The top five cancer-causing foods

The top five cancer-causing foods

Ever wonder which foods should be strongly avoided by those at high risk for cancer? We can begin identifying cancer-causing foods once we know which ingredients in our food cause cancer. Some of those ingredients are food additives and chemicals used to enhance taste, while others are used strictly for appearance or to increase product shelf life. The key to avoiding cancer-causing foods is knowing which ingredients are carcinogens -- or cancer promoters -- and then reading food labels to permanently avoid consuming those ingredients.

Cancer tumors develop, in part, by feeding on sugar in the bloodstream. If you eat lots of sugary snacks loaded with simple carbs, you're loading your bloodstream with the chemical energy needed for cancer cells (and tumors) to proliferate. No biological system can live without fuel for its chemical processes, including cancer cells. Thus, one of the strategies to pursue for any anti-cancer diet is to eat low-glycemic diet. That means no refined sugars... ever! No refined grains (white flour, for example), no heavy use of sweeteners and the lifetime avoidance of sugary soda pop. Aside from starving tumors, eating foods low in sugar and avoiding simple carbs will also keep your weight in check while helping prevent blood sugar disorders such as type-2 diabetes.

What to avoid on the labels: high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, sucrose, enriched bleached flour, white rice, white pastas, white breads and other "white" foods.

The dangers of hydrogenated oils
Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils -- another danger -- are developed from otherwise harmless, natural elements. To make them hydrogenated, oils are heated in the presence of hydrogen and metal catalysts. This process helps prolong shelf life but simultaneously creates trans fats, which only have to be disclosed on the label if the food contains more than 0.5 grams per serving. To avoid listing trans fats, or to claim "trans fat free" on their label, food manufacturers simply adjust the serving size until the trans fat content falls under 0.5 grams per serving. This is how you get modern food labels with serving sizes that essentially equate to a single bite of food. Not exactly a "serving" of food, is it?

Besides being a cancer factor, trans fats promote heart disease, interrupt metabolic processes, and cause belly fat that crowd the organs and strain the heart. The essential fatty acids that the hydrogenation process removes are responsible for a number of processes in your body. When trans fats replace these essential fatty acids, they occupy the same space without doing the same job. The "anchor" portion of the fatty acid is in place (which is how the body recognizes the fatty acid and puts it to work) but the chemically active part of the fatty acid is twisted, distorted, and missing vital parts.

After the hydrogenation process, the fatty acid can't biochemically function in the same way. Things like brain cell function, hormones, gland function, oxygen transport, cell wall function (keeping things in or out of your cells) and digestive tract operation (putting together nutrients and blocking allergens) are adversely affected.

Food manufacturers don't tell you this on the product label, of course. Your body needs essential fatty acids and you are programmed to keep eating until you get them. If you're only eating trans fats, you'll never feel fully satiated, because your body will never get the fatty acids it needs for essential function. Since cancer needs high blood sugar and low oxygen levels, a person with lots of belly fat who just can't seem to put down those trans fat cookies or crackers (also loaded with flour and simple sugars) presents the ideal environment for the development of cancer.

The acrylamide factor
Since trans fats are often formed during the frying process, we should also talk about acrylamides. Acrylamides are not added into food; they are created during the frying process. When starchy foods are subjected to high heat, acrylamides form. A Swedish study found that acrylamides cause cancer in rats, and more studies are under way to confirm the understanding that acrylamides also cause cancer in humans.

Sodium nitrite (and nitrates)
Food companies add sodium nitrite into certain foods on purpose. This carcinogen is added to processed meats, hot dogs, bacon, and any other meat that needs a reddish color to look "fresh." Decades ago when meats were preserved, it was done with salt. But in the mid 20th century, food manufacturers started using sodium nitrite in commercial preservation. This chemical is responsible for the pinkish color in meat to which consumers have grown accustomed. Although today the use of refrigeration is largely what protects consumers from botulism and bacteria, manufacturers still add sodium nitrite to make the meat look pinkish and fresh.

The nitrites themselves are not the problem. People get more nitrites from vegetables than they do from meat, according to research by the University of Minnesota. During the digestion process, however, sodium nitrite is converted to nitrosamine, and that's where the cancer problems begin. Nitrosamine is a carcinogen, but since it is not technically an ingredient, its presence can be easily overlooked on the packaging. Nitrosamines are also found in food items that are pickled, fried, or smoked; in things such as beer, cheese, fish byproducts, and tobacco smoke.

Knowing about all these ingredients doesn't mean there is simply a "short list" of foods that should be avoided. You have to vigilant and read labels constantly. Here are the five worst offenders:

* Hot dogs: The Cancer Prevention Coalition recommends that children should not eat more than 12 hot dogs per month because of the risk of cancer. If you must have your hot dog fix, look for those without sodium nitrite listed among the ingredients.

* Processed meats and bacon: These meats almost always contain the same sodium nitrite found in hot dogs. You can find some without nitrites, but you'll have to look for them in natural grocers or health food stores. Bacon is also high in saturated fat, which contributes to the risk of cancers, including breast cancer. Limiting your consumption of processed meats and saturated fats also benefits the heart.

* Doughnuts: Doughnuts contain hydrogenated oils, white flour, sugar, and acrylamides. Essentially, they're one of the worst cancer foods you can possibly eat. Reader's Digest calls doughnuts "disastrous" as a breakfast food, and many experts agree it's probably one of the worst ways to start the day.

* French fries: Fries are made with hydrogenated oil and fried at high temperatures. Some chains even add sugar to their fry recipe to make them even more irresistible. Not only do they clog your arteries with saturated fat and trans fat, they also contain acrylamides. They should be called "cancer fries," not French fries.

* Chips / crackers / cookies: These generally contain white flour and sugar as well as trans fats, but it's not enough to simply look for these ingredients on the label; you have to actually "decode" the ingredients list that food manufacturers use to deceive consumers. They do this by hiding ingredients (such as hiding MSG in yeast extract, or by fiddling with serving sizes so they can claim the food is trans fat free, even when it contains trans fats (the new Girl Scout cookies use this trick).


Besides avoiding these foods, what else can consumers do to reduce their risk of cancer? The main things are simple: Eat unprocessed foods and base your diet largely on plants. Consume foods that have omega-3 fats and other essential fatty acids. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables; many common ones have known cancer-fighting properties. Get regular vigorous exercise, since tumors cannot thrive in highly oxygenated environments. Keep your blood sugar stable to avoid being an all-you-can-eat buffet for cancer cells.

Eat foods high in natural vitamin C, a nutrient that deters the conversion of nitrite into nitrosamine and promotes healthy immune function. Make sure you get adequate amounts of cancer-fighting vitamin D through exposure to sunlight -- about 10 to 15 minutes each day if you have fair skin, or ten times as long if you have dark skin pigmentation. Stay well hydrated to ensure that your body rids itself of toxins. Avoid smoking and don't use conventional fragrance, cosmetics and personal care products -- virtually all of them contain cancer-causing chemicals.

Preventing cancer is actually quite straightforward. Even the World Health Organization says that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented with simple changes in diet and lifestyle. The truth is that most people give themselves cancer through the foods, drinks and products they choose to consume. In my opinion, over 90 percent of cancers are easily preventable.

About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and technology pioneer with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes.

Homeopathy simply explained

Homeopathy simply explained
Starting homeopathic treatment

Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognizes that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.

As a new patient, these ideas may be new to you, but homeopathy has been established for about 200 years.
What is homeopathy?

In 1796 a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning 'similar suffering'). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier he realized that there were two ways of treating ill health, the way of opposites and the way of similars.

Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites, (conventional medicine or allopathy), is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular doses of drugs which can sometimes cause side effects or addiction.

The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Perhaps surprisingly this will enable the patient to sleep naturally"

What the heart Docs don't tell you

What the heart Docs don't tell you

“You need a statin,” said one.

“Yes, a statin and aspirin,” said another.

“I would add Zetia and a beta blocker as well,” they said to the bewildered patient who was now out five hundred bucks a month and facing serious side effects from these drugs.

A final harrumph and they sent him on his way.

Five will get you ten that he had some type of side effect from mild fatigue and brain fog to impotence and memory loss or liver and muscle problems.

So here are a few things the heart Docs won't tell you unless maybe you ask them directly.

1) Most cardiologists now recognize Omega 3 fatty acid deficiency as a serious nutritional issue and one that may be the MOST COMMON and correctable nutritional deficiency in the U.S and other areas of the world.

2) Most cardiologists now take fish oil and so do their families.

3) Most cardiologists are too scared, scarred or conservative to recommend it to their patients for fear of backlash from their medical communities. With the thousands of clinical studies supporting the use of fish oil (not just fish eating but fish oil supplementation!) there is no excuse and in Italy it's been called tantamount to malpractice.

4) Speaking of fish, most cardiologists are of the Finnish study that showed that mercury from eating fish can cause cardiac toxicity that negates all effects of fish or fish oil and makes it harmful.

This along with mercury's toxic effects on the brain, liver and blood are just one of the reasons we test our product out to parts per trillion purity in every batch!

5) Most cardiologists know that high dose statins can affect the sex hormones and reduce them, causing impotence and low sex drive. But very few consider the all natural alternative to reduce cholesterol, Cholesterol Bomb.

6) Most cardiologist also know the effect of statin drugs on the blood levels of Co Q and the relationship between Co Q 10 and heart disease. Yet they have not asked the question, “Why are their so many new cases of heart failure with no apparent cause like heart attack or high blood pressure?”

Let me answer that for you guys: Co Q 10 and L Carnitene deficiency.

Cure cancer with EGGPLANT?!

Would you believe that an extract from eggplant could cure -- that's cure, not just improve -- the majority of non-melanoma skin cancers (squamous and basal cell cancers), usually in three months or less? This may seem like an outrageous claim, but researchers have known about these incredible results for over 20 years!

It might have remained a secret for another two decades if award-winning doctor Jonathan Wright, M.D. hadn't published the research -- and dared tell the truth: It's a cure! Just look at the proof:

'It's a cure!' -- straight
from Royal London Hospital's double-blind, placebo
controlled study

Using a form of eggplant extract called BEC5, doctors treated both invasive and non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. The results were equal to those resulting from invasive surgery, minus the scars. And doctors concluded:
'In our view and experience, BEC5 is...safe and effective...it is a cost-effective treatment for both primary and secondary skin cancer.'

Even more importantly, follow-up research on patients who used BEC5 shows once their cancer went away, it did not recur.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. You'll hear how careful patient records kept since the 1980's show...

Success in 80,000 cases
with ZERO return of
the cancer!

Over 80,000 patients have used it successfully. Microscopic analysis consistently shows death of all cancer cells. Better yet, no cancer has ever returned.

Best of all, BEC5 does not kill any healthy human cells. With microscopic precision, it selects and eliminates only the cancer cells. Healthy cells are not affected in any way by the treatment.

A major breakthrough?

You bet!

More than a million new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year alone.

Yet this same eggplant breakthrough is so safe and effective, it can even be used cosmetically -- to eradicate age spots, sun spots and 'pre-cancers' called actinic keratoses.

It's non-invasive, non-toxic and so easy to use, you can do it at home. Simple as smoothing on skin cream.

So how did our
mighty medical press
miss this one?

How come you never saw anything about it...not in magazines...not on TV...not even on the internet?

Because of modern medicine's 'golden rule' -- those with the gold make the rules! And this astonishingly cheap, effective cancer cure has just one unfortunate drawback...

It threatens the pocketbooks of pharmaceutical firms, dermatology clinics and plastic surgeons. (And the eggplant lobby isn't nearly as powerful as you might imagine.)

Stop Snoring

Are you bothered by the sound of snoring at night? My husband is!

Yes, I snore at night! I never used to until I had children. My extra weight brought about this annoying nighttime habit. I know one obvious method that would help stop my snoring -- losing weight; but since pigs can't fly, I thought I should check into other methods of kicking the habit!

One method is the nasal strip. This is a flexible, heavy-duty piece of plastic that sticks to your nose and allows you to breath better through your nose. For one glorious night, this method actually worked for me, but then, alas the next night my husband once again head the sounds of snoring.

Another method is aromatherapy. Now, I haven't personally used this method yet, but I wonder why I haven't, as it seems it is the easiest thing to do. In fact, I have found a seller on Ebay who offers a simple aromatic jar that when opened at nighttime will not only relieve you from snoring, but your spouse as well.

A third method is a homeopathic spray that you use on your throat right before bedtime. But, I believe my excuse for not using this product was that you couldn't have anything to eat after you used the spray - oh well. On to the next method...

The final method is actually reading! Reading? Yes, as in reading information. I did a search on the internet on how to stop snoring and you would be surprised as to how many ebooks are out there that talk about how to stop snoring. Now reading is something that I can do!

I actually found a few ebooks that I would recommend like Stop Snoring Secrets and Stop Snoring in Seven Days ... now to put that reading into practice!

Take care (of your snoring),

Sue

Urgent action: FDA plans "final solution" to destroy natural medicine

URGENT ACTION ALERT

Earlier today, we released a jaw-dropping story about organized criminals attacking NewsTarget, attempting to take us offline and discredit our work. Now we're releasing another blockbuster story that demonstrates exactly why Big Pharma and the FDA want to shut us up for good: Details of a new FDA "final solution" plan to utterly destroy natural medicine by regulating herbs, supplements, vitamins and even massage oils as drugs while criminalizing anyone who sells such products.



If the FDA has its way, even vegetable juices will be regulated as "drugs." Massage props and hot rocks will be classified as "medical devices," and the entire nutritional supplements industry will be destroyed, wiped off the slate, and replaced by a stronger-than-ever pharmaceutical monopoly that has already taken over virtually the entire U.S. government.



This is an urgent action item. You still have until April 30 to post comments with the FDA or write your representatives, and you can join hundreds of thousands of other readers who are taking a stand right now to stop this medical tyranny in its tracks. Contact details and web links are printed in the story below. Click the headline to read...



Health: Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage...

NOTE: Within minutes after posting this story, our website was apparently subjected to another disruption attack, and the site slowed to a crawl. If you cannot reach the site for any reason, or the pages are loading slowly, rest assured that we are aware of the issue and we're working on blocking the hackers and restoring web server performance.



This is the price we pay for fighting for REAL freedom. The attacks are relentless, and the Big Pharma conspirators will seemingly stop at nothing to destroy NewsTarget and make sure readers like you never see what we publish. The FDA has declared war on the American people, and Big Pharma-funded criminal gangs have declared war on NewsTarget for daring to tell you the truth about what's really going on.



You see, they not only want to eliminate your access to vitamins and supplements, they also want to eliminate your access to INFORMATION about vitamins and supplements! You, the consumer, were never supposed to find out about this. When you read this story, you are reading information that will likely soon be OUTLAWED or CENSORED.



Read it while you still can.



To your health and freedom,
- Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

FDA Regulators Using Legal Trickery to Kill Alternative Procedures and Products

The FDA is using legal maneuvering to end your access to natural health products (like vitamins, minerals and herbs) and natural health therapies of all sorts. Again. This time, their ploy is to declare the therapies are 'Medicine' so any non-physician who uses them will be practicing medicine without a license. Since these practices are 'Medicine', any products used would be untested drugs and therefore forbidden.
Your Comments are Vitally Important
Public, professional and industry comments are being accepted on the FDA proposal to 'capture' alternative procedures and products as 'medicine' and then make them illegal. The history of these repressive attacks by the FDA makes it clear that public outcry, IN HUGE NUMBERS, is the only effective tool that natural health supporters have to change this disastrous outcome. Comments will be accepted until April 30. By contacting everyone you can reach to ask for their participation in this comment campaign, we can kill this assault on personal health freedom."

Alternative Health Radio Show

I don't know if you have had a chance to listen to this particular radio show or not, but I would highly recommend that you do. It actually can be heard online at healthline.cc

It's very informative. One major thing that the host talks about how the Standard American Diet has really affected everyone's health and now really can be known as the S.A.D. diet.

If you actually have any questions about your particular problems or symptoms, you can just call in for help and he will answer your question live on the show.

If you're just wondering about particular alternative products - I would recommend that you go here for some basic information.

I personally feel that the person who hosts healthline.cc has a lot of integrity and can be trusted - just my opinion.

Go check it out!