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Slow down.

You move too fast.

Well, welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

You know, this is the first show of 2019, and we're starting this year out with a very important topic, cancer.

It's a cause of cancer from our genetics or from the environment in which we live.

What do you think the answer is?

Is it our genetics?

Or is it our environment?

Hmm.

That is a very good question.

And I think the answer is going to surprise a lot of people.

I think so.

Yes.

So according to recent research, cancer has surpassed heart disease as a leading cause of death in many states in the United States. And the researchers have estimated that cancer is expected to surpass heart

disease as the leading cause of death nationwide in the next year. The question we need to ask is,

why is this happening?

You know, it really, Marcy, it seems like everyone has been touched by cancer either.

You know, yourself, a child, a parent, a sibling, a friend, or a coworker.

You know, so today we've invited a cancer expert to join us to discuss this very important topic of cancer.

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