By Sue Mueller - foodconsumer.org
There is a lot of talking about the recurrence of cancer in Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, and Tony Snow, the White House press secretary. Edwards suffers from breast cancer which has now spread to the bones and Snow is fighting against colon cancer that has spread to the liver.
Much of the talking is about how people respond to the news. One key question has not been touched, that is, why we have a high incidence of cancer in the country.
The cancer risk is real and not so far from you and me no matter you have a family history of the disease or not. Nearly 50 percent of men and 35 percent of women in the U.S. are expected to develop one cancer or another in their life time. Indeed, cancer is so common that it has become the number one killer in the country.
How could so many people get cancer nowadays? No doctors know or would tell you exactly what cause a specific cancer, breast cancer or colon cancer although many possible risk factors are known for certain cancers. It is generally agreed that cancer is a disease of lifestyle although some “experts†keep publishing research articles telling people that cancer is associated with this or that gene, indicating that you should not fight to resist your fate as the disease is originated from your genetics.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutrition professor from Cornell University says in his book titled “The China Study†that the role the genetics play in cancer development may not exceed 3 percent of the total risk. Even if you have a faulty gene, the risk does not have to manifest when a good diet is used. He cites his “China Study†saying that diet is the major factor influencing the cancer risk.
According to Dr. Campbell, meat consumption can be a big risk for cancer such as breast cancer. High intake of meat (protein and fat) promotes early puberty and later menopause. He says in his book that in China girls enter puberty at age 15 to 18 compared to 9 to 12 in the U.S. This difference results in a huge difference in the hormone exposure, that is, American women are exposed to estrogen for ten to 15 more years than the Chinese women.
Estrogen is a known risk for breast cancer. Elizabeth Edwards gave birth to her youngest child at about 50, indicating that she is likely exposed to high levels of hormones at that age or even a few years afterwards, which is a real risk although other risk factors may also play a role.
Another risk is that American people do not eat as much fruits and vegetables as needed. One of consequences is that a meaty diet without much plant foods is more likely to make your body acidic, which is promoting cancer growth. According to some unsubstantiated source, 85% of cancer patients have an acidic pH. A friend of this writer suffered from breast cancer and she has her pH at 5.0. The normal pH should be about 7.35.
Of course, many other factors may be also responsible for the high risk of cancer in the country. In the developed country, more medical radiation is used than the developing country. Ionizing radiations such as x-ray are a known cancer causing agent although the medical circle downplays the risk of radiation. John Gofman, MD and Ph.D., a prominent nuclear scientist and physician, retired from the University of California at Los Angeles believes that radiation may play a role in 75 percent of breast cancer cases.
One can’t expect to reduce the cancer risk to zero. But he can reduce it significantly just following a healthy diet and lifestyle.
If I were Tony Snow or Elizabeth Edwards, the first thing I would do is quit eating meat and dairy products and increase consumption of plant foods particularly those with high fiber and minerals. The next thing to do is avoid further damage from conventional treatments, that is, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which would do more harm than good at this stage for both Snow and Edwards in my point of view. I would also take high doses of omega 3 fatty acids, particularly DHA and use no vegetable oils, particularly corn oil and soybean oil. Also I would do some detoxification to cleanse my body so that the toxins would not have a chance to further damage my body.
http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_anc ... risk.shtml
There is a lot of talking about the recurrence of cancer in Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, and Tony Snow, the White House press secretary. Edwards suffers from breast cancer which has now spread to the bones and Snow is fighting against colon cancer that has spread to the liver.
Much of the talking is about how people respond to the news. One key question has not been touched, that is, why we have a high incidence of cancer in the country.
The cancer risk is real and not so far from you and me no matter you have a family history of the disease or not. Nearly 50 percent of men and 35 percent of women in the U.S. are expected to develop one cancer or another in their life time. Indeed, cancer is so common that it has become the number one killer in the country.
How could so many people get cancer nowadays? No doctors know or would tell you exactly what cause a specific cancer, breast cancer or colon cancer although many possible risk factors are known for certain cancers. It is generally agreed that cancer is a disease of lifestyle although some “experts†keep publishing research articles telling people that cancer is associated with this or that gene, indicating that you should not fight to resist your fate as the disease is originated from your genetics.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutrition professor from Cornell University says in his book titled “The China Study†that the role the genetics play in cancer development may not exceed 3 percent of the total risk. Even if you have a faulty gene, the risk does not have to manifest when a good diet is used. He cites his “China Study†saying that diet is the major factor influencing the cancer risk.
According to Dr. Campbell, meat consumption can be a big risk for cancer such as breast cancer. High intake of meat (protein and fat) promotes early puberty and later menopause. He says in his book that in China girls enter puberty at age 15 to 18 compared to 9 to 12 in the U.S. This difference results in a huge difference in the hormone exposure, that is, American women are exposed to estrogen for ten to 15 more years than the Chinese women.
Estrogen is a known risk for breast cancer. Elizabeth Edwards gave birth to her youngest child at about 50, indicating that she is likely exposed to high levels of hormones at that age or even a few years afterwards, which is a real risk although other risk factors may also play a role.
Another risk is that American people do not eat as much fruits and vegetables as needed. One of consequences is that a meaty diet without much plant foods is more likely to make your body acidic, which is promoting cancer growth. According to some unsubstantiated source, 85% of cancer patients have an acidic pH. A friend of this writer suffered from breast cancer and she has her pH at 5.0. The normal pH should be about 7.35.
Of course, many other factors may be also responsible for the high risk of cancer in the country. In the developed country, more medical radiation is used than the developing country. Ionizing radiations such as x-ray are a known cancer causing agent although the medical circle downplays the risk of radiation. John Gofman, MD and Ph.D., a prominent nuclear scientist and physician, retired from the University of California at Los Angeles believes that radiation may play a role in 75 percent of breast cancer cases.
One can’t expect to reduce the cancer risk to zero. But he can reduce it significantly just following a healthy diet and lifestyle.
If I were Tony Snow or Elizabeth Edwards, the first thing I would do is quit eating meat and dairy products and increase consumption of plant foods particularly those with high fiber and minerals. The next thing to do is avoid further damage from conventional treatments, that is, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which would do more harm than good at this stage for both Snow and Edwards in my point of view. I would also take high doses of omega 3 fatty acids, particularly DHA and use no vegetable oils, particularly corn oil and soybean oil. Also I would do some detoxification to cleanse my body so that the toxins would not have a chance to further damage my body.
http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_anc ... risk.shtml
