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 ha nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to
genetic, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple
nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5
times/day and by 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 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 other meat, like chicken.
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. Oxyge 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 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.