Medical Blog, News and Information » Cancer

CANCER: LEARNING MORE ABOUT DISEASE

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:23:07 +0000

Cancer is a disease of civilization. It is the end result of health-destroying living and eating habits, which result in a biochemical imbalance and physical and chemical irritation of the tissues. In addition to an abundance of carcinogens in today’s food, – water, air and environment, carcinogenic substances are also produced within the body as a result of deranged metabolism. Many biological and naturopathic doctors, both those who are active presently, as well as many great pioneers of the past, notably Drs. Bircher-Benner, Duncan Bulkley, A. Vogel, Max Gerson, Kristine Nolfi, Ragnar Berg, Are Waerland, Werner Zabel, J. H. Tilden, Alice Chase, to name a few, believed that faulty diet can be a basic cause of cancer. Based on their own extensive practice and by studying the eating habits of cancer-free natives and peoples around the world, their conclusions emphatically pointed to the fact that in addition to well-known environmental carcinogens, such as smoking, chemical poisons in foods and environment, etc., the cancer incidence is in direct proportion to the amount of animal proteins, particularly meat, in the diet. Racial groups and nations whose diet contains less meat, show less cancer incidence than groups consuming high-meat diets. Hospital records show that Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons and Navajo Indians, who eat little or no meat, suffer far less from cancer than the average meat-eating Americans. Recently, a link between excessive meat-eating and cancer has been explained by Dr. Willard J. Visek, research scientist at Cornell University. Dr. Visek says that the high-protein diet of Americans is linked to the high incidence of cancer in the U.S. The villain, according to Dr. Visek, is ammonia, the carcinogenic by-product of meat digestion.Our actual daily protein requirement is only between 20 and 30 grams, as shown by numerous studies around the world. Protein eaten in excess of the actual need cannot be properly digested or utilized and acts in the body as a poison and carcinogen. In addition, over consumption of Protein taxes the pancreas and causes chronic deficiency of pancreatic enzymes, which are required for proper protein metabolism.
*1/103/5*

NAUSEA AND VOMITING – DESCRIPTION

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:50:10 +0000

Nausea is feeling sick in the stomach and we all know what vomiting is!

As with all symptoms, the first thing to do if you develop nausea is to find out the reason for it. Here are some of the many possibilities. Nausea can be directly due to your cancer itself — such as when it is in the stomach area or liver, blocking the bowel or kidneys or in the brain (this last usually causes headache as well). Nausea can be due to cancer treatment — radiation, chemotherapy or too little corticosteroid hormone in the system. Cancer can also cause nausea indirectly, for example, through release of too much calcium in the blood. Anxiety can itself cause nausea and can also aggravate nausea of any cause. Of course, don’t forget that your nausea could be nothing to do with your cancer. For example, it could be caused by something you have eaten, a virus, gastritis, a stomach ulcer, or even a hangover!

It is important to consider every possible explanation. For example, just because you are having chemotherapy, you should not jump to the conclusion that any nausea you have is due to it. Chemotherapy-caused nausea usually follows a similar pattern for each course of treatment. If your pattern changes drastically, another reason should be looked for.

*188/40/1*

TREATMENT OF SYMPTOMS – INTRODUCTION

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:39:13 +0000

Symptoms are what you feel— things such as pain, nausea, lack of energy and breathlessness. In this chapter we will talk about how to tackle symptoms that worry you for any reason.

Of course, now that you have cancer, I know that every symptom you get will worry you to start with. You probably feel a stab of panic whenever you notice any minor discomfort in your body because this could signal that your cancer is active. This reaction is natural and normal.

I suggest that whenever you get any new symptoms, you stop and ask yourself these questions:

Is this symptom one that I would have worried about before I had the cancer?

Would I have contacted my practitioner about it?

Is there a commonsense explanation for it?

(For example, unusual activity that could have caused muscle pains, something you ate that could have caused nausea or indigestion, tension that could have caused a headache.) The answers to these question will help you to decide what action you should take. For example, if you would, have waited a few days to see how it went before you had cancer, that’s probably still what you should do.

*155/40/1*