Since my Mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer, I've become more concerned about what is put in my body on a daily basis. So this issue has become quite important to me and thus from time to time I will publish information I deem worth sharing.
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 tumours.
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, gastro-intestinal 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.
WHAT 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 w h i te in colour. 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 become putrified 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 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, unforgiveness 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.
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My wife and I normally eat very healthy (oh, we have our weaknesses, like chocolate). We eat primarily a vegetable, fruit and whole grains diet. The only meat we have eaten in over six years is sea-fish (mostly halibut and salmon since we live in alaska) and seafood (prawns, crab). Besides wine, the only liquid we ingest on a regular basis is water, which we get by collecting rainwater and giving it the reverse-osmosis treatment (this is more a case of necessity than health, really). My wife is trained as an epidimiologist, so she has a long and vested interest in disease ecology and nutrition.
However, despite these healthy habits, we spent the first week of February attempting an experiment. For one week we attempted an all-raw, or 'living foods' diet, to see if we could learn anything or improve our diet any.
The first thing we learned was that a cold time of year in a cold climate isn't the best time to be eating entirely uncooked foods. We did take advantage of the technicality about the 104 degrees, which allowed us to dehydrate several types of food, as well as slightly warm some dishes like the all-raw lasagna. I discovered that even though I despise cooked zucchinni with a passion, raw zucchinni is delicious. All in all, we ate way too many nuts, and are actually still recovering a bit from that, being unable to really eat any nuts without feeling a tad ill, but it was just because of how many prepared raw dishes required nuts. Looking back, maybe one meal a weak with nuts would have plenty :)
When we went off the diet, we didn't notice any particular change in energy levels that is usually associated with this kind of diet, but that is probably because it isn't tremendously different from how we eat anyways. Also, eating a lot of cold raw foods during the winter had the effect of reducing my appetite to almost non-existent, causing me to eat small frequent amounts, which is always good, but it is still nice to eat a warm meal once in awhile :)
Overall, we learned a lot of great recipes that we will definitely be having again, and overall gained confidence in adding even more fruit and vegetable dishes to our diet, which can only help in the fight against cancer!
Thanks for getting this up Zap!