Friday, May 1, 2009

John Hopkins Update On Cancer Prevention


 

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 nomore 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, 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 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.


 
      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 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 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  breathinghelp 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.


 
2. No water bottles in  freezer.


 
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 Cast le 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. Pa per 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.


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