“Well you see Dr. Altman, I thought you were smarter than that, it goes like this…”

Or

You are more emotional about cancer because you have had personal experience with it. Eventually everyone will be affected. It is the number one killer.

Have you ever seen an adult who acts more like a kid? They often say he hasn’t grown up.

Cancer is a cell that never grows up. Just don’t go and call your goofy uncle “Hey Uncle Cancer”

Normally cells grow up to be bones, skin, eyes, etc… but something happens along their journey. They don’t fall down the stairs and land on their heads like Uncle Cancer. It is far more subtle than that. Here are a few things that damage cells: Viruses, radiation, toxic chemicals (pesticides), injuries, artificial estrogen hormones (they were added to the government’s list of cancer causers), and genetics.

Artificial estrogens can come from birth control pills, hormone replacement, grocery store milk & beef.

Cancer is not a complete mystery. Scientists know a lot about how and why it starts, but it is not completely understood.

Generally, it is thought that you need multiple damages to a cell for it to go crazy and be unresponsive. This is why you don’t get cancer after a drink of grocery store milk or after your first hormone prescription. But, once it goes nuts and stops responding to reason, it can keep growing for 10-20 years before it is noticed. How fast it grows depends on what you feed it.

Cancer loves sugar. Who doesn’t?

Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS has treated more than 500 cancer patients for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

“Of the 4 million cancer patients being treated in America today, hardly any are offered any scientifically guided nutrition therapy beyond being told, “just eat good foods.” Most patients I work with arrive with a complete lack of nutritional advice. I believe many cancer patients would have a major improvement in their outcome if they controlled the supply of cancer’s preferred fuel, glucose. By slowing the cancer’s growth, patients allow their immune systems and medical debulking therapies — chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to reduce the bulk of the tumor mass — to catch up to the disease.”

Sugar Control Makes a Difference

“Controlling one’s blood-glucose levels through diet, supplements, exercise, meditation and prescription drugs when necessary can be one of the most crucial components to a cancer recovery program. The sound bite — sugar feeds cancer — is simple.”-Dr. Quillin

“A female patient in her 50s, with lung cancer, came to our clinic, having been given a death sentence by her Florida oncologist. She was cooperative and understood the connection between nutrition and cancer. She changed her diet considerably, leaving out 90 percent of the sugar she used to eat. She found that wheat bread and oat cereal now had their own wild sweetness, even without added sugar. With appropriately restrained medical therapy — including high-dose radiation targeted to tumor sites and fractionated chemotherapy, a technique that distributes the normal one large weekly chemo dose into a 60-hour infusion lasting days — a good attitude and an optimal nutrition program, she beat her terminal lung cancer. I saw her the other day, five years later and still disease-free, probably looking better than the doctor who told her there was no hope.” -Dr. Quillin

A few other thoughts on cancer prevention

1. Don’t eat conventional meat and dairy. If you don’t have access to organic meat, try and buy the hormone-free meat in the store.

2. Don’t eat products with hydrogenated oils in the ingredients list. No matter what the front of the product says, read the back.

3. Don’t eat added sugar products.

4. Don’t eat bleached or enriched grain products, breads, bagels, muffins, donuts, pastas.

5. Do use fruit as your sweetner if you need something sweet. The fructose in fruit is slowly absorbed by your body and isn’t as hard on your body.

6. Stick to organic whole foods, fruits, veggies, grains, meats, eggs,etc… Pesticides are known cancer causers.

7. There is so much you can do. This will get you a long ways.

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