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Cancer The Shocking Truth

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 tumours.

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, gastro-intestinaltract 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 tumour size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumour 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. Sugar is 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 Mänuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. 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 Soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and Meat also contains live stock 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. About20% 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 beansprouts)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 tea is 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 become putrefied and leads to more toxic build-up.

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 body's 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, unforgiveness 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.

10 Myths About Your Brain

It's true that a lot is not yet known about the most fascinating organ in our body, the brain. However, recent scientific studies have proved one thing... that a lot we knew about our brains is just a myth.…


It's true that a lot is not yet known about the most fascinating organ in our body, the brain. However, recent scientific studies have proved one thing... that a lot we knew about our brains is just a myth.

Just imagine, we thought earlier that 'we use only 10 percent of our brains'. Nope, we use most parts of it for different everyday activities. According to the Smithsonian.com, 'Brains are expensive—it takes a lot of energy to build brains during fetal and childhood development and maintain them in adults. Evolutionarily, it would make no sense to carry around surplus brain tissue. Experiments using PET or fMRI scans show that much of the brain is engaged even during simple tasks, and injury to even a small bit of brain can have profound consequences for language, sensory perception, movement or emotion.


Here are some more myths about your brain:

1. "Flashbulb memories" are precise, detailed and persistent.

2. It's all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).

3. We have five senses.

4. Brains are like computers.

Source:Yahoo

Tobacco menace

A never ending disgrace

Tobacco. The curse of the Gods. The plant that pretended to benefit mankind in the early days after it was spotted by tribals but very soon showed its true colors and turned out to be a disaster for the same mankind. It is an irony if not a disgrace that despite the well known and well established hazards of this plant, mankind keeps abusing it like never before.

It is an added disgrace that India, a superpower now, and making extremely rapid strides in the areas of not only science and technology still refuses to give up its slavery to this dreaded plant and its products that masquerade as indices of fashion and sophistication but in reality are only weapons of mass destruction of a different kind.

According to experts, India now has the dubious distinction of harboring the world’s largest number of oral cancer patients with an annual age standardized incidence of 12.5 per 100,000, and oral cancer amounts to 9.4 percent of all cancers in India. Historically, this has been attributed to widespread usage of smokeless tobacco, and for this reason a great emphasis is being laid by the government and non-government organizations towards effective tobacco control. Over last several decades, billions of rupees have been spent for this purpose. Despite all efforts of tobacco control, oral cancer that is an uncommon disease in the west continues to be the major cause of cancer related death in India.

Good for nothing Gutka

The main form of smokeless tobacco which is sold in India is ‘gutka’ and ‘pan masala’ with tobacco. Gutka is a preparation of crushed areca nut, tobacco, catechu, paraffin, lime and sweet or savory flavorings. Some manufacturers also make gutka without tobacco and market them as pan masala or even mouth freshener. Tobaco and areca nut which are critical ingredients of gutka and pan masala are classified as very dangerous cancer producing agents by the World Health Organization and International Agency for Research on Cancer.

According to recent Global Adult Tobacco Survey, about 275 million people in India are addicted to tobacco, and one third of them use it in smokeless form. India is the greatest producer of Areca nut, producing about 3, 30,000 million tons a year (nearly half of global Areca nut production), and most of them are consumed within the country. The gutka industry in India has grown from small beginnings forty years ago to a multi-billion rupee industry with nearly 375 brands, of which, nearly 100 of them are located in Mumbai. It is estimated that, gutka and paan masala worth around Rs10,000 crore are sold in the country annually. Due to low cost, easy availability, attractive packaging, aggressive marketing, innocent adolescents and youths are becoming addicted to them. In India, over 5 million children under 15 are addicted to gutka.

Dear friends, it is never too late to correct your mistakes in life. Wake up to the dangers of tobacco at least now. Throw it away in the dustbin and save yourself and your family. You will be the happier for it.

Here's how you can reduce mobile radiation exposure

A World Health Organization panel has concluded that cell phones are "possibly carcinogenic,'' putting the popular devices in the same category as certain dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides, as a potential threat to human health.

A panel representative also noted that using a hands-free during a conversation or communicating via text message would be options for lowering radio frequency exposure.

Here are some tips to reduce exposure to mobile radiations:

* Use a wired headset to minimise the waves hitting you
* Talk on a speakerphone whenever possible
* Don't wear Bluetooth continuously
* Avoid using phone in enclosed areas
* Hold phone little away while talking
* Send text messages

Source:NDTV