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Can You Cure Cancer Naturally


Many people are under the illusion that cancer can be cured naturally, by supplements, but when you look at the evidence it does not support this view. This dangerous illusion has been propagated by practitioners of natural medicine, inadequately trained in science and also from manufacturers of supplements, who often don’t tell all of the truth and allow their readers to make up their own minds, omission as well as commission can create this illusion.

If you asked could cancer be prevented by natural methods, you would get an overwhelming yes reply. Food is by far the best way to deliver chemicals to the body; both protective and cancer promoting chemicals are effectively delivered in this manner. Avoiding foods that contain nitrites will help reduce your risk of pancreatic cancer, stomach cancer and cancer of the colon. More than 95% of the group of chemicals that nitrite belong to have caused cancer in some major human organ during research experiments, these chemicals are used to prevent food spoilage, and also as a preservative. They are found in bacon, frankfurts and processed meats.

Fruit and vegetables offer protection, particularly the cabbage family, including the Chinese varieties such as Bok Choi, Wong Bok etc. Chinese cabbages are a little sweeter than the European varieties so they appeal more to kids. Cheese has also been found to offer protection against bowel cancer.
Reducing inflammation throughout the body by eating more omega 3 containing seafood will also confer protection. Inflammation has demonstrated an ability to increase the rate of cancer growth in humans.

Exercise has proven it can reduce the growth of cancer causing polyps in the bowel wall so anyone eating a lot of red meat or drinking alcohol, both proven causes of bowel cancer, should be doing more exercise.

Professor Sheila Bingham uncovered the link between eating red meat and bowel wall changes leading to cancer by getting a group of vegetarians that had never eaten meat, and for the sake of research, she convinced them to engage in this scientific inquiry. By doing this with bowel walls that had never been compromised by eating meat, biopsies were easily able to detect changes in the bowel wall.

Unfortunately Sheila Bingham died earlier this year (2009) from melanoma, which was not her area of expertise.

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Hi Guys,

After starting this post I began to wonder how wide this distribution of bad advice was, who else misinforms people, deliberately or inadvertently because of inadequate training. It didn't take long to find another group peddling very dangerous advice and probably for the profits gained from doing so. This research was done in Canada.....

Breast Cancer Res. 2003;5(6):R170-4. Epub 2003 Aug 6.
Health food store recommendations: implications for breast cancer patients.

Mills E, Ernst E, Singh R, Ross C, Wilson K.

Department of Research, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, North York, Ontario, Canada. emills@ccnm.edu

Comment in:

* Breast Cancer Res. 2003;5(6):300-2.

BACKGROUND: Many breast cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We aimed to determine what advice health food store employees present to individuals seeking treatment options for breast cancer. METHODS: Eight data gatherers asked employees of all retail health food stores in a major Canadian city, what they recommended for a patient with breast cancer. The data gatherers inquired about product safety, potential drug interactions, costs and efficacy. They also enquired about employee training related to the products. RESULTS: Thirty-four stores were examined. A total of 33 different products were recommended, none of which are supported by sufficient evidence of efficacy. The average cost of the products they recommended was 58.09 dollars (CAD) (minimum 5.28 dollars, median 32.99 dollars, maximum 600 dollars) per month. Twenty-three employees (68%) did not ask whether the patient took prescription medications. Fifteen employees (44%) recommended visiting a healthcare professional (naturopaths (9), physicians (5), nutritionists (1). Three employees (8.8%) discussed potential adverse effects of the products. Eight employees (23.5%) discussed the potential for drug interactions. Two employees (5.9%) suggested a possible cure with the products and one employee (2.9%) suggested discontinuing Tamoxifen. Four employees (11.8%) recommended lifestyle changes and three employees (8.8%) recommended books for further reading on the products. CONCLUSION: This study draws attention to the heterogeneity of advice provided by natural health food stores to individuals seeking treatments for breast cancer, and the safety and cost implications of some of the products recommended. Physicians should enquire carefully about the use of natural health food products by patients with breast cancer. Regulators need to consider regulations to protect vulnerable patients from incurring significant costs in their purchasing of natural health food products lacking evidence of benefit and of questionable safety.

PMID: 14580252 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


After reading everyday posts on here it is quite obvious that there are a lot of misinformed people out there, people that believe they have the correct answer to some very serious illness's when really what they have could be a life threatening misunderstanding of the efficacy of supplements.


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