OUR BODY SAVES US FROM OURSELVES

“Even when you do nearly everything wrong your body maintains and preserves you,” Bryson writes. Five out of six smokers don’t get lung cancer; most prime candidates for a heart attack never have a heart attack. Between one and five cells in our body turns cancerous every day, “and your immune system captures and kills them. Think of that. A couple of dozen times a week, well over a thousand times a year, you get the most dreaded disease of our age, and each time your body saves you.”