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The World Wide Web + E-Mails = Bad Cancer Lore
February 01, 2008
Doctors charge third generation of birth defects in Vietnamese children caused by Agent Orange and dioxin spraying.
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We all get e-mail that ask us to forward to as many people as we can. Most have little value. Many are harmful. A few, funny or sarcastic views of the sender. Despite good intentions the internet has made it easier to take a "forwarded" message with meaning when sent from a friend, family member or aquaintance. Before you barrel down the list of friends that you plan on sending the tid-bit to it may be a good thing to scope out the info. I received this in a recent mail. A genuine attempt at keeping me in mind with a topic I am interested in.
After years of telling people Chemotherapy is the only way to try and eliminate cancer, Johns Hopkins is finally starting to tell you there is an alternative way.
- 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.
- Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
- When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
- When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
- To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
- 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.
- Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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 aminos or sea salt.
- Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved. (almond milk is a better substitute, Dot's note)
- 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.
- A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruit 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, resentment, 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.
- 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.
CANCER UPDATE FROM Johns Hopkins HOSPITAL
- No plastic containers in micro.
- No water bottles in freezer.
- 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.
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.
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Now as wonderful and well meaning this information is, the sad truth is much of it is mis-leading. Being a person whose has some research involvement in Chemicals and Toxins in our Homes this article upon first receipt peeked my interest.
Here are some of the many sites who investigated the claims made by Dr. Edward Fujimoto
Not all of this information is false. As you have read through the e-mail some of the suggestions make what I would call "good old-fashioned common sense."
One of the original directions of this website was to provide toxins and chemicals information as it related to our indoor environments. Our site was at that time viewed by all of the major manufacturer's of products that we had listed. To this day I have had no requests to remove that information due to its being false. To the contrary the pages we provided have been copied and displayed on a host of other toxin and home health related websites. Here is the compliation of the four pages we had posted on Chemicals and Toxins in Homes, Ice Cream and Cosmetics. (Apologies - Not uploaded as yet!)
The reality of this all is that we all choose what we do with our lives and how we care for ourselves and what we care about. Personally, I'm not the greatest fan of plastics. Understand that it's a remarkable material that has enhanced and changed every single one of our lives. However there is a limit. I've never been fond of the blending of plastic and food items or perishables. Not knowing all the chemistry involved I cannot form an intelligent consideration as to the pro's, con's, health hazards or lack thereof but do know that I've just never been comfortable. I think of the many times I've seen food left over by housemates, room-mates and the like where tomato sauce has been keep in plastics and the difficulty in removing the chemical reaction of the acidic sauce and the plastic. Same with grape juice in a plastic pitcher. It just dyes the plastic. Yes, I understand that both pretty much stain anything yet with clothing and fabrics, furniture and the like it's not going into my stomach. I do keep plastic storage containers in my home and use them for a variety of storage solutions but for the most part everything edible goes into the various pyrex and corning containers I've purchased over the years and they just rock for my comfort and food storage.
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For too long I've messed with the wiring in my head. Now it shorts out more oft than not. But at my age I just sit and enjoy the sparks. RJM '07
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