Re: Fwd: [Autism-Mercury] Fw: Why women in China do not get breast cancer and men...

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Thanks for sharing this Mandi

 

I think that the chinese philosophy of milk only being a food for the young makes so much sense... there are no other animals in this planet that drink milk beyond weaning...

 

My own weight problems only started when I returned to dairy 4 years ago... so thanks for this... We become dairy free with effect from today!!

 

Tracey

 

 

 

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Sent: 06/12/2010 07:26:12 GMT Standard TimeSubj: [Autism-Mercury] Fw: Why women in China do not get breast cancer and men don & apos;t get prostate cancer

 >>>I have actually read this book and can verify the contents of this email >>>match what's in it.

>>>>>>THIS IS A WONDERFUL ARTICLE PLEASE PASS IT ON >>>>>>Read this,it applies to men too >>>>>>Prof Jane Plant>>>>>>WHY WOMEN IN CHINA DO NOT GET BREAST CANCER

>>>By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD, CBE >>>>>>>>>I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for myself. I am >>>a scientist - surely there was a rational explanation for this cruel

>>>illness that affects one in 12 women in the UK ?>>>>>>I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergoneradiotherapy. I was now >>>receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some of the country's

>>>most eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt certain I was facing >>>death. I had a loving husband, a beautiful home and two young children to >>>care for. I desperately wanted to live.

>>>>>>Fortunately, this desire drove me to unearth the facts, some of which were known >>>only to a handful of scientists at the time.>>>>>>Anyone who has come into contact with breast cancer will know that certain

>>>risk factors - such as increasingage, early onset of womanhood, late onset of >>>menopause and a family history of breast cancer - are completely out of >>>our control. But there are many risk factors, which we can control easily.

>>>>>>These " controllable " risk factors readily translate into simple changes that we >>>can all make in our day-to-day lives to help prevent or treat breast >>>cancer. My message is that even advanced breast cancer can be overcome

>>>because I have done it.>>>>>>The first clue to understanding what was promoting my breast cancer came when my >>>husband , who was also a scientist, arrived back from working in

>>>China while I was being plugged in for a chemotherapy session.>>>>>>He had brought with him cards and letters, as well as some amazing herbal >>>suppositories, sent by my friends and science colleagues in China .

>>>>>>The suppositories were sent to me as a cure for breast cancer. Despite the >>>awfulness of the situation, we both had a good belly laugh, and I remember >>>saying that this was the treatment for breast cancer in China , then it

>>>was little wonder that Chinese women avoided getting the disease.>>>>>>Those words echoed in my mind.>>>>>>>>>>>>Why didn't Chinese women in China get breast cancer?

>>>>>>>>>>>>I had collaborated once with Chinese colleagues on a study of links >>>between soil chemistry and disease, and I remembered some of the >>>statistics.

>>>>>>The disease was virtually non-existent throughout the whole country. Only >>>one in 10,000 women in China will die from it, compared to that terrible >>>figure of one in 12 in Britain and the even grimmer average of one in 10

>>>across most Western countries.>>>>>>>>>>>>It is not just a matter of China being a more rural country, with less >>>urban pollution. In highly urbanized Hong Kong , the rate rises to

>>>34 women in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame.>>>>>>The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasakihave similar rates. And >>>remember, both cities were attacked withnuclear weapons, so in addition to

>>>the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some >>>radiation-related cases, too.>>>>>>The conclusion we can draw from these statistics strikes you with some

>>>force. If a Western woman were to move to industrialized, irradiated >>>Hiroshima , she would slash her risk of contracting breast cancer by >>>half. Obviously this is absurd.>>>

>>>It seemed obvious to me that some lifestyle factor not related to >>>pollution, urbanization or the environment is seriously increasing the >>>Western woman's chance of contracting breast cancer.

>>>>>>I then discovered that whatever causes the huge differences inbreast cancer >>>rates between oriental and Western countries, it isn't genetic.>>>>>>Scientific research showed that when Chinese or Japanese people move to

>>>the West, within one or two generations their rates of breast cancer >>>approach those of their host community.>>>>>>The same thing happens when oriental people adopt a completely Western

>>>lifestyle in Hong Kong In fact, the slang name for breast cancer in China >>>translates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is because, in China , only the >>>better off can afford to eat what is termed ' Hong Kong food'.

>>>>>>The Chinese describe all Western food, including everything from ice cream >>>and chocolate bars to spaghetti and feta cheese, as " Hong Kong food " , >>>because of its availability in the former British colony and its scarcity,

>>>in the past, in mainland China .>>>>>>So it made perfect sense to me that whatever was causing my breast >>>cancerand the shockingly high incidence in this country generally, it was

>>>almost certainly something to do with our better-off, middle-class, >>>Western lifestyle.>>>>>>There is an important point for men here, too I have observed in my research

>>>that much of the data about prostate cancer leads to similar conclusions.>>>>>>According to figures from the World Health Organization, the number of men >>>contracting prostate cancer in rural China is negligible, only 0.5

>>>men in every 100,000.>>>>>>In England , Scotland and Wales , however, this figure is 70 times >>>higher. Like breast cancer, it is a middle-class disease that primarily

>>>attacks the wealthier and higher socio-economic groups, those that can >>>afford to eat rich foods.>>>>>>I remember saying to my husband, " Come on , you have just come

>>>backfrom China . What is it about the Chinese way of life that is >>>so different? " >>>>>>Why don't they get breast cancer?'>>>We decided to utilize our joint scientific backgrounds and approach it

>>>logically.>>>>>>We examined scientific data that pointed us in the general direction of >>>fats in diets.>>>Researchers had discovered in the 1980s that only l4% of calories in the

>>>average Chinese diet were from fat, compared to almost 36% in the West.>>>But the diet I had been living on for years before I contracted breast >>>cancer was very low in fat and high in fibre.

>>>Besides, I knew as a scientist that fat intake in adults has not been >>>shown to increase risk for breast cancer in most investigations that have >>>followed large groups of women for up to a dozen years.

>>>Then one day something rather special happened. and I have worked together >>>so closely over the years that I am not sure which one of us first said:>>>>>> " The Chinese don't eat dairy produce! "

>>>>>>It is hard to explain to a non-scientist the sudden mental and >>>emotional'buzz' you get when you know you have had an important insight. >>>It's as if you have had a lot of pieces of a jigsaw in your mind, and

>>>suddenly, in a few seconds, they all fall into place and the whole picture >>>is clear.>>>>>>Suddenly I recalled how many Chinese people were physically unable to tolerate

>>>milk, how the Chinese people I had worked with had always said that milk >>>was only for babies, and how one of my close friends, who is of Chinese >>>origin, always politely turned down the cheese course at dinner parties.

>>>>>>I knew of no Chinese people who lived a traditional Chinese life who ever used >>>cow or other dairy food to feed their babies. The tradition was to use a >>>wet nurse but never, ever, dairy products.

>>>>>>Culturally, the Chinese find our Western preoccupation with milk and milk >>>products very strange. I remember entertaining a large delegation of >>>Chinese scientists shortly after the ending of the Cultural Revolution in

>>>the 1980s.>>>>>>On advice from the Foreign Office, we had asked the caterer to provide a >>>pudding that contained a lot of ice cream. After inquiring what the >>>pudding consisted of, all of the Chinese, including their interpreter,

>>>politely but firmly refused to eat it, and they could not be persuaded to >>>change their minds.>>>>>>At the time we were all delighted and ate extra portions!>>>

>>>Milk, I discovered, is one of the most common causes of food allergies .>>>>>>Over 70% of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, >>>lactose, which has led nutritionists to believe that this is the normal

>>>condition for adults, not some sort of deficiency. Perhaps nature is >>>trying to tell us that we are eating the wrong food.>>>>>>Before I had breast cancer for the first time, I had eaten a lot of

>>>dairyproduce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yogurt. I had used >>>it as my main source of protein. I also ate cheap but lean minced beef, >>>which I now realized was probably often ground-up dairy cow.

>>>>>>In order to cope with the chemotherapy I received for my fifth case of cancer, I >>>had been eating organic yogurts as a way of helping my digestive tract to >>>recover and repopulate my gut with 'good' bacteria.

>>>>>>Recently, I discovered that way back in 1989 yogurt had been implicated in >>>ovarian cancer. Dr Cramer of Harvard University studied hundreds of >>>women with ovarian cancer, and had them record in detail what they

>>>normally ate. Wish I'd been made aware of his findings when he had first >>>discovered them.>>>>>>>>>Following 's and my insight into the Chinese diet, I decided to give

>>>up not just yogurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese, butter, milk >>>and yogurt and anything else that contained dairy produce - it went down >>>the sink or in the rubbish.

>>>>>>>>>It is surprising how many products, including commercial soups, biscuits >>>and cakes, contain some form of dairy produce. Even many proprietary >>>brands of margarine marketed as soya, sunflower or olive oil spreads can

>>>contain dairy produce>>>.>>>I therefore became an avid reader of the small print on food labels.>>>>>>Up to this point, I had been steadfastly measuring the progress of my

>>>fifth cancerous lump with callipers and plotting the results. Despite all >>>the encouraging comments and positive feedback from my doctors and nurses, >>>my own precise observations told me the bitter truth.

>>>>>>My first chemotherapy sessions had produced no effect - the lump was still >>>the same size.>>>>>>>>>Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to shrink

>>>.>>>About two weeks after my second chemotherapy session and one week after >>>giving up dairy produce, the lump in my neck started to itch. Then it >>>began to soften and to reduce in size. The line on the graph, which had

>>>shown no change, was now pointing downwards as the tumour got smaller and >>>smaller.>>>>>>And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining exponentially >>>(a graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the tumour's decrease in size

>>>was plotted on a straight line heading off the bottom of the graph, >>>indicating a cure, not suppression (or remission) of the tumour.>>>>>>One Saturday afternoon after about six weeks of excluding all dairy

>>>produce from my diet, I practised an hour of meditation then felt for what >>>was left of the lump. I couldn't find it. Yet I was very experienced at >>>detecting cancerous lumps - I had discovered all five cancers on my own. I

>>>went downstairs and asked my husband to feel my neck. He could not find >>>any trace of the lump either.>>>>>>On the following Thursday I was due to be seen by my cancer specialist atCharing

>>>CrossHospital in London . He examined me thoroughly, especially my >>>neck where the tumour had been. He was initially bemused and then >>>delighted as he said, " I cannot find it. " None of my doctors, it appeared,

>>>had expected someone with my type and stage of cancer (which had clearly >>>spread to the lymph system) to survive, let alone be so hale and hearty.>>>>>>My specialist was as overjoyed as I was. When I first discussed my ideas

>>>with him he was understandably sceptical. But I understand that he now >>>uses maps showing cancer mortality in China in his lectures, and >>>recommends a non-dairy diet to his cancer patients.

>>>>>>I now believe that the link between dairy produce and breast cancer is >>>similar to the link between smoking and lung cancer.>>>>>>I believe that identifying the link between breast cancer and dairy

>>>produce, and then developing a diet specifically targeted at maintaining >>>the health of my breast and hormone system, cured me.>>>>>>It was difficult for me, as it may be for you, to accept that a substance

>>>as 'natural' as milk might have such ominous health implications.But I am >>>a living proof that it works and, starting from tomorrow, I shall reveal >>>the secrets of my revolutionary action plan.

>>>>>>Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plan