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Hi Karen and Thank you , hope you are doing well pet, (and good you have chucked those Yellow Wellies lol.
I can fully understand the need for us cancer patients to do everything we can in order to be able to try and help ourselves, and a good balanced diet is extreamly important whether we think it will help us in cancer pervention or just in the helping of many other heath issues.
The Link i have put up in my previous post, refers to Cancer Active's New book, "Everything you need to know to help you beat cancer" but i feel is equaliy valid to raise even though you have refered more to the Rainbow Diet book in particular.So what i would say is that if you have read this book, you will begin to understand why the author of this particular blog has made some very valid (and in my view) correct statements and criticisms in pointing out some of the many errors it contains.
I will try and go through some the points made by the author of the blog ,and also hope to answer some of the other vaild points that you have made if you will bear with me , because this is a topic that i am extreamly passionate about as i feel that it is imperitive that all cancer patients can gain access to the most reliable advice and information in order for them to be able to make fully informed decisions for themselves. (whatever that may be)
Firstly there are many curious claims often made by the alternative health industry, and also some of those claims are advised in this book. so I will try to address some of them.
The first claim refers to the assertion that we should try and keep out bodies Alkaline , by eating alkaline foods ,this is because Cancer cells cannot live in a alkaline enviroment, this is a claim that most of us at some point would have heard or read when trying to access cancer information from the internet, but it is a claim that is wildly inaccurate, impossible and not biologically plauseable.
Our bodies operate within an extreamly narrow pH range, the pH balance of the blood is 7.4 – slightly alkaline or basic. Enzymes that facilitate chemical reactions in the cells work only in a narrow range of pH. Any significant change (below about 7 or over 7.7) means you would either be very seriously ill or almost certain death.
A series of buffers and compensation mechanisms keep the pH in our blood from moving far from 7.4. Because the blood circulates throughout the body constantly, it can compensate any changes in pH in any of our organs . The lungs actually provide the biggest source of acid elimination in our body. Our kidneys provide a secondary protection of the pH, eliminating acid in the urine . Everything that we eat is broken down by stomache acid, Everything that is ejected from our stomach, into our intestines, is then immediately neutralized by digestive liquids and enzymes. So everything we eat and digest will end up the same pH in our intestines, what this means is the initial pH of anything we eat is completely irrelevant.
Therfore while it is correct that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline enviroment, the problem is neither can any of your other body cells.The only thing you can manipulate from acidic to alkaline in your body is your urine, this is because urine is a waste product, but your urine is Not a window to your blood's pH balance.
Many things in a dish in the lab kills cancer cells, includeing an alkaline enviroment, paracetomel, even vodca ect but lab studies rarely reflect the same processes in the body.
Bicarbonate Of Soda, this is often touted by the alternative health industry as also being able to kill cancer, this idea was first put into practice by an Itialian oncologist called Tullio Simoncini, in which he claims that all cancers are fungal colonies. ( Tullio Simoncini is not, and never was a real oncologist, but worked as an unpaid "Volunteer for a short spell in an oncology dept, his real job was assessing social security patients for disability payments) However, this is another wildly believed claim aimed at vulnerable cancer patients often found in anti cancer diet books (referencing that you should be drinking solutions of Bicarb to alkalise)and alternative medicine website online, Many people have even travelled to Italy to seek out Simoncini's treament of injections of Bicarb of Soda , costing them substancial amounts of money, some even re morgageing their homes in the vain hope that this treatment as claimed will help them . it wont, and it might be usefull to note that infact Tullio Simoncini was convicted and sent to prison in 2003 for fraud and wrongfull death for killing breast cancer patients with his injections of Bicarbonate of Soda, (Simoncini has unfortunatly now been released as part of an itilian prison ammnesty ,and although his Medical Licence has been revoked ,continues to promote this very dangerous nonsense, but hey, i quess dead people dont talk.
These are just 2 tiny examples of the extent of misinformation to be found online , on alternative promoteing websites, in some anti cancer diet books ,and people who are in the busisness of promoteing or selling alt.
Finaly, ( i realy didnt mean this to become an essay lol , ) When any cancer website online "suggests" that there is insufficient funding for any research/trials being done on the benefits of natural foods and substances as they cannot be licenced by the big drug manufacturers and sold for profit. Or that Big Pharma "Does't want to find a "Cure" because cancer is Big Busisness, be Very Wary, Yes, Cancer is big Busisness, So is ALT, Alternative therapy made 33.8 Billion dollars alone in america last yr, (Thats more money in a yr than cancer research) i find that staggering ,all for treatments that have not been proven to have any clinical evidence that they work.
The claim made by proponents of ALT regarding lack of clinical trials ,and not being able to patent any foodstuff, is False, Alt, makes billions worldwide, if the Alt industry realy believe's what they are claiming can help, or cure cancer ,why are they not conducting any proper robust clinical trials? It is for the "person makeing the claim to prove that claim, not for others to do it for them, Foodstuff CAN be patented, as has recently been shown by the patent of a Type of Soya Bean , compounds can be isolated from foodstuff, and patented, so that realy also is a bit of a myth ,but often used as an excuse.
It realy is a minefield out there, but with knowledge and better education each of us can make the right and more importantly fully informed decisions for ourselves.The truth is, there realy is no such thing as alternative medicine, there are treatments that work, and there are treatments that dont, treatments that have been proven to work are called Medicine ,therefore they are no longer alternative.
Best wishes to everyone.
Linda xx
I can fully understand the need for us cancer patients to do everything we can in order to be able to try and help ourselves, and a good balanced diet is extreamly important whether we think it will help us in cancer pervention or just in the helping of many other heath issues.
The Link i have put up in my previous post, refers to Cancer Active's New book, "Everything you need to know to help you beat cancer" but i feel is equaliy valid to raise even though you have refered more to the Rainbow Diet book in particular.So what i would say is that if you have read this book, you will begin to understand why the author of this particular blog has made some very valid (and in my view) correct statements and criticisms in pointing out some of the many errors it contains.
I will try and go through some the points made by the author of the blog ,and also hope to answer some of the other vaild points that you have made if you will bear with me , because this is a topic that i am extreamly passionate about as i feel that it is imperitive that all cancer patients can gain access to the most reliable advice and information in order for them to be able to make fully informed decisions for themselves. (whatever that may be)
Firstly there are many curious claims often made by the alternative health industry, and also some of those claims are advised in this book. so I will try to address some of them.
The first claim refers to the assertion that we should try and keep out bodies Alkaline , by eating alkaline foods ,this is because Cancer cells cannot live in a alkaline enviroment, this is a claim that most of us at some point would have heard or read when trying to access cancer information from the internet, but it is a claim that is wildly inaccurate, impossible and not biologically plauseable.
Our bodies operate within an extreamly narrow pH range, the pH balance of the blood is 7.4 – slightly alkaline or basic. Enzymes that facilitate chemical reactions in the cells work only in a narrow range of pH. Any significant change (below about 7 or over 7.7) means you would either be very seriously ill or almost certain death.
A series of buffers and compensation mechanisms keep the pH in our blood from moving far from 7.4. Because the blood circulates throughout the body constantly, it can compensate any changes in pH in any of our organs . The lungs actually provide the biggest source of acid elimination in our body. Our kidneys provide a secondary protection of the pH, eliminating acid in the urine . Everything that we eat is broken down by stomache acid, Everything that is ejected from our stomach, into our intestines, is then immediately neutralized by digestive liquids and enzymes. So everything we eat and digest will end up the same pH in our intestines, what this means is the initial pH of anything we eat is completely irrelevant.
Therfore while it is correct that cancer cells cannot live in an alkaline enviroment, the problem is neither can any of your other body cells.The only thing you can manipulate from acidic to alkaline in your body is your urine, this is because urine is a waste product, but your urine is Not a window to your blood's pH balance.
Many things in a dish in the lab kills cancer cells, includeing an alkaline enviroment, paracetomel, even vodca ect but lab studies rarely reflect the same processes in the body.
Bicarbonate Of Soda, this is often touted by the alternative health industry as also being able to kill cancer, this idea was first put into practice by an Itialian oncologist called Tullio Simoncini, in which he claims that all cancers are fungal colonies. ( Tullio Simoncini is not, and never was a real oncologist, but worked as an unpaid "Volunteer for a short spell in an oncology dept, his real job was assessing social security patients for disability payments) However, this is another wildly believed claim aimed at vulnerable cancer patients often found in anti cancer diet books (referencing that you should be drinking solutions of Bicarb to alkalise)and alternative medicine website online, Many people have even travelled to Italy to seek out Simoncini's treament of injections of Bicarb of Soda , costing them substancial amounts of money, some even re morgageing their homes in the vain hope that this treatment as claimed will help them . it wont, and it might be usefull to note that infact Tullio Simoncini was convicted and sent to prison in 2003 for fraud and wrongfull death for killing breast cancer patients with his injections of Bicarbonate of Soda, (Simoncini has unfortunatly now been released as part of an itilian prison ammnesty ,and although his Medical Licence has been revoked ,continues to promote this very dangerous nonsense, but hey, i quess dead people dont talk.
These are just 2 tiny examples of the extent of misinformation to be found online , on alternative promoteing websites, in some anti cancer diet books ,and people who are in the busisness of promoteing or selling alt.
Finaly, ( i realy didnt mean this to become an essay lol , ) When any cancer website online "suggests" that there is insufficient funding for any research/trials being done on the benefits of natural foods and substances as they cannot be licenced by the big drug manufacturers and sold for profit. Or that Big Pharma "Does't want to find a "Cure" because cancer is Big Busisness, be Very Wary, Yes, Cancer is big Busisness, So is ALT, Alternative therapy made 33.8 Billion dollars alone in america last yr, (Thats more money in a yr than cancer research) i find that staggering ,all for treatments that have not been proven to have any clinical evidence that they work.
The claim made by proponents of ALT regarding lack of clinical trials ,and not being able to patent any foodstuff, is False, Alt, makes billions worldwide, if the Alt industry realy believe's what they are claiming can help, or cure cancer ,why are they not conducting any proper robust clinical trials? It is for the "person makeing the claim to prove that claim, not for others to do it for them, Foodstuff CAN be patented, as has recently been shown by the patent of a Type of Soya Bean , compounds can be isolated from foodstuff, and patented, so that realy also is a bit of a myth ,but often used as an excuse.
It realy is a minefield out there, but with knowledge and better education each of us can make the right and more importantly fully informed decisions for ourselves.The truth is, there realy is no such thing as alternative medicine, there are treatments that work, and there are treatments that dont, treatments that have been proven to work are called Medicine ,therefore they are no longer alternative.
Best wishes to everyone.
Linda xx
Here it is lol, think we all need a good laugh sometimes. 
x
http://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/community/forums/daily-mail-lastest-bc-story
xhttp://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/community/forums/daily-mail-lastest-bc-story
Hi Linda I was thinking of that thread as I was typing. x
I was thinking of that thread as I was typing. x
THe Daily Mail is not all bad though Belinda, i did throw out those Yellow Wellies , (wasnt worth the risk lol)
Linda x
Linda x
Sorry, Zuleika, I didn't mean you were blaming drinking and smoking. I meant 'you' as in 'one'.
