Guest guest Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 COFFEE. MedicalConspiracies@googlegro AND PANCREATIC CANCER http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/coffee-cancer.html When coffee is roasted, the carcinogen 3,4 benzopyrene is formed. There have also been identified two other possible carcinogens found in coffee. In 1981 I had an exchange with Professor Brian MacMahon of the Harvard School of Public Health. He had done a study in the Boston area and had found that the drinking of three cups of coffee a day increased the risk of pancreatic cancer by a factor of 2.7. He felt that coffee drinking was the cause of 50% of all pancreatic cancers. He stopped drinking coffee and replaced coffee with tea in his office. In England prior to 1948 people there drank tea and very little coffee. However, after 1948, there was a vast increase in coffee drinking in England, Dr. Tim Spencer of the St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1981 cast much light on the MacMahon study. He plotted the importation of coffee into England between 1948 and 1973. During that time, the importation of coffee increased by 120%. Also during that time the death rate from pancreatic cancer in England increased by 50%. Dr. A.J. McMichael in Australia reviewed the MacMahon and Spencer reports and had this to add. He gave reference that coffee drinking increased the production of the intestinal hormone, gastrin. He said that with minor animals, coffee stimulates the production of gastrin, and gastrin stimulates pancreatic hyperplasia and neoplasia. In 1985 Ana Marie Comary Schally of Tulane University reported that pancreatic cancer seems to be hormone induced. She and others in Mexico then treated a few far-advanced patients with pancreatic cancer with liver metastases, with the LH-RH agonist D-Trp-6-LH-RH. A few long lasting remissions were obtained. Coffee drinking in the USA has remained much the same over the past 100 years but during that time there has been a vast increase in deaths from pancreatic cancer. It is suggested that the same thing is happening with pancreatic cancer as has happened with lung cancer and that this increase in pancreatic cancer has been the result of the combination of coffee drinking and the three-fold increase of immuno-suppressive polyunsaturated fats in the diet. There is a reference to support this concept. D.F. Brik of our National Cancer Institute had reported in 1981 that pancreatic cancer increased when corn oil was added to the diet of golden hamsters. From an article published by the Townsend Letter, " Some Real Causes of heart Disease & Cancer " , by Wayne Martin ===================================================================== Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject: DOES COFFEE CAUSE CANCER? --- America's #1 Drug Problem: Coffee http://www.amazingdiet.org/ Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant. The drug four out of five Americans take on any given day. Most of the caffeine we consume comes from coffee. The United States buys nearly one-half of the world supply of coffee beans. It is said that a food service operation can stand or fall on its reputation of the coffee it serves. Every mid-morning and mid- afternoon working day millions of office and factory workers abandon jobs for an employer-paid " coffee break. " Over 15,000,000 Americans are hooked on coffee; and most of them don't even know it, so insidious is its addictive onslaught. The child or adult may unknowingly ingest several hundred milligrams of caffeine daily. Like narcotics, alcohol or cigarettes, coffee and caffeinated beverages are addictive, destructive drugs which each year predispose millions of Americans to crippling illnesses and sometimes fatal diseases. Coffee and tea are the two most popular beverages in America. Less than 9 percent of the population drink neither coffee nor tea. Coffee is America's No. 1 drug problem. CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL Caffeine withdrawal can occur from just missing one cup of coffee in the morning. Symptoms of caffeine withdrawal are headaches, irritability, inability to work effectively, nervousness, restlessness and lethargy. A steady user of caffeine may, at times, experience tight headaches in the back of the neck area and be quick to anger or irritation. CAFFEINE ACTS AS A STIMULANT Caffeine is a toxic stimulant. Body reactions are speeded up. This is not a natural thing for the body. What it does is activate The Fight or Flight Response. Executive Fitness Newsletter, October 13, 1984, stated: " It's important to remember that the caffeine in coffee is a powerful substance. It can stimulate the central nervous system, increase heartbeat and metabolic rate, increase the secretion of stomach acid, and step up secretion of stomach acid, and step up kidney and bladder action. It's also well known for its annoying ability to affect sleep. " The article goes on to say that in higher doses, caffeine can cause " coffee nerves " with a wide assortment of symptoms " including anxiety, irritability, headaches, light-headedness, nausea and diarrhea. " Coffee can cause a temporary increase in blood sugar, but it is quickly followed by a decrease, and stimulates the release of adrenalin, which causes body tissues to be broken down into sugar and fat. Too much insulin is produced, and the blood sugar falls to a low level. CAFFEINE IS A POISON Caffeine, which is the main chemical in coffee, is a powerful poison! A drop of caffeine injected into the skin of an animal will produce death within a few minutes. An infinitely small amount injected into the brain will cause convulsions. The amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee is quite small. Yet we drink coffee because of the effect of the caffeine, just as we smoke because of the effect of the nicotine. Both are drugs, both are habit-forming! Both are poisons COFFEE-DRINKING & STOMACH ULCERS Two modern disorders: The general public usually associates with coffee drinking — ulcers and heart trouble. J.A. Roth and A.C. Ivy, whose animal experiments on coffee are famous, state in Gastroenterology, November, 1948: " Caffeine produces gastro-duodenal ulcers in animals to whom the drug is given in a beeswax container so that their stomachs are absorbing caffeine continually. Also, caffeine produces very definite changes in the blood vessels of animals, which are similar to changes produced by prolonged resentment hostility and anxiety. " COFFEE LINKED TO HIP FRACTURES The Providence Journal wrote in October 1, 1990: " People who drink more than two cups of coffee or four cups of tea a day could be increasing their risk of hip fracture in old age, according to a new study. " The study, published in the October issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, is the first to link caffeine consumption with hip fractures that occur in older people whose bones have weakened. A hip fracture often marks an elderly person's final decline into dependency or death. " Dr. Douglas P. Kiel, a professor of medicine at Brown University, and his colleagues looked at how much coffee or tea 3,170 people reported drinking over 14 years. Then they looked to see which ones fractured their hips, a sign that bones had become brittle. They found that heavy caffeine drinkers were 53 percent more likely to suffer hip fractures. " Caffeine has long been suspected of draining calcium from the bones, because people who consume it have higher levels of calcium in their urine. Loss of calcium leads to osteoporosis, the brittle-bone condition that afflicts many elderly people, and results in an estimated 250,000 hip fractures each year. " INFERTILITY Trying to become pregnant? Then you should stop drinking caffinated drinks. Among 104 women who drank junst one cup of caffinated coffee a daywere half as likely to become pregnant during any given menstrual cycle as those who drank less, accoding to a 1988 study by Allen Wilcox of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Most of the studies conducted since then have also found that caffeine impairs fertility, but usually only at three or more cups of regular coffee a day. But the research is only as good or bad-as the women's memories. For example, scientists at Johns Hopkins University found that among 2,500 women who were trying to become pregnant, consuming more than 300 milligrams of caffeine a day reduced their chances of succeeding in any given month by 17 percent. But those results were based on the amount of coffee and soft drinks the women could remember having consumed as many as ten years earlier. Even so, " it's probably prudent for women who are trying to become pregnant, and especially for those having trouble, to cut back on caffeine, " says Mark Klebanoff of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland. DOES COFFEE CAUSE CANCER? There is mounting evidence suggesting that if you want to avoid certain cancers, you are well-advised to kick the coffee habit. Roasting coffee produces tars and has the same characteristic as coal tar. - One study revealed that not only was coffee drinking associated with increased risk of bladder cancer, but the drinking of non-diet cola drinks also was linked to this problem. - Coffee drinking increases the risk of birth defects. - Coffee drinking increases blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease. It is commonly thought that the drinking of coffee, soft drinks, and other caffinated drinks is a minor matter as far as our helath is concerned. But is it? We cannot estimate its effect on mind and emotions, discrimination and judgment. And then there is the harmful effects of the stimulation on the heart and other vital organs. Coffee and other caffeine beverages are poor substitutes for water. The body need fluids, but not stimulating drugs. Giving up the coffee habit is relatively easy to do for most folks — once a commitment has been made. Since caffeine is a less toxic drug than alcohol and street drugs, the majority of coffee drinkers can give up the habit without the sort of difficulties that both alcoholics and drug addicts typically experience. While it is true that caffeine has been around a long time, that is not necessarily its best endrsement. Russian roulette has been around for some time, too! When giving up caffeine eat and drink nothing that does not contribute in some way to good nutrition for the body. Any food or drink that contains neither vitamins, minerals or enzymes should automatically be crossed off the list. While breaking " the coffee habit " be sure to drink plenty of fresh juices and water. " Just how widespread is coffee drinking? The average American drinks over twenty-six gallons of coffee per year, but perhaps more germane to the discussion is caffeine itself. Coffee has over three hundred chemicals; caffeine is only one of them. " - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers By Katy Chamberlin Katy Chamberlin' Books New --- ----------- References: 1. Charles F. Wetherall, Kicking The Coffee Habit, Wetherall Publ. Co. MN. 2. Andrew Weil, M.D. & Winifred Rosen, Chocolate To Morphine, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass. 3. Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, NY. 4. Nutrition Action, newsletter published by Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1755 S. Street, N.W., WA, D.C. 5. Winston Craig, Ph.D., What's This About Caffeine, Cocoa, And Chocolate?, Wildwood Echoes, Fall, 1981. 6. Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D., A Philosophy of Health, Loma Linda University, CA. http://www.amazingdiet.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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