Showing posts with label Personal Health Helps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Health Helps. Show all posts

Saturday, May 17, 2008

cancer and food and life

I'd originally posted this as an update from John Hopkins Medical Center. Because it's my intent to have the utmost of integrity in whatever I write, say, or do, with things like this I will usually check the validity with Snopes.com.

For whatever reason, I did not check this email article and to my chagrin - the one time I don't is the one time I should have. The article I posted is false - in that it's not something that John Hopkins Medical Center wrote.

Fortunately, there are good friends like Janet over at Domestic Bliss that let you know! You know those friends that tell you that you have spinach on your teeth - well, Janet's a good friend like that! Thanks Janet.

So, now what do I do with all this info that I think is good to at the very least consider? I'll keep the post - just remove the John Hopkins scoop and then let my readers evaluate the rest for themselves.


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, 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 ca ncer 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 ma make it white in colour.
Better alternative is Bragg's amino's 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 petrified 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 (IP 6, 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.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Dioxin chemicals causes 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.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Oy! So Much Soy!


For quite some time, I’ve been concerned because of the amount of soy that is in much of what we eat. I read labels, and I find soy in anything from salad dressing to baby formula, and just about everything in between. There are soy products like soymilk, soy cheese, and tofu cuties (ice cream sandwiches made with soy).

Soy is fed to chickens, turkeys and cows. (Do cows graze on soy?) And, it's promoted as the miracle food to "feed the world" and "cure all health problems." Hey, if you’re in menopause – take soy!?

I’ve been researching soy for quite some time, and I’ve discovered some interesting and scary things about soy. So,instead of trying to re-write my own notes, I have decided to highlight the research from two highly respected women who’ve done far more than I have – Debbie Pearl of No Greater Joy and Sally Fallon (Nourishing Traditions). I’ve included the URLS for both of the articles I'm quoting from. I’ve purposely left out sections of the articles and I've added . . . so that you would be drawn to their sites to read what I've left out.

Of course, I am presenting only one side. For me, the evidence is "in." I don't need to be further convinced, and so, therefore I have no need to include an argument for the benefit of soy.

However, as in anything, it’s a persons individual responsibility to be informed and to do their own research. My encouragement is to NO take anything for granted. Don’t assume, that just because it says it’s "healthy" - that it is. Take responsibility for yourself and for your family.

Soy Alert by Debbie Pearl of No Greater Joy

Our BabiesPreliminary studies are indicating that children given soy formula go through puberty much earlier than children who were not fed soy products. Why? Because the phytoestrogens/ isoflavones in soy act like a hormone in the body, causing the infant to have hormones like the adult body. A 1994 study done in New Zealand revealed that, depending on age, potency of the product, and feeding methods, infants on soy formula might be consuming the equivalent of up to 10 contraceptive pills a day . . .

Little Boys
"Early puberty (caused by consuming soy products) may increase a boy’s chances of developing testicular cancer later in life, because it means longer exposure to sex hormones," said University of North Carolina researcher . . .

Allergies are a growing concern. Soy is one of the most allergenic foods in . . .

Little Girls
In 1982 pediatric endocrinologists reported that their studies indicated an increase in the incidence of breast development in girls younger than eight years of age. In the first study of 130 little . . .

And OUR MEN? A Half Helping of a Man?
What are phytoestrogens doing to the men? Researcher, W. David Kubiak reports that "...because female hormones or estrogen given to men in small quantities can quickly overwhelm androgen activity, and soy produces estrogen molecules in biologically significant amounts, it might be inferred that a steady diet of miso, tofu, soy sauce, and so on might not be best for leadership trainees or aspiring Lotharios (lovers)."

Debbie Pearl - No Greater Joy


Cinderella’s Dark Side by Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. (Nourishing Traditions)

The propaganda that has created the soy sales miracle is all the more remarkable because, only a few decades ago, the soybean was considered unfit to eat - even in Asia. During the Chou Dynasty (1134-246 BC) the soybean was designated one of the five sacred grains, along with barley, wheat, millet and rice.

However, the pictograph for the soybean, which dates from earlier times, indicates that it was not first used as a food; for whereas the pictographs for the other four grains show the seed and stem structure of the plant, the pictograph for the soybean emphasizes the root structure. Agricultural literature of the period speaks frequently of the soybean and its use in crop rotation. Apparently the soy plant was initially used as a method of fixing nitrogen.13

The soybean did not serve as a food until the discovery of fermentation techniques, some time during the Chou Dynasty. The first soy foods were fermented products like tempeh, natto, miso and soy sauce.

At a later date, possibly in the 2nd century BC, Chinese scientists discovered…
Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin, a clot-promoting substance that causes red blood cells to clump together . . .

Additionally 99% a very large percentage of soy is genetically modified and it also has one of the highest percentages contamination by pesticides of any of our foods…
Yet soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein are used extensively in school lunch programs, commercial baked goods, diet beverages and fast food products. They are heavily promoted in third world countries and form the basis of many food giveaway . . .

"Just imagine you could grow the perfect food. This food not only would provide affordable nutrition, but also would be delicious and easy to prepare in a variety of ways. It would be a healthful food, with no saturated fat. In fact, you would be growing a virtual fountain of youth on your back forty."

The author is Dean Houghton, writing for The Furrow,2 a magazine published in 12 languages by John Deere. "This ideal food would help prevent, and perhaps reverse, some of the world's most dreaded diseases. You could grow this miracle crop in a variety of soils and climates. Its cultivation would build up, not deplete, the land...this miracle food already exists... It's called soy."

Just imagine. Farmers have been imagining - and planting more soy. What was once a minor crop, listed in the 1913 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product, now covers 72 million acres of American farmland. Much of this harvest will be used to feed chickens, turkeys, pigs, cows and salmon. Another large fraction will be squeezed to produce oil for margarine, shortenings and salad dressings . . .

Taken from the Mercola site.

In conclusion, I think the only good use for soy, is in candles!

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Monday, August 06, 2007

what plastics are safe?

I've assumed too many things in life. I've assumed that what I've injested, put on my skin or used in my kitchen were NOT harmful. As an older woman, I've come to realize that I've been wrong.

Did you know that certain plastics are so toxic that you could be killing yourself and your family? Here's a great site that has a downloadable Green Guide. It's www.thegreenguide.com.

It will give you a small printable list of what numbers to look for on your plastic items. It will tell you that a #1, 2, 4 & 5 are OK. It should say PET or PETE, HDPE, LDPE or PP on your product. Supposedly it is "safe."

If you want to get really radical with taking a look at the toxins you injest and how to clean yourself up - check out Detoxify or Die by Shery A. Rogers, M.D.

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