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From: "Gale" <[log in to unmask]>

>  The real threats to society are the animal rights groups.  In the US 
> groups like PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - set up 
> by PeTA to be the "scientific/medical" voice of the animal rights 
> movement).  PCRM's Director - Neal Barnard, MD (a psychiatrist) has 
> written diet books including one to prevent breast cancer all extolling 
> the virtues of a vegan diet.


Interesting; I did not know that the group existed.  But having read breast 
cancer research for the last eight years, I can tell you that humans need a 
lot of proteins to fight cancer.  I cannot tell you the exact percentage of 
women on my breast cancer list who have been vegetarians or vegans and have 
passed away from their cancer over the last eight years.  That said, many of 
us have noticed that those of us who eat a paleo diet or close to a paleo 
diet seem to be living longer without metastasis.  I know that is 
simplistic, but as time goes on a pattern is becoming more and more 
noticeable.  I have seen so many cancer patients come onto our list 
extolling the virtues of being a vegetarian; there may be a few of them 
still on the list, but most of them have died.  We currently have about 300 
women on the list, and that isn't a very large group statistically. 
Still....

Even the AMA says that when battling cancer it is important to ingest enough 
protein.

Kath