Dr. Ali Mzige
Tanzania Standard Newspapers
Daily News; Sunday,July 27, 2008 @14:28
http://dailynews.habarileo.co.tz/home/index.php?id=6165
Cancer is a process that has affected humans since prehistoric times and is just as common in domestic and farm animals, birds and fish. 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. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
When the person’s immune system is strong, the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation (mionzi) will often reduce tumour size. However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumour destruction. 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 feeds on? Sugar is a cancer-feeder.
By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. It is on this note, that people who are diabetic or who indulge in eating a lot of sugars in the form of chocolate, candy, ice cream put their bodies at risk to make it vulnerable to develop not only cancer but prone to other diseases. Sugar substitutes like Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful (check the ingredients of your soft drinks).
A better natural substitute would be honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. 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. Those children or adults who have intolerance to milk are the ones to be advised to use soy milk. 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. Let me emphasize on pork, that the cancer patients are not supposed to eat pork because of the uric acid content which causes gout. Uric acid interferes with chemotherapy (drugs given to fight cancer cells) that patients use, absorption is impaired. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are harmful, especially to people with cancer.
A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into 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 and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.
Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). Studies done in Kenya have shown that those who indulge in Nyama Choma (roasted meat) without addition of salads and other vegetables have been seen to suffer from colon cancers and other cancers. This tells us that nyama choma alone washing it down with beer and not water is detrimental to our health. Cancer cell walls have 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. Vegetarians live longer than those who eat meat and animal products. Some supplements build up immune system (anti-oxidants like Vitamin C, minerals, vitamin E, IP6) 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.
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 stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life. 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. Seventy five per cent of cancers globally can be prevented if people refrain from use of alcohol, tobacco and change their lifestyle by eating healthy diet and do physical exercises. Treating infections early has an impact in building immune system. Prevention is better than cure, change your lifestyle now and start investing in your personal and family health.
Reference: Updates from Johns Hopkins and Dr. Mzige’s publications.
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Pasteurization, once developed to kill pathogens in wine and later found to increase the shelf life of factory produced dairy product has become the new milk "religion". Despite purported health benefits, and the simple right of consumers to purchase food directly from their producers; and despite the fact that more people died from raw tomatoes recently than get even sickened from raw milk, laws are being passed and agencies are enforcing the ban in trade of illegal milk.
