My son, Christian Roy, is
going for his doctorate in Bio-Science @
Dear Chris,
How have you been ? Somebody sent me
the info below and I want to post it up on my website.
Have you come across these kinds of conclusions in your work
and studies ?
It all sounds reasonable to me as a novice.
I hope all is well with you.
Love you...
Dad
Dear Dad,
Most of these statements are Holistic
"mumbo-jumbo" with a sprinkling of actual fact. I could go line
by line and correct it all, but I don't know if the resulting list would have
any purpose. Cancer is an extremely complex process, and is only grouped
under one term due to convention. In reality, the term encompasses
complex biochemical changes in a cell. These changes are NOT merely the
result of diet. Each time a human cell divides, there are millions of
chances for something to go wrong, irrespective of whether you micro waved your
TV dinner in its original package or a glass corning container. To
try and boil it down to eating better is idiotic, and under-educated.
While I believe that eating better is extremely important, and will remove some
of the associated risk factors, it will certainly not protect you 100% from
cancer.
I especially liked some of the following statements…
"b. Milk causes
the body to produce mucus, especially in
the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off
milk
and substituting with unsweetened Soya milk cancer cells are being
starved. "
WHAT?
Milk causes the body to produce mucus?! I thought mucus, an essential
component of the mucosal membrane (i.e. lips, trachea, nostrils) was important
for filtering out the air that we breath from pathogens, while providing an
place for the primary immune system to take effect. Don't we want more
mucus? Why do we produce more mucus when we're sick? Is it because
we drink more milk? Please....
"e. Avoid
coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine.
Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting
properties.
"
This one is rich. Forget that Green tea still
contains caffeine I guess. Also forget that no study has ever linked caffeine
to cancer. Also, drinking plain old black tea, done by billions of people
every day, has been repeat ably linked to a healthy lifestyle and longer,
healthier lives. This just represents the healthy living hot-topic of the
time. People think "Green tea good." Why?
"Because of the anti-oxidants" What do they do? "They
anti-oxidize." Ok...... do you know effect that has in vivo?
If you do, that's impressive, because no one else does.
Also, look what they said a little down the list!
"16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an
oxygenated
environment.
Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more
oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is
another means
employed
to destroy cancer cells."
What?! I thought you said to drink green tea, for the
anti-oxidants. Now you want to breathe deep and get MORE oxygen into our
cells? Gee Whiz !
If you are worried about cancer; start at the facts and work outward. Not
at what the ageing hippies trying to fight father time are saying on they're 10
year old Macs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Hope that's not too harsh Dad. I rather enjoy taking apart stuff like
this. Perhaps that's where my future lies?
Love
-Chris
THE ORIGINAL EMAIL MESSAGE :
CANCER INFORMATION FROM JOHN
HOPKINS
1. Every person has cancer
cells in the body. These
cancer cells do not show up
in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion.
When doctors tell cancer patients
that there are no more
cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests
are unable to detect the cancer
cells because they have not reached the
detectable size
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to
more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's
immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
destroyed and prevented from
multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer
it indicates the person has
multiple nutritional deficiencies.
These could be due to genetic,
environmental, food and lifestyle
factors.
5. To
overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,
changing diet and including
supplements will strengthen the immune
system.
6. Chemotherapy involves
poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys
rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone
marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc,
and can cause organ damage, like
liver, kidneys, heart,
lungs etc.
7. Radiation, while
destroying cancer cells, also burns,
scars and damages healthy cells,
tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with
chemotherapy and radiation
will often reduce tumor size.
However prolonged use of chemotherapy and
radiation do not result in more
tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic
burden from
chemotherapy and radiation
the immune system is either compromised or
destroyed, hence the person can
succumb to various kinds of infections
and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and
radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult
to destroy. Surgery can also
cause cancer cells to spread to other
sites.
11. An effective way to battle
cancer is to starve the
cancer cells by not feeding it with
the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED
ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By
cutting off sugar it
cuts off one important food supply to
the cancer cells. Sugar
substitutes like
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame
and it is harmful. A
better natural substitute would be Manuka honey
or
molasses but only in very small
amounts. Table salt has a chemical added
to make it white in color.
Better alternative is Bragg's amino or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body
to produce mucus, especially in
the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer
feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
and substituting with unsweetened
Soya milk cancer cells are being
starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid
environment. A
meat-based diet is acidic and it is
best to eat fish, and a little
chicken rather than beef
or pork. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and
parasites, which are all harmful,
especially to people
with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and
juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a
little fruits help put the body into an
alkaline environment.
About 20% can be from cooked food
including beans.
Fresh vegetable juices
provide live enzymes that are
easily absorbed and reach
down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to
nourish and enhance growth of healthy
cells. To obtain live enzymes for
building healthy cells try and drink
fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including bean sprouts)
and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3
times a day. Enzymes are destroyed
at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40
degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate,
which have high
caffeine. Green tea is a better
alternative and has cancer-fighting
properties.
Water-best to drink purified water,
or filtered, to
avoid known toxins and heavy metals
in tap water. Distilled water is
acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to
digest and requires a
lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested
meat remaining in the intestines
become putrefied and leads to more
toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough
protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat
it frees more enzymes to attack the
protein walls of cancer cells and
allows the body's killer cells to
destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build
up the immune system (IP6,
Flor-ssence, Essiac,
anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.)
to
enable the body's own killer cells to
destroy cancer cells. Other
supplements, like vitamin E, are
known to cause apoptosis, or programmed
cell death, the body's normal method
of disposing of damaged, unwanted,
or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a
disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A
proactive and positive spirit will
help the cancer warrior be a
survivor. Anger, unforgiveness
and bitterness put the body into a
stressful and acidic environment.
Learn to have a loving and forgiving
spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy
life.
16. Cancer cells cannot
thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising
daily and deep breathing help to get more
oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy
cancer cells.
PLEASE FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT
CANCER UPDATE FROM
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns
This information is being circulated at
Dioxin chemicals cause cancer,
especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the
cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your
plastic bottles with water in them as
this releases dioxins from
the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto,
Wellness Program Manager
at
He talked about dioxins and how
bad they are for us.
He said that we should not
be heating our food in the
microwave using plastic containers.
This especially applies to foods
that contain fat.
He said that the combination of
fat, high heat, and
plastics releases dioxin into the
food and ultimately into the cells of
the body.
Instead, he recommends
using glass, such as
Ware, Pyrex or
ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same
results, only without the dioxin. So
such things as TV dinners, instant
ramen and soups, etc., should be
removed from the container and heated
in something else.
Paper isn't bad but you
don't know what is in the paper.
It's just safer to use tempered
glass,
He reminded us that a while ago some
of the fast food
restaurants moved away from the foam
containers to paper.
The dioxin problem is one of the
reasons.
Also, he pointed out
that plastic wrap, such as Saran,
is just as dangerous when placed
over foods to be cooked in the
microwave. As the food is nuked, the
high heat causes poisonous toxins
to actually melt out of
the plastic wrap and drip into the food.
Cover food with a paper towel
instead.
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