Guest guest Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 The Concept of a Cancer Diet JoAnn Guest Dec 05, 2004 15:31 PST ==================================================================== The Concept of a Cancer Diet I remember reading the detailed diary of a person who was trying to cure his own cancer with alternative treatments. I was puzzled why his treatments weren't working until I came across an entry several months into his treatment plan. He basically stated (after several months of alternative treatments): " I decided to stop smoking. " What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong is that he thought he could treat his own cancer by popping pills. There is far more to fighting cancer with alternative treatments than popping pills. Understand this carefully, taking any alternative cancer treatment is like putting gasoline in your car - you are on your way to killing cancer cells, etc. But having a bad diet, while you are on a cancer treatment, is like putting water in that same gasoline tank!! As mentioned in my article " Introduction to Alternative Cancer Treatments, " many people have cured their cancer using nothing but a massive change in their diet!! And I will add now that a bad diet during a cancer treatment has destroyed many alternative cancer treatments!! Something as simple as adding refined salt to your foods may destroy an entire cancer treatment!! Hear this: THE CANCER DIET IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE CANCER TREATMENT. IF THE CANCER DIET IS NOT, IN AND OF ITSELF, TREATING THE CANCER, THEN IT IS INTERFERING WITH THE CANCER TREATMENT!!! Another thing that must be understood is that the logic a person must use on a cancer treatment diet is different than the logic they are accustomed to using in dealing with orthodox medicine. Let me give you an example: When taking orthodox drugs, you might encounter something like this: Step 1: Take the yellow and green pills. Step 2: Do not drink alcohol or tea after taking the pills. What about the foods and drinks not specifically mentioned in Step 1 and Step 2? With orthodox medicine you are free to eat anything not prohibited. But with alternative cancer treatments just the opposite is true. For example, let us consider a simplified Brandt Grape Cure diet: Step 1: Grape Juice and natural water. Step 2: Do not ingest any chlorine. In this case, you are FORBIDDEN to eat any food that is not in Step 1, even though it is not listed in Step 2. Understand this: with alternative treatments for cancer, what you don't eat is just as important as what you are allowed to eat. Most people who get cancer get it because of the things they have eaten!! The wrong foods created an internal terrain which allowed the body to be filled with fungus (e.g. tobacco leaves are filled with fungus, as are peanuts, to name but two of many such substances commonly consumed), such that when a carcinogenic substance reacted with the body, the internal terrain could not deal with the carcinogenic substance and the person got cancer. Thus, by default, if you want to reverse your cancer, you must reverse your diet to create a strong inner terrain. A cancer diet severely restricts what you can eat. By default, if it is not specifically allowed to be eaten in the treatment plan, don't eat it!! The Step 2 items are simply the most damaging things to the diet. Another key fact is that many people crave certain foods. This may be because of habit or it may be because of a food allergy. People crave foods they are allergic to. I have known this fact for 30 years. Thus, switching from the diet that caused your cancer to a diet that is needed to cure your cancer may involve the stopping of eating foods the person is allergic to (i.e. they crave). This compounds the problem and means even more effort is needed to stick to the diet. Not All Cancer Diets are the Same Another thing that must be understood is that for some cancer treatments there are special diets. In other words, not all cancer diets are the same. For example, in the " InnerLight " cancer treatment of Robert O. Young, PhD, all fruits are forbidden. They are forbidden for good reason in his diet! His diet is designed to balance the pH in the blood and " remove " (I use that term in a non-technical way in this case) yeast and fungus (Y/F) from the body! Like a few other cancer treatments, his treatment converts cancer cells into normal cells. But in other cancer treatments fruits are not only allowed, they are an integral part of the treatment. Why? Because some cancer diets are designed to kill cancer cells, and some fruits contain massive amounts of cancer-killing nutrients and the glucose in these fruits " carries " the cancer-killing nutrients into the cancer cells, which gobble up glucose and steal it from normal cells. This means they also steal the cancer-killing nutrients from normal cells. This can lead to cancer cell death. Thus, this web page must first determine which theory of treating cancer is being used. In this web page, the straightforward theory of killing-cancer cells is used. The reason is that most of the people reading this page have been through chemotherapy and radiation, and this appears to me to be the best approach. If you want to use the " InnerLight " diet, that is fine, but you must read the book: Sick and Tired? - Reclaim Your Inner Terrain and use the exact diet Dr. Young tells you. Ditto for the Gerson diet, the Kelley Metabolic diet, the Moerman diet (though his book is out of print so I have reproduced his diet on another web page), and so on. The diet in this page will keep in mind, at all times, the fact that every cancer patient has a body full of fungus, yeast and mould, but its focus will only partially be on treating this problem. In fact, many cases of severe fungi infection have been misdiagnosed as leukemia. Also, some " tumors " are actually nothing but a growth of fungus. Cancer and fungus, yeast and mould (f/y/m) are close " cousins. " All are anaerobic (i.e. they exist by fermenting glucose). The treatments for cancer and the treatments for f/y/m are many times the same. The relationship between f/y/m is not fully known yet, but it clearly appears that there is a direct connection!! See Dr. Young's book for more information, as well as my article on the same topic: Click Here The main goal of this web page will be on killing cancer cells quickly, and to a slightly less degree " killing " (again, I use this term in a non-technical way) the yeast, fungus and mould. To be technical, killing a cancer cell probably is accomplished by killing the bacteria or mould in the cancer cell, but this is a technicality I will not get into here. Understanding What A Cancer Diet Is With regards to a cancer treatment, every food that we eat or drink can be categorized into several different categories: 1) Foods that feed and strengthen the cancer cells (e.g. refined sugar, refined flour, soda pop, etc.) 2) Foods that cause cancer (e.g. trans fatty acids [margarine, french fries and virtually every other processed food you buy], aspartame [Diet Coke, NutraSweet, Equal, etc.], MSG, polyunsaturated oils [e.g. corn oil], etc.) 3) Foods that directly interfere with alternative treatments for cancer (e.g. chlorine, fluoride, alcohol, coffee, etc.) 4) Foods that occupy and distract the immunity system from focusing on killing the cancer cells (e.g. beef, turkey, dairy products, etc.) 5) Foods that contain nutrients that kill the cancer cells, stop the spread of cancer, or in some other way help treat the cancer (e.g. purple grapes with seeds and skin, red raspberries with seeds, strawberries with seeds, broccoli, cauliflower, several herbs, carrots, pineapples, almonds, etc.) In addition there are things like cooking vegetables. The cooking destroys the enzymes in the vegetables and make them far less digestible and far less effective in treating cancer. Pasteurizing fruit drinks also does this. Ideally, during a cancer treatment, if foods are allowed on a particular diet, 100% of everything you eat should be in the category of " Foods that contain nutrients that kill the cancer cells, stop the spread of cancer, or in some other way help treat the cancer. " Whenever you eat a food that is not in that category, you are interfering with your cancer treatment! This is why so many cancer diets are very high in certain raw vegetables and certain raw fruits. Juicing of certain raw vegetables and raw fruits is also good in some cases (but not all cases, especially when the seeds are important) because the vegetables and fruits are more easily digested (translation: more nutrients get to the cancer cells). However, when you juice you throw away a lot of nutrients. Some cancer treatments are virtually 100% raw vegetables and raw fruits. Thus, by living on a diet of foods and drinks known to be harmful to cancer cells and the spreading of the cancer, by combining this diet with one or more cancer treatments (e.g. Essiac Tea), you are supercharging the treatment, and just as importantly, not interfering with the treatment. But also understand that not all vegetables and fruits are equal at treating cancer. Some vegetables do not contribute significantly to treating cancer and some fruits do not contribute significantly to treating cancer (at least not that we know of at the current time). On the other hand, some vegetables are very potent cancer killers, as are some fruits. This concept is so important I am going to say it another way. Several of the publicized alternative cancer treatments include a vegan diet, meaning animal products are excluded and vegetables and fruits are eaten raw, when possible. However, a vegan diet is not a good cancer diet. These vegan diets should be converted to a " raw food " diet, meaning, as defined on this web site, a vegan diet that is predominantly vegetables and fruits that are known to treat cancer! The Cancer Diet For Most Cancer Treatment Plans Unless the cancer treatment you are on has a spcial diet, this is the cancer diet you should be on. However, I should add that the cancer diets of old cancer treatments are frequently obsolete and not as good as the current cancer diets which are based on a far better understanding of what is going on in your body. For example, if you are on Binzel laetrile program, you should carefully consider any differences between this diet and his diet. Chlorine As I mention in the warnings section of the tutorial in more detail, avoid all chlorine in your diet. This includes avoiding foods made with tap water. Chlorine destroys many phytonutrients and other nutrients, thus the damage done to the food during processing, if chlorine is used, is permanent and cannot be reversed. This means, for example, not drinking soda pop or any other drinks that have been made by mixing tap water with something else. Sweeteners, the Bad and the Good ALL man-made sweeteners (e.g. aspartame - NutraSweet, Equal) and fat substitutes should also be avoided. These items are most often associated with brain cancer, but everyone should avoid them. This is a second reason all soda pops are out of the question. Soda pops are also acidic, which is a third reason. There are only two acceptable sweeteners in a cancer diet. First, is honey, the darker the better. Second, is Stevia, which is a herb. Sugar and Refined Grains You should absolutely avoid eating refined sugar and refined grains and anything else refined. These things not only feed the fungus and yeast in your body, they also feed the cancer cells. The yeast in flour makes things even worse. Do not eat anything where yeast, fungus or mould is used, added or is a part of. In addition, refined sugar and other simple sugars also interfere with your immunity system. These substances also interfere with getting Vitamin C and oxygen into the cancer cells. Sugar also depletes the body of key minerals and other nutrients because of its acidity. It is not the acidity that directly destroys the minerals, the acidity causes the body to use the minerals to regulate the pH level in the body. The same is true of all acidic foods. The chain reaction caused in the body by acidic foods (due to the body's attempts to keep the blood at a level pH) is the cause, or a major contributing factor, to almost all chronic diseases, including cancer. It would take an entire book to describe how the body keeps its pH normal, and the ramifications of these processes. In fact that is the main theme of Dr. Young's book mentioned above. Salt, the Good and the Bad Refined salt may be a major cause of cancer. Refined salt causes red blood cells to stick together (called: rouleau), causing them to absorb less oxygen. The clumped together red blood cells do not get as much oxygen into the cells of the body. Also, the clumped together red blood cells cannot pass through the smaller arteries, meaning much less (if any) oxygen gets to cells in these areas of the body, and some of these cells may be turned to anaerobic (i.e. cancerous). As if that weren't bad enough, once the cells are cancerous, the oxygen still can't get to the cancer cells to slow down their spreading or kill them. On the other hand, natural sea salt is good for cancer patients: " Salts obtained from solar evaporation of sea water are entirely different from modern refined salt. The plural " salts' is deliberately used here, because sea water salts are actually a complex blend of trace minerals, as well as calcium and magnesium salts. This complex blend is essential to life, as Quinton's research demonstrated. Table salt today is primarily kiln-dried sodium chloride with anti-caking agents added. Trace minerals, as well as calcium, magnesium and potassium salts are removed in processing. Kiln-drying involves scorching salt at high heat to remove moisture. This refining process creates a product that is unnatural and hard on the body. It is the true culprit that contributes to high blood pressure, heart trouble, kidney disease and eczema, among other problems – not the complex blend of life-supportive minerals known as sea salt. " http://www.macrobiotic.org/thalass.htm About whole grains Whole grains can be used only when a cancer patient is fighting weight loss. If the weight loss is uncontrolled, they should consider a cachexia treatment plan, based on Hydrazine Sulphate (see the sample treatment plans). Yeast, which every cancer patient has throughout their body, converts complex carbohydrates into simple carbohydrates, so even whole grains should be avoided when possible. In any case, avoid commercially stored grains. Another reason to avoid even whole grains is that over the decades the soil has become acidic and because of the soil many whole grains have more fungus than they did many decades ago. Corn and rice (because of the way it is stored) are grains that should be avoided. Remember from above that NO flour (using yeast) can be used in a cancer diet, not even if whole grains are used! Honey If sugar is bad for people with cancer, how about honey, another simple sugar? The jury is still out on honey, but based on the evidence it seems honey is a positive thing to take if you have cancer. The bad news is that its simple sugars, fructose (38 percent) and glucose (31 percent) feed cancer cells. The good news is that honey contains powerful phenolic antioxidants. It may be that honey is as good as grape juice at getting cancer killing substances into the cancer cells (i.e. the sugars are a transport agent to get the antioxidants into the cancer cells). However, the exact quality and quantity of the antioxidants in honey, in treating cancer, is unknown. Honey also builds the immunity system. Bee pollen is a well-known cancer treatment, which fact adds credibility to using honey. One thing that is known about honey is that the darker the honey the better, as far as antioxidants are concerned. So for now, honey should be considered an acceptable food for those with cancer, particularly the darker varieties. Of course, there are exceptions. Some treatment plans, such as the Breuss diet, do not work if there are excess sugars in the diet, even if the sugars are transport agents for antioxidants. Bad Fats and Oils Other foods you should absolutely avoid are trans fats, meaning trans fatty acids or partially hydrogenated oils. Trans fatty acids may be one of the major causes of cancer. They become part of the cell's wall (replacing cholesterol) and make the cell wall rigid and can make the cell anaerobic (i.e. the first step to becoming cancerous) because large oxygen clusters cannot get into the cells. Like refined salt, these fats also destroy the electrical charge of red blood cells, causing them to " stick " together. When this happens, among other things, the red blood cells do not get to many cancer cells, meaning the cancer cells get far less oxygen (if any), meaning they thrive because they are anaerobic. Another bad food for cancer patients is polyunsaturated oils: " polyunsaturated oils (corn oils sold in supermarkets everywhere) promote the growth of small blood vessels (by promoting the production of " bad " prostaglandins). " This is bad for cancer because it allows tumors to grow new blood vessels. However, these small blood vessels are good for preventing strokes. Thus, while on a cancer diet avoid polyunsaturated oils. In short, avoid all heated oils. Meat, Fish, Fowl, Eggs, Dairy Products All meat, all fish and all turkey and chicken should be avoided during a cancer treatment. There are many reasons for these restrictions. The only exception is that if a person is fighting weight loss, some fresh, freshwater fish can be eaten if that is the ONLY thing the cancer patient will eat (e.g. they won't eat beans or other legumes). Avoid all dairy products, including all cheeses and all malts, except cottage cheese when used in the Budwig Diet. One exception is that pregnant and nursing women should eat two eggs per day because the choline is necessary for the baby's brain development and this takes precedence because eggs are not terribly bad for a cancer patient. Meat is so bad for a cancer diet, I have a separate article on meats: Click Here The Rule of Thumb is this: " if it came from an animal, it is forbidden! " Fruits The only fruits that are allowed on this diet, without restrictions, are the following: lime, lemon, grapefruit, avocados, red, black or purple grapes, fresh pineapples and the berries (e.g. strawberries, blueberries, etc.). Apples are both good and bad, depending on several factors, so they should generally not be taken. However, fresh apple juice (that you make yourself) is good for a cancer diet. Other fruits, except oranges and tangerines, can be taken, but should be taken in small quantities. Fresh apple juice and fresh pineapple juice are frequently used to help the taste of vegetable juices. Here are some of the fruits known to kill cancer cells (and any fruit highly related to these): Raw pineapple (bromelain and pexoxidase), Whole purple grapes with seeds and skins (more than a dozen, see grape cure section), Apricot seeds (laetrile), Strawberries, red raspberies, black raspberries (laetrile and ellagic acid), Blueberries (ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC), (Fresh, unsweetened) lemon juice, lime juice or grapefruit juice (because of the oxygen from citric acid). Vegetables and Nuts In general, all nuts (except cashews) and vegetables are allowed on a cancer diet. However, some nuts and some vegetables are potent cancer-fighting foods!! This means a cancer diet should be strongly biased in favor of the fruits and vegetables that are known to kill cancer cells or build the immunity system quickly. In general, for a cancer patient, the dark green, red, and yellow/orange vegetables are best. Carrots and beets are probably the two best vegetables for fighting cancer. Here are some of the vegetables and nuts known to kill cancer cells (and any food highly related to these): Raw Carrots (alpha carotene, beta carotene, Vitamin E, etc.), Raw Broccoli (sulforaphanes/isothiocyanate), Raw cabbage (isothiocyanates), Green Asparagus (saponins), Beetroot (proanthocyanidins (PAC's or OPC's)). Almonds, Macadamia nuts. At least 80% of all fruits, nuts and vegetables taken during a cancer diet should come from the above lists, or be closely related to these items!! See the Raw Food article for more information on vegetables, nuts and fruits: Click Here The Superfoods By a very wide margin, the best foods in the world are wheatgrass juice, barley juice, parsley juice, chlorella and spirulina. Only a small number of vegetables can even come close to these superfoods. However, most people are not going to sprout grass. Thus, many vendors make a variety of qualities of parsley powder, barley powder or powder made from a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, and grasses. Hopefully you will pick the high quality products. Such foods are absolutely required for a cancer treatment, mostly due to chlorophyll, but for other reasons as well. As with all juices, if you make the juice from the actual foods, the juice should be taken immediately after they are prepared. In cases where many small doses of a fresh vegetable juice are needed to be taken (e.g. to avoid diarrhea), the juice can be refrigerated during the day. Sprouts also fall in the category of superfoods, though a person must be warned that toxic and dangerous bacteria can accumulate in sprouts, even in organic sprouts purchased at a health food store. Of special mention is chlorella, along with its side-kick spirulina. Chlorella is a SUPERB anti-cancer and anti-tumor food. It works against cancer in many different ways. It also treats the liver. Spirulina also has anti-cancer and anti-tumor properties, but also contains a large concentration of proteins which can help a cancer patient keep from losing weight and it contains the critical nutrients: Vitamin B12, omega 3 and omega 6 (GLA). Legumes Legumes, except peanuts, are allowed to be eaten by cancer patients. Except when a cancer patient is on a liquid diet (e.g. vegetable juices only) or is fasting, a cancer patient should eat some legumes, such as beans. This is because of the vegetable proteins in legumes. Legumes can also be used when a cancer patient needs to maintain their weight. They provide not only the vegetable proteins but the calories. Herbs and Spices All herbs and spices are acceptable, except black pepper. Several herbs, such as Sheep Sorrel and Black Walnut, are known to be strong anti-cancer foods. Turmeric, which contains curcumin, is a spice that is a potent anti-cancer food. More is said about these substances in the individual treatment articles. Soy Products To put is mildly, soy products are a highly controversial issue among alternative health experts. Some experts love some soy products, and others hate all soy products (and that is also putting it mildly). It is up to your own judgment on this issue. Let me quote from Dr. Young's book: " The diet can include fresh soy sprouts, organic soybeans, fresh tofu, soy oil, and lecithin (a by-product of soy). Try to find organically grown beans and soy products. While the sprouts are recommended without reservation, processed soybean, especially tofu, comes with some cautions... " Sick and Tired? Reclaim Your Inner Terrain, Robert O. Young, page 97 Water and exercise Every cancer patient should drink as much natural water (i.e. natural spring water or natural artesian water, processed with ozone) as they can, up to a gallon a day. The many benefits of water are beyond the scope of this article, but rest assured it is important. Also, a cancer patient should get as much exercise as reasonable. Exercise pumps the lymph system and helps get toxins out of the body. Even if a person can do no more than lift 3 pound weights for 10 minutes while sitting in a chair, it will help. Junk Foods and Other Comments Basically, any processed food that contains sugar, refined salt, aspartame, MSG, trans-fatty acids, etc. etc. should be avoided. Even the cooking of food kills critical enzymes needed for digestion. While it is true that cooking does release some vitamins, by a very wide margin, overall it is better to eat food raw, if it can be safely eaten raw. Need I even mention stopping smoking (no matter what kind of cancer you have), because smoking puts more than 100 carcinogens in your body. Tobacco is also very high in sugar, fungi and yeasts. Part of this is due to they way tobacco leaves are processed. Need I even mention stopping drinking alcohol (which is a " primary mycotoxin " ), which interferes with ALL treatment plans. Need I even mention caffeine (except when it is used as an enema), because caffeine restricts the blood vessels, meaning less oxygen gets to the cancer cells. Some Special Listed Foods Peanuts are perhaps the number one food that should be avoided because they are so high in fungus. Foods that have little resistance to invaders, when they are growing, are frequently high in fungus. Corn, rice (because of the way it is stored) and potatos, and any foods with corn, rice or potatoes, should be avoided, also because of fungus. Cashews are another food high in fungus. Avoid processed apple juice for reasons beyond the scope of this article. Avoid oranges, tangerines, and dried fruits, for a variety of reasons. Do not microwave any foods during a cancer diet. Do not take any condiments, such as black pepper. Final Comments on Foods Because there are so many foods that are prohibited, and because most cancer patients have eaten these forbidden foods all their life, a cancer diet can be a real shock. What I would suggest is to carefully go down and isolate the foods a cancer patient is allowed to eat, which are foods he or she does like. This list essentially becomes their cancer diet. However, this list should be broken down into two groups. The first list should be the foods on this list that are known cancer-killer foods, such as blueberries. At least 80% of the foods a cancer patient eats should come from this list. The rest of the foods (the second list) can be consumed 20% of the time. Finally, except when a cancer patient is on a juice only portion of a diet, or is fasting, the vegetable protein the cancer patient is getting should be monitored. For this reason the 80%-20% rule can be overruled by the need to eat vegetable proteins, especially from legumes (except peanuts) and spirulina. The Liver According to Dr. Max Gerson, and others, even before the symptoms of cancer appear, the liver is damaged. As the cancer progresses, the damage to the liver also progresses. The liver is the major organ in the body which deals with toxins. A person on an alternative cancer treatment releases a lot of toxins into the blood stream which end up in the liver. Because of this, the liver must be " detoxified " or " cleansed. " There are some alternative treatments that contain liver detoxification elements in the treatment itself. The grape cure, Essiac Tea, barleygreens, and others, cleanse the liver along with the treatment. There are also a slew of herbs which " stimulate " or " detoxify " the liver. At the head of this class, as far as I know, is the herb " Milk Thistle. " Several alternative cancer treatments specifically deal with the liver by using enemas. Coffee enemas are by far the most common and are part of the Kelley metabolic plan, the Gerson diet, the Hulda Clark treatment, and others. " [Coffee enemas are] said to open the bile duct of the liver so that it quickly sends material into the colon for elimination. " Occasionally, lemon enemas are also used. The bottom line is that in designing a treatment plan, the care of cleaning the liver is critical. If the toxins in the liver build up and are not removed, it can cause the death of the liver, which means the death of the patient. " The liver (among its many other functions) is the major organ of detoxification. Anything we can do to ease our toxic burden makes the liver's job easier – including eating less, drinking more water, reducing our intake of toxins, exercising more, eating more fibre, and so on. There are also a number of herbs that help the liver with its detoxification tasks. These include dandelion root, yellow dock, burdock, chickweed and barberry – which are more effective when taken in combination than singly. " http://www.mysticalwildes.builderspot.com/page/page/1026287.htm Another thing that will ease the burden on the liver is the lymph system. The lymph system also helps remove toxins from the blood, but the lymph system does not have a " pump, " such as the circulatory system has (the " pump " of the circulatory system is the heart). The lymph system is only pumped by exercise. " Like the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic system is made up of channels or vessels, valves and filters (nodes). Unlike the bloodstream system, however, there is no pump like the heart. Instead, the lymphatic fluid is forced through the system by the action of the muscles and breathing. " http://www.cbass.com/lymph.htm The lymphatic system is critical to the immunity system, to the treatment of cancer and to taking a burden off of the liver. Many cancer patients, for a variety of reasons, are in no condition to go for long walks, jog, or do other types of exercise. However, the good news is that the arm muscles are just as good, and perhaps better, at pumping the lymphatic system as are the legs. Thus, lifting hand weights can accomplish much in helping the lymphatic system. However, prior to cleansing the liver of toxins, the colon must be cleansed so that the toxins can be dumped into the colon!! This means that at the beginning of any alternative cancer treatment, there must be a colon cleanse. " It is important to make sure that the colon is in good shape before stimulating the healing of the liver. If toxins cannot be excreted, the liver may store them, causing harm. " http://immunedisorders.homestead.com/Detoxification.html See the free, online eBook by Jon Barron to learn more about detoxification. Jon Barron book (Click on: FREE DOWNLOAD) More Information About the Critical Fungus, Yeast and Mould I have written an article that discusses some recent cancer treatments I have come across. Due to the fact that the media crushes all information about alternative treatments, someone can have a brilliant and correct theory about what causes cancer, but no one knows about it. The spreading of this truth will, at best be very slow, and at worst, it will totally die. Thus I may make a " discovery " that someone else knew about 80 years ago. Such is the case with my article on my current research topics. The article is must read item: Click: " Treatments I Am Currently Studying " A WARNING About Vendors There are many different natural treatments for cancer where their effectiveness is completely a function of the quality of the product. For example, there are many Noni Juice manufacturers. Some of their products are terrific and others are total junk. There are many Essiac Tea vendors, some of their products are excellent, some are total junk. There are many vitamin manufacturers, and some of their products are good and some are total junk. Graviola is the same way, much of it is junk, but the tree has great nutrients. Pau d' Arco is very difficult to process correctly and I am not sure any vendor does it right. And so on. No matter what you buy, you must be aware that the formula might be excellent, but the quality of the product may be poor. This is why a " product " may work wonders for one person, but not work at all for others. It is difficult to evaluate the quality of natural products. One reason is that natural products take longer to work than the orthodox pills that treat symptoms instead of causes. This means it takes longer to evaluate. These are some of the reasons that I recommend using multiple treatments at the same time. One or two of the products may be inferior quality, but other products may make up for the slack. But this approach is another reason it is difficult to evaluate natural products. You don't know which of the products are working and which are not. In some cases, the product is only manufactured by one vendor, such as when there is a patent or a brand name. However, even in this case the selling companies, or shipping companies, may allow the product to be exposed to high temperatures which might destroy much of the value of the product. Only when you make the product yourself, and buy the ingredients locally, can you be certain of its quality. That is why it is always advisable that at least one or two key treatments in your protocol are purchased locally at a grocery store or health food store, and put together at your home. Having said all of this, there are some vendor products that have a long history of superb quality and effectiveness. This is where " word of mouth " is important and testimonials on the internet are important. All in all, beware. If your treatment is not providing significant improvement in your condition, it may be time to change vendors or change products. This is another reason I say to never stop doing your homework. You never know when you will find some key piece of information that will direct you to make a significant change. The Distressing Symptoms of a Severe Change in Diet When you go on a natural treatment for cancer, such as the grape cure, hydrogen peroxide, raw food diet (i.e. carrot-based vegetable juice), etc. you can expect some strong reactions from the body. As Johanna Brandt put it: " The grape is, as far as I know, the most powerful nature solvent of some chemical deposits, and at the same time the most drastic eliminator. Because of its extraordinary properties, the avenues of excretion become superbly active under a proper grape diet. " (page 102) Other foods and treatments can also yield these results. Here are a sample of things I have run into: " [After starting an alternative treatment program] I had chemotherapy coming out the pores of my skin, even though it had been months since I had any. I had to take showers several times a day to wash this stuff off because it would burn my skin as it came out. It smelled putrid. It was just awful, the toxic stuff that was coming out of me. " " Something else I noticed was that any time she had a bowel movement (which became quite frequent after the start of the diet) it was so foul smelling, almost like she was excreting rotten flesh! " " He is doing well at taking everything as he is supposed to. My sister said that she noticed a foul odor 'like it was coming out his pores' last Sunday. She said it smelled horrible and was nauseating and unbearable. " And if you are on a colon flush, it gets worse: " He reported lumps of foul smelling substances that looked like 'rotten hamburger' flushing out of his colon, his urine was strong and dark, and he had occasional headaches. " These symptoms, plus diarrhea, constipation, etc. can all result from a massive change in diet or the treatment itself. They are common, they are normal and they are an indication the treatment is working! http://www.cancertutor.com/AltTreatments/Alt_Diet.html _________________ JoAnn Guest mrsjoguest DietaryTipsForHBP www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Genes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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