We've all heard plenty of jokes about the Scottish weather - but most of them aren't true! Scotland's climate is actually quite moderate and very changeable, although on occasion we get really hot or really cold weather. As the old Scottish saying goes, 'there's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes!'.
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 8.2 million deaths in 2012 (1). The most common causes of cancer death are cancers of: 1  lung (1.59 million deaths). 2  liver (745 000 deaths).
While the following three causes of death would be far fewer if you eliminated. the first two causes of death, (stress and Western medicine), we must next mention heart. disease. Heart disease is what Western medicine calls the first leading cause of death, (and then cancer, stroke, etc).