The article below is of great interest to me. Since my cancer diagnosis I have thought alot about how important an organic diet free of chemicals and pesticides is to the human body and its ability to ward off cancer cells. The volume of chemicals and pesticides in conventional foods MUST surely have some effect on cancer rates in my opinion.
By JOHN THRELFALL
Jul 05 2006
Worldwide, people are being diagnosed with cancer at rates unprecedented in recorded history. And after examining a staggering 10 million people over a 70-year period, a recent Swedish study found that cancers were “90 percent environmental in origin”-meaning the vast majority develop from exposure to toxins outside our bodies: radiation, tobacco smoke, alcohol, the sun, toxic chemicals, heavy metals, processed foods . . . sadly, the list goes on (and on).
Fortunately, there’s something we can do to help prevent cancer-and according to local author Guy Dauncey, it may be as simple as eating organic.
“I premise all my work on the knowledge that, as humans with all our incredible intelligence, we could live cooperatively and lovingly together on a really beautiful planet,” says Dauncey. “Non-organic food is hurting the whole planet, through lack of nutrients, damage to the soil and to the ecosystem. But we had to work through the industrial age and the very primitive beginning of science and technology to get where we are now-and we’re going to look back on industrial farming as a huge error that we should never have made.”
But don’t peg Dauncey as just another doom-and-gloomer. As well as currently working on a book called Cancer 101: Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (a follow-up to his award-winning Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to a Global Climate Change), he is also the president of the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association and editor of the monthly newsletter EcoNews. More importantly, given his role as keynote speaker at this weekend’s Organic Islands Festival (see sidebar), Dauncey is also the co-chair of Prevent Cancer Now (www.preventcancernow.ca), a new national non-profit agency aimed at eliminating the preventable causes of cancer-including harmful non-organic farming methods.
“Modern farming, with its chemicals and pesticides-which are there purely for the sake of increased yield and increased profit-are not doing us a favour,” Dauncey explains. “Since we started modern farming, the quantity of nutrients in the soil have fallen by an average of 50 percent just since 1950-because farmers are no longer treating the soil with manure and nitrogen-fixing cover crops.”
“Consider selenium,” he continues, “which is a known preventative against cancer. Selenium uptake by plants is inhibited by three things: modern fertilizers, mercury pollution from coal-fired power and acid rain from fossil fuels. In Britain, just since 1978, selenium levels have fallen by almost 50 percent.”
Selenium is just one of the many cancer-fighting elements losing ground to industrial farming; basic mineral content is another. “Researchers in Britain, Canada and America have all reported levels of iron, calcium, sodium, copper and magnesium-as well as selenium-have fallen over the past 50 years.” Dauncey cracks off statistics like a baseball fan would recite RBIs. “Meats and cheeses have lost half their iron; broccoli has lost 63 percent of its calcium; potatoes have lost 100 percent of their vitamin C. The nutrients are just not there, whereas organic farming methods build the soil and retain high mineral levels across the board.”
Put all that into a grocery store context, and it means the non-organic food we’re eating simply isn’t cutting it. “One of the suspicions about why there’s so much obesity right now is that because people are eating nutrient-deprived food [and] our bodies are saying, ‘Eat more, eat more-you’re not getting the nutrients’.” Want an example you can sink your teeth into? Try a Skippy and Wonder Bread sandwich. “You eat a slice of really wholesome organic brown bread, you feel pretty full,” says Dauncey, “but if you eat white bread and processed peanut butter, you don’t feel full, and you want more of it.”
But while Dauncey is full of daunting facts, he does see a silver lining to the dark cloud we’re currently living under. “I work on the basis that there are only two problems in the world,” he chuckles. “One is the sum total of all our social-environmental-economic-corporate-whatever-you-want-to-call-them problems; the second is the belief that we cannot solve them.”
When asked for solutions, Dauncey perks up. “Number one, eat organic food-and I mean fresh, local organic food, not cardboard strawberries from California.” (Think eating organic is too expensive? Dauncey suggests growing your own and cooking from scratch, rather than relying on pre-packaged foods.) “The second thing,” he says, “is to clean the toxins out of your house.” That includes harmful household cleaners, garden pesticides, tobacco smoke, ambient radiation and electro-magnetic exposure from cell phones, power lines and electronic appliances.
Despite our current woes, Dauncey remains optimistic we can find our way to a healthier future. “I’m hopeful that we can find solutions because the solutions are out there,” he concludes. “I know they make rational sense, I know they save us money and can strengthen our economies in a deep sense. If we really want to guide our culture towards what everyone wants-greater joy, happiness and inner peace-you need to remove the toxins from our food, bring back the neighbours, build stronger families, get the cars off the streets so we can talk to each other while walking around, and protect the forests and the soil.”
See? It’s easy. We just have to want it.
Source
Dearest Tiffany ~
I posted this on the other blog that you wrote about your health situation, and I am unsure if you saw this or not, so I am repositng it here. Also, I have articles published related to the information in my post below here available at http://www.ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dr._Patti_Diamond,_DD
Please read below my post to you from the other day:)…..
Dearest Tiffany ~
I heard on Carries radio show today about your situation and came here to see your posting on it here. I am so very sorry to hear about what you are going through.
If I may, there is a gift I wish to offer to you that may be of help. I have a very close friend Jenn, who just this past November was diagnosed by conventional medicine with an inoperable brain tumor on her optic nerve and the doctors told her that she had 9 months to one year to live at best. This woman is much like you, She is 25 years old, a happy vivacious woman, a CFO of a local firm here in San Diego and a wonderful soul.
What I can tell you is through what we have been doing here with herbal rememedies (she went off all conventional medicine entirely as it was making her sicker) spiritual healing and cleansing, as of Easter weekend, her tumor is half gone! She has a boyfriend now and is actually about to close escrow on her first house, things she thought she would never do because they told her she was certain to die.
I offer this to you as a gift to let you know that there is hope and miracles do come true if we so choose them to be so.
As a Wholistic Intuitive Practioner, I would like to offer that you take a look at http://www.herbalhealer.com to get the cancer herbs for detoxying and cleansing. The herbs on Majiahs website here are as she says they are miraculous. This is what Jenn has been taking: 4-Herb Tea which is also known on their site as ESSIAC, this consists of the four herbs of Burdock Root, Sheep Sorrel, Slipery Elm, and Turkey Rhubarb. Yew Tips is the next, the Yew Tips herb and be mixed with the four herb tea and when you order these they send you instructions on how to make the tea along with an articleall about how these herbs in her formula cure cancer. Next is HHA Beta Glutans with Maitake Mushroom, and the last is Reishi. Now they also recommend Colloidal Silver but Jenn already has it at home so I did not get her any. If you order Colloidal Silver from any other source other than Herbal Healer, please make sure you get the 500 ppm. The lower dosages are not as effective and the 500 ppm is the best truly. It is a bit more expensive than the lower dosages but highly worth it. I do have research on Colloidal which is on my website at http://www.diamondlady.net under the Colloidal Silver link if you need more info on it.
There are also other herbs hearbal healer recommends such as Shark Cartilage, Geranium, Revivin, HHA Olive Leaf Extract, CME – Cordyceps Extract, Apricot Kernels, Oxy5000, Dioxiclor and a few others depending upon what type of cancer. There is a whole list of information on this site that can be of help in assisting you with this cancer.
Another key ingredient to cancer physically is chronic dehydration and built up toxic remnants from food and drink of any kind, conventional medicine, and other toxins which we are free from flushing out with an adequate supply of water. I have extensive information on my website about this as well as within the gift that I wish to gift you.
This other gift I wish to gift to you is something that has been a tremendous gift of assistance to Jenn during this process and has along with the herbs, been the catalyst for this miraculous recovery for her, and that is the spiritual side of cancer, of dis~ease. For it is the physical and the spiritual co-creating harmoniously as One that gifts us with infinite radiant well being and it is the how in how to do and be this that I wish to gift to you now for your own healing physically and spiritually.
I may be free from being gifted with cancer, but I too have been gifted with many diseases, the most recent diagnosis by conventional medicine being Lupus and a rare and potentially fatal blood disorder where the physical body clots inside and bleeds profusely when cut on the outside. Also as a Doctor of Divinty, I have studied and researched many facets of healing, disease, and death. I have also flatlined and or died ten times and come back to life here on this earth, with my most recent one occurring in Sept 2005 when having the gallbladder removed. So I am free from being a stranger to disease and death. As my Shamanic mentor used to tell me that I am a soul who walks between the worlds:)
Thus, my gift that I wish to gift you is that I invite you to please go to my website at http://www.diamondlady.net and go to the link where the book I have just published is called Stepping Into Spiritual Oneness, and download it for free from my site. Please read it, in particular the chapter on Vibrational Healing, as I know that the wisdom within the pages of this Chapter and of this book, will be the catalyst for healing as it has been for Jenn.
If you ever need anything dear friend, please know that I am always, In All Ways, here for you and I will be placing you in our healing circles we hold weekly here in our spiritual center. Please feel free to email me at any moment you so choose if you at di*************@di*********.net. If you so wish to choose to speak with Jenn also for support and guidance through this time in your life, I can email you her contact information as well if you email me.
Please know that you are always in my thoughts and I envision you as Radiant Infinite Well BEing Always, In All Ways.
Infinite Love and Light,
Dr. Patti Diamondlady Diamond, DD
Dancing Dolphin Diamondlady
Director, The Diamondlady International Spiritual Oneness Center
Spiritual Medium, Author, Ascended Master
JUST PUBLISHED! Stepping Into Spiritual Oneness ~ Spiritual Rememberings of the Soul Through Life Experience, available at http://www.diamondlady.net
Patti is also a Life Long Learning mom of 3 and has written the internationally known book published in 2004, Life Long Learning ~ Transforming Learning – Discovering Learning Through Living Life In Unlimitless Possibilities, available at http://www.lifelonglearning4all.com
Comment by Dr. Patti Diamondlady Diamond, DD July 7, 2006 @ 2:10 am