In a message dated 10/16/98 5:11:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
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 Jean-Louis Tu wrote:
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 > I'll believe that eating raw can help cure cancer only when I see a
 > rigorous proof.

--"There are none so blind as they who cannot see."

 The problem with such claims is that there are too
 > many factors involved. Almost every health guru/practitioner will
 > claim that his diet is effective against cancer. If that statement is
 > true, it could be due to only one or two of its features, and so
 > adopting the whole system might not be necessary.

--Shortly after being diagnosed with an ovarian cyst the size of an orange and
immediate surgery was recommended, I decided all the "right" things I had been
taught and followed faithfully as an exercise instructor, Health Educator at a
major metropolitan hospital, access to world health authorities (as a
reporter/editor with an a British newspaper chain in SEAsia), something was
amiss.

--I started "thinking" for myself, doing a lot of research, talking to doctors
the world over. (One tends to "reach out" when one's life is at stake.) During
a radio call-in talk show I hosted, a team of experts in nutrition, sports
medicine, an M.D., and a D.C. in Natural Hygiene ran a gamut of questions. The
one who "held his ground" and made the most sense was the latter.

--When I got in touch with him and told him of the diagnosis, we talked for
several hours, at his expense, via telephone. He told me of a study involving
ovarian cysts whereby malignant cysts were put in cultures: one was fed raw
food, the other cooked. The one in cooked food thrived, the one in raw
shriveled up and died.

--Over a long, drawn out process of learning to refine that which worked
(there are "raw" foods that are not health promoting, as well as cooked) from
that which didn't, and coming close to death in the process, I finally got it
right. And taught the doctors a few things along the way.
--In the long run, each individual body reacts to different things, and if we
can "decode" and mind the message, we will thrive.

  You are right, of course, but in the meantime what can we do but try to
 take advantage of what looks like healthier ways of eating.

  Researchers don't understand very well the mechanisms by
 > which some fats promote cancer (although a few have been
 > proposed). If "rawness" of the fat was important, then at some point
 > raw fat should be digested/metabolized differently (is that
 > plausible??).

-- That's true. And each body is different. The key is to listen to and heed
your own body's messages.
FWIW:
Gerry

 This is why I hope Aajonus will contact David Horrobin, and seek to get
 some scientific evidence for his claims. Dr. Horrobin already has sound
 evidence that fats have been given a bad rap and has a reasearch center
 devoted to a nutritional approach to many diseases.

 My best, Ellie

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