NYC may ban hydrogenated oils in restaurants

Wow an amazing trend that I hope continues! Read about it here .

So far it's been difficult for me to consider eating out since most food in restaurants because they use flavor enhancers (MSG) and hydrogenated oils and way too much sugar in any sauce. If this trend continues I will have an easier time eating out that is for sure. Right now I stick to plain broiled or baked meats - no sauces and a vegetable.. not even rice. That I feel is the safest thing to eat at a restaurant. However, I have cut WAY down on animal fats at all so I really don't have much else to eat in a restaurant in that case except a salad but the dressings they might provide will have sugar and hydrogenated fat.

I know some of you reading this might think - what's ONE meal with that stuff once in a while? Well I am not interested in letting my guard down even for ONE meal. It's a bit of work to think about everything that I eat compared to the mindless and carefree eating I did before but I think that is worth the trouble to have superior quality of life, which is what I get from avoiding the toxic crap in food.

Conventional Medicine: Public Enemy No 1

Found this article by Mike Adams that I think succinctly illustrates the imbalance that is going on in conventional medicine today. I think it's the last writhing gasps of a dying system and I am only too happy to help hasten it's demise...

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So let me get this straight. In the United States today, if you don't submit to the harmful drugs and surgery of conventional medicine, you will be:

1. Condemned as a criminal.
2. Have your child stolen from you.
3. Be hunted down by armed cops if you try to rescue your child.
4. Receive a bill from the hospital for medical services you refused to authorize.
5. Be sued by collections organizations and have your credit ruined if you refuse to pay the bill.

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And the irony in all of this? If the woman had been uninsured, I believe the hospital would have thrown the baby out on the street. No insurance = case closed. Uninsured people who desperately need (and want) treatment are denied treatment every day by conventional medical hospitals and clinics. So why is supposedly saving the life of this one infant suddenly so important when saving the lives of all those other uninsured people isn't?

The answer is obvious: The woman has health insurance. And that baby is the hospital's lifeline to big payouts. Call me cynical, but I actually understand what modern medicine is all about: Profit. It's not about health, it's about Ka-Ching!

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It's the doctor's who think they are God who are causing these problems. They think we are a bunch of idiots who don't know any better and only THEY know what is best for us and it is THEIR surgery or THEIR drugs. We have come a LONG way from the Hippocratic oath when you consider one of the basics of that oath is "First Do No Harm". And just to clarify - it is very harmful to threaten parents to take their kids from them. It is very harmful to give toxic drugs to patients. It is very harmful to dose them with radiation when everyone knows radiation can cause cancer. The ends do NOT justify the means, especially when the ends are from skewed statistics that favor what they want us to think.

For example, they always site the recurrence rate for cancers after treatment. If you get a NEW cancer from the TREATMENT, that doesn't count as a "recurrence". What a bunch of BULLSHIT. So when your doctor cites the "success rate" of conventional cancer treatments, consider how they are coming up with the statistics they are quoting. They are SERIOUSLY flawed. Talk to your friends and relatives who have had cancer treatment and after their fourth bout with cancer, ask them about their "treatment" and see what they think - that is if they are still around to ask.

Demand better food with your dollars

Consumers can influence how food is produced by refusing to buy the convenience crap and turning to the more natural products. Here is an example of the dairy farmers starting to realize that they need to respond to consumer demand for milk without hormones.

So each week, when you buy your groceries, you either support food that is made with toxic chemicals by choosing those foods or you send a message to food manufacturers that you won't spend your money on their toxic crap. They WILL get the message and they WILL have to change to stay in business if enough people reject what they are selling us.

A lot of people shy away from organic because it costs so much more. I wonder if they consider the cost of their medical bills down the road by NOT choosing organic, healthier food. Contrary to what the FDA and other institutions tell us, the chemicals they add to our food are NOT safe for us and that is especially true for children who tend to consume more convenience foods, EVEN AT SCHOOL which is a CRIME. More and more schools are starting to respond to the demand by parents for healthier food and elimination of junk food vending machines in schools which should NEVER have happened in the first place.

Zeolite for Detoxification of Heavy Metals

Earlier this week I came upon an article about Zeolite that really piqued my interest. I have been reading the book Hundred Year Lie and it is quite fascinating and alarming at the same time because it makes me realize how toxic our environment has become.

So I found a source for Natural Cellular Defense or Zeolite and decided to also become a distributor at the same time for the Waiora product line. That link goes to my own Waiora store front. I really liked their setup and I can get the Natural Cellular Defense at a little bit of a discount by becoming a distributor and I think the products they have are of good quality.

For example they have capsules that are gelatin free. Gelatin is made from some nasty stuff and I really wanted to avoid whenever possible. I have seen articles that suggest mad cow disease could be passed through gelatin derived from animal products. So I try to get tablets or vegetable gelatin vs regular gelatin capsules for my supplements when I can.

So what exactly is Zeolite? Here is a summary from Dr Gabriel Cousens of what it can do:

1. Zeolite appears to prevent and may become an important treatment for cancer. In one study, 78 percent of the 65 participants with terminal cancer (many types) are now in complete remission for 12 months (LifeLink Pharmaceuticals, 2005, currently not published).
2. It has a chelation-like effect in removing heavy metals (particularly lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic), pesticides, herbicides, PCBs, and other toxins from the body, shown in a study of miners at Duke University. These toxins are strongly correlated with the occurrence of a wide range of diseases, including cancers and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, autism, and dementia.
3. Zeolite also improves liver function, indirectly improving elimination of pesticides, herbicides, and xeno-estrogens.
4. Zeolite appears to block viral replication, and may prove to be a potent anti-viral and general remedy for all viruses. To date, 40 anecdotal cases of herpes zoster have reportedly been healed. Preliminary anecdotal case studies suggest that it may help alleviate rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and hepatitis C as well as the common cold and flu.
5. Zeolite’s binding power was proven during the Chernobyl disaster, when tons of it were used to remove radioactive cesium and strontium-90 before they contaminated local water systems.
6. Zeolite creates a natural buffer in the system by establishing an optimal pH level (between 7.35 and 7.45), which in turn activates healthy brain function and a strong immune system.
7. It is an effective detoxifier for prospective mothers and fathers. Anecdotal evidence and centuries of use in Asia suggest that zeolite is safe to use even during pregnancy and breastfeeding, although its safe use in pregnancy has not been proven in double-blind studies.

New breast screening technology being tested

Researchers Using New Technology For Breast Cancer Testing

A potential new tool for detecting breast cancer is being tested at the University of California, San Diego.

With the new SoftScan technology, a woman’s breasts actually float comfortably in a warm solution without being squeezed while the imaging takes place."

It's basically a laser than shines through the breast that scans through the breast," said Comstock.

SoftScan is an optical scanner that uses a certain frequency of light to scan through the breast to detect areas of increased blood flow that might be a maker for breast cancer."Cancers have potentially more vascular hemoglobin. They may scatter light differently and they may have different oxygenation levels," said Comstock

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What I like about this screening tool is it does not involve radioactive injection, irradiating the breasts or traumatizing the breasts as in mammograms, which could actually cause inflammation and lead to new tumors, or could even burst the "tumor capsule" and start the metastasis process.

Between new blood tests and this screening tool, we will be so much better off for screening for breast cancer than we have been for the last 50 years.

Yet another reason to go organic

Company: Organic Spinach not to Blame
Company whose spinach is linked to E. coli outbreak says its organic products cleared

Natural Selection Foods LLC, the country's largest grower of organic produce, said late Sunday that manufacturing codes from packages of spinach that infected patients turned over to health officials all were from non-organic spinach. Natural Selection packages both organic and conventionally grown spinach in separate areas at its San Juan Bautista plant.

Wonderful new trend in hospital food

Hospitals go organic for patients' sake

This is the best news I've heard in a long time and I think it's the beginning of a health revolution that will finally promote health through wholesome foods EVEN AT THE HOSPITALS!

The article can be found here. .. and here are some excerpts:

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Good Shepherd is one of many hospitals across the nation offering food that's healthier for patients, workers and the environment.

"What we are trying to do is provide not just our patients, but everybody that eats here, with foods that are health promoting," said Nancy Gummer, director of nutrition services at Good Shepherd.

The hospital no longer needs to modify each meal for a patient's sodium or fat restrictions. Instead it serves healthy food to everyone. In just one year, Gummer has been able to rid the hospital of all trans fats and major additives.

Our bodies are "bombarded with this stuff all the time," Gummer said. "All our ingredients are actually food."

Excellent resource for information about toxic products

With this one link to Environmental Working Group's site, you can arm yourself with TONS of information about what products you use every day are safe and which ones are TOXIC.

I have started checking many of the products I have relied on in their database and will be starting to move toward the safer alternatives.

Yet another EXCELLENT book

I received my copy of The Hundred Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald today and sat down to read it immediately.

I am BLOWN away by what I have read so far. If you buy any book this year to augment any kind of health strategy you must buy this one to start with. It will frighten you, wake you up and prompt you to take control of your own body ecology and learn how to avoid the toxins we are all assaulted with on a daily basis - at least what we can control.

We have been sold a stack of LIES by many who control our environment, the food we eat, the drugs we take and the chemicals we use in household products and it is time to put an end to the scam. Knowledge is power.

Excellent Book!

Just got this book from Amazon and it is highly recommended for anyone dealing with cancer. A MUST read!

Killing Cancer by Sir Jason Winters

It chronicles his own experience battling cancer and the negative forces in conventional medicine who gave up on him. He is still alive and well over 20 years after having "terminal" cancer and running away from the barbaric treatments that were being proposed.

More on chemicals we ingest that harm us

From this article posted today on NewsTarget

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Dutch research cited by WWF-UK (World Wildlife Fund) indicates that low levels of chemicals from the environment or food packaging can be present in foods in low levels. Some scientists believe that even low levels of such chemicals can accumulate in the body and cause health problems.

The Dutch scientists found low levels of flame retardants, pesticides, artificial fragrances, non-stick chemicals and phthalate chemicals from plastics in foods. Research conducted at the London School of Pharmacy suggests that even low doses of such chemicals can combine over time to produce serious medical conditions.

Some inspirational links

After much ranting recently in my posts here, it's time for some positive stories that can give hope to all cancer patients. I also want to include a link on a technology used by my new family doctor at Narberth Family Medicine and it is called the PAPIMI. I am trying treatments with this device in addition to what I am already doing and my Dad will be using it to treat his severe sciatic pain next week so look for updates on the PAPIMI results for him later next week.

World's Longest Living Mesothelioma Survivor from NewsTarget
Information on PAPIMI
Blackberry extract blocks spread of cancer cells from NewsTarget
The Japanese Way of Health

Perspective on the Spinach E Coli Contamination

It's a shame our agriculture system is not doing very well to protect consumers from contamination. The E. Coli thing is going to scare lots of people away from eating raw vegetables unnecessarily.. meanwhile the food you get in the frozen section of your grocery store carries more ominous threats to the health of a larger number of people over a longer time - but we hear nothing about that in the press.

Here is Mike Adams' take on the issue and I agree 100%.

http://www.newstarget.com/020478.html

Excerpt:

While noting the strain of E. coli is dangerous, consumer advocate Mike Adams says the real story is that the FDA is using fear tactics to scare people away from healthy spinach while ignoring the millions of people harmed by food ingredients such as hydrogenated oils (trans fats), high fructose corn syrup, MSG, sodium nitrite, and a host of other chemicals.

"There's a clear double standard here in warning the public about dangerous foods," Adams said. "The FDA only seems interested in warning the public about the dangers of fresh produce, but never the dangers of processed foods containing harmful chemical additives."

Just say NO to Non-Stick ANYTHING

I have given up microwaving and cooking in teflon pans because I suspected it was toxic and found some information that it was potentially toxic to cook with teflon but now I find this information here at this link - here are some excerpts - and funny how this was apparently downplayed in the media because I don't remember hearing much about it in late 2005:

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A former engineer for the DuPont company has accused his ex-employer of concealing test results almost two decades ago that showed toxic chemicals leaching out of a paper coating used to give grease resistance to microwave popcorn bags, fast food and candy wrappers, and pizza box liners.

The statements Wednesday by chemical engineer Glenn Evers come a week before the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce what fines it will levy against DuPont for withholding information about tests involving a similar chemical used in making non-stick coatings.

When ingested, these chemicals break down into perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical that an EPA expert panel this year found to be a likely human carcinogen. PFOA has been found in the blood of more than 95% of Americans, several studies have shown.

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The corporate giant DuPont is in a sticky situation over a chemical used to make the nonstick material Teflon, one of its top selling products. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the company failed to disclose what it knew about the potential health effects of the chemical, known as C8 or PFOA. DuPont knew the chemical was getting into water supplies near one of its facilities, knew that it was in the blood of workers, and knew it was toxic to animals in studies.

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We often remember DDT, we remember PCBs, we remember the dioxin chemicals. Well, these fluorochemicals are more persistent than all of those, much more persistent than those. As far as we can tell, their half-lives are in thousands of years.

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In 1981 – now, this one upsets me more than anything – in 1981 DuPont found C8 in the umbilical cord blood of a baby born to one plant worker and in the blood of a second baby born to another worker. Two more workers gave birth to babies with birth defects. DuPont reassigned 50 women from the plant but the EPA was not told.

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In 2000, 3M quit making and using C8 out of concerns about its persistence and potential health effects. DuPont continues to use it, and now manufactures the chemical at a new facility in North Carolina where the chemical is again showing up in trace amounts in surrounding water. The company says it will reduce C8 emissions, but some company watchdogs say that's not enough.

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The real risk to most consumers is from your pants, it's from pancake griddles, it's from your carpet, it's from an array of consumer products in which these materials are being utilized.

(sic: ScotchGuard and other stain resistance products have this chemical)

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This article is a very good explanation of the C8 coverup by DuPont:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1325178&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Excerpts from the above article:

The chemical is widely used in the paper wrapping for fast foods such as french fries and pizza, as well as candy wrappers, microwave popcorn bags and other products. It helps to prevent grease stains from coming through the wrapper.

"You don't see it, you don't feel it, you can't taste it," Evers says. "But when you open that bag … and you start dipping your French fries in there, you are extracting fluorchemical … and you're eating it."

Once in the body, the chemical — zonyl — can break down into a chemical called PFOA. PFOA stays in the blood, a fact that was unknown when zonyl was first approved for use. The government says PFOA is now believed to be in the blood of nearly every American.

"It bioaccumulates, which means the chemical goes into the blood, and it stays there for a very long period of time," says Evers.

Studies have linked PFOA to cancer, organ damage and other health effects in tests on laboratory animals. The Environmental Protection Agency currently is considering its safety in humans.

For a very thorough look at the chemical C-8 otherwise also known as Zonyl see this link

Excerpt:

Breast Cancer ● Scientists of the Environmental Working Group (2005) have calculated from statistically significant studies in mice and human PFOA blood levels that the majority of the female population is above the 1 in 100,000 risk for mammary tumors. • More than 10 percent of all women exceed a 1 in 1000 excess lifetime cancer risk from their exposures to PFOA, and nearly 7 percent of all women exceed a safe dose for ovarian effects.

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Another excellent link on this topic from EWG:

http://www.ewg.org/issues/siteindex/issues.php?issueid=5014

More evidence of the Big Coverup on Cancer

This is from 2002 and I am sure the skewing of statistics by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society is still going on today to make it look like we are winning the proverbial War on Cancer with their barbaric and toxic "treatments".

From this article, here is an excerpt:

For years, optimistic messages coming from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society had implied that after decades and billions of dollars we were winning the war on cancer.

Mortality rates were on the way down because of better treatment, and even incidence rates appeared to be leveling off, meaning that fewer people were developing cancer than expected from past patterns. But this new analysis by Clegg et al. reveals that for several of the most common cancers the incidence statistics are far less rosy.

Incidence rates are still rising, not falling, and the trends for several cancers are alarming. Thus while fewer people are dying, more people are having their lives profoundly disrupted by cancer.

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Abraham Cherrix improving on Immunotherapy

You may recall the battle I mentioned earlier regarding Abraham Cherrix, the 16 year old who refused further chemotherapy for his lymphoma and ended up with his parents being charged with neglect and having to go to court to fight Child "Protective" Services who wanted to FORCE him to continue chemotherapy. Well here is the latest on his IMPROVING condition while using the doctor in Mississippi who uses immunotherapy. This doctor is the "court approved" doctor as a result of a settlement and many predicted he would suffer for having turned away from conventional medicine. I am SO happy to see him improving by the simple means of improving his immune system. This doctor also uses restrained radiotherapy but only after building up the immune system which conventional medicine just doesn't GET. Hooray for doctors who get it.

What is Hydrazine Sulfate and why does conventional medicine attack it?

This is a very interesting read at this link from the creator and researcher on Hydrazine Sulfate, Dr Joseph Gold, M.D., with full documentation of the resistance to accept what it can do for cancer patients.

Joseph Gold, M.D., is director of the Syracuse Cancer Research Institute and the developer of hydrazine sulfate as an anticancer drug.

Here is an excerpt:

The purpose of this statement is to guide you, step by step, through the scientific development of hydrazine sulfate as an anticancer agent, the clinical trials—and the high-level negative politics which came to surround this drug from the very beginning. It will be plainly seen that the cautions against this drug presented on the Internet by our highest federal health agencies are but an assemblage of misinformation and disinformation which acts to discourage this drug's use both by individual patients as well as by well-meaning physicians.

Scientific Background. Hydrazine sulfate (HS), an inexpensive, mass-produced chemical compound used for many industrial applications, was first proposed as an anticachexia agent based on its inhibition of the gluconeogenic enzyme, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEP CK).^1,2 It was further proposed that if tumor energy (ATP) gain and host energy loss (resulting from cancer-induced excessive gluconeogenesis) were functionally interrelated—as seemed probable—HS could also, by indirect and non-toxic means, inhibit tumor growth itself.³ Early in-vivo studies demonstrated that HS could inhibit weight loss (cachexia) and tumor growth in a variety of transplanted mouse and rat models, without direct cytotoxicity,^2-6 could add to the antitumor effects of chemotherapy drugs,^7-9 and was free of significant side effects.¹⁰ These results strongly suggested HS as a new means of non-toxic cancer chemotherapy.^11,12

Academe Joins In . What could not be done to eliminate HS by official intimidation, by rigged clinical trials, by GAO complicity with the NCI, by one-sided PCAC (FDA) action, our cancer leadership sought to accomplish by enlisting what can only be termed the academic whoredom of one of this nation's premiere medical journals.

To understand the moral turpitude of the Annals' action, it is necessary to know that—in contrast to the single, reported, presumptive case of fatal HS toxicity (in the drug's 30 years of use)—there are tens of thousands of authenticated chemotherapy fatalities, deaths from chemotherapy drugs, in this country each year . Has the Annals, or other medical journals, or our federal health agencies, or the prominent private-sector cancer agencies ever let the public know this?

Given the extreme inexpense of HS, oncologists are not going to make “the majority of their practice revenue,” buying HS at such low prices and reselling it to patients, insurers and government programs, no matter how high the mark-ups. HS thus represents a formidable economic challenge to oncologists, for cancer doctors and those who administrate and direct our cancer programs are well aware that this drug's routine use may significantly reduce not only oncology funding and practice income but may also threaten the fiscal machinery of cancer centers, cancer hospitals, cancer treatment, cancer care, cancer research, cancer administration and cancer pharmaceuticals.

The Toll. More than 1.2 million new cases of cancer are reported in the U.S. each year; more than 600,000 Americans die from this disease annually. The Petrov (Russian) data, corroborated by the Harbor-UCLA data,^32,78 indicate that of every million late stage cancer patients treated with HS, more than half a million would receive measurable symptomatic improvement, 400,000 would have their tumors cease growing or regress, and some would go on to long term survival.

If these data are correct—as seems likely—the human toll, in terms of needless suffering and/or premature death, because of a lack of access to HS therapy, has been 5 million persons in the last 10 years in the U.S. alone, many more worldwide.

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In layman's terms, Hydrazine Sulfate essentially blocks sugar from getting taken up by the cancer cells, which in the case of advanced cancer can steal glucose from your good cells, resulting in drastic weight loss (cachexia). Once again we see the politics of the large "institutions" such as the American Cancer Society and The National Cancer Institute, refusing to promote this compound or even resorting to attacking it! Are you tired of this con job we are getting from these organizations? I am...

More info on Hydrazine Sulfate from Dr. Joseph Gold

A Canadian web site with very detailed information on Hydrazine Sulfate

Looking at the list of foods to avoid while taking this makes me realize it really is more for people who are suffering from cancer that is ravaging their body - to reverse the wasting of muscles etc. I am not anywhere close to that so for now, this information will be stored away.

Oh and I found this site from the UK which is an interesting total opposite view of Hydrazine Sulfate...

You have to wonder who got it listed as "toxic" and "carcinogenic" on this site.. hmmmm

I am finding all those articles Dr Gold mentions are attacking Hydrazine Sulfate and it amazes me that they continue to cite a SINGLE case of a patient *supposedly* taking HS and suffering frm fatal kidney failure YET EVERY DAY patients are dying from conventional chemotherapy drugs. What a con job!!!

Chemotherapy and why not to have it

From a book by Ralph Moss, MD called Questioning Chemotherapy I give you this description of the book:

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From the Author
Hi! I'm Ralph Moss, author of Questioning Chemotherapy. I want to tell you how and why I came to write this book.

I started as a believer in chemotherapy. As a science writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, I wrote articles praising the latest advances in chemotherapy. I was impressed by the then-emerging cures for Hodgkin's disease, acute lymphocytic leukemia and some other relatively rare cancers. At the same time, I began to learn how skeptical many good scientists were about chemotherapy's future.

The major objection to "chemo" was that these drugs did not discriminate between normal and cancerous cells, but attacked all rapidly dividing cells . One scientist described this method as "trying to melt a patient's left ear , while leaving the right one alone." It seemed particularly inappropriate in the treatment of solid tumors of adults, which are often slow-growing.

Because chemotherapy drugs were general cellular poisons, they could be terribly toxic. They were also very expensive for patients and for society as a whole. When I learned about the links between the pharmaceutical industry and the cancer establishment (later detailed in my book, The Cance r Industry) I understood the commercial reason that such an inadequate modality was so heavily promoted.

In 1989, a German biostatistician named Ulrich Abel, Ph.D. published a groundbreaking monograph called "Chemotherapy of Advanced Epithelial Cancer. It made few waves in the U.S. and soon went out of print. In this excellent work, however, Dr. Abel rigorously demonstrated that chemotherapy had never been scientifically proven to extend life through randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in the vast majority of "epithelial cancers." These are the common types of carcinoma that affect most cancer patients in the Western world.

Some years later, in response to many requests, I decided to write a critical book about chemotherapy (a sort of companion piece to Cancer Therapy). I took Abel's out-of-print work as my starting point, but also consulted the work of many other students of chemotherapy. In this book, I update statistics and speak about all cancers and not just carcinomas. I go into depth on the politics and economics of the chemotherapy industry, on the biases, fallacies and frauds that occur, and on ways of warding off the sometimes catastrophic side effects that accompany this treatment.

The essential point of the book is that one must question the measure of success in chemotherapy. Oncologists have tended to equate an increasing percentage of "responses" with progress. However, responses are generally measurements of tumor shrinkage, for as little as one month's duration. One cannot automatically assume that a response--even a complete response--will lead to increased survival. One must look for increased survival. Yet the number of cancers for which life prolongation through chemotherapy has been proven through randomized clinical trials is very small. (I do bend over backwards to point these out, when they occur.)

So when a doctor says her regimen yields a 40 percent response rate, "what exactly is she promising? A short-term shrinkage of tumors--or actual life-prolongation? What effect is this treatment likely to have on the patient's quality of life? And what is the cost?" It is only by obtaining information such as this that patients are able to make rational treatment choices. Questioning Chemotherapy is intended to help patients by providing them with a critical perspective on this now dominant modality.

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Nuff said...

What a beautiful day to NOT have surgery

So today would have been my lumpectomy. I am so happy to be sitting here in full health and energy writing this instead of recuperating from a surgical procedure - albeit it is billed as an "outpatient" surgery - it is still ripping something out of my body unnaturally and thus my body needs to respond to this insult and recover. It's just a tad more than removing a splinter I'd say.

So I wanted to post here very clearly that my health is superb. Yes, I have a 16mm lump in my right breast but it does not affect my health. My nutrition plan that is dramatically different from my old eating habits is responsible for my optimal health today. People who know I have breast cancer and don't see me for a while often ask in a sad voice "how are you feeling". Well if I were the typical breast cancer patient, there would be indeed lots of days I would not be feeling well but not from the cancer, from the TREATMENT. I might even be bald for a bit of time but not from the cancer.... from the TREATMENT.

Since I have not gone down that path, my health has only IMPROVED with the way I am eating now. I fully expect this improvement to rid my body of the 16 mm lump although it won't be the quick fix method that conventional medicine wants to use on me. The quick fix gets rid of it for sure.. but it always comes back later in another spot. My method is slow and results are not dramatic when you are only monitoring a lump. Soon I will have some standard blood tests done that will prove my health has improved as well.

And I can tell you that I know my health is the best it has ever been... and I mean ever. I used to drink 2-3 cups of coffee in the morning and I really thought I NEEDED it. I wanted to stop but I couldn't and didn't think I could function without it. I drank caffeinated drinks to play volleyball.. again.. I thought I needed them. I no longer drink coffee or any caffeinated drinks and I don't get tired. I don't have dips in my energy. I just have a constant energy all day. I will occasionally drink a cup of coffee made in my French Press with some Stevia and soy milk creamer but it is only for a once in a while treat - and that becomes less and less a choice for a treat.

I will say that I noticed a period of fatigue after the PEM scan last week - it lasted about 2 days. The weird effects with my tongue from the radiation injection for the PEM scan were gone by Sunday and now I feel I am back to full health once again.

I also would like to share this link with any of you reading this blog. It is yet another book exposing the big LIE we have been fed by the people we thought were looking out for us. It turns out they were all looking out for their own profits at the expense of our health in the end.

We are all unwitting victims of the toxic environment we have allowed to happen and it's time we take back our health and our environment from those who are not protecting us.

Surgery canceled for Monday

Just wanted to note that I have canceled the lumpectomy that was scheduled for Monday. I believe the diet and lifestyle changes I have made will be more than enough to get rid of this cancer. I also believe the Artemix will do good things since its activity is one of a natural targeted chemotherapy. I will continue to monitor the tumor with various non-invasive tests. The next test I will get will be perhaps the end of September when I will get an MRI at the same place as my first MRI. Around that same time I will get another AMAS blood test and if I discover any other new tests I will consider those as well.

I also plan to get a new CBC blood test early next week. I already have the prescription. It will just show my progress toward lowering the two elevated levels that had been persistent on my two prior blood tests - bilirubin and cholesterol. I fully expect those numbers to have come way down and no longer be elevated. They were both elevated on the blood test from 2002 and 2005 so there was definitely an upward trend until then.