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Is there a cure for cancer ?
Recently many more people have been contracting cancer. Friends of mine are dying; one lady I know is going through the exact scenario my mum went through 40-odd years ago. Right down to her sore hips being diagnosed as arthritis; when I, as a layman recognised the symptoms of my mum's cancer.
I happened on a 'Cure for Cancer' on the net one day. It involves vitamin B17, typically from apricot seeds. There is a lot of info available, most encouraging, but the system refuses to acknowledge the advantages. Could it be due to the billions involved in radiotherapy etc ? Surely not.
What do you guys think? Any experiences ?
The 100yr history of this dilemma is here :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLrfNJICeM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I and my family now take apricot seeds daily. You guys in the US may find that you're breaking the law. Go figure ?
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Linda Taylor 50+
Cancer is not one disease. It is several different diseases with some commonalities. Different types of cancers are caused by different types of etiologies from genetics to radiation. Each type has specific challenges to treatment.
We are very good at treating some types of cancers and others present challenges that are more difficult to surmount. No easy answers or magic beans unfortunately.
edward long 100+
Linda Taylor 50+
That being said, I appreciate the placebo effect and if you want to supplement your diet with apricot or peach pits by all means go ahead.
Peter Law 30+
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Linda Taylor 50+
Here's is my link:
http://www.cam-cancer.org/CAM-Summaries/Dietary-approaches/Laetrile/Is-it-safe
Peter Law 30+
"The Hunza have the longest lifespan in the world and this has been traced as related to the water that they drink and their natural diet. Hunza water is an example of perfect natural water. Hunza has people who routinely live to 120-140 years, in good health with virtually no cancer, degenerative disease, dental caries or bone decay."
"Apricots Are Hunza Gold"
"The Hunza cut the pits from the fruits, crack them, and remove the almond-like nuts. The women hand grind these kernels with stone mortars, then squeeze the meal between a hand stone and a flat rock to express the oil. The oil is used in cooking, for fuel, as a salad dressing on fresh garden greens, and even as a facial lotion"
http://www.ionmicrowater.com/info/Hunza.aspx
"And the most prized of all foods was considered to be the apricot seed. It is very common for the Hunza to eat between 30 - 50 (ie. about 30mg of B17) apricot seeds as an after lunch snack."
"The Eskimos are another people that have been observed by medical teams for many decades and found to be totally free of cancer. The traditional Eskimo diet is amazingly rich in B17 nitrilosides that come from the residue of of the meat of caribou and other grazing animals, and also from the salmon berry."
"Hopi and Navajo Indians. The February 5, 1949 issue of the journal of the American Medical Association declared that they found 36 cases cases of malignant cancer from a population of 30,000. In the same population of white persons there would have been about 1800. Dr Krebs research later found that the typical diet for the Navajo and Hopi Indian consisted of nitriloside-rich foods such as Cassava. He calculated that some of the tribes would ingest the equivalent of 8000mg of Vitamin B17 per day from their diet !!!"
http://www.b17.com.au/copy.asp?sect=q2&page=people
Clearly there is a difference of opinion.
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Stewart Gault 30+
The Hunza don't live to 120-140 years, they don't use calendars, they use a method by which your age is judged by your wisdom.
Linda Taylor 50+
See Stewarts post about the Hunza.
Peter Law 30+
Apparently the cassava is the root of a tropical tree, containing cyanide. Don't quite know how the Eskimos get it; but it is not an animal. (my dictionary won't let me copy for some reason)
The Hunza are well known for their good health into old age, whether that is quantifiable I don't know.
What I do know is that if the authorities are correct then I should be very ill by now, but I am not. There may be a little money made from seeds, but it is no more than is commensurate with the effort of acquiring them. Chemo drugs on the other hand are horrendously expensive & profitable, & little has changed for around 50 years. I'm just a suspicious guy.
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Colleen Steen 500+
Apparently, toxins can be cooked out of cassava....
"Cassava-based dishes are widely consumed wherever the plant is cultivated; some have regional, national, or ethnic importance.[19] Cassava must be cooked properly to detoxify it before it is eaten."
Peter, regarding Chemo drugs, you say "little has changed for around 50 years".
That is TOTALLY unture. There are many new drugs and combinations of drugs used for chemotherapy and they are changing and improving regularly. Unfortunately, I and many friends and relatives have faced the challenge of cancer as well, so I've had up close and personel experience.
Peter, as I said in my first comment on this thread, I believe there are possibilities for alternative practices and substances in the treatment of dis-eases. To try to promote something that is a proven toxin, with misleading information however, is not acceptable.