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Plan to reverse cancer and enjoy a healthy lifespan. 

We are led to believe that there are fast fixes in a package that will correct all problems. It’s a packaged world that have brands competing to boast sales with prescription based appeal. Anything that incorporates droppers, syringes and glass or glass like bottles carry a secondary message which implies the disease you have is going to go away with the use of the contents.

The prescription drugs have a historically disappointing record. They have demonstrated time and time again they have risks that may out weight the benefits. When olive oil is linked with a lower risk of stroke in the journal Neurology, it seems to be a complete surprise to many people. 

Micronutrients

The mechanism for preventing and reversing any condition including cancer resides in our body and in our foods. Deficiencies of micronutrients increase the risk of all age-related diseases including cancer. Resvertatrol shows promise as an anti-aging compound and is the basis for many cancer diets. Now, what that says is programming and extending life comes from the vines, seeds, skin, and leaves of plants.

In the future the differences between pharmaceuticals and plant food will be the way one can naturally restore health while the other masks symptoms by creating new ones. To enable healing the body it has to have the right building blocks, chemo, and radiation aren’t builders, but insidious destroyers of health. Perhaps most disturbing is the failure of these treatments to cure  by restoring the health of the individual.

The new way of thinking is that all disease including cancer is a deficiency state. If that is true we can be sure it isn’t a pill, capsule, chemotherapy, or radiation, but one of micronutrients. Replacing the terminology from degenerative disease to a deficiency disease changes the solutions.

Environment

Cancer is an environmental disease. What that means is the internal terrain is the environment that our cells function in. Cancer cells are dependent on our hormones, nutritional status, and immunity.  Carcinogensis research is the basic laboratory studies aimed at understanding the molecular changes involved in cancer. This means looking at the chemical agents, physical agents, radiation, biological agents such as viruses, and hormones.

The real breakthroughs are already being put into practice. These are interventions that have biological explanations. The biological mechanism for cancer cell growth depends on our immune system, hormone balance, nutritional status, stress level, and other habits.

Anti-Cancer Diet

The main components of an anti-cancer diet are low refined carbohydrates. It is known that a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet has been shown to boost the ability of the immune system to kill cancer cells. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A new study in the July issue of Carcinogenesis  came to the conclusion that a diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastasis, compared with the western way of eating,

Food is a tool that carries with it the ability to help maintain healthy hormone levels, and have anti-inflammatory effects. This is something that isn’t used to any great extent, and yet there is proof that it is capable of restoring health and checking tumor growth. This is true if you use conventional treatment or alternative healing modalities. This is the one factor that puts you in control of your destiny. It’s ultimately lifestyles that set the course for healing and vibrant health. There are specific things that are known to reverse cancer. The next article will talk about them.

The papaya is sweet, succulent and when served ripe has custard like taste. That the papaya thwarts cancer cells in the lab makes this an even sweeter choice. Papaya contains anti-oxidant nutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin A and C, flavonoids, folate, B vitamins and pantothenic acid. It also contains small amount of minerals like calcium, chlorine, iron phosphorus, potassium, silicon and sodium.

Papaya Cancer Protection

The Papaya provides a blast of luscious sweetness while delivering powerful immune boosting nutrients. Papaya fights cancer because it has the powerful combination of lycopene, and carotenoids. It has shown promise against hormone related cancers as well as other types. In the case of breast cancer cells research shows it can stop the growth and metastasis process.

The nutrients in papaya have been shown to help prevent colon cancer. Papaya’s fiber is able to bind with cancer-causing toxins in the colon and keep them away from the healthy colon cells. Papaya’s folate, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and vitamin E have each been associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer. These nutrients provide synergistic protection for colon cells from free radical damage to their DNA.

Papaya may reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer. This comes from research published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Men who frequently consumed lycopene-rich fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, apricots, pink grapefruit, watermelon , papaya, and guava were 82% less likely to have prostate cancer than those who consumed the least of these fruits. Drinking green tea while on a diet high in lycopene-rich fruits offered stronger protection. There seems to be a synergistic effect that offers substantial protection.

Papaya and Cancer Research

Scientists at the University of Illinois think this anti-oxidant activity contributes to its effectiveness as a cancer fighting agent. The University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya’s dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors. These include cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. Researchers in Japan found the mechanisms of action in a type of isothiocyanate found in papaya known as BITC (Benzyl isothiocyanate} that underlies the relationship between cell cycle regulation and appropriate cell demise.

Adding papayas to your diet is a powerful way to ensure you are getting a nutrient-dense fruit that is a rich source of cancer fighting nutrients. The key to health is to get nutriton in and cellular toxins out. It is common sense that what works to protect against cancer are whole foods with a broad-spectrum of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Pomegranate protection means that your diet matters. The power of pomegranate is in what it does, preventing or reversing atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.  Human and animal studies show that pomegranate juice reduces oxidative stress, low-density lipoproterin (LDL) aggregation and oxidation, and reduces the platelet clumping that is associated with arteriosclerosis. By slowing the clumping it stops clots from forming, it  works like aspirin, without the side effects. It also lowers the systolic blood pressure reading.

Pomegranate Power

Part of the power of pomegranate juice is its antioxidant properties. The antioxidant level is 3X more than found in green tea, red wine, blueberries, cranberries and oranges. Antioxidants help guard the body against premature aging, heart disease, alzheimer’s, and cancer. Pomegranate is good for inflammatory conditions. It is used in other parts of the world to keep the look of youth with clear and glowing skin. Pomegranate also supplies you with vitamin C, fiber, and Potassium.

Pomegranate juice seems to destroy cancer cells, while protecting healthy cells. It seems to work on breast cancer cells, and prostrate cancer. There is research that shows consumption of pomegranate juice may protect the neonatal brain from damage due to injury. It improves the amount of oxygen to the heart muscle of people suffering from coronary heart disease. Research has found that eight ounces daily of pomegranate juice improved the amount of oxygen getting to the heart muscle of patients with coronary heart disease (American Journal of the college of Cardiology, (Sept. 2005).  There is some research that long-term consumption of pomegranate juice may help combat erectile dysfunction (Journal of Urology, July 2005). This should not be a surprise because erectile dysfunction is often due to atherosclerosis, and/or blood pressure medication

Research

Research shows that there is a possibility that pomegranate compounds might prevent prostrate cancer or slow its growth. The same holds true for breast cancer, it causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct. Scientists have found inflammation is reduced, and this may help in arthritis. Now we really do not need more studies, what we need is more people using these super foods.

The unique properties are; antioxidant polyphenols, ascorbic, citric, fumaic, and malic acids, essential amino acids, vitamins B and C. One pomegranate has about 40 percent of the recommended daily vitamin C. It also has some vitamin A and E. The power of pomegranate comes from the power of nature. All the laboratories in the world are not going to come up with more beneficial forms of the substances found in fruits and vegetables.