Thursday, July 15, 2010

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins

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 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 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.

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.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

[ DRINKING BEETROOT JUICE]

> Subject: Drinking beetroot juice
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> Tuesday, Jun 29 2010
> Drinking beetroot juice dramatically lowers risk of heart disease and strokes
> By Sophie Borland
>
> You'll look a little bloodthirsty while slurping it down.

> But don't let that put you off beetroot juice - because it could save your
> life.
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> The bright-red juice contains the chemical nitrate, which dramatically reduces
> blood pressure, cutting the risk of heart disease and strokes.
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> Dramatic effect: Patients who drank a glass of beetroot juice a day were found
> to have significantly reduce blood pressure 24 hours later
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> The findings, published in Hypertension, the journal of the American Heart
> Association, could now see beetroot juice being used as a treatment.
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> Researchers at William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University in
> London compared patients who were given a 250ml glass of beetroot juice a day
> with those who took nitrate tablets.
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> They found that the two methods were equally successful in reducing blood
> pressure.
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> The researchers concluded that the nitrates which naturally occur in beetroot
> are the cause of its beneficial effects.
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> They produce a gas known as nitric oxide in the blood which widens blood
> vessels and arteries and lowers blood pressure.
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> High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects 16million Britons - one in five
> - and is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke and kidney failure.
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> Amrita Ahluwalia, Professor of Vascular Biology at the William Harvey Research
> Insti tute, said: 'We showed that beetroot and nitrate capsules are equally
> effective in lowering blood pressure indicating that it is the nitrate content
> of beetroot juice that underlies its potential to reduce blood pressure.
>
> 'We also found that only a small amount of juice is needed - just 250ml - to
> have this effect, and that the higher the blood pressure at the start of the
> study the greater the decrease caused by the nitrate.
>
> 'Our previous study two years ago found that drinking beetroot juice lowered
> blood pressure; now we know how it works.'
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> Scientists have already showed how drinking beetroot juice can boost stamina.
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> Last year researchers from the University of Exeter and Peninsula Medical
> School found that it could have as much effect as a punishing training regime.
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> They found that healthy young men were able to increase their stamina by up to
> 16 per cent after drinking a glass of beetroot juice for a week.
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> Beetroot juice is found in most health food shops and usually costs around £2
> a bottle.
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> Though very good for your body, it has one rather alarming side-effect.
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> Those who consume large amounts are likely to experience purple urine, or
> beeturia as it is known to scientists.
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> Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd
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