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FatFreeMe
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:22
JOHN HOPKINS-LATEST FINDINGS ON CANCER

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

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 gastrointestinal 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 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 vegetable s 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, a 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 build-up.

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, 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.

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.

CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL , U S A

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 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 t he 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.

FatFreeMe
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:24
I received this in an email from my neice today, and wondered if anyone knows if this is true. You know how these emails spread and then we all find out its a bunch of bunk. Just wondered if its an actual study etc..
Sorry for posting this, if its already being discussed somewhere. Just point me to that thread.

LessLiz
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:28
Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.Distilled water is neutral.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

FatFreeMe
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:39
So, its a hoax that john hopkins published this. Well thank you for pointing that out so precisely.

I was wondering if anyone had any research on the whole plastic and plastic wrap in the microwave.. safe or not?

LessLiz
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:43
Sorry, FFM -- I posted my reply before I saw your second post.

FatFreeMe
Thu, Apr-10-08, 08:45
yeah, i checked out snopes for lots of things.. didn't on this one though. im gonna go and try looking on there for any info about the plastic. (get this.. same neice just forwarded the email about #77 on your cell phone, that ones been forwarded for about the last 2 years! its not true ppl!)

kallyn
Thu, Apr-10-08, 09:17
As soon as I got to the "cancer cells feed on" section my RAW VEGAN DETECTOR went off. There is no way that Johns Hopkins put that out. It is completely full of raw vegan memes and jargon.

Lorisa
Thu, Apr-10-08, 10:13
As soon as I got to the "cancer cells feed on" section my RAW VEGAN DETECTOR went off.

And if that didn't tip you off, this should have:

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 build-up

LOL

Groggy60
Thu, Apr-10-08, 10:36
I did not quite understand, don't eat sugar while wheat is good for you.

moggsy
Thu, Apr-10-08, 10:45
Big tip off might be that they misspelt the name of the institution. Not that people who are good spellers are automatically right and bad spellers wrong, but still...

PlayDoh
Thu, Apr-10-08, 12:27
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

there is the link for the actual forward

64dodger
Thu, Apr-10-08, 15:36
HEADLINE: Email Hoax Regarding Cancer


Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
Office of Public Affairs
March 2007

EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER

An email falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins describing properties of cancer cells and suggesting prevention strategies has begun circulating the Internet. Johns Hopkins did not publish the email, entitled "Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins," nor do we endorse its contents. For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institute's web site at www.cancer.gov.

Another hoax email that has been circulating since 2004 regarding plastic containers, bottles, wrap claiming that heat releases dioxins which cause cancer also was not published by Johns Hopkins.

PlaneCrazy
Thu, Apr-10-08, 18:28
Here's what the National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov says about eating and cancer (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/eatinghints/page2). (emphasis is mine)

Nutrition Recommendations Can Be Different for Cancer Patients
Recommendations about food and eating for cancer patients can be very different from the usual suggestions for healthful eating. This can be confusing for many patients because these new suggestions may seem to be the opposite of what they've always heard. Nutrition recommendations usually stress eating lots of fruits, vegetables, and whole grain breads and cereals; including a moderate amount of meat and dairy products; and cutting back on fat, sugar, alcohol, and salt. More information and tips on these recommendations are covered in the section After Treatment Ends.

Nutrition recommendations for cancer patients may focus on helping you eat more higher calorie foods that emphasize protein. Recommendations might include eating or drinking more milk, cream, cheese, and cooked eggs. Other suggestions might include increasing your use of sauces and gravies, or changing your cooking methods to include more butter, margarine, or oil. Sometimes, nutrition recommendations for cancer patients suggest that you eat less of certain high- fiber foods because these foods can aggravate problems such as diarrhea or a sore mouth.

Nutrition recommendations for cancer patients are different because they are designed to help build up your strength and help you withstand the effects of your cancer and its treatment. When you are healthy, eating enough food to get the nutrients you need is usually not a problem. During cancer treatment, however, this can become a challenge, especially if you have side effects or simply don't feel well.
Plane

glennette
Thu, Apr-10-08, 18:57
So, its a hoax that john hopkins published this. Well thank you for pointing that out so precisely.

I was wondering if anyone had any research on the whole plastic and plastic wrap in the microwave.. safe or not?

I've had too many friends and family who've never owned a microwave die from various cancers, to buy into that one just yet. Cancer has been with us for a long time but it seems that now everyone is looking at anything new to blame it on. :rolleyes:

LC FP
Thu, Apr-10-08, 19:52
Recommendations about food and eating for cancer patients can be very different from the usual suggestions for healthful eating.
Holy cow, Plane. Sounds like they're recommending the Atkins Diet!!

PlaneCrazy
Fri, Apr-11-08, 13:06
Holy cow, Plane. Sounds like they're recommending the Atkins Diet!!

Amazing ain't it. Of course, they have to tell you that after treatment you need to go back to the old way of eating, low-fat, etc... They're recommending this diet based on the fact that it's easier on the body, more nutrient dense, and easier to get the calories and protein your body needs to repair tissues damaged by the treatments. (chemo and radiation)

None of the doctors I've spoken to so far have seemed to have a problem with me eating low-carb during my cancer treatments. Their primary concern has been the same two things I mentioned above: calories and protein. They've like my idea of double-ground hamburger, fried until crumbly, with sour cream, spices and then blended up with my stick blender. It worked when my throat was too sore for solid food. also drinking heavy cream felt really good when it wasn't too cold.

I have a suspicion that low-carb will begin to enter main-stream medicine through several channels, with nutrition being the last bastion of low-fat insanity. There are cracks in the facade, but we're far from winning just yet.

Plane