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Reinventing cancer treatment will bring about enhanced health. Identifying what really works for this condition, you have to look no further than your lifestyle. Cancer may be a wake up call that something in your life isn’t working.

Study

A study in which mice were given larger living quarters, more playmates, lots of toys, and an interactive environment shrunk their tumors.

This was reported in an issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. The evidence showed that cancer in treatable by providing an enriched environment, and a strong social network.

Emotional Health

If social connections and emotional state play a role in the formation and remission of cancer, the allopathic treatments are way out of line.

Geneticist Professor Matthew During from The Ohio State University offers powerful new evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state may play a role in cancer.

This makes sense, since our thoughts produce chemicals that have a profound influence on our health.

Observations

These are some observations that were made in the Lab:

What was found is that if you take mice from a nice environment and put them into an even better one their cancers regressed.

Laboratory animals are usually housed in groups of five or so, and are given all the food they want and get to play the whole day.

In this case they were placed in an enriched environment with 15-20 playmates. Then they are provided with more space, toys, and things to do. Their tumors shrunk when they were placed in these new living conditions.

The researches found the animals’ interaction with the environment had a profound influence on the growth of the cancer. The effect was more profound than they thought possible.

We may not be mice, but we all know mind over matter, and the placebo effect. All our body chemistry is influenced by what we eat, think, feel, and our environment.

When During and his colleague Lei Cao placed mice with cancer in that enriched environment, the animals tumor mass shrunk by 77 percent and the volume by 44 percent. On top of that five percent of mice that were given cancer showed no sign of the disease after only three weeks in their new home.

Outside the lab alternative practitioners have seen the exact same things in patients. They have seen cancers disappear when people got rid of what they didn’t want and started doing what made them feel good.

Cancer is Tied to General Well-Being

Cancer is tied to general well-being. It shows that you can’t look at a disease without looking at the whole person. The surgery, chemo, and radiotherapy hasn’t worked well for all the above reasons. You have given people what they don’t want. Making someone feel sick to get better makes no sense.

There has to be a new perception of disease, one where environment counts. Mice may not be humans, but somehow this make sense. If medicine was logical we would be doing everything differently.

Humans are social Animals

Mice are social, and so are humans. This could be another important piece to the puzzle. If fact for humans it is so important that it influences lifespan.

People who have good social ties are shown t o survive longer. This is important in the age of computers, television, and stressed filled work days.

It can be it takes a village to raise a child, and it also takes a village to help you attain a long healthy life. Perhaps, isolation with a combination of toxic treatment isn’t the answer to cancer.

The facts are that low social interaction harms you as much as some nasty habits such as alcoholism, smoking, and not exercising. It is more dangerous than obesity according to some studies.

One of the features of a cancer diagnosis is people may avoid you.. Friends fall away, when they are needed the most. Now, it seems that it helps the patient and the people that keep the friendship strong. Social ties and optimism turn on the longevity genes.

What This Means

What this means is we have been looking in the wrong places for a magic bullet. A comprehensive look at people’s lifestyle is unprecedented. Looking for dysfunction in a cancer’s patient’s life may provide a clue to this condition. Neutralizing the effects of some harmful thoughts is important. You are what you eat, think, believe, and do.

The environment that you are surrounded by has a huge impact on your life. Cancer may just be a sign that things in your life are not working well for you. The best defense is all around you. Your thoughts monopolize and influenced your life.

Thoughts release hormones that impact our health; this means we have to rethink how we approach cancer. What if it isn’t a sentence, but a wake up call?  We need to view this as an opportunity to change our life.

Children’s packed lunches are a disaster. It is a failure to provide not just proper nutrition, but to pack know chemical poisons. The taste that kills is what we feed our children year in year out. 

Research that is going to be in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports that only one per cent of primary school children who brought lunches met the nutritional standards set for school meals in England.

What this means is that chips, sweets, and sugary drinks are preferred to vegetables, fruit, and milk based products. It also means children’s lunch disasters are in the lunch box they bring to school.

No Surprise

This is the trend in most industrialized nations. In the United States children are suffering from the same type of carbohydrate overload. Convenience is only one of the factors. The lethal effects of excess calories are known. Couple that with empty calories and we have the ingredients for a generation of obese and sickly children.

Formula for Lifelong Health Problems

A recent report from the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) states that excess body fat is now seen as a major cause of some cancers. There are newer studies that seem to find that excess body fat lowers immune function and increases oxidative stress. All this can lead to DNA damage.

All these lunches provide excess calories and turn off the longevity genes. The habits formed in early childhood, are the ones that persist throughout life. The most effective way to prevent disease and extend life is watching what goes in to children’s lunchboxes.

Childhood is when taste preferences are formed. The type lunch that is sent to school with children will either set them up for impaired glucose control or undermine their metabolic functions.

Example

The food in a child’s lunchbox can contain as much sugar as ten doughnuts research shows.

A snapshot survey by a consumer watchdog group found that a packed lunch made up of five seemingly healthy items, including cheese and biscuits and fruit juice, contained 60g of sugar. This may be a complaint in Britain, but it sure is not that different here. The results of our food supply shows health concerns seem to take back seat to the food industries goals.

The Children’s Food Campaign coordinator, Jackie Schneider, commented: “Although these findings are appalling, we are not surprised. A whole industry has grown up around producing foods for lunchboxes, which can contain high levels of salt, fat or sugar. Parents are often misled by marketing for these lunchbox products, which make health claims like ‘high in vitamins’ but also turn out to be high in salt, fat or sugar as well.”

Spoiling

Sometimes parents offer these delights in the lunch box and spoil their children with these so called treats. What they are spoiling is a chance for their children to remain disease free. 

“Junk foods are altering the structure and function of the human brain while increasing and decreasing insulin levels so quickly that junk food leaves students groggy in class. (Simontacchi, 2000) A child’s brain continues to develop through until adulthood; many of the foods that students eat affect the growth of critical areas of their brain. When growth is disrupted, it can cause negative behavior reactions in the classroom. Often times, doctors do not seek the root of the problem (food) but instead they mask the behavioral symptoms with drugs such as Ritalin or Prozac which have their own series of side effects, all while the brain development continues to be damaged. (Simontacchi, 2000)

Simotacchi is the author of the book The Crazy Maker: the Food Industry is Destroying our Brains and Harming our Children.

Performance analytics show that children who consume low-nutrient content junk food diets perform poorly in academics. Their cognitive skills are impaired and at the same time they become anxious and hyperactive. Concentration is down so they do not have the opportunity or capacity to learn as well.

Success vs. Failure

Most of the calories are not only empty, but are in a large part from sugar. It is a problem because it creates a roller coaster in the body, with highs of hyper energy followed by drowsiness. It takes anywhere from one to three hours to come down from a sugar high. Sugar addiction comes because of the need for the fix again.

This kind of eating is not due to the failure of the food industry. They are succeeding in making a profit at the expense of our children. Dominating the market is their goal and they are succeeding, better than all expectations. Their job from a business standpoint is not in providing health food, but to successfully market their products.

Biology is not the corporate board meetings topic when looking for ingredients, it is global business. Every document, and task is geared for growing a global market.

Convincing adults and children that their food meets their nutritional needs is easy. We are addicted to the taste, and they know that is key to their profit. Their job is to maintain their brand and they have done that brilliantly.

They succeeded at the expense of our children’s health. Our children’s health suffers, while the food industry prospers. This is not a good trade-off.

Over The Top Perhaps

Processed food can be the downfall of both our health and the health care system. Consumming processed food can lead to all types of health problems. Some of them we are experiencing now.

Processed Food Effects

The incidence of obesity among children and adolescents has increased worldwide.

The long-term effects of processed food, both with regards to ill-health and mortality rate, are insufficiently documented.

The risk has been underestimated; from coronary heart disease to cancer, the major cause is the over consumption of pretend food.

Food Technology

What it takes to navigate our food supply is a degree in food science and technology. Save time most answers are just a few clicks away. The dirty tricks surface online.

Processed beef becomes a mashed substance that is frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company’s request that the ammonia used be classified as a “processing agent” and not an ingredient that would be listed on labels. The use is to kill pathogens by raising the level of alkalinity in the beef product. School lunch officials and customers have complained about the odor and taste of treated beef.

A pizza chain has used patented manufacturing processes that added lots of water, salt, and food starch to granules of so-called pizza cheese before flash-freezing. Food starch is a profit making component, it holds ten times its weight in water. For shelf-life water with a little antifoam is sprayed on the cheese granulates. The antifoam FG10 is known as polydimethylsiloxane. It is an anti-foaming agent for boiler water in plants processing procedures.

Consequences

This unfavorable consequences of a processed food diet will be a future of poor health for us and the nation. This technology and the overeating that ensues, increase the likelihood of childhood obesity. It is now found that those who are overweight in adolescence have an increased mortality rate from most causes. We see it across the board in the children, adults, and seniors as a continual decline in health. This is propelling the nation’s health crises.

 On The Record

It is expected that the purchase of processed food will increase, at this time it makes up 90% of our groceries. Just because we can build it doesn’t mean we should be using it.

While we communicate the pitfalls of this type marketplace, we have yet to motivate enough people to share this mission and passion. The lack of high quality food is going to change our lives. Our children can’t afford to wait it out. There is an option and it starts when we open our pocketbooks. We go on the record for or against something by the lifestyle we choose.