page 324). That is why cancer is considered to be a disease of ‘civilization’. Today, cancer is the second-leading cause of death among Americans, with one in four deaths in the US due to cancer. In 2013, 1 536 119 Americans received a new diagnosis of cancer and 584 872 died of the disease. The direct medical costs of cancer in the US are estimated at $74.8 billion.87 Clearly, modern medicine does not yet have any answers for the prevention and treatment of cancer. But perhaps the Inuit, the Plains Indians, the Masai, the Pathans and other ‘manly, stalwart and resolute races of the north [of
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