Jessica’s Notes

As mentioned in the earlier post, an acidic environment encourages growth and multiplication of cancer cells causing tumors. Here are some easy tips (suggested by John Hopkins) that you can do everyday to neutralize the acidic environments:

a) Fruits and Vegetables Diets: A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells, try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 to 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperature of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

b) Exercise: Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

c) Supplements: Supplements such as IP6, Flor ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFA’s and etc enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted or unneeded cells.

d) Positive mindset: Cancer is a disease of mind, body and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

Cancer cells is inside every human being. It is whether we have activated those cells to multiply enormously and turn into tumors.I received a forwarded powerpoint slides (summarized from John Hopkins - 20/Oct 2007) about cancer and it’s prevention today. I think it’s a simple guide that we all can follow:

a. Avoid Sugar: Sugar is a cancer feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to cancer cells. Sugar substitutes made of Aspartame is harmful. A better natural substitute would be honey or molasses but only in very small amount. Table salt that has chemical added to make it white in color should be substituted with sea salt.

b. Cut Milk: Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. But cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened Soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cut meat: Meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become purified and leads to more toxic buildup. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells. In addition to that, meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. Say no to high caffeine food: Avoid coffee, tea and chocolate which contain high caffeine. You can use green tea as a substitute. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

e. Reduce plastics: Make sure there are no plastic containers/wrappers in microwave. Bottle water in freezer should also be avoided. According to John Hopkins recent newsletter, dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from plastic. We should not reheat our food in microwave using plastic containers. This applies to food that contain fat. The combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Replacing with glass such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers are highly recommended.