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CANCER
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Vitamin D Prevents Breast Cancer
(NaturalNews) You've heard the good news about vitamin D for years: It's a "miracle" medicine that reduces cancer rates by 77% according to important research. It also happens to be a powerful anti-cancer medicine that can both prevent and reverse breast cancer.
Here is a compilation of expert quotations on vitamin D and breast cancer, cited from some of the most authoritative books and authors in the world. Feel free to share what you learn here with others who may benefit from this information.
"Sunlight triggers the formation of vitamin D in the skin, which can be activated in the liver and kidneys into a hormone with great activity. This activated form of vitamin D causes 'cellular differentiation'--essentially the opposite of cancer. The following evidence indicates that vitamin D might have a protective role against breast cancer: synthetic vitamin D-like molecules have prevented the equivalent of breast cancer in animals. --The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions, by Alan R. Gaby, MD, Johathan V. Wright, MD, etc.
"Two equally effective sources of vitamin D in humans are derived from plant ergosterol, which is converted to ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) and cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) by the action of sunlight on the skin. The body uses vitamin D3 for normal immune system function, to control cellular growth, and to absorb calcium from the digestive trace. Vitamin D3 can inhibit the growth of malignant melanoma, breast cancer, leukemuia, and mammary tumors in laboratory animals. Vitamin D3 can also inhibit angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels that permit the spread of cancer cells through the body." --Permanent Remissions, by Robert Hass, MS.
"There's surprising new evidence that older women who skimp on foods rich in vitamin D are more likely to develop breast cancer, according to Frank Garland, Ph.D, of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the University of California at San Diego...Specifically, Dr. Garland finds that dietary vitamin D wards off postmenopausal breast cancer in women...." --Food Your Miracle Medicine, by Jean Carper.
"In animals fed a high fat diet, which normally would produce a higher incidence of colon cancer, supplements of calcium and vitamin D blocked this carcinogenic effect of the diet. Vitamin D inhibits the growth of breast cancer in culture, and also seems to subdue human breast cancer. Cells from human prostate cancer were put into a '...permanent nonproliferative state', or shut down the cancer process, by the addition of vitamin D. Human cancer cells have been shown to have receptor sites, or stereo specific 'parking spaces' for vitamin D." --Beating Cancer with Nutrition by Patrick Quillin.
"Even though vitamin D is one of the most powerful healing chemicals in your body, your body makes it absolutely free. No prescription required. Diseases and conditions caused by vitamin D deficiency: Osteoporosis is commonly caused by a lack of vitamin D, which impairs calcium absorption. Sufficient vitamin D prevents prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, depression, colon cancer, and schizophrenia. 'Rickets' is the name of a bone-wasting disease caused by vitamin D deficiency. --Natuiral Health Solutions, by Mike Adams.
"George's Hospital Medical School in London finds local production of vitamin D in breast tissue reduces the risk for breast cancer. For women with low breast tissue levels of vitamin D the risk for breast cancer rose by 354%! ...The provision of 400 IU of vitamin D per day has been found to reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by 43%." --You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Any More by Bill Sardi.
"Taken together, these facts suggest that vitamin D and its derivatives may play a role in regulating the expression of genes and protein products that prevent and inhibit breast cancer. The cancer-stopping power of vitamin D has been documented in osteosarcoma (bone cancer), melanoma, colon cancer, and breast cancer. These cancer cells contain vitamin-D receptors that make them susceptible to the anticancer effects of this vitamin-hormone made by the skin when it is exposed to sunlight." --Permanent Remissions by Robert Hass, MS.
"Nature is God's physician. The pure air, the glad sunshine, the beautiful flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards, and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings, are health-giving--the elixir of life. Outdoor life is the only medicine that many invalids need. Its influence is powerful to heal sickness caused by fashionable life, a life that weakens and destroys the physical, mental, and spiritual powers." --Ellen White, Counsels on Health.
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Re: CANCER
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CANCER
Every day many North Americans and many Seventh-day Adventists knowingly or unknowingly choose to eat foods that contribute heavily to their risk of cancer. Several million are diagnosed with cancer each year and with an ever rising death toll. More and more medical practitioners are now stressing the importance of eating a plant based diet in order to reduce the risk of contracting this cruel malady. Indeed there is a strong link between excess protein in the diet and cancer.
Harvard University's Mark Hegstead, speaking to the Federal Trade Commission said; "I think it is clear that the American (and Canadian) diet is indited as a cause of coronary heart disease. And it is pertinent, I think to point out the same diet is now found [guilty] in terms of many forms of cancer--breast, colon and others.... --Diet for a New America, by John Robbins.
In a study of more than 11,000 people, vegetarians were found to have a 40% less chance of contracting cancer than people who ate meat. --Britist Medical Journal, 1994, v. 308, pp. 1667-71.
Studies comparing vegetarian and non-vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist report 50% less cancer overall in the vegetarian group. -- EarthSave, Winter, 1996/7, vol. 7, No. 4.
Colon Cancer
Cancer of the large intestine, including the colon and rectum--also known as bowel cancer, cancer of the gut and colo/rectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in North America. Astonishing research on humans shows that meat and animal fat are energetic promoters of this form of cancer. Study after study shows that around the world, people who eat more fat, especially saturated animal fat have much more colon cancer. Other studies show that red meat, regardless of the fat, is even more hazardous than its fat alone.
Walter Willet, MD, of the Harvard School of Public Health, directed a 6-year study of 90,000 women. He found that no amount of red meat is safe when colon cancer is involved. Those eating red meat as infrequently as once a week or once a month were still 40% more apt to get cancer of the colon than those eating it less than once a month. Dr. Willett warns, "If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. --New York Times, December 13, 1990.
There is not a single population in the world with a high meat intake which does not have a high rate of colon cancer. The incidence of colon cancer among the beef-eating cultures of the Western world are ten times more than the rate of non-beef eating cultures of Asia and the developing world, according to Dr. Willett.
Norwegian men who ate the most processed meat had the highest rates of colon cancer. A 14-year follow-up study of Swedish men found that meat (beef and lamb) was the only food linked to higher rates of colon cancer. --Food Your Miracle Medicine, by Jean Carper. In other studies, cheese was shown to be a risk factor for this fotrm of cancer. --The Journal of Health and Healing, Vol. 20, Nol 2, p. 29.
(To be continued,
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Protective Factors
* In a study of nearly 1,000 Californians, those who ate soy products in some form at least once a week had half the risk of developing the polyps that are precursors to colon cancer compared with the people who didn't eat soy products. The same study showed that people who ate garlic 3 or more times a week had one third less risk of developing these precancerous colon growths than those not eating any garlic. --American Journal of Epidemiology, Dec. 1, 1996.
* According to a group of cancer experts writing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, fiber in the diet has the astonishing potential to prevent colon cancer on a grand scale. While wheat bran leads the list of fiber-rich foods that work wonders in this regard, fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts are also listed as specifics in warding off this killer. All these foods contain a plethora of natural anticancer nutrients (antioxidants, etc.) in addition to the fiber. Jean Carper, Food--Your Miracle Medicine.
More on Breast Cancer
This form of cancer is rising at an alarming rate in the western world. While early detection--mammograms and self exams--are important and have their place, the watchword should be prevention and this involves lifestyle and diet. Women must learn that they are in control and that there is something they can and must do to prevent this killer.
* T. Colin Campbell, a professor in the division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, and the senior advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research, decries the high protein, high fat meat diet of the Western World: There is "...a strong correlation between dietary protein intake and cancer of the breast, pancreas and colon. --Food Monitor, May/June 1993, p. 24.
* Similar findings were reported by Dr. Takeshi Hirayama, of the National Cancer Research Institute in Tokyo. He warns that those who consume meat daily face an almost 4 times greater risk of getting breast cancer than those eating little or no meat. Similarly, the more eggs, butter and cheese consumed, the greater the risk of breast cancer. --John Robbins, Diet for a New America.
* Obese women who ate a lot of animal fat and protein had the highest risk of breast cancer, according to a study done in Hawaii. Researchers found the most significant association between breast cancer and eating sausage. The risk was likewise higher for obese women who generally ate a lot of meat, including processed cold cuts, beef, lamb, and whole milk dairy products. --Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, May-June 1992.
* A study from Uruguay, South America, where people eat lots of meat, found that women who ate the most meat had over 3 times the risk of breast cancer as those eating the least. Women eating the most red meat had 4 times the risk. And fried meat was the absolute worst--the top consumers had 5 times the risk of this form of cancer. --International Journal of Cancer, January 26, 1996.
* Research done by Barbara Pence, Ph.D., of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, showed that frying and broiling meat to well done is especially dangerous. This method of cooking produces cancer-causing substances called heterocyclic amines, which occur even in poultry and fish. --Prevention, Sept. 1996.
* Other studies show that cheese was associated with a 43% increase of breast cancer. Indeed, S.D.A. vegetarian women who eat lots of dairy products have about the same rate of this cancer as do Americans in general. The fat in these products, as well as various estrogens, and other chemical contaminants and growth-promoting substances are suspected villains. --Good Medicine, Winter 1997, Vol. 6, No. 1.
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Other Risk Factors for breast cancer.
* An important study by the Harvard School of Public Health showed a 50% increase in the risk of breast cancer among women who drank as little as one (1) 8-ounce glass of wine each day, and a 70% increase amont those who had 2 glasses. --Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1993.
* In another study, researchers at the National Cancer Institute reported a 50% higher risk for women who drink any alcohol at all and as much as a 100% increase in risk for those who had 3 drinks or more per week. --Time, May 18 1987.
* A 1993 report (Dr. Stephen Seely and Dr. D. Horrobin, New Scientist, March 10, 1993) showed a striking cortelation between an excess of dietary sugar and breast cancer. Other studies chronicled in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1973, 1977) and the Journal of Nutrition (1992) point out sugars' immune system depression function. --Let's Live, March 1994, p. 28.
* Several studies have linked long-term constipation with an increased likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer. (Meat diets tend to be constipating).
* Cigarette smoking also increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. In an analysis of 600,000 women Eugenia Calle, Ph.D., of the American Cancer Society, found that the risk is increased with the number of cigarettes smoked. Dr. Nicholas Petrakis, found in studies that nicotine and cotinine ( a nicotine metabolite), build up and concentrate in the breasts of women smokers. The smoking of only one cigarette was enough to initiate the process. And in other studies, it was shown that those exposed to secondhand smoke tripled their risk of breast cancer.
* Overeating, pesticides, household chemicals, hair dyes, negative emotions, all have a deleterious effect on breast health. Indeed, according to dietitian Jan Hankin, Ph.D., R.D., "breast cancer is perhaps the end-product of a lifetime of insults to the system. Diet may well make the difference between promotion or prevention of the disease."
Preventive Factors
* Study after study indicates the ultra diet for healthy breast is one that includes plenty of antioxidant rich fresh fruits and veggies. While all fruits and veggies are superstars in preventing disease, some deserve top billing against breast cancer. Deeply colored fruits and vegetables--green, yellow, orange and red and purple--with their rich stores of beta and other carotenes, folate and phytochemicals are especially protective. Compounds in oranges, grapefruit and tangerines can help stop breast cancer growth. -- Nutrition and Cancer, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1996. Nor should the crucifer family be overlooked--cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. High fiber whole grains should be included as well as soy products, chickpeas, lentils, limas and the many varieties of other beans. "If we halve our fat consumption and double our fiber intake, you could predict up to 50% less breast cance in this country," according to Leonard Cohen, Ph.D., cell biologist at the Amrican Health Foundation in New York. --Prevention, May 1992, p. 38.
* Many studies have shown that the antioxidant vitamins and minerals--including vitamins A, C, E and selenium--are most clearly identified with breast cancer protection. These nutrients as founed in fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and supplements, protect the body against harmful free radicals that attack cell membranes and damage DNA. Women with low selenium and vitamin E levels (they work best togethetr) had a 10 times greater risk of developing breast cancer. --Let's Live, February 1991, p. 52.
* Nobel laureate, Linus Pauling's research showed that patients with cancers of the breast, ovaries, uterus and cervix had a life expectancy 20 times longer when they took vitamins and minerals. --Let's Live, March 1994, p. 20.
Coenzyime Q10, a vitamin-like substance with antioxidant properties, involved in energy metabolism, is likewise beneficial in protecting the breast.
* Breast cancer is essentially a dietary disease, just as lung cancer is essentially a smoking-related disease," says Robert Kradjian, M.D., a breast surgeon for nearly 30 years and author of Save Yourself From Breast Cancer. "If you want to avoid breast cancer, then learn to live like billions of women on this earth who will avoid the disease. Eat as the women in protected countries do--a diet high in protective vegetables, fruits and fiber--a plant based diet." --EarthSave, Winter 1996/7, Vol. 7, No. 4.
* Physical activity (exercise) rounds out a complete program of breast cancer prevention. Women who exercise at least 4 hours a week or have physically demanding jobs, have a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer according to many studies. Indeed physically active women fare better in avoiding various cancers.
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PROSTATE CANCER
Medical authorities decrying the fact that this cancer has reached epidemic levels in North America, do not have a really satisfactory treatment for it. However, there is much that can be done on a preventive basis. And what could this be? You guessed it--a low-fat vegetarian diet. Consider the following:
* Prostate cancer is less frequent in men whose diets are lower in fats and protein and richer in a variety of vegetables. Medical scientists at our own Loma Linda University found that male SDAs who ate lots of fatty foods like meat, cheese and eggs were 3.6 times more likely to contract fatal prostate cancer than Adventist vegetarians. --Prevention, April 1986, p. 77.
* Men in general, whose diets are rich in animal fats and particularly fats from red meat, have nearly an 80% greater risk of developing potentially fatal prostate cancer than do men with the lowest intake of such fare. Also at risk were men who ate large amounts of mayonnaise, creamy salad dressing and butter. --Journal of the National Cancer institute, Oct. 6, 1993.
* Other studies of prostate cancer patients show a high intake of fats, milk, meats and coffee. --Eustace Mullins, Murder by Injection, p. 216. Indeed, Richard E. Berger, M.D., director of the Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, lists alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, coffee (with caffeine or without), as prostate irritants. --Let's Live, July 1991, p. 20. Strong spices are likewise irritating.
Protective Factors
This fragile organ greatly benefits from the support offered by a low-fat, plant-based diet.
* Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and fiber rich beans, whole grains and bran are good health insurance supplying vitamins A, C, E and other antioxidant nuitrients so cruicial for cancer protection.
* A group of Harvard researchers found that locopene, which gives tomatoes their red color reduced the risk of prostate cancer by almost 50% in men who ate at least 10 servings a week of tomato-based foods. --Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dec. 6, 1995. Lycopene, an antioxidant closely related to beta carotene and also found in watermelon, strawberries, red cabbage, pomegranates and other red fruits and veggies, joins other carotenes in providing protection from free radical cellulaar damage, enhanding immune function and regulating cell differentiation and cell proliferation. --The Journal of Health and Healing, vol. 17, No. 1, p. 5.
* Tofu and its soy cousins--soy milk, soy flour, etc.--offers important protection against prostate cancer. This "wonder food" contains pytochemicals, antioxidants and other compounds that directly inhibit the growth of cancerous cells. --Lancet, Nov. 13, 1993.
* Raw seeds and nuts, most notably pumpkin, squash, sunflower and sesame seeds and almonds are specifics for prostate health. Pumpkin seeds are especially rich in zinc, the quintessential prostate mineral. This nutrient has a well-established rols in maintaining prostate function and well being.
* The herbal kingdom, too, offers help for the prostate. Saw palmetto berries, shown to be effective as a prostate healer in modern scientific studies, have been used to help ailing prostates since the 1800s. Studies have shown that this herb is more effective and less expensive than Proscar, the standard prescription drug used in treating an enlarged prostate. Other herbs for prostate health include pygeum, stinging nettles, juniper berries, ginseng, kelp, echinacea aned birch leaf.
* Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of prostate cancer and the more exercise, the greater the reduction. Researchers at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas found that men who exercised the most were most likely to be free of this cancer. --Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Jan. 1996.
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PANCREATIC CANCER
This merciless killer is one of the fastest and least treatable of the cancer killers,--the diagnosis of which is tantamount to a death sentence. A diet that prevents this devastating form of cancer is imperative. Indeed much persuasive evidence is available showing that a correct diet can prevent it from developing. Consider this:
* A National Cancer Institute study found that a group of Cajuns in Louisiana who ate the most pork (mainly bacon, ham, sausage, cold cuts and unprocessed fresh pork), had the highest pancreatic cancer rates in the country. Other studies show that fried or grilled meat, along with smoked and cured pork products, raise chances of this cancer. A study in Japan found that eating meat at least once a day boosted the risk of pancreatic cancer by 50%. A Los Angeles study showed that those who ate beef 5 times a week had twice the rate of this cancer. While the meat itself, appears to be the villain, the accompanying fat factor is also involved. This cancer is greatest among populations eating the most fat. In addition animals fed lots of fat often show damaged pancreatic cells.
* A 1981 Harvard study found a link between coffee drinking and cancer of this key gland so necessary for digestion and metabolism. --Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 1988.
Preventive/Protective Factors
* Study after study strikingly confirms that fresh fruit is a formidable deterrent to pancreatic cancer. Swedish researchers found that citrus fruits, eaten daily cut the risk of this cancer by one-half to two-thirds. An SDA study showed that even dried fruit was protective, as were fresh citrus fruits, tomatoes and legumes. Other studies show twice-a-day fruit eaters (bananas, oranges, strawberries, apples, canned fruits and orange juice) were protective against this killer--the more fruit, the lower the risk. --Jean Carper, Food--Your Miracle Medicine.
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OVARIAN, UTERINE, CERVICAL CANCER
* Cancers of the breast, uterus, kidney and colon appear to be closely related to the consumption of total protein and total fat, especially meats and saturated fats. --Let's Live, March 1994.
* Studies have shown that vegetarians fare better in avoiding these cancers. Dr. Ronald Phillips concluded a report in Cancer Research by showing overwhelming evidence that a non-meat, vegetarian diet strongly reduces the incidence of breast, uterine, ovarian, colon and many other cancers. --John Robbins, Diet for a New America.
* Folate (folic acid), as found in leafy greens, asparagus, dried beans, etc. can stop the virus that leads to cervical cancer, according to research done at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. --Jean Carper, Food--Your Miracle Medicine.
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VITAMIN D DOUBLES COLON CANCER SURVIVAL RATES
Higher blood levels of Vitamin D may double survival rates of colorectal cancer patients, acording to a new study. People with the highest average levels of vitamin D had a cancer-specific mortality half that of those with the lowest average levels. Then too, high levels of the vitamin were associated with an overall mortality level 40% lower than people with the lowest average levels.
Knowledge of the link between vitamin D intake and protection from cancer dates from the 1940s, when Frank Apperly demonstrated a link between latitude and deaths from cancer, and suggested that sunshine gave a "a relative cancer immunity". --British Journal of Cancer, Sept. 15, 2009; Nutralngredients, Sept. 23, 2009.
Comment: Medical scientists are learning that many different cancers can be completely prevented when various lifestyle changes are addressed, and vitamin D plays an intergral part here.
Worth repeating! - "Nature is God's physician. The pure air, the glad sunshine, the beautiful flowers and trees, the orchards and vineyards, and outdoor exercise amid these surroundings are health giving--the elixir of life.... Life in the open air is good for body and mind. It is God's medicine for the restoration of health....True religion and the laws of health go hand in hand." --Ellen White, My Life Today, p. 135.
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More Good News About Vitamin D
In one recent study, people with colon cancer who had the highest average levels of vitamin D had half the mortality rate of those with the lowest average levels, indicating that optimizing your vitamin D levels can improve your survival rate even if you already have the disease.
These findings add to a veritable mountain of studies that have found vitamin D to generate astounding powers of protection against a wide variety of cancers. Indeed, there are well over 800 studies showing vitamin D's effectiveness for cancer prevention and treatment.
One 2003 study in JAMA showed that men who consumed higher amounts of vitamin D significantly reduced their risk of developing colon cancer. Another study back in 1989 studied over 25,000 people for 8 years and discovered that people with higher vitamin D levels reduced their risk of colon cancer by a whopping 80%.
To optimize our vitamin D levels is a simple, inexpensive strategy which can prevent countless chronic ailments and deadly maladies.
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Cancer Doctors Begin Prescribing Vitamin D as part of Cancer Therapy
Resounding evidence proving the effectiveness of vitamin D in slowing the onset of breast, colon, and other cancers is convincing a growing body of doctors and physicians to utilize the sunshine vitamin in their arsenal of cancer treatment weapons.
In the last several years, numerous epidemiological studies have illustrated the correlation between vitamin D deficiency and serious disease, including cancer. Researchers are now focusing attention on elevated levels of "therapeutic" vitamin D, far above the government's daily recommended amounts, for use in disease treatment and prevention.
Oncologist Tracey O'Connor from the Rosewell Park Cancer Institute in Buiffalo has stated that she is now having all her patients supplement with vitamin D. Since vitamin D carries no risk unless taken at enormously high amounts above and beyoned what any normal person would ingest, it can only benefit those who are already healthy by preventing disease, as well as those who are sick.
Recent studies have also shown that the general public is grossly deficient in vitamin D. Those with debilitating diseases have been found to be the most deficient, indicating a clear correlation between deficiency and the onset of disease. O'Connor pointed out that among women with breast cancer, about, 80% of them are vitamin D-deficient.
Current research is suggesting that healthy doses of vitamin D require a several-thousand IU daily intake rather than the two- to six-hundred IU dose that has typically been recommended. While these lower levels may prevent rickets, they do little or nothing to prevent the development of many common ailments that have become prevalent in modern society.
Natural sunlight is the best way to obtain vitamin D thoughout the warm months of the year. The precursor to vitamin D, ultraviolet light from the sun is absorbed into the skin where it is converted into this life-giving vitamin. The body knows when it has received enough for the day and shuts off production at the proper time, eliminating the risk of generating too much.
Vitamin D3 is the next best option as it is a natural plant form of vitamin D that is readily absorbed by the body. Advocacy groups and physicians recommend anywhere from 1,000 to 50,000 IU a day of vitamin D3 depending upon a person's condition. Healthy individuals typically do well taking between 2,000 and 10,000 IU a day while someone with cancer might be prescribed as much as 50,000 IU a day as part of a cancer treatment plan. --E. Huiff, staff writer, NaturalNews.com
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