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Cancer Update:

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
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
to 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 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, Florescence, 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. 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..

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.

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.
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i couldn't help but pass this on...it's everything i've been reading about in the last number of months...the only thing that is not mentioned here is the importance of vitamin d and how they've found low vitamin d levels in cancer patients.....

i didn't remove mention of whole grains and nuts...this, perhaps, might be someone's plan for maintenance after they've lost all the weight they want to lose.....strict ldlers delete this part in your brains.....but, it's also important for family members of ldlers who might be really thin...these are great additions to improve their health and are not tempting as a lot of other things they might eat(like candy or chocolate)to keep ldlers on the straight and narrow.......niki
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ps....and just as johns hopkins is not telling people not to have chemo or radiation, neither am i...this is ALL about prevention....
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Hi Niki - terrific information, please keep it coming!!!
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Niki,

There is also a product called "Bioxy" that will not only help with #16 by getting oxygen to the cellular level (most of us are shallow breathers) but will also help reduce the side effects of chemotherapy if it's necessary...like helping to keep your hair from falling out and the nausea and vomiting that often goes along with the therapy to name a few.

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Thanks for the good info.   :thumbsup:  JF
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sorry but this has been around in emails and it is according to Snopes   FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp
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lulu.  thank you very much for checking this out on snopes.com. Can you imagine how bad I felt reading that post while my husband is taking Chemo and Radiation treatments and is scheduled for surgery. I cried when I read that post!!

Thanks again, Lulu and many blessings.
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i am taking chemo also Ollie.. this time for colon cancer metastasized to both lungs..  i am very careful with much of this info..
You are very welcome Ollie.. Blessings to you also   Lulu
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The information within this post is not endorsed by John Hopkins but the contents are accurate according to the physicians in my office. It's believed that a former employee of John Hopkins posted the information on the internet and used their name, otherwise, no one would have read it.

Naturopathic physicians believe prevention is the KEY, therefore, most of the information on this thread is passed out to the patients for them to read.

CQ
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Ollie, I am so sorry, of course that would upset you...........May God be with you during these trying times......Much love Wither
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barrypaxton wrote: Can you imagine how bad I felt reading that post while my husband is taking Chemo and Radiation treatments and is scheduled for surgery. I cried when I read that post!!

i have been a nurse for almost 40 years and i've seen many people receive radiation and chemo....my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when she was the age i am now and she was dead by the time she was 60...i didn't post this because it said it was from johns hopkins, but because it was a collection of information i know to be true that EVERYONE should be aware of....i would tell someone receiving chemo or radiation to add supplements with their dr's approval and to apply some of this nutritional information....AND, in order not to misrepresent anyone, i've changed the heading of this thread and removed the name of john hopkin's...

this information is for people that have not been diagnosed with cancer who don't want to be....who want weapons with which to fight so that they can see their grandchildren grow up......and NOW, maybe I'LL be the one to cry in my mother's memory with thanks to God that i am alive........the internet is a nasty thing sometimes with a lot of negatives, but I'M thankful for the positives which give me information like this so i can hope to be alive to see my grandson get married........
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lulu65 wrote:sorry but this has been around in emails and it is according to Snopes   FALSE
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

i read this and it really interests me at the stand taken...it even says something disputing the statements that heating food in plastic in microwaves in carcinogenic.......it was maybe three years ago when mary simmons posted something about this.....i remember it being mary because i was so surprised at this info........why this is not common knowledge is beyond me....cancer cells love sugar?......i only learned this last year..........
it's NO secret that chemo and radiation are a multi billion dollar industry and it's not only my opinion that because it's such a money maker, the dollars are not often given to work that looks to strengthen the immune system in order to fight the cancer...this has been going on for YEARS.........
AGAIN, this is just MY opinion.....i would NEVER tell someone NOT to do chemo or radiation.....but, i WOULD suggest they do all the other stuff....no sugar and an alkaline diet to try to do as much damage control as possible.....
my mother had massive chemo for pancreatic cancer...in the end, we were told that she didn't die of the cancer, but of the chemo.....
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My father died of too much chemo.  He had lung cancer but the spot was so small the doctor told him he would never die of lung cancer.  But they still did chemo for way over a year.  He believed anything he was told by doctors and would not ever allow us to give him anything that would build his immune system so he had continual respitory infections and pneumia.  I have believed where my father was concerned he would still be here if he had not had the chemo since it was such a slow growing cancer. 
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Niki,

I would like to thank you for posting this information because I think everyone on these boards should have the knowledge of what is really going on in the real world...like the antineoplastic drugs being a big money maker and why the funding doesn't go where it's truly needed. That, of course, is a political issue so I won't say anymore.

The next thing that I would like to say is we all need to be informed on how to prevent it...or least, make it easier to deal with if we've already been diagnosed.

There was a doctor by the name Kristine Nolfi that was diagnosed with breast cancer and survived by eating a raw fruit and vegetable diet...and another by the name Ruth Heidrich....we call it an alkaline diet (you can cook your veggies but not to the extreme that you remove all the nutrients). The Let's Do Lunch program is an alkaline diet but includes meat and is not raw unless you want it to be.

We can't avoid all the toxins but at least we can avoid most of them if we are aware of the dangers of being exposed....like cigarettes, air fresheners, herbicides/pesticides, plastic containers, saran wrap, scented candles, tap water, etc.

And the last thing I want to say is that most cancer patients do not die from the cancer itself but from the treatment....chemo and RT cause nausea and vomiting which leads to dehydration and/or malnutrition (actual cause of death) or infections like pneumonia and sepsis due to the decrease in the immune system. The excruciating pain requires large does of pain killers like morphine and in high doses is fatal. The others usually die from unrelated diagnoses...like heart attack, stroke, etc.

Everyone, please try to learn as much as you can if not for yourself but for the ones you love.

CQ
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Thank you all for this info and  I would just like to say that yes chemo is awful however.. look at the survivors who have taken chemo.. Yes I know some who have lost the battle... How many millions are alive today because of chemo/radiation etc..
Where I have my chemo.. it is not a multi million dollar business as it is free..  i would also say blood tests are taken every week and I meet with Onco before each treatment to see how I am etc.. if my blood is low in any area.. chemo may be suspended for week or dose may be lowered.. My max treatment is 12 cycles or 6 months treatments every 14 days..
I do read lots of other info off the net regarding supplements diet etc.. I do some supplements but it can be money grabbing stuff also.. My own GP warned me of this and he is in favor and studies alternative medicine..
Dr Oz has said if he had cancer he would follow an alkaline diet..  But the opinions on this when you do a search are mixed.. ridiculous.. Alternative medicine is pricey I wonder why.. There is never a money back guarantee if not completely satisfied..
No wonder we are confused people..
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I just bought a book at Books-a-million about the immune system -- well, it is about longevity, but it is basically about the immune system.  Now, I've never loved reading scientific things for a hobby, but as I was reading this book, I was marveling over how complex the human body is.  God surely knew what He was doing, and though the author is definitely one who believes our complex bodies evolved from something nonliving -- I don't have that much faith to believe as he does, I still can so clearly see the marvelous Creator in the book he has written.  This book was on sale for a dollar in front of the store the other day.  I figured I couldn't lose too much spending a dollar.

Oh, I got a bit off topic.  Anyway, I never realized all this about the immune system and then Niki's post talks about it again.  Stress on the immune system is what ages us too.  The book talks about the awesome memory the immune system has.  Every speck of pollen you've breathed in -- the encounter is recorded in your immune system's memory.  This is how your body builds up resistance to certain things, because of the memory and how antibodies and such are developed to fight off the things that attack your body.  I love learning about stuff like this, now.  I think because of LdL and losing the weight and becoming fitter and stronger with the exercises I've been doing to build muscle -- I'm developing new interests too.  I love helping others in my community learn how to become more fit.  To help others, you want to be as knowledgeable as possible.  I so appreciate the knowledge I've gained on these boards from people like Niki and CQ. 

I know that some people are at different places in life and maybe certain information can be overwhelming at times.  Just remember you don't have to read or subscribe to everything on these boards.  I love the chance to be stretched and for my brain to wrap itself around information I've never considered.  Thanks again for sharing.
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I think everyone should be consulting their heavenly Father for such major decisions. I have seen my father-in-law die from lung cancer because he just could not stand the thought of wasting away from the awful vomiting associated with chemo/radiation. He went to Tiajuana to a health clinic for a couple weeks and came home juicing everything. He continued to smoke because they told him the stress of quitting was worse than not. It finally consumed him even though DH and I wished he had considered going to the cancer center at ORU. Then a coworker developed the same cancer in her lungs but she quit smoking and did the chemo/radiation and 25 years later is still going. If it were a family member truely wanting my input, I woud tell them to go with the medical treatment (if I indeed got a witness that this was what they should do), but I would also flood them with nutritional information to keep their body in the best possible state to aid in the healing and elimination of the toxins. Even though the dietary recommendations are for prevention, they could not hurt in the healing process.
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Linda, you are so smart in your thinking. And the way you word things you are so kind not to say it in a wrong way. I can tell you are really real.........Stay with us!  Your friend  Wither
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I guess somewhere along the way, I must have asked for wisdom and understanding, because any good in me, the Lord gave generously. Honestly, I try to see things from everyone's point of view and try to add clarification if I (or He) feels it needs some. I suppose my spiritual gift may be Helps. I also try to be a peacemaker which may not help in some situations, LOL.

Wither, you must have the gift of exhortation/encouragement (I don't think cheerleading is listed in the Bible) but you are sure blessed with an abundance of both!
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