Guest guest Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 As many have already heard, Jennings, the reknowned anchorman for WABC-TV died yesterday of lung cancer. Jennings gave up smoking 20 years ago. I was under the impression that the lungs healed themselves after a person stopped smoking? Any thoughts on this? [Editor's note: When you have cancer, it grows and kills you unless you do something to get rid of it. Changing lifestyle and diet in the right way helps prevent recurrence, and slows progress of the disease, sometimes putting it into remission. However, if one already has cancer, a simple lifestyle change is often not sufficient to undo its damage or eliminate it. That's why people resort to fairly brutal procedures like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Furthermore, Jennings was, after all, just another human with his own ideas about how he wanted to live. Although he stopped smoking, he probably did not give up all the rest of his bad habits, and you can be certain that his cancer doctor knows little or nothing useful about diet and lifestyle changes needed to kick the disease without traditional therapies. Besides, lung cancer is very tough to beat.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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