Cancer: diet and physical activity's impact

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Cancer: diet and physical activity's impact

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Facts

* Cancer accounts for 7.1 million deaths annually (12.5% of the global

total).

* Dietary factors account for about 30% of all cancers in Western

Countries and approximately up to 20% in developing countries; diet is second

only to tobacco as a preventable cause. Approximately 20 million people suffer

from cancer; a figure projected to rise to 30 million within 20 years.

* The number of new cases annually is estimated to rise from 10

million to 15 million by 2020.

* More than half of all cancer cases occur in developing countries.

Cancer is becoming an increasingly important factor in the global burden of

disease. The estimated number of new cases annually is expected to rise from

10 million in 2000 to 15 million by 2020. Some 60% of these cases will occur

in the less developed parts of the world. More than 7 million people now die

each year from cancer. Yet with the existing knowledge, at least one-third of

cancer cases that occur annually throughout the world could be prevented.

While tobacco use is the single largest causative factor -accounting for

about 30% of all cancer deaths in developed countries and an increasing number

in the developing world – dietary modification and regular physical activity

are significant elements in cancer prevention and control. Overweight and

obesity are both serious risk factors for cancer. Diets high in fruit and

vegetables may reduce the risk for various types of cancer, while high levels

of

preserved and/or red meat consumption are associated with increased cancer

risk.

What is cancer?

Cancer is used generically for more than 100 different diseases, including

malignant tumours of different sites, such as breast, cervix, prostate,

stomach, colon/rectum, lung and, mouth. Other examples of cancer are

leukaemias,

sarcomas, Hodgkin´s disease and non-Hodgkin´s lymphomas. The disease arises

principally as a consequence of individual exposure to carcinogenic agents in

what individuals inhale, eat and drink, or are exposed to in their personal or

work environment. Personal habits, such as tobacco use, dietary and physical

activity patterns - as well as occupational and environmental conditions -

rather than genetic factors, play the major roles in the development of cancer.

Extent of the problem

Many of the chronic disease risks, and the diseases themselves, overlap. In

developed countries, cancer is the second-biggest cause of death after

cardiovascular disease (CVD), and epidemiological evidence points to this trend

emerging in the less developed world. This particularly true in countries of

" transition " or middle income countries, such as in South America and Asia.

Already more than half of all cancer cases occur in developing countries.

There are approximately 20 million people living with cancer at the moment;

by 2020 there will be an estimated 30 million. And the impact is far greater

than the number of cases alone would suggest. Regardless of prognosis, the

initial diagnosis is often perceived by patients as life-threatening, with over

one-third of sufferers experiencing clinical anxiety and depression. Cancer

can also be profoundly distressing as well as economically disruptive to

patients’ families. The clinical care of cancer patients is a costly element

in

public health budgets.

Diet and physical activity’s impact

Dietary factors are estimated to account for approximately 30% of cancers in

western countries, making diet second only to tobacco as a preventable cause

of cancer. This proportion is thought to be about 20% in developing

countries and is projected to grow. As developing countries become urbanised,

patterns of cancer, particularly those most strongly associated with diet and

physical activity, tend to shift towards the patterns of economically developed

countries. Cancer rates also change as populations move between countries and

adopt different dietary patterns.

The relative importance of cancers as a cause of death is increasing. The

incidence of lung cancer and cancers of the colon and rectum, breast and

prostate, generally increases in parallel with economic development, as stomach

cancer declines. Cancer is also strongly associated with social and economic

status. Cancer risk factors are highest in groups with the least education. In

addition, patients in the lower socioeconomic classes have consistently poorer

survival rates than those in higher strata.

In recent years, substantial evidence has pointed to the link from

overweight and obesity, to many types of cancer such as oesophagus, colorectum,

breast, endometrium and kidney. The composition of the diet is also important

since

fruit and vegetables may have a protective effect by decreasing the risk for

some cancer types such as oral, oesophageal, gastric and colorectal cancer.

Regular physical activity has also been seen to have a protective effect in

reducing the risk of breast and colorectal cancer. High intake of preserved

meat or red meat might be associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer.

Another aspect of diet clearly related to cancer risk is the high consumptio

n of alcoholic beverages, which convincingly increases the risk of the oral

cavity, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, liver and breast cancers.

What can be done?

The wealth of knowledge that already exists about cancer risk factors

provides obvious and ample scope for action to reduce the cancer burden of all

countries. After tobacco, overweight and obesity seems to be the most important

avoidable cause of cancer.

Given that poor nutrition, physical inactivity, obesity, tobacco and

alcohol, are risk factors common to other chronic diseases, such as CVD, type 2

diabetes, and respiratory diseases, conducting a cancer prevention programme

within the context of an integrated chronic disease prevention programme would

be

an effective national strategy.

Dietary factors that convincingly increase risk are:

* Overweight and obesity,

* Excess alcohol consumption (more than 2 units a day)

* Some forms of salting and fermenting fish

* Very hot (thermally) salty drinks and food

* Aflatoxins (fungal contaminants sometimes found on foods such as

grains, peanuts, tree nuts, and cottonseed meal)

 

EVIDENCE DECREASED RISK INCREASED RISK Convincing Physical activity

(colon, breast) Overweight and obesity (oesophagus, colorectum, breast,

endometrium, kidney) Probable Fruit and vegetables (oral cavity, stomach,

colorectum). Preserved meat (colorectum) oesophagus. Salt-preserved foods and

salt

(stomach). Very hot (thermally) drinks & food (oral cavity, pharynx,

oesophagus Possible/ insufficient Fibre, soya, fish, n-3 fatty acids,

carotenoids,

vitamins B2, B6, folate B2, B6, folate, B12, C,D, E, calcium, zinc,

selenium,non-nutrient plant constituents, (eg allium, lignans, compounds,

flavnoids,

isoflavones) Animal fats, heterocyclic amines, polycyclic aromatic

hydrocarbons, nitrosamines

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Below are two commentaries divided by my question regarding the nature

of Cancer (written to another group). IMHO, this is a far better model

than the one previously posted. While it is certainly not mainstream

opinion, given all that I have read on it in the past, it truly holds

water:

 

 

Answer: I feel a little sheepish in having this conversation on a web site

devoted to alternative energy and I am surprised that there is

apparently an interest here. I left the health sites because those

people were too narrow minded and became hostile when I presented

them with what I know to be the answer to their prayers. We always

stone the lightbringers and they are always correct in the long run...

 

The point that requires clarification here is that Progenitor

cryptocides is by its nature, pleomorphic. Rife found the earlier

stages which he called " filter passing virus, " which of course,

cannot be correct by the definition of a virus but he was unaware of

this and his observations were otherwise correct. What he saw was

apparently a mycolpasma, the existence of which was known during his

time period but he seemed to be unaware of it. Nonetheless, he was

the first to see the entire Cyclogenia pleomorphia in all of its

stages. He detected a virus form with two stages which he called BX

and BY. As the pH becomes more acidic, the organism continues to

change form until it reaches the yeast/fungal stage whereby it

develops rhizomes and thus ramifies. This in non-technical terms

meant that it develops tentacles that plunge into the surrounding

tissues whereby cancer gets its name derived from " crab-like "

formations.

 

The tumor formation that contains dead tissue and the resultant

conversion of the diploid totipotent into a trophoblast is entirely

consistent with the cycle of tissue repair that occurs normally in

the body as a part of the natural healing process. It is pancreatic

failure or the excessive ingestion of proteins that produces too

little trypsin and chymotrypsin that fails to keep up with the end

stage of the healing process of breaking down the fibrin of the tumor

walls thus allowing the healing cycle to rage forward unattenuated

that allows cancer to proliferate. It is the pH that triggers the

Progenitor organism to morph into a fungus that we define as cancer.

Dr. Rife stated that he observed cancer in the mycelial stage of the

Cyclogenia pleomorphia which is totally consistent with his

observation. He never stated that this was causative, but it was

always present in cancer.

 

Cancer always develops as a single tumor. If allowed to mature it

will obtain the ability to utilize the MMP mechanism to bore through

tissue via enzyme digestion and enter the circulation whereby it, by

definition, has metastasized. Cancer always retains its original

character when it sets up shop in another area of the body thus it is

easy to determine in many cases where it originated. Many breast

cancers contain uterine tissue. Melanomas are a no-brainer, even the

most ignorant technician can easily see by coloration that these

cancers were once localized skin cancers that were often released

into the body by the foolish practice of surgical extirpation.

 

Perhaps another site needs to be set up to continue this dialog as it

isn't really appropriate on this site. No, I am not willing to set

one up so please don't ask.

 

 

Question: the basis for your cure (and reasoning) make sense.

Certainly, Gerson and others were quite successful in following it.

We also know that recently, a cancer doctor in Italy proved, at least

to his satisfaction, that cancer is a fungus... and has been quite

successful in treating

it on that basis. Also, we have known for a long time that it is often

(or always preceded) with candida. Further, as you point out, it

must exist in an acid environment. Rife saw a virus under his

powerful microscope and when he attacked it with frequency (this is in the

realm of our topic here), he was very successful in ridding

 

> > comdyne2002 wrote: I consider myself an expert on this topic and I

am a public

speaker at alternative health conventions. I agree that the Budwig diet

is excellent but there are others as well such as the Ann Wigmore

and the Gerson protocol. Cancer is a fungus, however, and it is

produced by pleomorphic organisms that exist within our bodies to produce

germs which are Nature's scavengers. Germs are intended to clean

up debris from dead tissue and cells and are not the cause of, but

are the result of, disease.Cancer is not a normal cell gone awry.

The cancer cell is a stem cell that has become a trophoblast as happens

in a pregnancy. Stem

cells are used by the body for repair as they contain everything

required to build any necessary component of the body from eye tissue, to

teeth, to bone cells, etc.

 

>>>When ever there is an injury to

tissue the body will form a tumor to wall off the area so that the rotting

process does not spread throughout the body. The Progenator

cryptocides organism will morph into a fungus in the anaerobic

(without oxygen) environment inside the tumor and devour all dead

material turning it into essentially compost. Once the decayed

matter is thoroughly digested by the fungi, hCG hormones are no longer

emitted from the tumor and the digestive enzymes of trypsin and

chymotrypsin produced in the pancreas will break down the fibrin

coating of the tumor which will then dissolve and become fuel

for the body metabolic processes. When the tumor leaks such as after

being stabbed by a biopsy needle, the organism contained within the

tumor is released into circulation and metastases occurs.

 

> >> When the body fluids are contaminated from incomplete combustion

of foods, these proteins eventually will make their way out of the

digestive tract and will penetrate the intestinal walls due to

the purification of foods and the subsequent parasitic organisms that

proliferate in such an environment. When these proteins are found

outside the digestive tract the immune system mounts an attack

and inflammation is the result. All diseases start this way. In the

case of cancer (tumor forming cancers) impaired lymph circulation

causes hypoxia (oxygen starvation) at the cellular level. Normal cells

will then shift their metabolism away from small mounts of glucose

(sugar) and larger amounts of oxygen to primarily glucose. The metabolic

rate increases exponentially and toxic lactic acid and carbon

monoxide is produced causing more pollution and thus lowering the pH even

further. So far the tumor is benign. If the pH continues to fall,

however, Progenitor cryptocides will morph into the yeast/fungal

stage and this is cancer. Raising the pH is the only way to rid

the body of cancer. No surgery, radiation or drug can do it. Only

Nature can fix what isn't broken.

 

> >> The conventional approach to this disease is totally wrong but

highly profitable, thus no changes will occur in the foreseeable future.

Cancer is easy to cure. All one has to do is to change the

internal environment so that the fungus of cancer cannot grow. This is

done by diet and cleansing. Best of all, no doctors are required.

 

> >> " The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything " Claude

Bernard 1813-1878