Johns Hopkins Update – VeryGood Article 
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>AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', 
>BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . 
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>Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins : 
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>1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. Thesecancer 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. 
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>2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. 
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>3. When the person's immune system is strong thecancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from 
>multiplying and forming tumors. 
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>4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
> nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
> but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors. 
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>5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day and by including supplements will strengthen 
>the immune system. 
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>6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
> cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the 
>bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, 
>kidneys, heart, lungs etc. 
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>7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. 
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>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.
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>11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by 
>not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. 
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>*CANCER CELLS FEED ON: 
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>a. 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 color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt. 
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>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 are being starved. 
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>c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little 
>other meat, like chicken. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with 
>cancer. 
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>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 to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To 
>obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 
>2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).. 
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>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. 
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>12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
> digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
> intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic
> buildup. 
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>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. 
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>14. Some supplements build up the immune system
> (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs 
>etc.) to enable the bodies 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. 
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>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, un-forgiveness 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. 
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>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. 
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>1. No plastic containers in micro. 
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>2. No water bottles in freezer. 
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>3. No plastic wrap in microwave.. 
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>Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information 
>is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals 
>cause cancer, especially breast cancer.Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them 
>as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness 
>Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should 
>not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially 
>applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, 
>and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the 
>body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic 
>containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. 
>So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and 
>heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. 
>It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a 
>while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers 
>to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons. 
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>Please share this with your whole email list……………………. 
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>Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. 
>As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out 
>of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead. 
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>This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.