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Alternative to Chemotherapy in Curing Cancer
The following article was sent by a friend. I include it for those who are looking an alternative to Chemotherapy in Cancer Treatments

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from John Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s amino or sea salt.

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

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a 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 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meats remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. 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.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

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

16. 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.

Turkey to ‘Realize’ Nabucco Project Despite Tanking EU Support
BRUSSELS (Combined Sources)–Turkey will “realize” the Nabucco Pipeline project despite a recent confirmation by EU officials that the project, considered a flagship Union venture, had disappeared from the list of energy projects the EU’s economic stimulus plan will finance.

Nabucco– a 3,300km pipeline designed to carry Caspian gas to Europe via Turkey and the Balkans in order to limit EU’s dependence on Russian gas — fell off the list of energy and broadband projects that an EU stimulus plan would finance, Brussels-based EurActiv reported on Tuesday (March 17th).

EU foreign ministers discussed the 5 billion euro plan during a meeting Monday, but failed to reach an agreement over the list of energy and broadband projects. The EU leaders are expected to decide on the list in Brussels on Thursday.

Turkey, which has sought to use Nabucco to leverage its value as a transit hub for energy to Europe, said Tuesday it would “realize” the Nabucco project itself. “Small obstacles in big projects never prevent their realization,” Turkey’s Energy Minister Hilmi Guler was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.

“We set the aim of completing Nabucco. If necessary, this should be done regardless of where the energy sources are located,” he added.

Czech Deputy Prime Minister for EU Affairs Alexander Vondra, whose country currently hold the rotating EU presidency, expressed hope Monday that EU members could reach an agreement. If so, the European Parliament can approve the stimulus plan before the end of its mandate. If not, everybody’s credibility will come into question, said Vondra.

The European Commission (EC) initially proposed providing 250 million euros to share the risk and help secure bank loans for Nabucco. That amount later shrank to 200 million euros.

In the latest version of the project list, a broader term, “Southern corridor,” appears instead of Nabucco. It includes different projects in southern Europe, including a new Interconnector Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) pipeline between the Greek Ionian coast and Italy.

Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu has warned that his country will not vote for the stimulus package if it excludes Nabucco. Romania’s position has support from Austria, Poland and Slovakia, he said.

Similarly, Polish Minister for European Affairs Mikolaj Dowgielewicz said that Prime Minister Donald Tusk would try to convince EU leaders to back Nabucco to reduce the bloc’s dependence on Russian gas supplies.

The agreement on the Nabucco pipeline was signed in 2002. Planners expect completion of its first phase in 2014. Once fully operational, Nabucco will ship up to 31 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Europe via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

Observers expect Azerbaijan to become the project’s first gas supplier. Middle East countries may possibly join as suppliers later.

Germany, whose RWE has joined five other energy companies in the Nabucco consortium–OMV of Austria, MOL of Hungary, Bulgargaz of Bulgaria, Transgaz of Romania and Botas of Turkey–is one of the strongest opponents of providing European money for the project.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said that the biggest problem Nabucco faced was not financing but finding gas to feed the pipeline.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Gazprom stands against Nabucco project
The Russian giant natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, was invited to join the European gas project Nabucco, but will decline the offer, remaining a supporter of the South Stream project. At the same time, Romania risks a delicate situation, since Nabucco seems to have lost its European support.

Gazprom vice president Alexander Medvedev declared in an interview for Vesti TV that Gazprom will focus on its own project, South Stream, and will not involve in the Nabucco project.

“Unlike Nabucco, we have everything we need to make South Stream become reality. We have the resources, the market, appropriate management and the experience required to implement complex projects”, said Medvedev, adding that the group is not ready to work on two projects simultaneously.

The South Stream pipeline was designed to carry 31 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Russia and Central Asia towards the Balkans and other European states.

Romania was hoping in the realization of the Nabucco project, worth 10 billion Euros, which was at first also supported by the European Union and the United States. Nabucco would connect Central Asia and Europe, via Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Austria, by-passing Russia and Ukraine. The construction was first scheduled to begin in 2010.

On Monday, EU officials confirmed that Nabucco is no longer among the energy projects about to receive European financing.