Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician
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at Uchee Pines Institute...
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and we're going to talk
with you today about this very
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dreaded diagnosis "cancer"
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You know, I don't
even like the word, do you?
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And yet, we're not
powerless against it.
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There're many
things that we can do...
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And we'll be talking with
you about some things that
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cause cancer and some
things that you can do
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to keep yourself
from getting cancer.
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We'd like to have you join us.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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There have been several
times in my life when I have
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made some MAJOR
changes in my life.
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One of those has to
do with the lungs...
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And I have here from the
American Lung Association,
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a model, or a little
representation of the lungs
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I was just looking at
this cancer of the lung...
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and I remember when
I stopped smoking...
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It was a day when a surgeon
friend of mine brought a lung
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over to the
laboratory for me to examine it
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and to give him the
terrible diagnosis of cancer.
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Of course, we
already knew it was cancer.
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And, I made a major
lifestyle change at that time.
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Then, there have been some other
times when I've made changes.
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When my mother was diagnosed
with cancer of the colon,
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I made some other major changes,
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realizing that cancer of the
colon sort of runs in families
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and so do life style, so I
made some life style changes
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with that.
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And then, I've made
some other changes...
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cancer of the breast and
cancer of the ovaries are
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known to be associated
with a variety of dietary
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lifestyles and habits...
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And so I have made some
major changes as I have gotten
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into the age of
being susceptible to those
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kinds of cancers.
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And there are so many...
being fair-skinned and blue-eyed
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I've made some changes
having to do with the way that I
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take care of my skin.
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And so I'd like to
talk with you today...
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and I would like for my
colleague at Uchee Pines
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to join me, Dr. Winn Horsley,
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who will assist me with
the presentation of a LARGE
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amount of material on cancer...
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so much written
today, Dr. Horsley... Hello
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on this matter of cancer...
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And, Dr. Horsley and I
and the other staff physicians
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at Uchee Pines see a
good bit of cancer... We do.
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We feel that there are
many things that we can do
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and yet we also realize that
this is a very powerful foe.
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So, we want to do what we can.
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So, Dr. Winn, would you
sort of kick the ball off for us
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in talking about cancer.
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Well, maybe one could
start with this issue of growth.
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All right... yes, growth.
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Growth is always good, isn't it?
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Well, you know, we
tend to think that way.
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We think of, of
course, a child growing...
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and, if he didn't
grow, how sad it would be.
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So we tend to generalize
and think growth is always
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a positive thing.
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Well, when we come to cancer,
we realize there has to be a
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strong correction to that view.
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Cancer is simply the excessive
growth and multiplication
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of cells... when really, they
should have limited and stayed
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right where they
were and not grown at all.
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Now, what foods
tend to promote growth?
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I think that's an
interesting question...
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since really, cancer, is growth
when it shouldn't be there.
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And, this might not be the
scientific way to go about it,
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but I think we can talk
about science after we talk
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about just this
general reflection.
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There are foods that the
Creator made for growth...
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even rapid growth.
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And, one would think
that those wouldn't be very
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appropriate at a time
of life when we don't want
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anymore growth.
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And so, what foods
are the ones for growth?
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Well, I think we
can think right away...
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the young, not only of humans
but of all the mammal species,
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receive milk from their mothers.
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And so that milk
causes a tremendous growth
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A baby triples its
weight in the first year.
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Doubles it's
birth weight in 6 months
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and triples it in a
year... There it is... okay
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That's milk that is doing that.
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Aside from the
abundance of water in milk,
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you've got lots of protein.
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And some growth factors
that are specific, other than
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just the protein and
the fat and the sugar,
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but some specific
growth factors that our
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loving Divine Designer
put in the milk... so that the
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little infant could grow
and could get so that he is
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big enough to stand alone.
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Another food that we
might not think of right away
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as being a growth food,
but actually it's for growth
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before birth...
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Here, we're talking about
food that is in the bird family
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...it's eggs.
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Eggs have all that substance
which the tiny creature
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that's going to hatch...
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All that it needs from a tiny
1 cell state until it is ready
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to hatch out of the egg.
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So, that's a
tremendous growth spurt.
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Well those foods,
one might, again I say...
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Not because I've proved it
right now in this discussion...
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But what one might wonder,
those foods that are made
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to promote rapid
growth, by the Creator...
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One could have a big question
mark... is that appropriate
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when we're at a stage
when we don't want to grow
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any further... Yes.
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Well, I certainly agree
with you that we do not want
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to promote growth when
we're in the cancer age. Um hm
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I was thinking, you
know, in that regard, really
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you talked about milk as having
other factors and really being
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...it's a food that
is concentrated in a way
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It's a very
specialized food. Um hm
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Calorie-dense, or unit of volume
that has a lot of calories.
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Especially cow's milk. Yes
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Compared to human milk. Yes.
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Other concentrated foods,
might wonder... one could have
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the same kind of question
about PROTEIN as a substance
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We do need in adult
life, but a small amount,
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since all that the
protein REALLY is needed for,
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in adult life, when
we've achieved our full height,
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is repair.
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It's not for growth anymore.
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And so, if we're giving a person
way more protein than what he
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needs for that repair, then
we're giving him a growth food
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that really is at
inappropriate quantities.
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And can stimulate the growth
of neoplasms or new growths
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whether they be
benign new growths,
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or malignant new
growths like cancer.
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You know, I was thinking
of this and thinking about
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the topic... benign growths
which, you know that sounds fine
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But who wants benign growths?
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Whether it's on our
skin, as lumps coming out,
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or in the uterus, or
in the breasts... Exactly!
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Or in the colon where
polyps can even block the way.
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One other concentrated food
I'd like to mention is sugar.
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Oh yes...
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Now sugar isn't a growth
food, but it's an extremely
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concentrated food
and the problem is,
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you don't have
the OTHER nutrients...
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when you've just isolated out
the sugar, you don't have the
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nutrients even to metabolize
and work with the sugar well
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And, since we're
talking about cancer,
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this would probably be an
appropriate time to mention
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that our BIGGEST
protection against cancer is the
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immune system.
Um hm... yes, it is
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Constantly monitoring
the cells of our body IF the
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immune system is
functioning well.
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And one very impressive
point about the immune system
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is that with increased
sugar intake, it is suppressed.
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A large quantity of sugar
and we could even explain this
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quantitatively in terms
of so many teaspoons of sugar
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it will reduce the ability
of the white blood cells,
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that are the heart of the
immune system, to do their job.
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And that job is not
just fighting infection but
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detecting cancer
and eliminating it.
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Dr. Winn, I'm sure
you've had patients to tell you
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or to ask you... when you
have said to them what you've
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just said or approximately
what you've just said,
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"Doctor, you're NOT going to
take away my sugar, are you?"
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Actually, the Creator put the
sugar in all kinds of foods. Yes
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You think that's
enough for people?
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Oh absolutely!
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It might not be enough to
satisfy the palate of those
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who have been accustomed
to taking 1/2 or 3/4 of a cup
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of sugar a day.
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You know, people... when one
talks about amounts of sugar,
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...there's one graph
that we use where it mentions
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12 and 24 teaspoons of
sugar and people are going...
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...who in the world is
going to eat that much sugar?
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One banana split has 25
teaspoons worth of sugar in it.
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Yes, it's amazing
that just one dish...
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Sometimes a person will
have a little sick-feeling
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in eating a banana
split but most of the time,
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people who are accustomed
to eating heavy sweets can
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take that banana
split down and not have ANY
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sense of nausea with it...
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And yet, I have seen
the reverse thing too...
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I've seen people who have
come from third world countries
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where they've eaten a
lot of just native foods,
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and then I would serve a
dish at my table that had
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just the sweet fruits
like bananas, maybe some
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dried fruits but nothing that
was a concentrated sweetener
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added and have them
say, "That's very sweet. "
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And know that it was because
their appetite was not overly
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stimulated by too much sugar.
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I'm wondering if we
shouldn't mention more...
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You've already
talked about lung cancer...
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I want to get you to
tell some reasons why
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though... some other
things about lung cancer
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I would just like to show
this picture of the lung cancer.
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Notice this big growth here...
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You can easily see it,
you don't even need to have it
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blown up but here it
is... This is the cancer
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Here is the lung
and there is the cancer.
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And the American Cancer Assoc.
and American Lung Assoc. has
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shown this cancer
very graphically here
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And I have seen lungs with
this very same type of cancer
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maybe 200 times and
it's so discouraging because
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we know that this person
who has that... has a high
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likelihood of dying
with it, a 95% chance of
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dying with the cancer.
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And so it's SO discouraging
to make this diagnosis when
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it's in this stage.
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It's just so fatal...
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Yes. Now smoking is
known to be associated...
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What about other
things that smoking is...
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You know, that's a
very interesting thing...
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Nowadays, it is well known.
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Back 40 years ago, it
wasn't well-appreciated,
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that smoking caused lung cancer.
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BUT, one thing that I
think is not generally known,
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I saw a paper about lung
cancer where they related it to
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coffee-drinking or
caffeine intake... Ah ha
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And so the association
was not as strong as smoking,
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it didn't multiply the
risk by 10, but as I remember,
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it was something like 3...
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so it's a significant factor as
well as smoking... I should say
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That's 300% more and
that's a significant amount.
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Then other bad habits
as well can increase one's
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likelihood of
getting cancer of the lung,
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or cancer in any other place.
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So that we can say that
as you add bad health habits,
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you increase your risk
of getting almost every
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kind of cancer.
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So if you smoke 1
or 2 cigarettes a day,
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you think very
good about yourself...
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"I only smoke 2 or
3 cigarettes a day"
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"It's not enough to
give me lung cancer"
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But if you also drink coffee...
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If you're also a
big, heavy sweet eater...
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If you're also a
person who eats a lot of the
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"growth-promoting" foods,
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then pretty soon, you've
got a situation where you've
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added one cancer-producing
agent after another.
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Then you live in a smoggy area
and you've got the stage set.
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That's it. All these
things are tipping the balance
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in the wrong
direction and you don't know
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when it's enough to tip it.
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What about cancer of the skin?
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Do you have anything special
about cancer of the skin?
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Well, cancer of the skin
is interesting in that it's
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the most common
cancer of all apparently.
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I recently read
that... and I've seen it...
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in my own family...
cancer of the skin has occurred
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and among acquaintances I have.
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The interesting thing that
the public, I think is generally
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aware of and have been
bombarded about is that
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sunlight will cause skin
cancer and there is no doubt
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about it.
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If a person is exposed
excessively to the sun,
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then you're certainly increasing
your risk of skin cancer.
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Now, I think at that point,
we should say something...
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and it's that they've really
shown it clearly to be related
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to sunburns. Ah ha...
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NOT to just being out
in the sun, but when you
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go to the point of
burning your skin, then you are
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increasing your
risk of skin cancer.
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But there's
another point here...
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that I think is NOT generally
appreciated and it's this...
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that if diet is changed, it
changes your risk of skin cancer
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There was an experiment
done in which they took rabbits,
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shaved their backs so
that the light could get
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right to the skin.
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They put them in an
environment, a cage where
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they had ultraviolet light...
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which is the part of sunlight
which causes skin cancer.
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And when they did this
with rabbits that were getting
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what could be considered
the general American diet
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in rabbit form...
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24% of them got skin cancer.
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They repeated the experiment
and all they did was add in
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some vitamin E
and some vitamin C...
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And instead of
24%, 0% got skin cancer.
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Is that right? That's amazing.
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So the high fat,
high sugar, high salt diet
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does something to promote
skin cancer IF the person
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also gets
ultraviolet light. That's right.
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And then, of course, most
cancers, if not all cancers,
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do have a virus involved in
the production of the cancer.
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So then we can say that cancers,
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especially like
cancer of the skin...
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we can know that it
has a number of things.
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It has the virus, has the
diet, it has the sunburning with
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the ultraviolet light
and probably has also some
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genetic factors like
with people who have blue eyes
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or fair skin, or are
exposed a lot to the sun.
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Yes... go ahead...
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Now, I'm wondering
on some other specific
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cancer because it
is of real interest...
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Cancer, in a way, you can say
is many diseases... Yes, many!
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It's really not
just one disease.
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Regarding women, you've
done a lot of work on women's
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diseases and problems.
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Would there be something that
we could know about preventing
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or related to
say... ovarian cancer?
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Yes, there are some things.
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We know, as an
example, that if a woman takes
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fermented dairy products
like yogurt... as much as
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3 or 4 times a week, that
increases her risk of getting
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cancer of the ovary.
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We also know that women
who drink coffee will also
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have an increased risk of
getting cancer of the ovary
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And some research is being
done that implicates a number
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of other foods in the American
cuisine which most of us
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have had from childhood up...
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that can encourage
cancer of the ovaries.
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But a well-done plant-based
diet is known to be protective
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for cancer of the ovary... which
is a very serious cancer...
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Once it has been discovered,
it is usually too late
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to operate on it
and take the ovary out.
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So with cancer of the
ovary, the diet is a big factor
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and other
things in lifestyles...
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Smoking is another factor.
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And taking of hormones is
another factor in ovarian cancer
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Then another BIG cancer that
we have is cancer of the colon.
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And I mentioned that
when my mother was diagnosed
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with cancer of the
colon, I made some big changes
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in my lifestyle.
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You've seen a lot of people
with cancer of the colon...
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What factors do
you have about cancer
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of the colon
you'd like to mention?
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The feature of colon cancer
that has impressed me the most
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is tied in with the name of a
missionary that went to Africa
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Burkett... Dr.
Burkett Oh Yes... yes
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He noted... There's a
fairly involved story but to
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shorten it down, he
noted that in going from his
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home in England, down to
Africa, certain diseases didn't
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occur at all... among the people
that did live primitively.
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Now they were there among
those that lived in the cities
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in Africa... one of those
diseases was colon cancer.
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And the crucial factor that
he showed clearly was involved
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was when there was
low fiber in the food...
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then there was high chance,
high risk of colon cancer...
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And this, of course, is
the way in a modern society
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many people eat...
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All those
hamburgers, all the soda pop...
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There's no fiber in those things
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And so there is not much
that promotes the movement
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in clearing out of those
poisons that are collecting
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in the colon.
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Whereas, when you eat a
natural diet, whole foods,
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plant foods... they have
lots of fiber and it passes out
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and gets rid of those poisons
that promote colon cancer.
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In fact, he had a curious little
law that he made from that...
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It was this... just
before saying the law,
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When a person eats a high
fiber diet, you do have a larger
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amount of stool being produced.
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And his law was this...
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"The amount of stool
production in any community
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was inversely related to
the size of their hospitals. "
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Is that right?
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Well I could certainly believe
that because we know that
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a high fiber diet also helps
with a high blood cholesterol
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and that would help
us with heart health.
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And, you know,
concerning cancer...
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there are certain organs
of the body that tend to not
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get cancer... like the spleen
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You almost never see
the spleen having a cancer,
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except in certain very
specific hematologic cancers.
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And the heart... it
just almost never...
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except in a congenital disorder
called "tuberous sclerosis"
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I have very RARELY ever seen
a cancer of the heart itself.
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And in some
countries, they just don't have
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cancer of the colon.
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To us, in this country,
that's remarkable because we
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expect that a large percentage
of our population will
00:21:09.87\00:21:13.59
come down with
cancer of the colon.
00:21:13.62\00:21:15.34
So we need to look at the
life style of these countries
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where they simply don't have it,
00:21:18.55\00:21:20.29
and study that and implement
some of the things that they do.
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There are a number of
other cancers that we have here
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and I was just wondering
about cancer of the pancreas.
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You know, I'm going
to kick that one back...
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All right... I wanted to say
one little point about cancer
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that to me is very interesting.
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We're back to
skin cancer... Ah ha
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If you compare people
living in the tropics and those
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that live in northern latitudes
where they get much less
00:21:52.34\00:21:54.55
sunlight, the people in the
tropics do get more skin cancer
00:21:54.58\00:21:58.93
The ones in the northern
latitudes get these terrible
00:21:58.96\00:22:02.40
cancers like pancreatic cancer
and other internal cancers
00:22:02.43\00:22:07.65
And the total mortality
from cancer is higher in the
00:22:07.68\00:22:11.49
northern latitudes, the
people getting less sunlight.
00:22:11.50\00:22:14.74
And so, if you just
had to take your pick,
00:22:14.77\00:22:17.40
you would want more
sunlight, not less...
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It actually
stimulates the immune system.
00:22:19.44\00:22:21.71
And one, I think, very
interesting point here is
00:22:21.74\00:22:25.07
in cancer, I think everyone
is aware that the crucial
00:22:25.10\00:22:28.62
thing to do is to
diagnose early... Ah ha
00:22:28.65\00:22:30.91
That's why pancreatic
cancer is so terrible...
00:22:30.94\00:22:33.39
and ovarian cancer... Absolutely
00:22:33.42\00:22:35.46
I remember patients
coming with those diseases...
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It's just sad because
usually it's too advanced.
00:22:38.66\00:22:41.47
Too deep in, we don't
recognize until it's too late
00:22:41.50\00:22:45.97
and they are not
something that is like the colon
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where we would have some
dysfunction that would help
00:22:49.24\00:22:51.66
us to know... With
the pancreas and with
00:22:51.69\00:22:54.28
the ovaries, we don't
recognize any dysfunction
00:22:54.31\00:22:57.74
and so they get far advanced
cancers way beyond our help.
00:22:57.77\00:23:00.19
So if sunlight can help
stimulate the immune system,
00:23:02.10\00:23:06.49
and, therefore, help
avoid some of these cancers,
00:23:06.52\00:23:11.13
tremendous!
00:23:11.16\00:23:13.19
Now, if you're
going to get a cancer...
00:23:13.20\00:23:14.69
which would be
the easiest diagnosed?
00:23:14.72\00:23:16.19
Skin cancer... Well,
when it's on the skin!
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It's right there at the first!
00:23:18.26\00:23:19.53
Doctor, what's that?
00:23:19.56\00:23:21.98
Which, I guess,
raises the point...
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If you do have a
skin growth, anything new,
00:23:23.48\00:23:26.16
go right away and check
it with a skin specialist.
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Yes and anything in your
body that you do not understand,
00:23:29.08\00:23:33.05
that should be investigated...
it's part of our responsibility
00:23:33.08\00:23:38.22
...if we don't
understand what's going on,
00:23:38.25\00:23:40.63
we try to get someone
who can help us to understand
00:23:40.66\00:23:43.56
what's going on.
00:23:43.57\00:23:44.95
Now with cancer of the pancreas,
I would like to say that
00:23:44.98\00:23:48.89
we do have certain things
that are known to be associated
00:23:48.92\00:23:53.91
with cancer of the pancreas
such as drinking alcohol.
00:23:53.94\00:23:59.70
We know that there are
a number of problems with
00:23:59.71\00:24:02.01
drinking alcohol and these
problems center in metabolism.
00:24:02.04\00:24:08.30
The metabolism carried on
in the liver and the metabolism
00:24:08.33\00:24:12.00
carried on the pancreas.
00:24:12.01\00:24:13.83
Alcohol is a poison that
damages every cell in the body.
00:24:13.86\00:24:18.36
It damages the brain.
00:24:18.39\00:24:19.82
It damages the lungs.
00:24:19.85\00:24:22.75
The damages the gastrointestinal
tract, as well as the liver
00:24:22.78\00:24:26.15
and the pancreas.
00:24:26.18\00:24:27.33
Probably most severely hit
with alcohol is the pancreas.
00:24:27.36\00:24:32.99
Now you might say...
"Well, I don't drink, so
00:24:33.02\00:24:35.35
I won't get
cancer of the pancreas. "
00:24:35.36\00:24:37.39
Well, unfortunately,
there is some research being
00:24:37.42\00:24:40.82
done now... A researcher, I
believe he lives in Kentucky
00:24:40.85\00:24:44.94
...is doing some research
in which he has found that the
00:24:44.97\00:24:49.01
average American, with the
kind of lifestyle that we have,
00:24:49.04\00:24:52.95
with eating between meals
and eating too many varieties
00:24:52.98\00:24:55.60
at a meal... too many
dishes served at a meal
00:24:55.63\00:24:59.23
And, we eat too much, that
this kind of lifestyle with
00:24:59.26\00:25:06.41
not a lot of exercise either,
will promote the production
00:25:06.44\00:25:10.54
of about 1 quart
of beer every day.
00:25:10.57\00:25:14.74
Well that's a good bit of
alcohol that the individual
00:25:14.77\00:25:17.77
would produce himself...
just from those things that
00:25:17.80\00:25:21.77
he, himself, will be engaged in
just in his ordinary lifestyle.
00:25:21.80\00:25:28.57
Then, in addition to that,
having diabetes will encourage
00:25:28.60\00:25:32.22
having cancer of the pancreas.
00:25:32.25\00:25:34.58
Now another cancer that
I'd like to tell you about is
00:25:34.61\00:25:38.35
that of cancer of the stomach.
00:25:38.38\00:25:40.02
The stomach is a
very ABUSED organ.
00:25:40.05\00:25:43.23
This abused organ is likely to
get various kinds of problems...
00:25:43.26\00:25:49.65
Gastritis is one.
00:25:49.68\00:25:51.84
Peptic ulcers is another.
00:25:51.85\00:25:54.70
And then cancer of the
stomach is another very
00:25:54.73\00:25:57.71
serious cancer of people...
00:25:57.74\00:26:00.10
And it also may not
give early warning signs...
00:26:00.13\00:26:04.85
So that when the cancer
of the stomach is discovered,
00:26:04.88\00:26:07.41
it may be fairly far advanced.
00:26:07.44\00:26:09.49
We know that in countries
of the world where they
00:26:09.52\00:26:12.43
eat a lot of spicy
foods and fermented foods,
00:26:12.46\00:26:19.39
vinegary foods, and
other foods that are
00:26:19.42\00:26:22.21
irritating to the stomach,
that in these countries,
00:26:22.24\00:26:25.60
they are more likely to
get cancer of the stomach.
00:26:25.63\00:26:29.04
Those countries of the
world where they are the highest
00:26:29.07\00:26:32.35
in the use of these very
irritating spices like...
00:26:32.38\00:26:36.30
cayenne pepper... they eat
it every day in large quantities
00:26:36.33\00:26:39.26
and ginger, cinnamon
and cloves and the like...
00:26:39.29\00:26:42.83
And they eat it
in LARGE quantities.
00:26:42.86\00:26:44.99
In these countries, they are
more likely to get cancer of the
00:26:45.03\00:26:50.22
back of the throat, and
the esophagus and the stomach.
00:26:50.26\00:26:53.66
Now, as we
concentrate on these cancers,
00:26:53.69\00:26:58.28
we can see that lifestyle
is very heavily involved.
00:26:58.31\00:27:02.48
We have mentioned a
number of these things in just
00:27:02.51\00:27:04.91
this one short program.
00:27:04.94\00:27:06.70
And we have, by no
means, covered the entire gamut.
00:27:06.73\00:27:10.22
Probably the best place
that a person could read about
00:27:10.25\00:27:13.63
lifestyle and the kind of
lifestyle that would be the
00:27:13.64\00:27:17.23
most advantageous for
good health and to avoid
00:27:17.26\00:27:20.64
such diseases as
cancer, would be a book called
00:27:20.67\00:27:24.58
"Ministry of Healing"
which covers the entire gamut
00:27:24.61\00:27:28.53
of lifestyle problems and
can be a most beneficial adjunct
00:27:28.56\00:27:35.29
to the information that
you, yourself have, that can
00:27:35.32\00:27:38.97
help you to develop in
yourself that kind of lifestyle
00:27:39.00\00:27:43.39
to give you RESISTANCE
against serious diseases
00:27:43.42\00:27:47.37
that can threaten your life.
00:27:47.40\00:27:49.29
Our Heavenly Father
desires above ALL THINGS
00:27:49.30\00:27:52.23
that we may
prosper and be in health.
00:27:52.24\00:27:55.36
May God bless you.
00:27:55.39\00:27:56.36