validatation of complementary/alternative treatment and nutrition

I received this via email.  I have no reason to doubt authenticity.  Many, many, many posters to the board have been saying these things for a very long time.  Nice to get some validation by highly respected medical institutions.

Tre

Cancer article from Walter Reed Hospital

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO 'TRY'
AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE
IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from John 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 cellsbecause 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. 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
 Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt
has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is
Bragg's amino or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
 gastrointestinal 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 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 tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
 Water: It is 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, Florssence,
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.
 PLEASE READ ON
 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 causes 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 Castle
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. Paper 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.

Can't remember address to check authenticity of email info at this moment, but checked this one previously and it is not really from John Hopkins.

As info, the post about Hopkins is bogus.  Hopkins issued a release a while back stating they did NOT release this nor do they support it except for a few items.

 

On 9/9/2008 trehouse60 wrote:

I received this via email.  I have no reason to doubt authenticity.  Many, many, many posters to the board have been saying these things for a very long time.  Nice to get some validation by highly respected medical institutions.

Tre

Cancer article from Walter Reed Hospital

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO 'TRY'
AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE
IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from John 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 cellsbecause 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. 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
 Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt
has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is
Bragg's amino or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
 gastrointestinal 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 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 tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
 Water: It is 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, Florssence,
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.
 PLEASE READ ON
 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 causes 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 Castle
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. Paper 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.

Tre - How can this be authenticated?

Go to:  snopes.com

This is fake!!!!

 

Nadine

 

On 9/10/2008 mam1563 wrote:

Go to:  snopes.com

This is fake!!!!

 

Nadine

Subscribe HEADLINE: Email Hoax Regarding Cancer   Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Office of Public Affairs March 2007 EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER An email falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins describing properties of cancer cells and suggesting prevention strategies has begun circulating the Internet.  Johns Hopkins did not publish the email, entitled "Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins," nor do we endorse its contents.  For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institute's web site at www.cancer.gov. Another hoax email that has been circulating since 2004 regarding plastic containers, bottles, wrap claiming that heat releases dioxins which cause cancer also was not published by Johns Hopkins.  More information. -JHM-

I do apologize for posting if this email was bogus.  I will have to check with the person who passed this along to me. I have in the past verified dozens of their emails and finding their information to be very highly reliable,causing me to put them on my trusted source list.  I guess anybody can be fooled.

I do, however, hope that people will check out the ideas presented in the post.  Natural remedies combined with conventional therapy might present the best of both worlds.  After all, the bark from a specific variety of yew tree is so effective at killing cancer that scientists researched the chemicals/compounds it contains, found a way to produce those chemicals synthetically, and called it Taxol,  This is but one of myriad synthetic medications based on a natural healing agent. How much better can we do than to try to get the natural stuff itself, too,  and blast cancer with EVERY weapon we can find?

Still and always a friend of nature,

Tre

Tre - Although I mentioned it's bogus, I agree that complementary treatments are worthwhile, and are becoming more widely accepted and researched in many of the big cancer centers. I also believe hope is part of our healing mechanism, but we need to be aware of what the realistic expectations are too. I guess the danger comes in believing everything you read without filtering through the claims. Many of us criticize big medicine, big pharmaceuticals, etc, and people have some valid points, but it's just as easy for someone to use the internet to exploit people with terminal illness by making false statements. We may also find some of those claims may be proven in time, although they haven't been yet. There are many alternative treatments being studied to see if they can turn these natural substances into pharmaceuticals as they did with taxol. Of course a more natural, less toxic form would be even better. Suya

 

On 9/10/2008 trehouse60 wrote:

I do apologize for posting if this email was bogus.  I will have to check with the person who passed this along to me. I have in the past verified dozens of their emails and finding their information to be very highly reliable,causing me to put them on my trusted source list.  I guess anybody can be fooled.

I do, however, hope that people will check out the ideas presented in the post.  Natural remedies combined with conventional therapy might present the best of both worlds.  After all, the bark from a specific variety of yew tree is so effective at killing cancer that scientists researched the chemicals/compounds it contains, found a way to produce those chemicals synthetically, and called it Taxol,  This is but one of myriad synthetic medications based on a natural healing agent. How much better can we do than to try to get the natural stuff itself, too,  and blast cancer with EVERY weapon we can find?

Still and always a friend of nature,

Tre

I think we can safely say that we are all friends of nature but we must understand that human beings are PART of nature.  Coming directly from nature of being produced by man - it's all the same source.  As I have said many times before, it is the combination of "all the above" that probably works best. But, we must be carefull in our selection process.  Let's not be quick to put down anyone as we ALL continue to hope and look for the "majic in a bottle" , or, I guess "not in a bottle".  If I go beyond MY experience strength and hope in posting I have the responsibility to assure the validity of what I am posting.  Harm can be done here.  Please be cautious.

 

On 9/10/2008 trehouse60 wrote:

I do apologize for posting if this email was bogus.  I will have to check with the person who passed this along to me. I have in the past verified dozens of their emails and finding their information to be very highly reliable,causing me to put them on my trusted source list.  I guess anybody can be fooled.

I do, however, hope that people will check out the ideas presented in the post.  Natural remedies combined with conventional therapy might present the best of both worlds.  After all, the bark from a specific variety of yew tree is so effective at killing cancer that scientists researched the chemicals/compounds it contains, found a way to produce those chemicals synthetically, and called it Taxol,  This is but one of myriad synthetic medications based on a natural healing agent. How much better can we do than to try to get the natural stuff itself, too,  and blast cancer with EVERY weapon we can find?

Still and always a friend of nature,

Tre

Hi Tre dont apologize for posting the email Im glad you did as it has some good true points, just sad it was bogus. cheers Ray