Guest guest Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I found this incredibly convincing information in Harvey Diamond's latest Fit For Life book called Fit for Life: A New Beginning: The Ultimate Diet and Health Plan. I actually quoted from the Canadian version of the book which is called " Fit For Life 3. " Here is some information from just one particular chapter on the dangers of fat. To put it in a nutshell he says to reduce cancer we need to dramatically decrease dietary fat and increase our intake of fruits and vegetables. In study after study, there were high correlations of people who ate a high fat diet being more likely to get cancer. Also people who ate more fruits and vegetables were less likely to get cancer. I must also warn you that even though raw fats are better, they still shouldn't be more than 20% of your total dietary intake. Excessive raw fats are quite dangerous to your health as well according to Dr. Graham. Too much fat even raw, reduces the oxygen in our cells. Cancer can only thrive in environments with low oxygen. Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize in 1931 by showing how he could create cancer in 47 different species of animals by lowering the oxygen available to the cells. He was able to form tumors in any animals within three weeks by his procedures. Seems like if you increase the oxygen you would have the opposite affect. Harvey also recommends the use of your common sense and not just relying on studies to prove something out to yourself. Here is why. " Frankly, under the right circumstances and with proper funding, scientists can " prove " anything they want. Medical libraries are rife with examples of " scientific studies: that have proved one premise only to be replaced by other studies that prove the opposite. I already gave you the example earlier of the two studies in the same journal " proving " estrogen to both prevent and cause heart disease. As another quick example, consider the incredible, terrible egg. Eggs contain one of the highest concentrations of cholesterol of any food. Data abounds showing that this is so. Eggs are the choice of researchers when they want to study their subjects " staggering increases in cholesterol levels. In fact, eggs will increase blood cholesterol levels more effectively than pure cholesterol dissolved in oil! Yet the egg industry is quick to cloud the issue by constantly referring to five " scientific " studies that " prove " of all things, that eggs don't raise blood cholesterol levels. The five studies, by the way, just happened to be funded by the egg industry. " pg 98. Quotes: Pg 99 " According to Science News, " Scientists don't understand exactly how estrogen fosters breast cancer, " but the consensus is that the more estrogen there is in the blood, the more likelihood of developing breast cancer. High- fat diets cause high levels of estrogen in women. Comparisons reveal that women who eat meat have significantly higher levels of estrogen in their blood than vegetarian women. And when women switch to low fat diets, the levels of estrogen drop sharply. " Pg 100 " Researchers at the National Cancer Institute reanalyzed 100 animal experiments pertaining to fats, calories, and breast cancer, and concluded that each excess fat-derived calorie posed 67 percent more risk than calories from other sources. A study of Finnish women found that the participants who later developed breast cancer showed a " consistently higher " average percent of fat-derived calories. " Pg 99 and 100 " An article in the FDA Consumer states that, " The death rate from breast cancer is the highest in countries like the United States, where the intake of fat and animal protein is high. Further, it commented that Japanese women historically have a low risk for breast cancer, but that risk has been rising dramatically, concurrent with a " westernization " of eating habits, that is, from a low-fat to high-fat diet. Other research that has studied fat consumption of women living in Japan or Japanese women who come to the United States and increase their fat intake also confirms that the more fat eaten, the higher the incidence of breast cancer in these women. An article in Newsweek magazine commented on the hazard of a western diet (beef, dairy and other fat-laden foods) to Japanese women. The article was titled " Death By Fried Chicken. " " Japanese women are not alone in this. The chart below (sorry no chart in this email) illustrates clearly the correlation between fat intake and breast cancer in various countries. It is no accident that the incidence of breast cancer increases commensurately with the increase in fat consumption. " Pg 100 Pg 101 " Consider the following comment from an editorial in the New York Times: " Nutritionists and epidemiologists have long observed that people who eat a plant rich diet suffer lower rates of cancer than do meat loyalists. " I guarantee that you will not see headlines proclaim that some special ingredient in a pork chop or a hamburger has been isolated and has been found to fight cancer. The compounds of food that are becoming increasingly familiar to people all come from plant foods, not animal foods. Compounds like flavonoids, carotenes, antioxidants, and fiber, and many, many more are all derived from plant foods. Every time you hear about some newly discovered multisyllabic compound that fights disease, it is derived from fruits, vegetables, grains or some other plant food. Have you ever heard of sulforaphane? Its discovery resulted in a headline that read, " Broccoli Extract Shown to Block Breast Cancer. " Researchers at Johns Hopkins University made the discovery and reported it to the media. Sulforaphane is a substance that is found in cruciferous vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. They didn't find any in steak. " Orange Juice Fights Breast Cancer. " New research at the University of Western Ontario show this to be so. And what component in the orange juice accomplishes this feat? Small molecules found in all citrus fruits known as flavonoids. Dr. Gladys Block, of the University of California at Berkeley, reviewed approximately 90 studies relating Vitamin C and cancer. She indicated that, " There is overwhelming evidence of the protective effect of Vitamin C and other antioxidants against cancer of the breast. Fruits and vegetables such as citrus fruits, tomatoes, green leafy vegetables and potatoes are rich sources of Vitamin C and other nutrients. Additionally, Dr. Block reviewed 170 studies from 17 nations and concluded that people everywhere who eat the most fruit and vegetables, compared with those who eat the least, slash their chances of developing cancer by about 50 percent! The evidence is so overwhelming that Dr. Block views fruits and vegetables as a powerful preventative that could substantially wipe out the scourge of cancer, just as cleaning up the water supply eliminated past epidemics such as cholera. " and Pg 102. Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C., says, " The more fruit and vegetables people eat, the less likely they are to get cancer, from colon and stomach cancer to breast and even lung cancer. For many cancers, persons with high fruit and vegetable intake have about half the risk of people with low intake. " Pg 102 and 103 " Dr. Bruce N. Ames is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a biochemist and molecular biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Center. Dr. Ames is one of the two dozen most-often cited scientists in the world. His colleagues refer to him as " one of the most innovative thinkers in the world of science. " Dr. Ames states that the antioxidant nutrients in fruits and vegetables " can suppress all stages of the cancer process, " and that diet is at least as important as smoking as a cause of cancer. " A recent study on cancer prevention was conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and appeared in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in October 1995. Dr. William R. Fair, at Sloan-Kettering said, " What we found was astonishing to us. " And what was it that Dr. Fair found so astonishing? It is that human prostrate cancer tumors grew only half as fast in mice eating diets that contained about 21 percent fat as those eating diets that contained about 40 percent fat. " Are you starting to see the picture here? Could there be any doubt in anyone's mind that it is at the very least probably a good idea to minimize intake of fat and maximize intake of plant foods? How much proof is enough? (I didn't even include all the studies he mentioned in this chapter. There were quite a few more.) So this should give raw foodist more proof that eating a plant based diet of 20% or less calories from fat is a super healthy way to go. Please forward this email to any friends or family members who have cancer. It could open their eyes and save their lives. To Your Radiant Health, Roger Haeske Have you tried the Raw Diet many times but failed to stick with it? Now you can learn the Motivational and Dietary Secrets to success on a 100% Raw Food Diet. From Infinite Potential and Raw Food Coach Roger Haeske the author of Your Hidden Power - eClass, Infinite Tennis and http://www.superbeing.com. Go to http://www.superbeingdiet.com to learn how to go 100% RAW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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