Health - Cancer Info

Johns Hopkins Update -
> This is an extremely good article. Everyone should read it.
>
> AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY
> ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS
> FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
>
> Cancer Update from Johns 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 nutritional
> deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, but also to
> environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
>
> 5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to
> eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by 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,
> gastrointestinal 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 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 aminos 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 soy 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 other meat, like
> chicken. 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, herbal
> 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 becomes
> 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
> bodies 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,
> un-forgiveness 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.
>
> 1. No plastic containers in micro.
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> 2. No water bottles in freezer.
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> 3. No plastic wrap in microwave..
>
> Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
> information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as
> well. 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
> Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.
> 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 Corning 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, Corning Ware, etc. 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.
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> 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.
>
> This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.