Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 With all that we have learned since then, we can add a fourth action to the master's list: preventing cancer.
In summary
Unlike black tea, green tea contains large amounts of catechins, compounds that boast many anti-cancer properties.
To maximize the preventive effects afforded by tea, select Japanese green teas, richer in anti-cancer compounds, and allow for an eight-to-ten minute brewing period, which favours an adequate extraction of the catechin molecules. Always drink freshly brewed tea, avoiding Thermoses and trying to space out equally your three daily "cuppas. |
| Overall, these impressions suggest that people are generally fatalistic about the likelihood of preventing cancer, something that appears very unlikely or even impossible to half of them.
Every individual concerned with public health should be worried about the results of these polls and should question himself or herself as to the need of re-examining the communication strategies designed to inform people about the causes of cancer. Why? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This Liquizon line of products includes the company's flagship formulas like Illumination (a combination of eighteen rainforest herbs) and Una de Gato (also known as Cat's Claw, a potent immune modulator and a formula used by many who are either preventing cancer or fighting cancer). Other Liquizon products include Warrior, Sumacazon (based on suma and maca), Recovazon (for recovery from injury or physical exertion), Calmazon (reduces stress, calms the mind and body), Arcozon and others. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| It is often said that moderation is the key to a healthy diet; the same is true for cancer prevention. preventing cancer through diet must be seen as constant, moderate work; it is made possible first and foremost by a decision to make fundamental changes in lifestyle. nutraprevention: fruits and vegetables
Increase consumption
Vary consumption
Choose dishes that are made from several varieties
Eat fruits and vegetables daily
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They refer to it as prevention -- preventing cancer by irradiating your breast, which makes about as much sense as treating diabetes by giving you sugar. How is that prevention? How can that even be classified as medicine?
A mammogram is not a preventative technique; it is a diagnostic technique for detection, and it's not even very effective. Even worse, it causes cancer. That's right: the radiation emitted by these mammogram machines is, all by itself, a significant cause of breast cancer. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Unlike selenomethionine, which is incorporated into protein in place of methionine, SeMC is not incoiporated into any protein, thereby offering a completely bioavailable compound for preventing cancer. Therefore, 200-400 meg of SeMC a day is suggested for cancer patients. Please note that selenium also possesses antioxidant properties, so its use before, during, or immediately after chemotherapy could theoretically inhibit the actions of certain chemothetapy drugs.
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Glutathione balance is very important for the cancer patient. |
| While drinking green tea is a well-documented method of preventing cancer, it is difficult for the cancer patient to obtain a sufficient quantity of anticancer components in that form. Standardized green tea extract is more useful then green tea itself because the dose of EGCG can be precisely monitored and greatet doses can be ingested without excessive intake of liquids. We suggest that a person with breast cancer take 5 capsules of 350-mg lightly caffeinated green tea extract 3 times a day with each meal. Each capsule should provide at least 100 mg of EGCG. |
Walter Last
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 It is most effective for preventing cancer if taken regularly by eating a few bitter seeds of stone fruits (for example, apricot, bitter almond, apple). Other good sources are sprouted seeds, alfalfa, mung beans, millet, and lentils. Professionally, a purified product known as laetrile (now illegal in the U.S.) is used orally or as injections for cancer treatment. To be effective, laetrile must be used in conjunction with cleansing, supplements, and correct diet.
Minerals
Find out what minerals do and if you have increased requirements for them. |
| However, copper is excellent for reducing inflammations, strengthening connective tissue, restoring hair color, fighting parasites, and preventing cancer. Copper should not be used with existing cancers (except topically for skin cancers), as it promotes the formation of new blood vessels in tumors (angiogenesis).
Copper serum levels are elevated with inflammations and many diseases, apparently because the body mobilizes all tissue stores of copper to fight the condition. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Furthermore, this warning has been endorsed (in our 2002 publication in a leading scientific journal) by over 100 leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, besides citizen activist groups. This endorsement was coupled with insistence that the public has an absolute right-to-know of information on avoidable causes of cancer, a democratic right which the agribusiness and FDA continue to subvert.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By staying out of the sun or using sun block and sunscreen every time you're under the sun, you can prevent your body from preventing cancer, thereby giving yourself a much greater risk for cancer with each passing day. If you find it difficult to avoid the sun, just get a night shift job where you work all night and sleep all day. That's a hugely successful pro-cancer strategy.
Another thing you can do is avoid all physical exercise. It turns out that moving your body helps you prevent cancer. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
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| These are the statistics which drive physicians into "preventing cancer" by removing healthy breasts or ovaries. (Less forgivable, as you will learn in the next chapter, is the philosophy of the physician who proposes to make continued doses of estrogen safe by performing hysterectomies on all postmenopausal women, though he grants that the procedure is a little impractical.)
Because important actions of nutrition in preventing cancer have been totally neglected for more than thirty years, this book was written. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The article also exposes the fact that absolutely no research is being done on natural remedies for the treatment of cancer, and absolutely no research is being done on preventing cancer. The big
219 money for these companies is making sure that more people get cancer and more people are brainwashed into buying their outrageously priced ineffective and dangerous drugs.
• USA Today reports that biotech stock prices soar after good cancer drug news. This article points out the fact that publicly traded drug companies have only one goal: to increase profits, which means selling more drugs. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| Researchers have studied the actions of DHEA for over 20 years and have found that it may have beneficial implications in many ateas, such as imptoving immunity; reducing menopausal symptoms; preventing cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and chronic inflammation; imptoving longevity; and aiding weight loss (Kimura et al. 1998; Kurzman et al. 1998; Mutialdo et al. 2000; Leowattana 2001; Cotsini et al. 2002; Polled et al. 2002; Simpson 2002; Takayanagi 2002; Yang et al. 2002). |
| The scientists who authored this study pointed out that while curcumin has demonstrated potent effects in preventing cancer, its use during active chemotherapy is questionable because of its ability to protect cells against the type of molecular damage inflicted by these chemotherapy drugs (Somasundaram et al. 2002). |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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| References
1. Yu H, Rohan T. Role of the insulin-like growth factor family in cancer development and progression. J. Nat. Cancer Inst 2000; 92:1472-1489.
2.Tremble JM, McGregor AM. Epidemiology, complications and mortality. In Treating Acromegaly, ed. Wass JAH. J Endocrinol Ltd, Bristol, U.K. p. 5-12, 1994.
3.Epstein SS. Potential public health hazards of biosynthetic milk hormones. Internat J Health Services 1990;20:73-84.
4.Prosser CG, Fleet IR, Corps AN. Increased secretion of insulin-like growth factor I into milk of cows treated with recombinant derived growth hormone. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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| Gary Posner (Johns Hopkins University) presented the findings before the American Chemical Society, saying the development of a drug with the possibility of preventing cancer represents a historic milestone. It is possible that deltanoids could lessen the need for hormone treatments or aggressive chemotherapy. Patients could theoretically stay on the treatment for the remainder of their life to keep the cancer from advancing. |
| It is not known how effective these newer bisphosphonates will be in preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis, but they are readily available in the United States and covered by most health insurance plans. Prophylactic bisphosphonate therapy is highly tecommended for cancers with a propensity to metastasize to bone, such as prostate and breast cancers. A case can be made that most cancer patients should be on bisphosphonate therapy since any amount of bone breakdown releases growth factors that fuel cancer cell growth. |
Gary Null
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| Now let's find out ways of increasing our odds of staying healthy and preventing cancer. In her article "New Perspectives in the War on Cancer," Helke Ferrie offers the following strategies gleaned from attending conferences, doing interviews with top cancer researchers, and from material published by the World Health Organization.
Avoid Known Cancer-Causing Sources
1. Do not smoke, or tolerate smoking, in your family's presence.
2. Avoid excessive exposure to sunlight and ultraviolet rays.
3. Do not consider breast implants.
4. Do not use dark hair dyes; check out safe alternatives.
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| They also play a role in preventing cancer.
Herbs and Foods
Bromelain. An enzyme product usually derived from pineapple stems. It has been used to treat inflammation in all civilizations that grow pineapples and is used in many alternative medicine cancer protocols.
Chlorella. A freshwater single-celled green algae consisting of 60 percent protein, high levels of chlorophyll and vitamin A, and dozens of other nutrients. It's being researched as both an antiaging supplement and a cancer preventive.
Garlic. This herbal condiment has strong anti-infective properties. |
| Tatman and Mo at the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at Texas Woman's University concur with numerous researchers who report the beneficial association of fruits, vegetables, and plants in preventing cancer. Their research was focused on what part of the plant was the most active in this regard. They concluded that iso-prenoids, a broad class of plant chemicals found everywhere in the plant kingdom, suppress the growth and spread of tumor cells and the growth of implanted tumors. |
Steven G. Pratt, M.D. and Kathy Matthews
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 ORANGES AND CANCER
Recent news from researchers has demonstrated that oranges can play a significant role in preventing cancer. We know, for example, that the Mediterranean diet, which includes a considerable amount of citrus, is associated with a low incidence of cancers of the breast, lung, pancreas, colon, rectum, and cervix. Indeed, citrus fruits have been found to contain numerous known anticancer agents—possibly more than any other food. The National Cancer Institute calls oranges a complete package of every natural anticancer inhibitor known. |
| We know that vitamin C plays a role in preventing cancer and broccoli, and many other crucifers are rich in this particular antioxidant vitamin. One cup of cooked broccoli contains more than 100 percent of the adult male/female RDA (recommended daily allowance) for vitamin C and 27 percent of my recommended daily dietary beta-carotene goal. Broccoli is also rich in fiber, which plays an important role in reducing cancer risk.
The sulforaphane in broccoli has been shown to be effective against Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that is a common cause of gastric ulcers as well as gastric cancer. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 Dual Benefits for DNA
Rhodiola rosea not only reduces cellular free radical damage, it also appears to improve DNA repair, another factor in preventing cancer. Breaks in DNA strands are actually quite common and usually harmless. But trouble can occur during the repair process, when errors (mutations) in the patched-up DNA can replicate and generate more cancer cells.
After a DNA strand splits, the gap between the two sides widens, just like a tear in your favorite sweater. Ideally, the gap will knit back together without disruption in the DNA pattern. |
Prevention Magazine
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 There are substances in this herb that can help calm your stomach and even, researchers believe, play a role in preventing cancer.
Keeping (ells Healthy
The research is still preliminary, but laboratory studies suggest that compounds found in basil may help disrupt the dangerous chain of events that can lead to the development of cancer.
In one study, researchers in India spiked the food of a group of laboratory animals with basil extract, while animals in a second group were given only their usual diet. |
Jean Carper
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 Cabbage's main claim to fame currently is its potential for preventing cancer, notably of the colon.
CABBAGE SAVES IRRADIATED RATS
The first modern scientific clues came in 1931; a German scientist experimenting with deadly radiation discovered that rabbits survived an otherwise lethal dose of radiation if they ate cabbage leaves prior to exposure. French scientists in 1950 found the same thing. |
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 Although a few studies have found fiber ineffective in preventing cancer, many experts still recommend eating plenty of high-fiber foods.
Avocado's arsenal of powerful antioxidants — glutathione and vitamin C — also help fight cancer by neutralizing harmful free radicals that can damage your cells. Glutathione may ward off oral and throat cancers, and vitamin C has been linked to lower rates of oral, breast, lung, stomach, and cervical cancers.
And don't forget about beta-sitosterol and folate. They may protect you from colon and breast cancer, too. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 Vitamin E complex is important in stabilizing cell membranes; protecting cells and tissues such as lungs, skin, eyes, liver, muscles, kidneys, and heart from free radical damage and damage from pollutants; helping to regulate the use and storage of vitamin A; protecting red blood cells from damage; and preventing cancer.
Vitamin E in foods, once separated from its whole complex, is not stable when stored. To improve its stability or shelf life and thus make it commercially viable, drug companies esterify it, a chemical conversion to protect the vitamin from deterioration. |
Jean Carper
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| Terry Lawson, University of Nebraska Medical Center, small doses of capsaicin actually act as antioxidants to block cell damage, possibly preventing cancer. It's not unusual, he notes, for high doses and low doses of the same chemical to have opposite effects in combating cancer.
COFFEE
POSSIBLE THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS:
¦ Improves mental performance
¦ Relieves asthma (bronchodilator)
¦ Relieves hay fever
¦ Boosts physical energy
¦ Prevents cavities
¦ Contains chemicals that block cancer in animals
¦ Elevates your mood
How Much? |
Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D.
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 They also point to the rigorous task assigned to beta-carotene: that of preventing cancer in heavy smokers for the relatively short duration of the trials themselves —a few years, rather than the decades during which the subjects had been smoking. The truth is that all studies of beta-carotene in foods have shown it to have pronounced cancer-protective and immune-enhancing characteristics. This suggests that we need to unlock the potential of the carotenoids and other phy-tonutrients. |
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