A new round of emails is dropping in inboxes across the country that opens with “After many years of telling people that Chemo is the only potentially effective way to eliminate Cancer, even famed JOHN HOPKINS is finally starting to point at the alternatives.”
Many of us have seen firsthand what Chemo can do to a person and granted there are people who come out of Chemo and Radiation treatment cancer free. But many other ones won’t. In the following circumspect Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins University Hospital it becomes clear that a change may be on the horizon, even if this story was misleadingly attributed to John Hopkins in March of 2008, says hoax-slayer.com in the following link http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cancer-tips-john-hopkins.shtml
The reason why I still wanted to put it to your attention is anchored in the belief that John Hopkins and other “expert institutions” still do not promote prevention as much as they promote questionable cures. I think the content is mostly sound advice if occasionally multi-directional.
I noticed in recent months that the entire staff of SearchAmelia is looking for a healthier lifestyle. Several of us have joined Club 14 and their multitude of health and exercise programs, custom tailored to everyone’s needs. My own bicycle episodes have been properly archived and I actually have come to love riding the bike, even during this afternoon’s rainstorm when a Florida Power water truck decided to soak me from top to toe.
At home in my kitchen I have noticed the sudden disappearance of everything plastic. No more plastic storage containers or microwave containers. Not even a spare container for the kids to take home left overs; “they can bring their own containers,” my wife says, “and it better be glass.” It has all become glass!
Of course the years have taught us a lot about healthy habits and prevention and it is well documented that we are couch potatos, eat poisonous foods and have horrific habits in the use of plastics. Since the 1980’s I have effectively lost 321 pounds and gained 300 back. It’s all part of the lifestyle that began with the culture that claimed “I deserve it”.
When my wife emailed me the content of the latest John Hopkins newsletter, it was intended to be an explanation why in our household plastic has turned to glass, meat into seafood, cigarettes became a thing of the past, alcohol a topic of total moderation close to annihilation, and exercise a daily event.
Here is the bullet point explanation attributed to the medical experts at John Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size level.
2. Cancer cell development occurs 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, but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system..
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation, while destroying cancer cells, also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a bleach chemical added to make it white in color and causes cancer. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt. (pretty much proven)
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting it with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved. (questionable)
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A red meat-based diet overload is acidic and it is better to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken. Meat and even poultry does contain livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer. (Colon 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 vegetables and 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. (Actually proven to be good for you). Green and White tea maybe a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties as anti oxidants. Drink a lot of purified or carbon filtered water to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in the 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. Meat does give a red blood cell built up, which can be replaced by vitamins.
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 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. (Absolutely believe this to be true)
On another controversial note the Newsletter is adamant about the impact of plastics on our health.
Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, explained that the combination of especially fatty foods, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the human body. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Instead of plastic he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
Also recommended is that TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in glass. 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.
And the final verdict for plastic came when he also said not to freeze plastic bottles with water in them as this also releases dioxins from the plastic.
So here you go:
1. No plastic containers in microwave.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Publisher’s Note: Of course if you were “environmentally responsible” you would have already said goodbye to plastic long before this John Hopkins Newsletter hoax. And yet even more importantly, when I store spaghetti and meatballs in a plastic container, I can never again get the red stain out of the plastic. Consequently it shows that plastic containers somehow “breath” to catch this stuff in its pores. Enough reason for me to strongly endorse glass over plastic, in the microwave and the refrigerator.