Best Health Blog
News: Shocking video toughens up image of Canadian Cancer SocietyBlog
Enjoy the Best Health Blog, featuring daily news and healthy eating, fitness & wellness tips from BH editors!
Recent posts
- Fashion: Beach-friendly sandals that aren't flip flops
- News: Sugar can make you stupid
- Beauty: A fresh face on the scene
- News: Bratz dolls go bald in support of children's illnesses
- News: Is 'social jet lag' making you gain weight?
- Event: Nominate your mom for the Mom of the Year Award
- News: Potentially dangerous, injectable tanning drug being used in B.C.
- News: Cancer death rate declining, reports Canadian Cancer Society
- Fitness: Wake up with a morning Zumba class
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
Blogroll
nbsp;
















We should be speaking more positively about people who have beat cancer and live still today. I believe a more positive approach will bring magnificent results. Give us hope.
How totally ridiculous that the emotional "fight" here is aimed at reality. Cancer is natural and some man-made, however still then a part of reality.
A fight against a lethal and deadly natural disease cannot be "fought" on emotional grounds. So, therefore it is an emotional appeal for money. Even then this kind of emotional appeal is misdirected towards those who do not think much. Just look at the swearing. There is no cause for base vulgarity. The only people who swear like that are people who cannot or refuse to conceptualize their feelings or ideas.
This AD also reveals to me, the cultural collapse of government in medicine.
"Partnerships" with government limit creativity, innovation and cause soviet style stagnation. I have heard of no, - absolutely no - new innovations or progress in the "fight against cancer" and this growing stagnation is a direct cause of the growing lack of freedom in this economic sector. Government control in medicine is the growing cause of stagnations and death in healthcare in Canada. Cancer is no different no matter the emotional facade presented as in AD's like this.
This AD has the same embarrassment one feels for an unfunny comedian on stage who must be told to stop. Just stop it.
WOW!!! That was powerful, I cried watching.
Powerful! Harsh? Most definately, but you tell me one person who had ever been affected by cancer who thought it was pretty or nice? NO ONE.
I never got a say when my father, uncles or aunts were affected by this and died as a result of it. Fight? We all need to! My Dad will never get to walk me down the aisle or see the birth of my children and he damn well should have been able to.
Bravo!!!! really hits home if you have lost anyone to this disease.
I love this ad! It is raw, it is unnerving, it is edgy and it perfectly captures the sense of rage that cancer patients and their families go through. My sister died of breast cancer at the age of 34. 34 YEARS OLD! That was almost 17 years ago and I am still angry. She should still be in my life, my children should have had the chance to know her, and her husband should have been allowed to grow old with her. So yes, I am enraged, even after all this time. And I applaud the Canadian Cancer Society for this excruciatingly honest video.
Cancer stole a year of my life.
WOW .... Finally someone has gotten the right approach here. We need to see the very reality of this ugly and devastating disease we face and so many fight every day.
I think this video is only a slam against god and does have anythingto do with finding a cure for cancer.
Awsome....cuts right to the topic!