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Nutrition, Diet & the Healing of Cancer (1)
Adelle Davis used to say that she never saw anyone get cancer who drank a quart of
milk daily, as she did. She stopped saying that when she died of
cancer in 1974, leaving behind her a trail of ten million books and a
following that was large, devoted, and misinformed.
Stephen Barrett, M.D., in Quackwatch on nutritional & dietary oversimplifications
More from Stephen Barrett on Adelle Davis: ”Adelle Davis (1904-1974) was the first
‘health authority’ among modern food faddists who had any formal professional background. She was trained in dietetics and nutrition at the University of California at Berkeley, and got an M.S. degree in biochemistry from the
University of Southern California in 1938. Despite this training, she promoted hundreds of nutritional tidbits and theories that were unfounded. At the 1969 White House Conference on Food and Nutrition, the panel on deception
and misinformation agreed that Davis was probably the most damaging source of false nutrition information in the nation. Most of her ideas were harmless unless carried to extremes, but some were very dangerous. For example, she
recommended magnesium as a treatment for epilepsy, potassium chloride for certain patients with kidney disease, and megadoses of vitamins A and D for other conditions... Davis's most popular book was Let's Eat Right to Keep
Fit. George Mann, M.D., Sc.D., of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine undertook the fatiguing task of documenting the book's errors and found an average of one mistake per page...Gordon Schectman, a researcher at Columbia
University's Institute of Human Nutrition, compared 201 statements in Chapter 5 with the publications cited to back them up. He concluded that only thirty (27%) of these statements were supported by the references and that 112
(56%) were either contradicted or not related. Little Eliza Young ... during her first year of life ... was given ‘generous amounts’ of vitamin A as recommended in Let's Have Healthy Children. As a result, according to the suit
filed in 1971 against Davis and her publisher, Eliza's growth was permanently stunted. The estate of Adelle Davis settled in 1976 for $150,000. Two-month-old Ryan Pitzer was even less fortunate. According to the suit filed by
his parents, Ryan was killed in 1978 by the administration of potassium chloride for colic as suggested in the same book. The suit was settled out of court for a total of $160,000-$25,000 from the publisher, $75,000 from
Davis's estate, and $60,000 from the potassium product's manufacturer. After the suit was filed, the book was recalled from bookstores, but it was reissued after changes were made by a physician allied with the health-food
industry.”
After this introductory caveat meant to illustrate that there may be more nonsense or (sometimes dangerous) half-truths spread in the field of
nutrition than in (m)any other field(s) of human exploration, here is a collection of more scientifically sound findings on nutrition and health. Diet after all does seem to play an absolutely pivotal role in both health
maintenance and recovery. Often dietary improvements and physical and environmental detoxification alone will heal a person of serious and less serious disease, sometimes (much) more will be needed for healing cancer and other illness...
(See for instance Emotions, Healing Cancer & Your Mind, Spirituality, Energetics, Geopathic Stress Solutions and Herbs & Supplements.)
Healing Cancer With Diet & Nutrition
• The World Cancer Report: action on smoking, diet and infections can
prevent one third of cancers, another third can be cured
• The importance of living raw foods for health
• The importance of minerals & trace elements for health & cancer
prevention
• Dr. Johanna Budwig’s scientific flax oil - protein diet & protocol
has saved terminal cancer patients
• Cancer-Fighting Foods
• Best & worst foods & most effective/low-price supplements for people
with or recently recovered from cancer
• Raw food treatment for cancer
• Vegetarians live longer
: Vegetarians Study of German Cancer Research
Center
• Organic vs conventional food and cancer
•
Milk and the cancer connection I
• Milk and the cancer connection II
• Sugar and cancer
• 146 reasons why sugar is ruining your health
• Sugar-a silent killer: an extensive discussion of the sugars
• Asparagus: recoveries and remissions
• Brassica vegetables and cancer risk
• “Brassica family prevents pre-cancerous cells turning into potentially
deadly cancer cells”
• On soy & soy risks
• On macrobiotics & cancer healing
• Ginger and turmeric fight cancer
• Some Edgar Cayce’s dietary recommendations for individual cancer
patients
• Almonds in the Cayce readings compared to current medical research
• Edgar Cayce’s Dietary Advice & Recommendations for Cancer Treatment
& Prevention
• What to do when the digestive tract has been damaged by
chemotherapy
• On Garlic’s Health Benefits Against Cancer & Other Diseases
•
On selenium and cancer
• Concise quotes & facts on nutrition & the healing of cancer
Juicing & the Healing of Cancer
• Is there a best juicer for cancer patients?
• Best or least harmful fruit juices for cancer in general
• Detailed introduction to the juicing-centered Gerson therapy
• Healing your body with the Gerson therapy
• Some comments on the Gerson therapy
• For brain cancer patients considering the Gerson therapy
• Gerson therapy books
• Prof. Gearin-Tosh heals himself of myeloma, bone marrow cancer, one of
the most lethal cancers known
• IIIB Hodgkin's lymphoma testimonial: Gerson therapy was ineffective
• Beating colon cancer nature's way with the Gerson therapy
Specific Cancers: Healing & Prevention via Diet & Nutrition
•
Meat & Colon Cancer Link
• Broccoli (sprouts or extract) may halt growth of breast cancer cells
• Prostate Cancer (intro)
• Nutrition and Prostate Health
• Budwig Diet Prostate Cancer Healing Testimonials
• Budwig Diet Lung Cancer Healing Testimonials
• Budwig Diet Breast Cancer Healing Testimonials
• Tomatoes/lycopene beneficial for healing & prevention of prostate
cancer
• The World Cancer Report: action on smoking, diet and infections can
prevent one third of cancers, another third can be cured
• Obesity and Increased Cancer Risk
• Cancer-Protective Diet Outline
Water: the fundamental nutrient, catalyst & basis of physical life
• Beyond Filtration & Purification - The Kangen™ Water Alkalizer/Ionizer:
the world's best man-made water for health maintenance, healing,
detoxification, prevention and more?
• On Fluoride and Fluoridation Causing/Contributing To Cancer
& Other
Diseases
• On the link between cancer & water chlorination
Nutrition/Diet-Based Cancer Healing Testimonials
• Cancer healing testimonies through raw food & freshly-extracted
vegetable juices as well as through the Budwig protocol
• Prof. Gearin-Tosh heals himself of myeloma (bone marrow cancer), one
of the most lethal cancers known
• Beating colon cancer nature's way with the juicing-based Gerson
therapy
• Two Bladder Cancer Cures Achieved via Water Fasting
(and
determination!)
Nutrition & Diet as the Foundation of Health
• The importance of living raw foods for health
• It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb
• Bioavailability: the science behind “live” and “dead” minerals
• Rising atmospheric CO2 decreases micronutrients in plants
• Stored Protein Diseases
• Effects of Overeating & the Need for a Body Cleansing Diet and
Detoxification to Achieve Health Recovery & Optimum Health
• Obesity and Increased Cancer Risk
• Vegetarians live longer: Vegetarians Study of German Cancer Research
Center
• Proper Food Combining Table according to Dr. Hay & Dr. Walb
• Metabolic Typing
• Acid/Alkaline Chart - how to balance your pH with diet
• Acid-Forming & Alkaline-Forming Food Table
• Finding the right modalities, foods and remedies for you
• Edgar Cayce on Keeping Our Bodies in Balance Nutritionally
• Edgar Cayce’s General Nutrition and Diet Recommendations
• Filmmaker records effects of eating only McDonald's for a month
• On soy & soy risks
• On Food & Drug (Alcohol, Nicotine etc.) Cravings and Addictions:
Release & Recovery Tips
• Do healthy diets just work through placebo effect?
(mineral needs of
plants)
•
Why do some health (food) ”gurus” get sick?
• Health and raw food statements under close scrutiny
• Cereal & pulses cooking tip
• Supplements
Foods, Habits & Environmental Factors to Avoid for Cancer Prevention & Optimum Health Maintenance
• Fungi producing mycotoxins: The Fungal/Mycotoxin Etiology of Human
Disease (particularly CANCER)
• Milk and the cancer connection
• Sugar and cancer
• Meat & Colon Cancer Link
• Obesity and Increased Cancer Risk
• Fluoride and fluoridation may cause or contribute to cancer
• Chlorine dangers: “Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when
combined with chlorinated tap water”
• Proposed/”known” causes of cancer
Diseases are but symptoms of nutritional deficiencies combined with retained
toxins. These are caused by poor soil resulting in nutritionally deficient plants and fruit and other foodstuff...We must change our nutritional habits to consume at least 75% LIVING and UNPROCESSED foods - those that grow in
the ground or fall from a tree. Everything else is hardly worth eating. If we do this we can stop using drugs and even supplements because our food has become our medicine.
Dr. Juergen Buche, ND.
The importance of living raw foods for health
Introduction
Why Raw Food?
"Because from thirty to eighty-five percent of the nutrition in foods is destroyed in cooking. That is an average fifty percent loss! Fresh, raw foods
contain the highest level of enzymes. Enzymes are the catalyst for the hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions that occur throughout the body. Cooked foods and dry convenient diets have been denatured and are devoid of
enzymes - life-promoting elements. While they may maintain life they do not promote optimum health or longevity!"
Alicia McWatters, Ph.D., C.N.C.
To quote an example of the “healing power” of certain raw foods,
chlorophyll from wheatgrass contains an ingredient called abscissic acid, which kills many cancer cells immediately on contact.
To learn about one effective health-promoting lifestyle based on eating a largely raw-foods organic diet and living in unspoiled nature, read J.I. Rodale’s The
Healthy Hunzas: a nation of c. 20,000 people (1938) living in a secluded valley of the Himalayas who knew no cancer, heart or other degenerative disease before the advent of Western civilization: www.soilandhealth.org. Click on
”Go to the Health Library” and then ”Longevity”. Further information on the Hunzas’ formerly cancer-free life can be found in ”Death Rides a Slow Bus in Hunza-How would you like to live in a land where cancer has not yet been
invented?” at alkalizeforhealth.net/Lhunzadiet2.htm.
Compare Cancer healing testimonies through raw food &
freshly-extracted vegetable juices as well as through the Budwig protocol, Raw food treatment for cancer, Vegetarians live longer, Organic vs conventional food and cancer .
For an additional very balanced-seeming scientific angle, see Is Cooked Food Poison?
Looking at the Science on Raw vs. Cooked Foods, an in-depth discussion of the validity of oft-repeated statements re raw and cooked diets including such claims as Howell's theory of "food enzymes," Kouchakoff's
"digestive leukocytosis," does cooking make minerals "inorganic" or less assimilable, and the true science behind the Pottenger's Cats experiment. Found at
beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-1a.shtml.
The importance of minerals and trace elements for health and cancer
prevention
US - Sri Lanka Cancer Mortality Comparison
A revealing article by Peter H. Weis, Vancouver; B.C. outlining ”what may well be a simple, supremely effective, and
completely natural cancer cure”. And if not cancer cure, then possibly at least a way to prevent and help heal untold cancers while simultaneously allowing our civilisation-battered environment and eco-systems to recuperate and
return to a healthy state.
(Article edited by Healing Cancer Naturally for reasons of space.)
Cancer mortality overall in Sri Lanka is 7.5 times lower than cancer mortality in the US. Colon cancer mortality in Sri Lanka is 187 (!) times lower than in the US Prostate cancer mortality is over 137 times lower. Lung cancer mortality is 39 times lower in Sri Lanka than in the US. Breast cancer mortality is over 20 times lower (a Sri Lankan woman‘s chance of breast cancer = 1.6 / 100.000). Leukemia mortality is over 5 times lower.
(Source: World Health Statistics Annual (1996); WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION)
Peter H. Weis:
”These facts point directly to a natural, nutritional cancer cure... and what amounts to the greatest horror story ever perpetuated upon humanity.
The horror story of an agriculture which robs our daily food of over 60 natural and crucially vital trace elements without which we sicken and die
- and as if this were not enough – an agriculture which then adds its poisons to our daily food, to the air we breathe, to the water we drink, and to the soil in which we grow our crops.
The horror story of an animal husbandry which laces our daily food with powerful growth and female hormones – hormones which accelerate growth - including
that of cancer, of course - push young girls and boys into earlier and earlier puberty at the cost of the development of their brains, and feminize males.
Add to this the powerful antibiotics
fed routinely to livestock, which have now made many strains of deadly bacteria immune to these powerful drugs [and which seem to have contributed to the spread of Candida fungus overgrowth].
The horror story of a container and convenience industry which laces our bodies with powerful pseudo estrogens and xenohormones which interfere with our
vitally fine-tuned hormone balance; and an industry which contaminates our air, our land and our water with its chemical pollutants.
These then, are the factors - and in the order listed here - which are the cause of the massively higher incidence of cancer - as well as of many other
incurable, autoimmune, chronic and degenerative diseases.
Of these, the severe deficiency or lack of over 60 crucially vital trace elements in our daily food is by far the largest cause of most diseases - at my
guess about 80%. Next are the agricultural poisons which our agricultural and horticultural industries have foisted upon us, followed by the the other causes in the order as listed.
Let us now take a look at Sri Lanka to see what is so different from the US, Canada and the Western world in general.
Sri Lanka is a densely populated island with about 19 million people on 25.300 sq. miles, and an average population density of 739 people per square mile. Sri
Lanka's major national production consists of agriculture, forestry, tea, gems, raw rubber and rubber products, and the average household income is SL Rs 116,100 (U.S.$2,600). About 23% of the population live in the lightly
industrialized (clothing and accessories, gems, rubber products) five major urban centres, and about 73% live in the rural areas, in villages which merge with one another, each a conglomerate of homestead gardens interspersed
with tracts of rice paddies. [sources: "Sri Lanka Web Window" by Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry; and Encyclopedia Britannica]
This means that the large impoverished rural population raises all of its own food, and much of the country's food. As is typical of underdeveloped and
developing countries - which cannot afford modern farming methods, equipment and fertilizers - they grow their food by the traditional methods of hand cultivation and fertilization by returning all life wastes to the soil. And
the latter, incidentally, returns to and maintains the complete natural spectrum of the 72+ trace elements in the soil and, consequently, in all of their daily food. And this is the major cause of the Sinhaleses' extremely
low cancer rate and general robust health.
The far lower cancer mortality and lower incidence of other physical and mental diseases among the Sinhalese is even more significant since hygiene among the
crowded rural population is a far cry from what we are accustomed too, and refrigeration is practically entirely absent. Their immune systems put ours to shame by a long shot [Sinhalese death rate per 1,000 population: 5.9;
world average: 9.3].
The extremely low death rate of the Sinhalese would be much lower yet if so many weren't killed by violence and food poisoning (38.6% per 100.000, and the
second leading cause of death). The high rate of food poisoning is due to poor hygiene and the absence of refrigeration in a tropical climate.
It remains to be said that the typical diet of the Sinhalese consists of 95% grains (chiefly rice), vegetables and fruit, and of 5% seafood and meat.
We can also eliminate the notion that the Sinhalese are blessed with unusually healthy genes. The Sinhalese are a rich and varied mix of the original
inhabitants (now almost extinct), of 4th century AD settlers from Northern India (predominant), with a long continuing influx of Tamils from Southern India, a 10th century influx of Moors from Northern Africa, an 11th century
influx of Javanese political exiles (nobles and chieftains), and in the 16th century, of Javanese (also Balinese, Tidorese, Madurese, Sundanese, Bandanese and Amboinese) soldiers and convicts from Java under Dutch rule - along
with a varied admixture of genes from the 5 centuries long succession of Portugese, Dutch and Englisch colonial empires.
That genes are not a factor is further underscored by the almost as low incidence of disease and cancer among the Chinese and Japanese (the second and third
lowest in the world by far). And if it were not for the significantly higher rate of stomach and liver cancers (and particularly so among Japanese males), the cancer mortality of these two vast populations would be as low as
that of the Sinhalese.
Most significantly though, these two countries also still predominantly practice a traditional agriculture which returns all life-wastes to the soil, and with
it, the full natural spectrum of the 72+ trace elements. Consequently, most of their daily food also contains the 72+ natural trace elements. In China in particular, the 6 thousand year-old tradition of returning all life
wastes to the soil is so deeply ingrained that it is practised more strictly than any religion. For the great majority of Chinese farmers it is the only fertilizer there is.
We can also eliminate industrial pollution as a major factor. Owing to the fact that Japan is the 3rd largest economy in the world, yet is one of the smallest
and most densely populated countries of the world, Japan is the most heavily industrialized country in the world, with all the environmental consequences thereof. Modern in every respect, the Japanese are also subject to the
consequent air and environmental pollution, as well as the chemical contaminants in the the wide variety of plastics which are now so pervasive in our lives.
Yet, and only with the exceptions of stomach and liver cancer, the cancer mortality and incidence of disease among the Japanese is almost as dramatically low
as that of the Sinhalese. (The incidence of Alzheimer’s,
for instance is 5.4% in Hawaii vs. 1.5% of the population in Japan - source: "The Hawaii - Japan Study", Journal of the American Medical Association).
Altogether, these three countries comprise more than one third of the world's population, a combined population of over 2 billion which exhibits the lowest
cancer and disease rates in the world, and in many instances, and with few exceptions, dramatically so. And I fully expect that India has a similar disease and cancer rate to that of Sri Lanka - practically all of the same
conditions apply - but I could not find any figures. Apparently, India does not yet track these statistics. If India should prove to have a similarly low incidence of cancer and other diseases as that of Sri Lanka - as one may
fully expect - then we are looking at about half of the world's population whose incidence of cancer and diseases is dramatically lower than that of the Western World.
Finally, and since about 1/2 (including India) of the world's population has dramatically lower cancer and diseases rates than the Western world, we must now
ask why our health sciences have not jumped on this long ago and figured out what makes us so much sicker - and kills so many more of us. And particularly so - given these diverse cultures - since the cause can be isolated so
easily, and since the remedy is so simple, so ridiculously cheap and, as these diverse cultures demonstrate, so supremely effective.”
Peter H. Weis’ non-profit website www.truehealth.org “healing the earth, the body, the mind and spirit” offers among other things insights into SUPREME HEALTH, POISON-FREE AGRICULTURE, STABLE CLIMATES and VIBRANT BIOSPHERE.
Notes by Healing Cancer Naturally
Some may object that the above observations do not take into account the major
lifestyle and probably stress level differences existing between the two countries. While this is true and general perceived stress is likely to be much greater in the US, there still remains the fact that cancer mortality in
the US has risen from 1 in 50 to 1 in 3 over the last hundred years, with stress alone being an unlikely candidate or causative agent to account for such a dramatic increase.
So while there is a much lower incidence of cancer in Sri Lanka pointing indeed to a
(trace) mineral/vitamin deficiency coupled with toxin onslaught (pesticides, drugs, etc. etc.) as a major causative agent of cancer in the Westernized world, there still IS some cancer occurring in this healthy people. Unless
all those stricken by cancer in Sri Lanka were alcoholics or otherwise deviating strongly from the healthy diet enjoyed by the vast majority of the populace, this would be another clue pointing to the likelihood of cancer being
multicausal, i.e. having different or several causes. See Cancer Causes, Emotions & Cancer, Healing Cancer & Your Mind, Cancer & Spirituality, Geopathic Stress Solutions and Cancer & Energetics.
Also read the article (excerpted from ”The High pH Therapy for Cancer”) LOW INCIDENCE CANCER AREAS (discussing the Hopi Indians of Arizona, the Hunza of North Pakistan, Central and South America Indians) and their relationship to (trace) mineral-rich nutrition.
The findings of Dr. Joel Wallach
On his tape entitled: "Dead Doctors don't lie", Dr. Wallach, BS, DVM, ND., a veterinarian doctor, says, "Every animal or human that died of
natural causes died of a mineral deficiency".
Symptoms of mineral deficiency according to Dr. Wallach:
Calcium deficiency: Facial muscles are sagging, osteoporosis sets in. The following
also develop, according to natural pre-dispositions: heel spurs, kidney stones, calcium deposits, cramps and twitches, PMS, lower back pain. Arthritis is osteoporosis of the joint ends of the bones (in 80% of all cases).
Chromium deficiency: Man develops 'Pica' an unnatural craving for chocolate, sweets and
other substances such as pickles, dirt etc.
Bismuth deficiency: Heals Ulcers (Helicobacter pilori) together with some tetracycline
(anti-biotic). You can also use Manuka honey.
Selenium deficiency: Together with Vitamin E, Beta-carotene and Selenium, more than 13%
of all cancers can be cured according to a Chinese study. This also cures cardio-myopathy (heart attack) and 'liver' spots.
Boron deficiency: Kidney stones are symptoms of a raging calcium deficiency. This
condition is quickly cured with addition of calcium (please, not calcium carbonate), magnesium and boron. Addition of this mineral also helps regulate testosterone and estrogen hormone production.
Copper deficiency: Ruptured aneurysms, a ballooning of blood vessels, a weakening of
the fibers of arteries, strokes - can always be cured by the addition of copper. Gray hair also disappears then. So do vericose veins and sagging body parts.
Chromium and vanadium deficiency: Low blood sugar, diabetes.
Tin deficiency: Male baldness
Zinc deficiency: Loss of smell and taste. Loss of male libido.
Salt deficiency: Hypertension (high blood pressure) in conjunction with calcium
supplementation.
Consider this: The addition of rare earth elements (lanthanides) doubles the life-span in animals.
Some of Dr. Wallach's observations include:
”Our genetic potential for longevity is at least 120 to 140 years. The present average life-span of humans is 75.3 years. The average life-span of medical
doctors is 58 years.”
A rich and inexpensive source of all known minerals and trace minerals is seaweed. Organic food due to the way it is grown will also be a richer source and contain minerals and trace elements in a balanced ratio, in contrast to conventionally grown food.
Do healthy diets just work thanks to a placebo effect?
Mineral needs of plants and placebo effect
By Gene, EternalFreedom.com
... if my information is correct, a placebo effect generally is relatively short lived and 'wears off' as the user 'forgets' and the mind-induced benefits are
replaced by reality-based body needs. There is no question that the mind has a monumental effect on one’s body and in many cases can override the actual situation, at least temporarily.
Here is an observation based on my own experience that shows the importance of mineral nutrients in our body. When I received my chemistry degree (so many
years ago) my first job after graduation was at the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station (part of the University of California). My duties at that time were to monitor (by chemical analysis, etc.) a study on "The Effects of
Trace Minerals on Plants".
At this facility, they had literally hundreds of greenhouses in which the air, water, temperature, humidity etc. were carefully controlled and monitored. The
various plants under study were planted in sterile sand and were 'fed' through a 'solution' that contained every element known in concentrations approximating sea water (without NaCl {salt}). The plant growth and the 'health of
plants' in the control green houses was phenomenal. This method of plant growing is referred to as "hydroponics".
At this facility, they had a large water de-ionizing unit in which all mineral elements were removed (less than parts per billion of each) resulting in
incredibly pure water. Solutions were made up from this water source by adding pure mineral compounds. In this way they could have solutions where the mineral contents could be altered and certain elements eliminated.
For example a solution could be made up that duplicates sea water without zinc. The results of this experimental deficiency could be monitored and studied. In
almost every case the elimination of any element had a significant impact on the health, size and shape of the plants being studied. (Too much of any element also caused problems too.)
The point of this story is that I don't think that a plant is prone to the placebo effect. And if plants are influenced by deficiencies in their diet, it
follows that our bodies require those elements also.
Note by Healing Cancer Naturally: The above conclusion seems to make perfect sense, and
many observations concerning the effect of diet - perhaps most dramatically seen in the correlation between nutrition and dental health - corroborate the immediate influence of ingested materials or the lack thereof on human
and animal health. Nevertheless, the power of the human mind (as stated in Gene’s introductory paragraph) sometimes seems greater than any “physical” influence or factor and learning to harness this power may be one of the most
important skills to acquire for cancer patients and others on a physical, emotional and/or spiritual healing quest. See Healing Cancer & Your Mind for tools and astounding healing testimonials testifying to the awesome healing potential of “mind over matter”.
Read about placebo effect in cancer and other illness in Cancer: The Power of Belief to Heal or Kill I, Cancer: The Power of Belief II and The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin: “Think sick, be sick.”
Healing mineral & trace element deficiencies
by Healing Cancer Naturally, © 2004 & 2009
1 Colloidal and other mineral supplements
According to Dr. Jürgen Buche’s excellent former Preventorium website, ”The intake of vitamins is virtually useless without minerals... Only organic
... minerals can be assimilated and used by your body cells! ... As the body gets re-mineralized, it also becomes more normalized (and thus more healthy) and becomes progressively less suitable for parasites, bacteria and viruses which can only exist in a de-mineralized and therefore ‘sick’ body.
... the intake of minerals represents the prime reason why living beings (including man) eat.
As most foods one can purchase are woefully deficient in minerals (the soil has no longer any of these minerals except NPK supplied by agricultural fertilizers) one MUST supply these in adequate amounts or else ANY disease is ultimately a deficiency disease directly attributable to a lack of one or more minerals.”
As this subject is somewhat complex and I am rewriting this chapter to reflect additional information, the reader meanwhile is asked to refer to Dr. Tim
O'Shea’s highly recommended thedoctorwithin.com site. Among other things, Dr. O’Shea disagrees about the value of minerals in colloidal form and recommends other forms of minerals. You can read his extensive Minerals article
“Minerals - What Dietary Mineral Supplement Should You Buy” at www.thedoctorwithin.com/minerals/Minerals.php .
Also see Supplements, Bioavailability: the science behind “live” and “dead” minerals and It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb.
3 Seaweed
Seaweed in its various forms is a time-honoured natural staple food particularly in Japanese cuisine. It forms an important part of the macrobiotic diet which is credited with a number of health and healing benefits, even in cases of cancer.
Seaweed though a cheap and complete source of all known minerals and trace elements found in the oceans and the richest source of assimilable minerals on the
planet (and therefore highly recommended by me), can contain heavy metals (seaweed is actually used as a bioindicator for heavy metal pollution because of its recorded ability to accumulate heavy metals in its cell walls). So
when buying seaweed, make sure to enquire about its origin.
Seaweed should be available in any health food store. It can also be purchased in Chinese and similarly specialized food stores. I have been warned, however
(by a company who provides health food stores with seaweed), that seaweed from Chinese etc. specialty stores may be unsafe since they don't do quality controls re levels of heavy metals contamination.
Some more info and tips how you can easily integrate seaweed into your diet:
Tip 1: Purchase the ”cleanest” seaweed you can find, grind it up in your blender, pour the resulting blackish powder into a salt shaker or other dish and mix
it with some sea salt. Use this mixture as you would normally use salt (in case you do use salt, if you prefer not to use it, simply use the seaweed powder straight as a condiment for a rich daily supply of minerals and trace
elements).
Tip 2: For reasons of bioavailability of the minerals, try to get raw-processed seaweed.
Tip 3: I sometimes add spaghetti-like seaweed (the one I mostly buy has the natural sea salt still attached to it) to cooled-down noodle dishes or blend it in
the blender together with raw vegetables, for instance in a Budwig mix base.
Tip 4: Smaller amounts of non-salty seaweed can also be blended into sweet (fruit-based etc.) dishes prepared in a blender. They enrich it while leaving
virtually no taste “imprint” in the dish.
Tip 5: For numerous recipes with seaweed, you could purchase a macrobiotic cookbook, look for macrobiotic recipes or look into Japanese cuisine.
Raw food treatment for cancer
compiled by Healing Cancer Naturally from Tutorial For Alternative Treatments For Cancer. You can read this important-seeming article in its entirety at cancertutor.com/Cancer/RawFood.html.
Cancer Cell Killing Nutrients in Vegetables and Fruits
Raw foods build the immune system, but many fruits and vegetables also have nutrients that kill cancer cells and/or stop the spread of cancer. While the term
"raw food" means food eaten without cooking, in the context of a cancer diet, a "raw food" diet is a vegan type of diet, where the vast majority of fruits and vegetables that are consumed are known to kill
cancer cells, directly or indirectly. In other words, to fight cancer, do not use a random selection of uncooked vegetables and fruits, but a very selective subset of vegetables and fruits specifically selected to treat cancer
because there are food diets perfectly capable of curing cancer. All you need is a juicer and perhaps a food processor.
A few of the cancer cell killing nutrients (direct or indirect) in vegetables and fruits:
Raw carrots (alpha carotene, beta carotene, Vitamin E, etc.)
Raw broccoli (sulforaphanes/isothiocyanate)
Raw cabbage (isothiocyanates)
Compare Brassica vegetables and cancer risk, “Brassica family prevents pre- cancerous
cells turning into potentially deadly cancer cells”, and Broccoli (Sprouts or Extract) May Halt Growth of Breast Cancer Cells.
Green asparagus (saponins)
Compare Asparagus: recoveries and remissions
Raw pineapple (bromelain and peroxidase)
Whole purple grapes with
seeds and skins (ellagic acid, catechin, quercetin, oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPC) or procyanidolic oligomers (PCO), originally called pycnogenol (seeds), resveratrol (skin coloring of purple grapes), pterostilbene,
selenium, lycopene, lutein, laetrile (amygdalin or Vitamin B17) (seeds), beta-carotene, caffeic acid and/or ferulic acid (together they kill cancer cells), gallic acid
See ”Greatest Hits: Grape Cancer Cure”
Apricot seeds (laetrile) Strawberries, red raspberies, black raspberries (laetrile and ellagic acid)
See History of Alternative Cancer Treatments: Laetrile
Blueberries (ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC)
Beetroot (proanthocyanidins (PAC's or OPC's)
Turmeric (a spice) (curcumin).
See Ginger & turmeric fight cancer.
It should be added that there are thousands of phytonutrients (i.e. nutrients from plants that are not otherwise categorized) that have not yet been isolated and studied. In
other words, there may be hundreds of phytonutrients that kill cancer cells, but have not yet been identified and tested.
Compare Organic Food, particularly ”Flavonoids”.
Juicing Vegetables and Fruits
Juicing makes the nutrients in a fruit or vegetable more digestible, meaning more of the nutrients are extracted from the vegetables or fruits. Also, you can
consume a lot more vegetables (particularly vegetables and fruits with cancer killing nutrients) in a shorter amount of time and with a lot less effort. Juicing is an excellent way to consume your fruits and vegetables. The bad
thing about juicing is that the nutrients are not extracted sufficiently from the seeds or skins of some key vegetables and fruits. If you are eating a food where the seeds and/or skins contain key cancer fighting nutrients
(e.g. purple grapes), you should not use a juicer for these foods, but rather a food processor or a hand grinder, to grind the seeds and skins to make mush.
Compare Best Juicer for Cancer Patients.
Details About Individual Vegetables and Fruits
Use fruit and vegetables for juicing that have the best cancer-killing nutrients. Probably 80% or above of the vegetable or fruit juice should come from these
fruits and vegetables.
RAW fruits you should focus on are: Purple grapes (with skins and seeds), red raspberries, black raspberries, strawberries, and other non-citrus fruits, with
their seeds, especially apples, peaches and apricots. Actually, any fruit with dark blue or dark purple coloring is acceptable, such as blueberries. Raw pineapple is especially good. Tomatoes also have cancer fighting nutrients.
RAW vegetables you should focus on are: Carrots (between 1/2 quart and 1 quart daily, depending on your weight and severity of cancer), cabbage (between 1 head
and 2 heads daily), green asparagus, broccoli, red beets, beetroot, cauliflower and related vegetables. Peppers also have cancer fighting substances. The spice turmeric can be added as well.
Carrots, like virtually all vegetables, have hundreds, if not thousands, of phytonutrients that have not yet been identified or tested for cancer-fighting
abilities. It may be that we do not yet know the best cancer-fighting nutrient in carrots, but based on many testimonials and some books, carrots may be the best cancer-fighting vegetable of all. "In a review of 206 human
studies, carrots consistently emerged as one of the top cancer-fighting foods. The power of carrots lies in the group of pigments called carotenoids (beta-carotene is among this group), which give them their orange color."
(Source of quote) ”A long-time and highly reliable friend of mine told me about her friend's father, who completely cured his throat cancer with carrot juice. In other words, he ate nothing and
drank nothing but carrot juice and natural water. Closer to home, I have seen a clear pattern in the people I have interviewed, and testimonials that I have read, that carrot juice was the core element of their raw food diet.
While the day may come that some other vegetable, such as beetroots, may be shown to be even better, until that day comes it would be advisable to make sure that carrots are the core of your vegetable juice.”
A word of warning. In reading the testimonials of people who have been on these diets, the diets were not successful until they went on a total, 100% raw food
diet. As long as the raw food diet was less than 100%, nothing worked. This does not preclude mixing a raw food diet with other cancer diets, what it precludes is mixing a raw food diet with items not on the "Ten
Commandments" list (cancertutor.com/Other/RuleOfThumb.html). Going on the "Ten Commandments" diet will take care of this problem automatically.
Additional advice
If you use peaches or apricots, break open the hard shell in the middle and extract the seed, which looks like an almond. Save this seed and put it in your
food processor or simply eat it, even if you are on a juice only week.
Exercise is critical to these diets, partly because these diets don't have the transport agents. Also, since you are building your immune system, exercise will
help the lymph system and the circulatory system.
Compare Detoxification: Activate your lymphatic system.
A Raw Food diet does kill cancer cells, but it primarily works by building the immune system. It is a superb treatment for someone with several months to live,
particularly if they have not been on chemotherapy, but for those given a shorter time to live by doctor’s diagnosis it should be supplemented with a treatment that primarily kills cancer cells without the immune system.
Compare Chlorine dangers: “Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated tap water”.
Best & worst foods & most effective/low-price supplements for people with or recently recovered from cancer
by Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net)
The following is a list of what I believe are the most helpful (& harmful) foods & supplements for people with or recently recovered from cancer, based
on everything I've read (the most important items are CAPITALIZED):
HELPFUL:
Beverages: freshly squeezed ASPARAGUS, green vegetable, carrot, celery, BEET, apple, grapefruit, lemon, & grape juices; green tea
Compare Juicers & Juicing.
Foods: organic, raw/steamed, locally-grown, vegetables (especially ASPARAGUS, leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage, squash, onion/leeks, celery, carrot,
beet; fermented vegetables); fruit (esp. grape/raisins, berries, figs, lemon); grains (esp. brown rice & barley); mung bean; tempeh; sprouts; FLAXSEED OIL MIXED w/COTTAGE CHEESE
Compare Dr. Johanna Budwig’s scientific flax oil - protein diet & protocol has saved terminal cancer patients, Brassica vegetables and cancer risk, “Brassica family prevents pre-cancerous cells
turning into potentially deadly cancer cells”, and Broccoli (Sprouts or Extract) May Halt Growth of Breast Cancer Cells.
Herbs: HOXSEY FORMULA, Flor-Essence, Fu Zheng, ARTEMISININ, pau d'arco, astragalus, turmeric, burdock, garlic, milk thistle, beet root, cat's claw; maitake, shiitake, agaricus blazei & coriolus versicolor mushrooms
Misc: PANCREATIN, bromelain, CoQ-10; FERMENTED SOY; GREEN POWDER MIX, green foods, thymus, liver, flora; pectin; lysine & proline; GLA, shark liver &
fish oils; potassium, melatonin; quercetin & resveratrol; I3C; carotenoids, niacin, vits. A-D, K; AHCC; PROTOCEL;
colon, liver, gallbladder, lymph, kidney, parasite, & mercury cleanses
AVOID:
Bottled/pasteurized juice, SUGAR, salt, Omega 6 & saturated fat* (except coconut oil), fatty meat, dairy; white flour, pasta, & rice; wheat, bread,
high-glycemic foods on empty stomach, refined/processed/junk food & drugs/chemicals
Compare Dr. Johanna Budwig’s scientific flaxseed oil-protein diet & protocol, Sugar and Cancer and 146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health.
* A reader’s comment received by Healing Cancer Naturally reads:
“This article recommends avoiding omega 6 and saturated fat. Having been hurt by being
taught to avoid things I needed to be healthy in the past, I would like to comment that omega-6 fat is essential to health and life for humans.
I highly suggest to adjust this advice to suggest a range of intake, since none results in death.
There is good reason to believe that some saturated fat should be eaten as well, since terrible blood vessel damage has been
seen from unbalanced unsaturated fatty acid intake. This damage was prevented by intake of saturated fat, which may also help in utilization of unsaturated fat.”
The most effective LOW-COST/COST-EFFICIENT items
(designed for persons on low-budget):
Vegetables (low-glycemic, fresh, raw or lightly-steamed, organic, locally-grown)--ASPARAGUS, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, avocado, endives, artichoke, watercress, collards, kale, dandelion, & other leafy greens; BEET, raw carrot, cabbage, licorice, garlic, chives, onion/scallion/leeks; sprouted broccoli; fermented vegetables
Fruit (low-glycemic, ripe, organic)--dark grapes/raisins, peach/nectarine, apricots, apple/pear, cantaloupe; lemon & tomatoes (if not using Hoxsey formula), red grapefruit (if not taking Hoxsey or any drugs)
Sprouted grains, millet, barley, short-grain brown rice; sprouted lentil, broad/Fava & mung beans; tempeh
Nuts-- raw almonds & walnuts
Fat/oil-- FLAX SEED OIL MIXED w/low-fat COTTAGE CHEESE or yogurt (Budwig);
Compare Dr. Johanna Budwig’s scientific flaxseed oil - protein diet & protocol.
fish oil, & shark liver oil/alkylglycerols
Herbs/spices: Hoxsey formula, Flor-Essence, Fu Zheng, ARTEMISININ, Pau d'Arco, astragalus, turmeric/curcumin, burdock, garlic, cat's claw, graviola?, milk thistle, beet root, asparagus; agaricus blazei, coriolus versicolor, or maitake mushrooms; green tea
Compare Herbs.
Misc: FERMENTED SOY (e.g., Soy Essence by Jarrow) & other fermented foods, MACROBIOTIC DIET; liver & thymus; spirulina/ chlorella, green powder mix; L-lysine & proline; potassium, iodine, melatonin, selenium, & vitamins A, B-complex & niacin, C, & K; beta glucan, PROTOCEL/CANCELL/CANTRON,
Transfer Factor Plus, probiotics; bromelain; ELLAGIC
ACID; Oxygen Elements Plus/Hydroxygen Plus; homeopathy; visualization/imagery, meditation/relaxation, & emotional release.
Cancer-Healing Foods That Facilitate Weight Gain
WARNING: Several of theses items I would avoid unless I needed to gain weight, because they have excessive sugar and a very high glycemic index. Avoid
consuming on an empty stomach (except for fruit and fresh-squeezed juice):
FRESH-SQUEEZED VEGETABLE & fruit JUICE
(immediately fresh-pressed; NO bottled juice) -- particularly fresh-pressed CARROT, BEET, ASPARAGUS, organic concord GRAPE, red grapefruit, pineapple, papaya, & apple juice
Perhaps even organic green drinks from frozen
section of health food store.
carrots (organic)
BEETS
sweet potatoes and yams
fruits-- papaya, kiwi, organic grapes/RAISINS, dried fruit, pineapple, and other tropical fruit
BROWN & WILD RICE
flax seed oil mixed with low-fat cottage cheese or quark
Compare Dr. Johanna Budwig’s scientific flaxoil-protein diet & protocol.
Vit. C
I think the BEST AND SAFEST NON-ANIMAL PROTEIN SOURCES are green foods (algae, wheatgrass, barleygrass, alfalfa, etc.), leafy greens, tempeh (very absorbable form of protein), walnuts, almonds, mushrooms, and SPROUTS--particularly sprouted
broccoli, garlic, onion, beans (particularly lentil & mung bean), and seeds (particularly sunflower).
Compare Raw food treatment for cancer and Chlorine dangers: “Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated tap water”.
Organic vs conventional food and cancer
by Ulla, creator of Healing Cancer Naturally, © 2004
General
For a detailed eye-opening write-up on conventional husbandry and rising cancer incidence, read this revealing article outlining ”what may well be a simple, supremely effective, and completely natural cancer cure”.
Flavonoids
Flavonoids are secondary plant compounds belonging to the group of the polyphenols. Flavonoids are the polyphenols most commonly found in foodstuffs, with
cancer-preventative effects being ascribed to them. In a recent nutritional study, Danish scientists found that the ingestion of ecological (organic) foods versus conventionally grown foods resulted in a higher intake of
flavonoids. (Grinder-Pedersen et al. [2003] Effect of Diets Based on Foods from Conventional versus Organic Production on Intake and Excretion of Flavonoids and Markers of Antioxidative Defense in Humans; J. Agric. Food Chem.
51, p 5671-5676.)
While former studies had only addressed individual flavonoids, the new study analysed the intake and excretion of five flavonoids. ‘The organic diet was found
to contain significantly higher levels of the antioxidant quercetin, which was found in significantly higher concentrations in the urine of those eating the organic diet.’ The authors concluded that ‘the growing conditions of
fruits and vegetables (conventional vs organic) affected the content of five selected flavonoids and resulted in differences in the urinary excretion of major dietary flavonoids.’"
The fact that ecologically produced fruit and vegetables exhibit higher phenolic contents than conventionelly grown produce has been previously proved (such as by Asami et al. [2003]: Comparison of the total Phenolic and Ascorbic Acid Content of Freeze-Dried and Air-Dried Marionberry, Strawberry, and Corn Grown
Conventional, Organic and Sustainable Agricultural Practices. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 51 [5]: 1237-1241). The study’s authors presume that one of
the reasons for the higher phenol content may be the absence of pesticides in organic husbandry. The function of secondary plant compounds is to help plants to naturally repel insects, fungi and bacteria. Conventionally grown
produce due to the use of pesticides requires less of these natural ”antibodies”.
(compiled on the basis of information provided by Öko-Institut,
Freiburg, Germany, and International Organic FQH Research Association)
Compare Chlorine dangers: “Cancer fighting nutrients become deadly when combined with chlorinated tap water”.
Pesticides and cancer
”Very serious present-day scientific studies have demonstrated that pesticidal residue disrupts enzymatic activity. It also has toxic, carcinogenic effects. At
this point, science is now siding with the standard-bearers of organic farming.” See Pesticides.
Guy-Claude Burger in Instinctothérapie, Manger Vrai", who healed
himself of cancer (diagnosed at age 26) by his self-developed ”instinctive” all-raw organic diet, see sunfood.net/anopsology_1.html.
Suggestions on how to cheaply
incorporate organic produce into your diet, even when you don’t have a garden
Buy bulk quantities of various organically grown seeds (sunflower, cress etc) and then sprout them. Use the sprouts as or in salads, in blended form etc. Make
sure to properly store your seeds to avoid molding, mold is a proven cause of cancer.
Also ask shop owners to make you a deal when you buy larger amounts at once.
Grow your own tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini/courgettes and pumpkins on your window sill.
Grow your own herbs in pots and liberally add them fresh to meals.
Shop around, you may find that there are vast price differences in various shops, I know one health food store which actually offers certain organic
vegetables cheaper than the pesticide-laden variety on sale in discount stores...
Last but not least for those wo depend on nonorganic produce, there are webpages such as www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php who provide a list of fruits and
vegetables best and worst in pesticides. Make sure to find a list relevant to your country of residence.
Thoughts on food as energy
As we all know, at its most basic level everything is made up of various types of energy - including food.
I believe by choosing organic food as much as possible (or growing it ourselves including some herbs on the window sill) we not only avoid pesticides and
ingest a balanced mineral/trace element spectrum and higher vitamin & nutrient content while showing that we care about the soil and earth we live on, but we also ingest "positive" energy, i.e. the positive energy
and vibrations of people who care about the earth, animals and human beings by choosing not to poison them or, as do conventional farmers, only think in terms of short-term profit without regard for long-term consequences for
soil, earth, animals, plants and humans...
There are "image-producing" methods for determining food quality (originally developed by the anthroposophists if memory serves), which consistently
show harmonious and beautiful patterns created by extracts of organically grown foods versus inharmonious and unstructured patterns created by extracts of conventionally grown food...
So I feel that eating foods (energies) thus produced can only have a positive effect on health on all levels... In this sense, food nourishes the spirit as
well as the body (inseparable in any case)...
[to be expanded]
Milk and the Cancer Connection I
1 Cow's Milk’s Link to Cancer
Research reports apparently link cow's milk to Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Juvenile Onset Diabetes, Ovarian Cancer, even Osteoporosis:
www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/dairy.html www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/milk.html www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/lactose_intolerance.html
www.pcrm.org/news/lawsuit_cofi.html www.preventcancer.com
2 More on Cow's Milk Link to Cancer
(referring to cows treated with synthetic growth hormone)
”IGF-1 [insulin-like growth factor] and cancer: IGF-1 is known to stimulate the growth of both normal and cancerous cells. In 1990 researchers at Stanford
University reported that IGF-1 promotes the growth of prostate cells. This was followed by the discovery that IGF-1 accelerates the growth of breast cancer cells. In 1995 researchers at the National Institutes of Health
reported that IGF-1 plays a central role in the progression of many childhood cancers and in the growth of tumours in breast cancer, small cell lung cancer, melanoma, and cancers of the pancreas and prostate. In September 1997
an international team of researchers reported the first epidemiological evidence that high IGF-1 concentrations are closely linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer. Other researchers provided evidence of IGF-1's link to
breast and colon cancers.”
More at www.notmilk.com/drlarsen.html and Milk and the cancer connection II.
3 Cow's Milk and General Health
Cows' milk, certainly the ubiquitous pasteurized/homogenised variety, actually seems to be truly deleterious to the human body (among other reasons, the
calcium contained in it is difficult to absorb – the countries with the highest pasteurized dairy consumption also have the highest incidence of osteoporosis). See
www.nomilk.com (contains a long list of milk & health-related links) www.notmilk.com (contains info on calcium, "Milk - the deadly poison",
alternatives, diabetes, prostate cancer, FAQ etc.; according to some sources, notmilk’s information is a mixture of truth and fiction but in my opinion very much worth a visit).
In this context, I highly recommend the Fit for Life series (particularly vol. 2) by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond since it seems to give a comprehensive while easily readable overview of nearly everything written in the field of nutrition [contains among a wealth of health maintenance information hundreds of scientific references to corroborate their claims]. Vol. 3 includes: You CAN prevent breast cancer.
Asparagus: cancer recoveries and remissions
From article `Asparagus for cancer' published in Cancer News Journal, Dec 1979
"I am a biochemist, and have specialised in the relation of diet to health for over 50 years. Several years ago, I learned of the discovery of Richard R.
Vensal, D.D.S. that asparagus might cure cancer. Since then, I have worked with him on his project, and we have accumulated a number of favourable case histories. Here are a few examples.
Case No. 1, man with an almost hopeless case of Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph glands) who was completely incapacitated. Within 1 year of starting the
asparagus therapy, his doctors were unable to detect any signs of cancer, and he was back on a schedule of strenuous exercise.
Case No. 2, a successful businessman, 68 years old, who suffered from cancer of the bladder for 16 years. After years of medical treatments, including
radiation without improvement, he went on asparagus. Within 3 months, examinations revealed that his bladder tumour had disappeared and that his kidneys were normal.
Case No. 3, a man who had lung cancer. On March 5th 1971 he was put on the operating table where they found lung cancer so widely spread that it was
inoperable. The surgeon sewed him up and declared his case hopeless. On April 5th he heard about the asparagus therapy and immediately started taking it. By August, x-ray pictures revealed that all signs of the cancer had
disappeared. He is back at his regular business routine.
Compare Testimonials of lung cancer healed or improved thanks to flaxoil and cottage cheese (center part of Dr. Johanna Budwig diet).
Case No. 4, a woman who was troubled for a number of years with skin cancer. She finally developed different skin cancers which were diagnosed by a skin
specialist as advanced. Within 3 months after starting on asparagus, her skin specialist said that her skin looked fine and no more skin lesions. This woman reported that the asparagus therapy also cured her kidney disease,
which started in 1949. She had over 10 operations for kidney stones, and was receiving government disability payments for an inoperable, terminal, kidney condition. She attributes the cure of this kidney trouble entirely to the
asparagus. I was not surprised at this result, as `The elements of materia medica', edited in 1854 by a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, stated that asparagus was used as a popular remedy for kidney stones. He even
referred to experiments, in 1739, on the power of asparagus in dissolving stones.
We would have other case histories but the medical establishment has interfered with our obtaining some of the records. I am therefore appealing to readers to
spread this good news and help us to gather a large number of case histories that will overwhelm the medical skeptics about this unbelievably simple and natural remedy.
For the treatment, asparagus should be cooked before using, and therefore canned asparagus is just as good as fresh. I have corresponded with the two leading
canners of asparagus, Giant Giant and Stokely, and I am satisfied that these brands contain no pesticides or preservatives. Place the cooked asparagus in a blender and liquefy to make a puree, and store in the refrigerator.
Give the patient 4 full tablesp. twice daily, morning and evening. Patients usually show some improvement in from 2-4 weeks. It can be diluted with water and used as a cold or hot drink. This suggested dosage is based on
present experience, but certainly larger amounts can do no harm and may be needed in some cases.
As a biochemist I am convinced of the old saying that ‘what cures can prevent'. Based on this theory, my wife and I have been using asparagus puree as a
beverage with our meals. We take 2 tablesp. diluted in water to suit our taste with breakfast and with dinner. I take mine hot and my wife prefers hers cold. For years we have made it a practice to have blood surveys taken as
part of our regular checkups.
The last blood survey, taken by a medical doctor who specialises in the nutritional approach to health, showed substantial improvements in all categories over
the last one, and we can attribute these improvements to nothing but the asparagus drink. As a biochemist, I have made an extensive study of all aspects of cancer, and all of the proposed cures. As a result, I am convinced that
asparagus fits in better with the latest theories about cancer.
Asparagus contains a good supply of protein called histones, which are believed to be active in controlling cell growth. For that reason, I believe asparagus
can be said to contain a substance that I call cell growth normaliser. That accounts for its action on cancer and in acting as a general body tonic. In any event, regardless of theory, asparagus used as we suggest, is a
harmless substance. The FDA cannot prevent you from using it and it may do you much good."
Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net) has this to add: ”Many recoveries have been reported from both raw and cooked asparagus. Houston wrote that
"raw juice [from juicer or blender] may be the most effective form" (cited in Hess, 1999, p. 138). If I had cancer, I would eat as much asparagus as I could get down in any form, cooked (preferably steamed) or raw,
solid or liquid.”
Asparagus is packed with nutrients and low in calories, sodium and cholesterol. It is an excellent source of folic acid and is a source of vitamin C,
thiamin, and vitamin B6. Asparagus contains no fat or cholesterol of dietary significance. It is an important source of potassium and many micronutrients. According to the National Cancer Institute, asparagus is the highest
tested food containing glutathione, one of the body's most potent cancer fighters [also quoted as ”most potent anticarcinogens and antioxidants”]. Additionally, asparagus is high in rutin, which strengthens blood vessels. (Source of quote)
On Soy & Soy Risks
Soy apparently has many beneficial constituents along with harmful ones. "Far from being the perfect food, modern soy products contain antinutrients and
toxins and they interfere with the absorption of vitamins and minerals."
As summarized by Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net):
"Among other things, nonfermented soy contains allergens, several toxins, and
(particularly if uncooked, unfermented, & unsprouted) powerful protease inhibitors, which inhibit the critical anti-cancer action of proteolytic enzymes, particularly trypsin. Sprouting also diminishes the enzyme inhibitors. Soy also contains
PHG, which interferes with digestion ... I'd try to switch to organic tempeh as much as possible, and perhaps a little cooked tofu as a last resort."
People have reported very serious health complications arising after adopting soy foods (the worst affected being babies apparently, and even Alzheimer’s may be partially caused by “too much soy”). Additionally, most soy beans sold in the US today may be genetically modified.
The only safe soy foods to consume seem to be organic fermented soy products (tempeh and natto), since fermentation is the only way to rid soy of its
undesirable constituents and "kill" the anti-nutrients it contains. Heat - including very high temperatures (above 400 deg. F) for long periods of time - does not do it. (Fermentation also doesn't involve the multiple
chemical processes required in the production of tofu and other processed soy products.)
So it is best to avoid all nonfermented soy products.
Compare Fermented soy beverage “the best nutritional supplement” for cancer?
Important articles on soy:
westonaprice.org/soy/index.html
nexusmagazine.com/soydangers.html
mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm
westonaprice.org/soy/soy_update2003.html
mercola.com/2000/june/10/soy_dangers.htm
westonaprice.org/soy/soy_fda_testimony.html
thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa083099.htm: on soy and
low thyroid function (according to a naturopath using
radionics, all people with cancer have low thyroid function.)
Addendum by Healing Cancer Naturally:
www.thedoctorwithin.com lists among other things the following likely toxicities of soy products:
increases blood estrogen levels to 22,000 times normal
blocks absorption of zinc, which is necessary for brain formation
introduces free radicals into system, which can retard any
formative tissue
blocks stomach enzymes, promoting chronic indigestion
cannot itself be digested, promoting chronic indigestion and
allergies
high levels of aluminum prevent normal brain and intestinal
formation (aluminium apparently is implicated in the causation
of Alzheimer’s).
See www.thedoctorwithin.com/soy/Magic-Bean.php
More soy articles
www.soyonlineservice.co.nz
www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#link20
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