Cancer - Things You May Not Know - How Our Modern Day Bad Habits May Be Feeding It And How To Stop

This article is broken into two parts. Part I is the history and what lead up to me deciding to write it, and how the information was gathered. This is basically the back story of my mission to research, write, and compile all the data in part II.

Some of you will want to know the back story, others want to get right into the juice of the page- I won't be offended if you skip to part II (honestly if it were me I'd probably skip part I because often I'm not interested in the back story because I'm in a "research" mode and don't have time to get into the niceties of an article- just give me the points.

Part II is the juice, the consolidated and regurgitated data I found via many sources from reading books, magazines, PDF books (online book format), watching countless videos, asking nurses/doctors, and other professionals.

I spent a year researching and developing the information but overall the main gist, the spark struck from the match that lit the fire under my belly- came in the email from John Hopkins a friend showed me- I just elaborated on the points(at first) and supplemented more details and attempted to answer the burning questions the email didn't answer (but eluded to).

This became a quest at some point when I got a reality check that many of the people I came to know and love found out they had cancer! I wanted to both learn how to avoid the same fate, and help them to stop making it worse if remission was at all possible (I don't believe anything is impossible really).

With that Let's get into the introduction and part I (I summarized the intro here if you want to just skip to part II you won't miss anything vital).

I did even deeper research on the topic over the course of a year, even contacting help nurses and cancer treatment centers hoping to get some information and many were helpful.

This is a great way to go, for information, although some hospitals won't help you if your not a member or patient (even if you tell them you have a friend who has cancer- pretty sad that they'd make a policy like that but likely, it's an issue with time availability and patients they can't get to so you may not be a priority- don't take it personal, other hospitals will and can give you some information).

I had friends who were, so they relayed the information to me. You should still take any information you get as just information, as sometimes "opinion" gets in there and isn't always based on (verifiable/substantiated) facts.

The same goes for this article- these statements are not facts, even if they were quoted to me as such, I never just believe something- I do my homework and so should you. My goal here is awareness and giving you plenty of ammunition to start your research (what to look for, ask about, etc...)

I wanted to understand the disease, it's "feeding" sources, and what science has both speculated and confirmed are these sources, to find ways to NOT GET CANCER myself and to help my friends understand that ANYONE can get it, rather proliferate it in their body - rather not let the cells, that are in every human being healthy or not, proliferate to the point of saturation (tumors are millions of cancer cells consolidating and this is very bad). In the end the goal of every human being should be to:
   

• Protect The Immune System At All Costs

• Stay Healthy As That's HOW you protect it

• The one most people miss: DON'T FEED THE CANCER CELLS

Everybody alive and breathing has cancer cells in their body. "Having cancer" is not about "getting" it, its about having those cancer cells already indigenous in your body replicating at a rate that is dangerous.

Cancer cells are formed by crippled cells and free radical (destructive) cells. (a vague explanation)

Some free radicals are born that way (some cells don't even get a first birthday (relative to a cells calendar) before they become forced-villians.

These cells (free radicals) are the product of a few different things, one being carcinogens entering the body (from air, food, or even water) and acting as chemical knives to name just one.

They can't help themselves, they have but one mission in life and that is to find food- an electron (or more) - to make it whole.

I hate to romanticize it but for illustration purposes, it's like a lost soul looking for the woman/man that will make them whole again.

Anything negative that happens is just collateral damage (as far as the cell is concerned). Before that they can't fathom life without it, desperately looking for the fix it needs- figuratively and literally.

Although the free radical cell is bad because it's nature is to kill (other cells to take their electron not for any actual sadistic purpose- the death of the cell it robs the electron from is an unfortunate side effect of it's purpose), it's intention is simply- survival at any cost. it doesn't seek out to harm other cells because it has a mental disorder!

The good news is that it can be fixed and made whole again without destroying your cells in the process- by introducing, simply, what it's after in the first place- that electron. This can be done easily with anything that contains antioxidants, and especially from eating a lot of berries or vitamin C supplements/oranges etc...

By doing this, to use our frontal lobe metaphor- fixing their frontal lobe (so to speak) reverts an otherwise "bad" cell, back into/or converts it into a normal productive member of cell society.

(just in case you don't know, our frontal lobes are the only thing keeping us "rational" and "human" because they are the rationalizing filters of our brain - the part that makes us human and non violent (to the degree that we can control our own rage, rational states, and so on. It's likely the reason we don't just hunt each other for food!

If your struck or in an accident that damages your frontal lobes sufficiently enough, a peaceful lovable person could turn into a mental case- a monster- that can't control his or her actions. You can find a lot of information online about this if your still curious).

This relates to cancer for one good reason-

Free Radicals destroy perfectly good cells and when enough of them break down, damaging the functions of the body or interrupting organs from doing their job due to illness (if enough cells call in sick or dead- it disrupts organ function and distribution of chemicals and vital body nutrients...). Your body's integrated chemical computer systems start to crash and the immune system can't do it's job effectively- leading to cancer proliferating out of control in a worse case scenario.

When this happens the body loses balance and the immune system can't reach areas where it needs to go to stop cancer cell replication and saturation- this is just one way that cancer wins the fight and eventually the war- but it's one of the major sources.

What guarantee do you really have that they are truly organic? Unless you grew them yourself, it's possible your buying into a lie, and even if the store bought them based on someone's inspection- they don't inspect every single plant, apple, orange, and the like- they test a small sample of a "crop".

Don't forget that these "inspectors" are human beings and could possibly have been bought off!
You don't think they can't slip something in post inspection grown somewhere else? So many businesses these days are "doing what it takes" to survive and they aren't above cheating- who'll know the difference right?

I'm not trying to be pessimistic here, I actually think more than not the opposite is true- the organic foods are actually organic- I just want you to be aware that most people base their awareness of if something is organic or not, and what organic means- on trust, on the word of the stores sign.

l always look for the stores like whole foods supermarket that actually have inspections done on their food to "certify" organic based on stringent qualifications.

I'm sure there are situations where it's valid, such as someone with good enough health despite the saturation of cancer cells- that could recover without damaging too many "good" cells.

But why would you radiate (negative radiation) a body to get rid of cancer if the problem is the weak immune system? Now your weakening the immune system further causing the cancer to get a hold of MORE power..

There are new ways now, by the way, to treat cancer that don't involve damaging the immune system in the process.

Cancer cells are very toxic to the body as they feed on you, eating you alive then reproducing Gremlin cells (so to speak).

Cancer doesn't have to take over your entire body to kill you, it just has to take down your immune system and even benign illnesses like a cold or flu will kill you.

It's a horrid death when you really start to see how powerful something as simple as the common cold is to the body and how much we take our immune system for granted!

In the normal healthy states of the body, cancer cells are kept in check by the body's immune system and thus cannot attack the (healthy) body. If they try, its like the thick elephant skin is to an ant's "bite" and the body gets a red flag to destroy the threat.

They sure try but the immune system picks them off when they attack the body in any way. What cancer does is attacks the body in every way from blood cells, white/t-cells and so on. There are as many "types" of cancer as their are different functions in the body!

---- John Hopkins Alert! (what started this article)

This is quoted from an email, unknown author but the information is based on research done at John Hopkins Institute: Very important things to know about cancer:

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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:

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's or sea salt.

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

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.

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 y 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).

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.

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 buildup.

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 an d allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

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.

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

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 the microwave.

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.

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.

---- snip end John Hopkins email

When we don't exercise we don't force enough oxygen into our lungs and ultimately into the blood stream which is like kryptonite to cancer (oxygen kills cancer!)

When we don't eat right we cause cataclysmic problems in our body including overwhelming the body's toxin neutralizing organs the liver, appendix, kidneys, and so forth causing them to spill-over and not filter effectively or at all. These toxins get into the blood stream and mess up the immune system which is like taking down America's military and letting the bad guys roam free to destroy whatever they want ungoverned.

The things we do EVERYDAY that are preventable and based on modern science that are killing us should be stopped such as the saran wrap and Tupperware/plastic containers in the microwave! due to the dioxins!

Lack of education What you don't know CAN kill you/hurt you, the plastic containers in the microwave and the popular freezing water bottles in the summer is proof!

Negative thinking causes stress hormones as well as toxic neuro-peptides to flood the body. The brain generates chemical cocktails for every thought in your head based on your perception of the thoughts meaning. Negative thoughts, depression, anger, etc all generate toxic chemicals/neuro-peptides in the body which can weaken your immune system. Emotions are the end result of those chemicals in your body, emotions are a reaction to the neuro-peptides. Negative thinking can kill you by weakening your body and immune system allowing cancer cells to multiply.

Smoking itself doesn't cause cancer directly but the toxins and carcinogens cause cell mutations that create cancer cells and weaken the immune system making it harder for your body to fight off cancer reproduction. It also floods the body with 1000x the free radicals you'd get in a full day (one cigarette). When cancer cells reproduce to a certain extent they overwhelm the immune systems armies and this can kill you very painfully and slowly.. your literally being eaten alive from the inside.

Feel free to add any links on cancer awareness in the comments box, this is all I have for now. Hope this helps. Pass this info along.

How I Cured My Stage 2 Cancer (you can get his book below):

This segment comes from a commenter on this article:

Good in some ways,but cancer does not actually eat you from the inside out,its a little more complex than that,also its not always caused by the things you have listed,yes all those things do and can cause cancer .

But this is not always the case.

To be very basic,we have a system in our body that when something attacks,the army that is the immune system,has another back up army that actually tells the immune system to get to work.

When people develop cancer that means the back up army is not working it has effectively gone to sleep and so cannot kick the immune system into action.

It likely went to sleep for many of the reasons you say above, it was at first thought that this back up system had died thus causing the immune system to stop working - but it has been discovered that the back up armies are just lying dormant.

There is actually a doctor in Canada that discovered this purely by accident while working on another project.

He found an already known drug used for metabolic disorders in children woke up this dormant army and kicked it back into action fighting the tumour and killing the cancer.

He actually has discovered what could be a very efficient cure fo cancer. He could manafacture this drug cheaply for around a dollar a pop, but he is having a lot of trouble as the huge drug companies do not want to lose there grip on this disease.

Just think how much money they would lose if the chemo and radiation came to an end! Trust me there have been many cures discovered (just look at the books listed on this hub!) but they will never get any further than behind closed doors due to the powerful drug companies blocking mainstream capabilities for a drug that is sold to do it.

The huge drug companies that seem to play a big part in ruling our world will make sure of that,so dont expect an official cure anytime soon.

Anyway the point I was trying to make is,my husband was fit strong and healthy and did none of the above mentioned things that cause cancer, but he got stomach cancer that spread to his esophagus.

He developed this for no other reasons than it was in his genes they determined he would die from this disease. The only cure for him would have been to have his stomach removed way before it developed.

It didnt make the slightest bit of difference that he was the most positive man on the earth, that he ate an organic diet, or that he didnt smoke exercised and was the picture of health.

It was written before he was born and he didnt know ,so could do nothing. Now our 5 children face the dilema of finding out if they to carry the same gene. If they do the only answer is stomach removal while they are still fit.

Yes we should all take responsibility for what we eat and the things we expose ourselves to but sometimes it wouldnt make the slightest difference if its already in your genes.