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John Hopkins Update - A must read

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My brother-n-law emailed this article to me. You have got to check this out, it is very interesting. The following is what I copied from my email -

This was forwarded to me by a dear friend, a biologist, who has cancer
himself. It is, indeed, very good information to have, and, so, I thought
you might like to read it as well. Please pass it along – the more we
know…


John Hopkins Update -

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY',
BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY
STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not
show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few
billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer
cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable
to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable
size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will
be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental,
food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet
and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and
also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone
marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like
liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the
person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer
cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by
not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugaris a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one
important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is
harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses,
but only in very small amounts. Table salthas a chemical added to make
it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus.. By cutting off milk and
substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet
is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than
beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones
and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds,
nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.
About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices
provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular
levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.
To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink
fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat
some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed
at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.
Green teais a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties.
Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins
and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes
putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from
or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of
cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer
cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,
Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the
bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements
like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death,
the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.
Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful
and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit.
Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising
daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular
level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as
well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins
are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your
plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the
plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast
le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked
about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be
heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This
especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the
combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food
and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using
glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food
You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV
dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the
container and heated in something else. Pa per isn't bad but you don't
know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning
Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast
food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin
problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as
dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the
food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out
of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel
instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in
your life.

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According to snopes.com this is not true.
Please read link:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

Wow Shamrock, now I feel that I have egg on my face. Thanks for the link to snopes, I hope everyone else that reads my discussion goes on to read what the snopes link has to say.

Don't feel bad country girl. We all want the answer to this miserable disease. Just keep in mind what your mother always told you.... if it's too good to be true then it's probably not true :).... anything that tells us we can't have chocolate is obviously just wrong :):):)

Some of the info is true, like cutting back on meat and eating lots of vegetables and fruits. Don't feel too bad...there is so much out there. That is why this forum is good since we have alot of knowledgeable people in the field like Shamrock and others to help us wade through it.

Here is John Hopkins rebuttal with truthful statements that they back.
http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/index.cfm/cID/1684/mpage/item.cfm/ itemID/1016

this real johns hopkins statement is hard to digest though:

"How stress, faith, and other factors influence this is largely unknown. We would like people to be happy, loving, and stress free, simply because it is a nice way to live and can contribute to an overall feeling of well being, says Platz. There is no evidence, however, that a person prevents or causes cancer based on his or her state of mind."

:( I am not saying preventing but I like to think it does fight the disease!

Countrygirl,

Don't feel bad about sharing with us. It made me realize again that I MUST go back to healthier choices. I'm a real couch potato despite all the knowledge and proof otherwise, and I must give up and start exercising.

On the other hand, just as we must be careful to believe all the claims about food, we must sift through all the scientific research, too. The chemicals we put in our bodies are extremely toxic. We have to weigh their ultimate good versus the damage they cause. It can be hard to get a balanced view from our doctors. They are so eager to help us eradicate the cancer cells, that they sometimes downplay all the peripheral damage. Read the fine print: a side effect of chemo can be additional cancer. Of course, weighed against not taking the chemo, a side effect (actually a primary effect) can be death! Still, I will carefully research the pros and cons of all future chemos on my own and get opinions from my family doctor before consenting to any type of treatment, wholistic, traditional medicine or anything in between.

i don't care what snopes says, and as far as the info, if you have ever read any self help books, written by naturalists, or if you have ever read kevin trudeaus book, you woul know that alot of what is listed in this is in fact true. meat, red meat is not easily digested, and cancer feeds on lack of oxygen, red meat, sugar and stress. these are facts. it is a fact, that a test was done with 2 groups of people, those that had less than 3 months to live, and the other group totally healthy, with no disease. the unhealthy group was told that they were going to live, there had been a mistake, and over 50% of them miraculously were cured, the rest outlived what they were told, the totally healthy group, over 50% died, with no evidence of disease, or any reason. faith, belief in living, a good attitude, all that goes a long way. plastic is bad for you, microwaves are bad for you. unfortunately, since doctors that can help cancer, and even cure it with natural means are ran out of the country, and they have to hide or be incarcerated, no money will be spent on those types of cures, since they cannot be patented, but once again, the bible says, everything that we need to heal ourselves was given to us, is on this earth. god answers prayers, and he makes the weak strong, for when you are weak, he is strong. so, we use modern medicine, watch our diet, and use the whole food products that only docs can supply to us, and pray that it is god's will for us to continue living on this earth, and serving him, and glorifying him, for that is the reason we are placed on this earth. ther are many stories, not fairytales, of peole who have been given a short time to live, and miraculously, they survive. their will to live, god's will that he is not done using them yet. we all must have the hope and faith, as the bible says, hope is not that is seen. for what doth a man hope for is he can see it. but hope is what you cannot see, for it you cannot see it, then you do with patience wait for it. don't ever let anyone take your hope away from you. when things like this come thru, they are possibly being sent to us at a time when we need a spiritual uplifting. i had this email, and could not print it off. i thank you for posting it, another answer to a prayer to our father in heaven. god bless. sherry

Momanderson920, Thanks for posting the rebuttal link. I think most of us are trying to live as healthily (is that a word?) as we possibly can at this point. And we all hold out hope that the miracle cures will involve non-invasive natural therapies. But until that time comes, I feel we have to choose the paths with proven outcomes. Like everyone else, I hate the dismal success statistics for our current therapies, and I look forward to a day when cancers can be eradicated.

I'm with you, lifeisgrand, there has to be a place in all of this for chocolate, especially dark chocolate ;-)

Also just because something has not been proven, doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't help some people. I think the danger is that people will read that fake and not pursue surgery and chemo or other proven treatments. But some of the statements have helped some people.

I do avoid most sugar but I WILL NEVER give up my dark chocolate :) It's my one indulgence and any negative physical effect if may have on me is completely, totally counteracted by how positively it effects me in every other way :)

Like the rest of you, I really feel like the key is balance.

And, as someone pointed out, a lot of that info is legit (as my students say) so take what's good and leave the rest, and Countrygirl, don't feel bad.

I have to agree. Just because it wasn't legitimately released by Johns Hopkins doesn't mean there aren't some valid points there.

You all are great, thanks you have made me feel better about posting this. Shamrock thank you for posting the snopes link that stated that this was not by John Hopkins.

Although it was not by John Hopkins I too felt like alot of the info was good advice for at least living healthier. It never hurts to do all we can do to help our bodies become stronger to fight this terrible ugly disease.

SBender, I want to thank you for your post. You talk of what the Bible says about God providing everything we need to heal ourselves and it is on this earth. That just really blessed me and I wanted you to know that.

God Bless you all

Even if this was a scam, there's lots of points made that are worth looking into. I don't think any of it will cure the cancer, but it should make us stronger to fight it.

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