Hi all,

Certain items have been pretty much shown to help cancer, but none of
them are "from" any one person's/guru's "diet."  When I have time I
always read the news and have been collecting articles for a long time -
all from what sound to me like respectable studies published over the
years - and I have placed many of them on my website.  Some of the
following have been shown to be helpful but none are a "magic cure" for
cancer:  routine exercise; green tea (due to its polyphenols); eating
fresh fish all the time (BTW it looks like it is the raw fish fat that
is so helpful); eating lots of fresh raw fruit/veggies (not a surprise -
rich in anti-oxidants); avoidance of obviously toxic items (like in the
old days glow in the dark wristwatches were made by people handpainting
the hands with radioactive material - and the workers generally LICKED
the paintbrushes - they all died of throat cancer or something similar);
and more.  So please feel free to check out my news archive if you want
details.  But I think no one has "put together" a diet or lifestyle that
encompasses all the known facts.

Jean-Louis Tu wrote:

> Gerry Coffey:
> >For arrested, well-documented case histories of many types of cancer as well
> >and numerous other degenerative diseases, check out The Gerson Therapy at
> >their website: http://www.gerson.org.
>
> Case histories are not proofs. For each success, how many failures?
> How many due to chance, or spontaneous remission? So far, there is no
> scientific proof that the Gerson Therapy is effective. In fact,
> specialists consider it as "questionable" (same thing for macrobiotic
> diet and others).

Good point - case histories are really NO proof at all unless you count
the failures and successes and have a fairly large number over a lot of
years.  But to be fair the Gerson Therapy is very useful and helpful and
they seem to have good documented statistics and a very decent success
rate.  The problem is no one is sure why it works when it is succcessful
and why it doesn't when it does not.  I believe the Gerson Therapy works
very well for a lot of things as a treatment but people mistake it for a
way of living that should be followed, which I think is erroneous
thinking.

The Gerson people also publish a newsletter for people, as well as
website info, but their logic and "science" is severely defective in
some instances.  For example they recently said canola oil is toxic and
they had "proof" in the form of a study (see my earlier post - in
archive).  However, after reading their study I was so disturbed I spent
three months reading everything I could find about fats.  I found that
there is too little known.  But my conclusion is that their conclusion
is completely erroneous and while they may do treatments that help a lot
of people they certainly don't do proper research.

The truth is something like this.  in that study all the canola oils
used were HEAT EXTRACTED AND COOKED.  From further reading it is my
conclusion that if they had done the same experiment with ANY oils that
are high in trans-fatty acids (which are formed any time seeds/nut oils
are both heat pressed AND cooked) that they would have found all food
which has been cooked in this type of oil (that is both heat pressed and
cooked) is toxic, versus eating raw foods. But don't blame them!  Very
little (almost nothing in fact) is known about fat as a nutrient, and
fat metabolism, say, when compared to any known vitamin as a nutrient.

I just couldn't believe that canola oils are toxic, mainly because
canola is the American nickname (coined for marketing purposes) for
rapeseed oil.  And Asian people (literally) eat tons of these vegetables
every year; it is a mainstay in their diet so they all should have high
cancer rates if true.  And they are part of the brassica family, and
that is the reason many scientists think areas where these types of
vegetables are eaten (cooked, usually) have very low cancer rates. Many
of these plants still don't have western names, but they are widely
found in Chinatowns and asian grocers.  Bok choy, gai-lan, yow-choy and
similar veggies were plentiful in my diet growing up - my parents would
drive 70 - 80 miles every weekend just so we could have these delicious
vegetables all the time, in the days when none were available in local
supermarkets.  But I think it's pretty funny that many of these plants
were so unknown they were originally named "rapeseed" and it sounds so
horrible that it had to be nicknamed, re-named prior to mass marketing
their oils in the USA.

regards,
        roberta