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I have been doing my own personal research into the causes and prevention of cancer.
Seems to me that it is attributed to about 3 main causes: stress, environmental factors (eg workplace toxins) and diet.
Heredity is only considered to be attributable to 10% of cancer cases, according to what I've read.
I want to share this video from http://www.ted.com/ . If you have not heard of Ted yet, it's a forum where people with new ideas and research, make public presentations on their work.
Look at : http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html
where Dr William Li talks about angiogenesis and the anti-agiogenic drugs that they are developing.
Angiogenesis is the process by which cancer cells are fed by blood vessels and the purpose of the anti-angiogenic drugs is to cut off the blood supply to the cancers, thereby reducing them.
But more interestingly Dr Li talks about the Foundation's research into the anti-angiogenic properties of certain foods. He refers to studies, including one from Harvard University, which showed that consuming cooked tomatoes 2-3 times a week reduced prostate cancer growth in men by up to 50%.
Here is a link to Dr Li's slide listing the growing list of foods known to reduce cancer:
http://blog.ted.com/2010/02/dr_william_lis.php
I also did a blog on cooking with love , and co-incidentally fighting cancer when you include the known 'anti-cancer' foods in your diet.
See here for the link: http://my2senseandcentsmaking.blogspot.com/2010/05/cook-artist-how-...
I believe that when we are dealt the cancer card and it's our time to go, well we have to go.
But I also believe that if there are things that are within our personal control, that we can do to prevent ourselves from succumbing to this painful disease, then we should seek out all ways possible.
In my research as a humble individual who seeks to find out more, I have seen enough to convince me that including certain foods in my diet may prevent the trigger which causes the cancer cells that we all have in our bodies, from multiplying out of control.
The more you search and share what you know, the more information reaches others in a place like the World cafe.
There was a time when cancer was just a word for another terminal disease and it did not bother me.
But now I have reason to fear this and if I can share information to increase awareness of how important it is to change our lifestyles, then maybe some people will be be interested enough to perk up and make the change.
Stress is the next big factor that contributes to this disease and there's much that can be said on that topic. I won't try to proselytize because we all know that we should slow down. I do know that our jobs prevent us from doing this....mine did for most of my life.
But we do have the ability to step back for a moment and look, really look at how we live our daily lives in the context of what we want to get out of it.
If you take the time to ask yourself the question "what do I want my life to be" and the answer includes 'health' with 'wealth' and 'love', then it's a matter of starting with a small change.
There's so much more that I can say on this topic but i hope to hear some other views to start a conversation.
Benjamin??
I have been doing my own personal research into the causes and prevention of cancer.
Seems to me that it is attributed to about 3 main causes: stress, environmental factors (eg workplace toxins) and diet.
Heredity is only considered to be attributable to 10% of cancer cases, according to what I've read.
I want to share this video from http://www.ted.com/ . If you have not heard of Ted yet, it's a forum where people with new ideas and research, make public presentations on their work.
Look at : http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html
where Dr William Li talks about angiogenesis and the anti-agiogenic drugs that they are developing.
Angiogenesis is the process by which cancer cells are fed by blood vessels and the purpose of the anti-angiogenic drugs is to cut off the blood supply to the cancers, thereby reducing them.
But more interestingly Dr Li talks about the Foundation's research into the anti-angiogenic properties of certain foods. He refers to studies, including one from Harvard University, which showed that consuming cooked tomatoes 2-3 times a week reduced prostate cancer growth in men by up to 50%.
Here is a link to Dr Li's slide listing the growing list of foods known to reduce cancer:
http://blog.ted.com/2010/02/dr_william_lis.php
I also did a blog on cooking with love , and co-incidentally fighting cancer when you include the known 'anti-cancer' foods in your diet.
See here for the link: http://my2senseandcentsmaking.blogspot.com/2010/05/cook-artist-how-...
I believe that when we are dealt the cancer card and it's our time to go, well we have to go.
But I also believe that if there are things that are within our personal control, that we can do to prevent ourselves from succumbing to this painful disease, then we should seek out all ways possible.
In my research as a humble individual who seeks to find out more, I have seen enough to convince me that including certain foods in my diet may prevent the trigger which causes the cancer cells that we all have in our bodies, from multiplying out of control.
The more you search and share what you know, the more information reaches others in a place like the World cafe.
There was a time when cancer was just a word for another terminal disease and it did not bother me.
But now I have reason to fear this and if I can share information to increase awareness of how important it is to change our lifestyles, then maybe some people will be be interested enough to perk up and make the change.
Stress is the next big factor that contributes to this disease and there's much that can be said on that topic. I won't try to proselytize because we all know that we should slow down. I do know that our jobs prevent us from doing this....mine did for most of my life.
But we do have the ability to step back for a moment and look, really look at how we live our daily lives in the context of what we want to get out of it.
If you take the time to ask yourself the question "what do I want my life to be" and the answer includes 'health' with 'wealth' and 'love', then it's a matter of starting with a small change.
There's so much more that I can say on this topic but i hope to hear some other views to start a conversation.
Benjamin??
Tags: angiogenesis, anti-cancer, cancer, cooking, foods, stress
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Permalink Reply by Franis Engel on -
Since a free conference at UCSD, La Jolla in 2009, researchers presented the results of the importance of Vitamin D3 in the prevention of cancer. Former recommended daily requirements of 400 IU were found to barely prevent rickets, and admonishments doctors had learned that there was "danger" in high levels of cumulative, oil-based vitamins turned out to be unfounded scare tactics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMlQeH8RFA It's very instructive to look at the content of many of the other videos associated with this page also.
The new research recommended new testing levels of "optimum health" that were much higher. Those who worked in the sun were manufacturing on their skin 10,000 IU of D3! Most people cannot get this level from food, but supplements are a cheap solution. This lack of D3 is reflected in incidence of cancer in the population on a map of available sun exposure levels.
Since Vitamin D3 is not patentable, it is not information that drug companies can make money from - so this is why you have not heard about this previously. What many people do not know when they are using sunlight to encourage their skin to produce adequate levels of Vitamin D3, is they need to avoid washing off skin oils after sunning for at least two hours so the skin can manufacture the D3 hormone internally. Since whenever I go to the beach, I swim, I now take 8,000 IU daily to maintain the new recommended levels of what were previously in me were dangerously low Vitamin D3 levels.
In the light of new research, many doctors raised their Vitamin D3 recommendations to 2000 IU daily. Probably the more practical level would be closer to 5000-6,000 IU daily as you can see from the youtube videos.
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Permalink Reply by Shireen Ali on -
Vitamin D3 linked to cancer prevention!
This is certainly new to me and information I must follow up.
I did hear once before that there is a cure for cancer but since it is natural and non-patentable, it is not in the pharma companies' interests to get the word out.
Maybe it's simply the meanderings of the conspiracy theorists, because certainly big pharma cannot control the content of what is shared on the internet, so I imagine we would have come across the cure by now.
On the other hand, perhaps it is not one magic bullet that kills the tumors, but more of a wholistic lifestyle approach.
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