How do we prevent ourselves from Cancer disease?

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[shirdi]

hi

i think dr. sumeet will help u to answer this question and we all and our family will also be benefited with the same

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Same i was searching today. I have pasted it here suggested by Shruti Sharma, A young Cancer fighter.Hope it will be informative for you

Cancer prevention:Life style changes

As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts Cancer does not mean life has ended but it could mean God has given you a second chance to change your life and correct all the mistakes that you have committed till date.

The diagnosis is kind of a signal (though a really harsh one) that we have been doing something wrong and now is the time to make all the correction and change the way we have been living.

One of my very close friends has forwarded me this article (by John Hopkins) which talks about lifestyle changes that can help in cancer prevention.

This article is like a boon for me and others like me who have fought the disease once and are now willing to do everything possible to prevent a reoccurrence. Here are few points covered in the article (Hope these will be useful for all):

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to STARVE the cancer cells by not feeding it with foods it needs to multiple What Cancer Cells Feed on :

a) Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b) Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved.

c) Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d) A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.

To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e) Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water--best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines will become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.

Anger, unforgiving and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Hope this will be useful for all. However, remember there are no guarantees in life. The best way is to dolive is to everything you can and leave the rest to GOD i.e. live in the state of complete “Positive Surrender”

[sumeet_shah Administrator]

rana has posted some good points above. Nothing much remains for me to say.

Healthy life style, a good BMI (Body Mass Index) and regular exercise are must, if I were to put in a single line.

[shirdi]

hello doctor

the points given by rana say to avoid milk. but i m advised to take lots of milk.

I take twice a day cow milk without sugar in morning and evening. is it ok or should avoid milk.

pl guide

[Copingwiththebigc]

Bone cancer isn't down to diet, alcohol, smoking etc so not all can be prevented through healthy living or exercise as you will still get regardless how healthy and fit.

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The article quoted above, supposedly from John's Hopkins, was not released by them and has become such a problem that they are posting warnings about it. You can read about it at snopes.com Type cancer and John's Hopkins in the search box to read more about it. It keeps coming up on sites like Facebook and then is spread without people checking it's authenticity. Snopes is a great site for checking about things that sound suspicious.

A healthy balanced diet and exercise are good for everyone, but following the advice in the article will not prevent or cure cancer. Unfortunately, it gives the impression that we are somehow at fault if we develop a cancer.

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Thanks pkenn. I think you mentioned for the article which I have posted above. Though, there are some good points in the post which we can follow., but now, I pasted the link which claims its not from hopkins'. snopes.com/medical/disease/....

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There was a new one to me on facebook today claiming that a Japanese study has proven that if you drink water according to the directions in the article you can cure just about any ailment known to man. I went to snopes.com and typed in "Japan water cure" and found that one, and another one about drinking water and preventing heart attacks, which I have seen a few times - both false. I think that all of us should probably drink more water and less of many other things, but the claims in these two articles are over the edge. I wish I had known about snopes a long time ago. It's a terrific resource for checking on just about any kind of information.

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firstly let us look at cancer as a condition and not a disease because everybody perhaps faces a single cell going haywire and then the tumor suppressor genes control it.

problem arises when because of some reason the single cell cannot get controlled and it multiplies and forms a billion cells and hence a small tumor comes up.

I for one still wonder why I got it.

1> have always had 5 servings of fruits and veggies daily.

2> fish and eggs on and off weekly.

3> fitness enthusiast and work out 5 days a week ( height 5 feet 4 inches and weight 55kgs..so a normal BMI too)

4> BRCA and BRCA2 no harmful mutations found

5> breast fed my child for close to 3 years

6> Dont have and never had any junk food. In fact had my first burger at the age of 28. ( I am 35 )

7> Dont consume pre processed food

8> Dont smoke or drink

9> No family history of any kind of cancer.

10> Menarche at 13 ( and not early) and concieved at 29.

11> Moderate consumption of tea coffee

Now that my treatment is about to be over..I am back to following the same healthy routine.

The pollutants in the environment plus the general stress in our lifestyles are the only two things which could have worked negatively in my case. Hence these staggering ratios world wide...1 in 4 in UK, 1 in 8 in USA and 1 in 20 in India.