not from bothering to read any of our posts. Read DavidCPA's signature line or EricS posts or even mine to see that doing all three of your "therapies" is Zero protection against getting oral cancer. My exercise and diet were without a doubt far superior to anything you even dream of (weight lifting three times a week, running marathons, organic vegetarian diet, yoga, pilates, juices, karate, aikido, biking, hiking, meditation, plus unconditional LOVE from my family, wife and friends) yet I got oral cancer twice.
No argument that people are better off if they exercise or eat right, but the tone and tenor of your post certainly make me worry that anyone who does private message you will be soon wasting their money on goji and spirulina as if they were magical. We all wish that diet and exercise have some magical properties but they don't. Take a look at my "doncha just hate it thread" in the coping forum to see how OC patients feel about being told to eat blueberries etc, Did you even notice that your link to Harvard spells it out:
[quote]Cohort studies, which follow large groups of initially healthy individuals for years, generally provide more reliable information than case-control studies because they don't rely on information from the past. And data from cohort studies have not consistently shown that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables prevents cancer in general.[/quote]
The sad truth is that oral cancer strikes physically fit and very healthy people regardless of their diet and exercise (with the exception of smoking tobacco or alcohol abuse, neither of which you mention). It's nice that you make yourself feel better this way, but please tone down the preaching especially when you mix it with paranoia and conspiracy theories.
charm