Why is the incidence of Cancer increasing?

I read the first chapter of Parks, book of Preventive and Social Medicine for the first time today,
That led me to Ponder over this :

Man was plagued by diseases (Pun intended) created by the piling of garbage, rapid industrialization and poor city planning, during the 17-19th centuries.
These diseases had micro organismic causes and soon the Germ Theory of Diseases was propounded by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur.
The invention of microscopes soon led to the discoveries of pathogenic micro organisms in quite succession in 1940s to 1970s.

Soon, Man succeeded in developing chemotherapeutic agents that could kill these agents. Cheaper and widespread availability of drugs led to its drastic use and subsequent fall in acute infectious diseases was noted.

Man, at this point, had mingled with the mother Nature. He tried to alleviate fellow humans and increase standard of living by prolonging the expectancy of life.

The next generation which followed, had the luxuries of lesser infectious diseases but, Nature had another challenge in store for us.

Chronic non infectious, lifestyle or genetic diseases became more common. Drugs for cancer have become the Holy Grail for modern Medicine.

Some day when mankind achieves victory over these chronic diseases, age related debilitations will prove to be the limiting factor to the immortality of mankind and then we will have to search for anti aging drugs and elixirs of life.

"Nothing is immortal in the material world" will finally dawn to the homo sapiens sapiens and that's when, man WI learn to lead a simple but meaningful life.

Let's become "chaabiwallahs"

What's the difference between a "chaabiwallah" and a "doctor" ?

A chaabiwallah or a 'key maker' as you imagine him, is a shabbily dressed man sitting idly for most of the day, on a dented stool placed on the pavement besides a small cupboard containing keys, ready to be shaped into the required outline.
Sometimes no key is available and you desperately wish to open the lock, which is difficult to be broken. To your rescue comes the key maker!

Many of them succeed by trial and error method. But that also makes them powerful enough to be able to open any physical Lock!

Have you ever then fretted about the security the lock makers promised? The peaceful sleep that I used to get after locking my possessions, will never be the same after knowing this fact!

However, also think about another fact. These chaabiwallahs are capable to breaking into houses and cars, capable of making easy money in the wrong way. Yet, they choose the right path.

Now let's talk about doctors!
They have knowledge. They too, have a key (treatment) for the lock (disease). But you won't see them sitting idle, dressed pathetically. On the contrary, they ll boast of having made better fitting keys to the existing locks.
These chaabiwallahs will go to the extent of even destroying the lock in the quest of finding the best key. They sometimes do not ask the basic question "is another key required?"
Now we have companies that make keys for locks that are alike. Even a child can tell you that no two locks are made alike. Thus, buying keys from these companies claiming to make the best keys, is nothing but a business of fooling the customer.

Kutch '15

Nov 9, Monday.

Dada came to drop me till the ever bustling village Naka, where I just hopped into one of the many Toofans zooming towards Gandhidham from Mundra. He waved at me and I waved back. I kept my luggage under the seat. As the toofan accelerated, I looked back towards him. Still, he was still there (Pun intended).... Looking at me.

The road, unlike of Mumbai was a straight one and with very little traffic, there wasn't any other vehicle behind. So even after having driven away 500 meters, I could appreciate a faint shadow of him, save getting smaller and hazier with each passing second...he must have waited there till I went out of the sight.
He waited for me in the blazing hot climate...that moment I will never forget.

I had been in Gundala (Taluka Mundra, District Kutch, State Gujarat) since the past 2 days.
Onward Journey had been 14 hours long, but time flew quickly when I had company of my sister. And it was comfortable traveling in train.

In these past two days of "vacation", all I did was "Eat. Sleep. Pray".

I ate so much and so frequently that I guess my stomach used be loaded with extra work even before he had done the given work of pushing the previous meal into the intestines!

Back to Mumbai, college and the upcoming exams now

Diabetes, Drugs and Darwin

I'm back to writing on the topics I love so much! Philosophy!

Are you still wondering about the title? Well diabetes and drugs are palatable and there's nothing new in it, 

Giving drugs is decreasing the quality of our gene pool

We are fooling ourselves

My perception of the world as a child was:
"I'm born in the 21st century and we are the most advanced generation. Humans have progressed so much that all the questions have answers"

Now that I read literature, it dawns upon me that we have always fooled our selves. What we only have are models and hypotheses. This which have arguments and counter arguments. Continuously criticisms and discussions are going on in the world.

How else will we Progress unless we questions to available answers

# be curious

Unlearn

Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. And, to learn as well as unlearn, for all, u need to make new synapses. Not that - to unlearn the old synapses will be lost.

Brain

Our brain is a master piece. That we ourselves are unable to solve so many mysteries. So is out brain so complicated that our complicated brain cannot understand itself. Or is there lots of improvements possible that will make our brains even more complicated that we can understand it one day! Duh! Forget it. It's complicated.