Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

jlfortner — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:25:28 GMT

To answer the one who asked where I went to school - I graduated from Trinity College of Natural Health. I said I chose the non-traditional path, but there has been a change in terminology over the past 75 years. What used to be "traditional" is now called "non-traditional" or "alternative." The use of chemicals and surgeries is not traditional. I do believe there is a place for drugs and surgeries and I am grateful many things have been developed, but I don't want to practice that way - which is why I did not choose a residential program that spends a lot of time teaching the use of drugs and surgeries. I am sure many people would view my education as insufficient, but I would point out the results and I would also say that no doctor (regardless of where he or she went to school) is any better than her program of continuing education after school is over. Many simply stop studying and that will always result in inadequate health care. I believe there is a place for true traditional NDs like me and a place for the modern ND and the modern MD as well. All are needed, and the quality of American health care would go up substantially if we all worked together, accepted and understood each other, stopped trying to do each other's jobs, and stopped trying to run each other out of business as so many do these days. I know that's more than you asked for, but these are issues you need to be aware of before you choose a school. They are radically different and, sadly, they don't get along with each other at this time. You have to choose a school based on how you want to practice - be true to yourself about what you really want to do.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

15PiecesOfFlare — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:10:09 GMT

I had an uncle die of this earlier this year. He was 69 and had been into alternative health techniques and eating healthfully since before I can remember. He was a modest eater, very educated, a music critic and jazz enthusiast. He and his wife had been married 41 years with no children. They were and are some of the most elegant people I've ever met.

The only thing I can remember him doing 'verboten' (as of late) was eating edamame since the early nineties.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

Infinitus — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:06:22 GMT

Johanna,

I think our good friend, Ratiocinator, is spot on with what he/she has written.

For those interested I have provided a link, below, to a very well written article on just the topic you suggest our friend examines more closely; The Comparative Anatomy of Eating, by Milton R. Mills, M.D.

www.earthsave.ca/.../anatomy.pdf

The article clearly states the many significant differences between carnivores, omnivores and humans. A few examples of which are:

Saliva

CARNIVORE: No digestive enzymes

HERBIVORE: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes

OMNIVORE: No digestive enzymes

HUMAN: Carbohydrate digesting enzymes

Stomach Acidity

CARNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach

HERBIVORE: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach

OMNIVORE: Less than or equal to pH 1 with food in stomach

HUMAN: pH 4 to 5 with food in stomach

Length of Small Intestine

CARNIVORE: 3 to 6 times body length

HERBIVORE: 10 to more than 12 times body length

OMNIVORE: 4 to 6 times body length

HUMAN: 10 to 11 times body length

Colon

CARNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth

HERBIVORE: Long, complex; may be sacculated

OMNIVORE: Simple, short and smooth

HUMAN: Long, sacculated

Liver

CARNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A

HERBIVORE: Cannot detoxify vitamin A

OMNIVORE: Can detoxify vitamin A

HUMAN: Cannot detoxify vitamin A

It is clear that humans are suited to a 100% plant based diet, and not suited to anything derived from fauna. My teeth are designed for scraping and masticating plant matter. Do yours resemble those of a lion? Are you able to pounce on your prey, kill it and devour it then and there? Are you able to detoxify vitamin A? How long is your intestinal tract?

Meat and other fauna derivatives are not suitable foods for humans to consume. This could not be clearer, for those willing to examine the facts and who are not under the influence of cognitive dissonance.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

Millie_203 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:55:29 GMT

Ratiocinator

In case you didn't know, after the worldwide flood, our Creator told us we should eat meat. Maybe you should ask him for the truth about eating meat. He's answered many of my questions and many other people I know as well.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

dressagefreak — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:20:59 GMT

These foods happen to be some of my favorite fruits and veggies, which I eat on a regular basis. Yay for me! ;-)

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

Ratiocinator — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:28:23 GMT

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re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

Millie_203 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:21:01 GMT

Dear Thomas T.

In my six years of researching natural remedies, it is my opinion that all health professionals are held back by the powers that be.... the Cancer Inc., FDA, AMA, ADA, Big Pharma, to some extent.

Dr. Mercola surely cannot be an exception. People like him can only do their best to reach us with the truth, even if he is somewhat hindered by those who are lost in deception.

I also believe Dr. Mercola has to decide where to devote his time. If he recommends anyone's ideas, I don't believe he would do that without first thoroughly researching their findings. That takes so much time. Maybe he finds it is wiser to research something else.

These powers that be place(d) restrictions on our dedicated, courageous true friends such as...

Joseph Mercola, MD

Renee Caisse, RN www.octagonalhouse.com/.../the_clinic_years.htm

William Donald Kelley, DDS http://www.drkelley.info/

Russell Blaylock, MD www.newstarget.com/020550.html

Nicholas Gonzalez, MD www.dr-gonzalez.com/online_audio.htm AND www.dr-gonzalez.com/case_reports.htm

FYI to all reading this..... Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez learned much from Dr. Kelley and has a clinic in NYC where many have come to him with PANCREATIC CANCER and have LIVED several years to date. Find the link next to his name above.

These healers devote(d) so much love, time and energy to their cause, and in turn have hopefully empowered many to be healed and to remain healthy.

And I believe Dr. Mercola created Vital Votes with the hope that we too could share our healing ideas, experiences, knowledge and love for the good of humanity.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

maxruthrichard — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:48:45 GMT

I'm from Europe and I can tell you that you get half the amount for double the price. - So we have to say FDH (friss die Haelfte) (Eat half the amount). And the gasoline price is also double...(=> walk more) and.. and.. and. That's the main reason why Europeans have the better BMI and less diabetes!

These facts have not much to do with the US (or Fidel's) health system or the big drug companies.

Humans got a brain and should be able to think!

I think Dr Mercola is doing a great job.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

jlfortner — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:46:21 GMT

I am an ND from a non-traditional school. The power of diet was never more powerfully apparent to me than four years ago when my own grandmother (just turned 86 at the time) was diagnosed with a walnut-sized, malignant pancreatic tumor. She decided, with much encouragement from our family, to decline all traditional medical treatment and use diet and whole-food supplements EXCLUSIVELY to improve her situation. She is now almost 91 years old (fast aproaching that 5-yr milestone), still taking care of her own home and cooking Sunday dinner for the whole family once each month. She goes to church 3x per week and I see very little of her because she is always out and about. The cancer was eliminated within 9 months of her diet change and subsequent CAT scans reveal no evidence it was ever there. My reason for writing in is to encourage anyone who is uncertain about approaching health issues from a nutritional perspective. While serious problems do need careful professional attention, anyone who fails to harness the power of whole raw fruits and vegetables misses out on the most potent God-given gift for healing.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

wesmar111 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:39:35 GMT

Dr. Merc Is still learning But if we are not still learning then we are stagnet. learning is wonderful.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25 Percent

ThomasT — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:32:26 GMT

Of course Dr Merc could have said,, protect 100%.OR cure. H e could have advised the cure link, to get hold of H Clark PhD books, such as A Cure For All Cancers. He could so have told us the real causes: parasites, heavy metals, bacteria, dyes, smoking, radiation etc. He could have told us of the other alternative cures such essiac or varous frequency devices or colloidal silver reduced to nao-size. Is Dr Merc somehow constrained by Cancer Inc. or is he still on a learning curve, having recently gone alternative? All the while, some of us, who have been 40 years alternate, wonder at his comments.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25%

Magnolia — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:03:49 GMT

This still goes back to the incredibly wise advice of eating a richly varied diet of organic veggies and fruits, grassfed beef, free range chickens free of antibiotics and pesticides, safe seafood, raw dairy, and healthy fats and oils. If you do that, with your nutritional type in mind, you will be healthier, no doubt about it.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25%

Aaltrude — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:48:31 GMT

I have also come across a report of a study that suggests that ginger might be very effective against pancreatic cancer.

re: Pancreatic Cancer is Deadly -- So Cut Your Risk By 25%

Bridestein — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:08:36 GMT

This is great news especially for ex-smokers - except, wait, oh yeah, unless you're a protein type and then you aren't supposed to eat onions or berries.
Okay, so - this is great news if you're a carb or mixed type!

re: Apples and Onions Slash Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Arizona — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:07:19 GMT

I have been juicing for the past several months. ( I used to do it years ago) I have been losing weight and feeling better.