February 10, 2002
Breast CancerGREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS from Arnold's Way!
The summer breeze gently flows through her hair.
Ice cream and chocolate goodies are empty yummies of her emotional needs
She cries, she laughs, she doesn't understand.
The hot dog, the steak, the burgers
All those choices on the menu
All those pricey platters
All those fancy dishes
No wonder she lies quiet and in pain
Getting old is not as fun as it was supposed to be
The disease discussed in this week's newsletter should be obviously easy to
prevent and obviously easy to treat. If we only knew. These words
haunt me. From what I see, what I hear, and what I read, breast cancer is
the disease that affects women the most. It is the disease that causes
46,000 deaths per year. There are 190,000 new cases reported and 15 million
women will seek medical care this year because of concerns about breast cancer.
These are scary statistics on a disease that in my opinion is easily treated and
should never happen in the first place. Where does one start when writing
about these figures? Do we start with the numbers, the people, or the
possibilities for no disease at all?
I walk the streets, I see all these beautiful women. I see the pretty
faces, the wild hair dos, the business suits, the make up, the daily lines of
those waiting for their morning coffee, bagel, and cream cheese. I watch
in horror as the modern day woman starts on her morning routine.
Do I scream a word of warning? I think of the book Raw Food Treatment of
Cancer by Kristine Nolfi, M.D., which deals with a personal battle against
breast cancer. It talks about how she became seriously ill and how she
fought back not with medicine, radiation, or chemotherapy, but with food. Raw
food and that's it. She was a physician whose years of training did not
train her for sickness. I read her book. I think of the statistics
of women with breast cancer. I read Clinical Evidence, the international
source regarding the best available evidence for effective health care.
"Mestatic breast cancer is the presence of disease at a distant site such
as the bone, liver, or lungs. It is not treatable by primary surgery and
is currently considered incurable." In 1995 Dr. Nolfi's book was
written. We look at her book; we study her background. She was a
doctor with 12 years of medical training, and the point she wants to drive home
is that breast cancer disappears on a raw food diet.
It is on that basis that we carefully choose this week's topic, begin our
research, look for other case studies, and pass the word that will stop the
tremendous seas of not only acceptance but of relishing the toxic waste that
passes as real food today.
As I begin my research there are two facts that really bother me. In God's
Way to Ultimate Health Dr. George H. Malkamus states that one in twenty American
women were affected by breast cancer in 1960. In 1992, the figure had
risen to one in eight. According to one statistic, the figure reached one
in three in 1999. What does all this mean? I dare not know for
anyone but myself. For I have a wife, a mother, three daughters, friends,
and acquaintances who are all female. I am the passion that will set these
women free with information and love shared.
If we study the words of Neal Barnard, M.D., "Researchers have found that
fat in the diet especially animal fat increases the risk of breast cancer."
If we continue our research we see that in God's Way states that "the
average American meat eater consumes over 50 lbs of fat a year, which translates
to the average American woman having 40% of her daily dietary intake being
fat." This is the fat that winds up in all the wrong places and
strikes fear in the average American woman during the summer time. However,
that's another story for another time. This fat is ugly, hard for the body
to deal with, causes all types of physical problems, and is almost impossible to
get rid of once consumed. According to Doug Graham, D.C. in Nutrition and
Athletic Performance, "The body has to reach a temperature of 300 degrees
in order to break the chemical bonds that form during the heating
process." Dr. George Malkamus teaches that the daily intake should be
approximately 5% of our total caloric intake.
So we study these figures with the actual reality of 40% of our diets consisting
of fat. We walk the aisles of the supermarket and we see the shopping
carts loaded to the brim with so-called food. We see the potato chips,
cookies, lunchmeat, red meat, white meat, fish, and soda. We step back,
look at the people pushing the carts, study their children, and become aware of
the statistics that 15 million women will go to their doctor due to concerns
about breast cancer. According to the Merck Manual 17th Edition, the race
is on. What do statistics mean to a woman who requires a radical
mastectomy? What words of comfort can a doctor give? What solace can
her family bring? The woman literally has become a victim of something
that was never supposed to happen.
According to Dr. Neal Barnard, "Affluent women who eat meat daily have 8.5
times higher risk of breast cancer compared to poorer women who rarely or never
eat meat." These are not made up numbers but rather hard-core facts.
According to the surgeon general's report on nutrition and health, "The
death rates for cancer of the breast, colon, and prostate are directly
proportional to estimated dietary fat intake." This information
should be yelled, screamed, and blasted over every mass publication possible you
would think, especially since breast cancer is rampant. Unfortunately, as
stated in The Food Revolution by John Robbins, "Prevention and profits
don't mix." There is no money to be made by telling women to cut down their
fat intake to 5% since that would mean women would be eating a diet mostly of
fruit, vegetables, and grain. What are the implications?
The Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the vanguard of publishing all information
that is pertinent regarding breast cancer, was began in 1987 and is continually
sponsored by Imperial Chemical Industry. Believe it or not, they have
approval rights for all materials that are used. According to Neal
Barnard, "Imperial Chemical Industry has consistently decided not to
include information that might prevent breast cancer." Let's take
this one step further. If they won't allow dietary changes as a
preventable measure, what do they allow? How about Tamoxifen?
Coincidentally it is sold by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, a spin off from Imperial
Chemical Industry.
To add further coincidence to this amazing coincidence, the National Cancer
Institute clearly states, according to the Food Revolution, "Tamoxifen has
cut the occurrence of new breast cancer by 45%." These numbers sounds
impressive so much so that the FDA said, "Potentially, tens of millions of
women could be candidates for Tamoxifen treatment." Now we are
beginning to see the dollar signs for Tamoxifen. The drug costs $1,000 a
year. Multiply that by tens of millions of women, and the sales would
reach tens of billions for Zeneca, for Imperial Chemical Industry as will as guarantying
a sponsor for Breast Cancer awareness month which would make every
woman aware of Tamoxifen.
There is only one little flaw in this cozy mix of politics and drug
recommendations. According to The Food Revolution, "Tamoxifen may not
deserve such acclaim." If the truth were to be based on statistical
data, then according to recent data, "for every 1000 women who take the
drug for 5 years, 17 breast cancers were avoided." Not bad, but not
great, especially since the breast cancer was in lieu of 12 endometrial cancers,
10 potentially fatal blood clots, increases in strokes, and eye cataracts.
What does all this mean to the average consumer? NOT TOO MUCH!
Zeneca Pharmaceuticals is pushing for early prevention. Besides Tamoxifen,
they also recommend mammograms. They supposedly say, "Early detection
is your best prevention." It's a woman's first line of defense.
Once again, this all seems very logical, but it's all very wrong.
Unfortunately, the words very wrong have not seeped into the medical standard
practice. As of today, the standard early detection as noted and promoted
by Breast Cancer Awareness is a mammogram at a doctor's office or
hospital. If a tumor or indurations are noted then Tamoxifen is
given. It is all very neat and in my opinion all very wrong. Besides
the negative effects of Tamoxifen, which according to Food Revolution is
"an off kind of prevention that calls for treating people year after year
with toxic drugs," the use of mammograms is also questionable.
According to Healthy Immunity, "After reviewing eight studies on
mammography, Danish researchers concluded that there is no reliable evidence
that mammography decreases breast cancer mortality." That statement
as vague as it is still misleading. From what I, Arnold, have heard,
according to Dr. George Malkamus, mammograms are not only ineffective but they
are harmful to the body. I research further on the supposed benefits of
mammograms. Health Action Network (888-432-4267) has collected information
"on the adverse effects of mammograms used for the last several
years. In 1999, a Swedish study showed no decrease in breast cancer even
though mammography has been recommended since 1985." The University
of Toronto study indicated that mammograms have no benefit to women between the
ages of 50-59. Another article I found on mammograms, the question the
author wondered if screening for breast cancer with mammography was
justifiable.
So we hold these statements in a semi-mobile status. We are not quite sure
whom to believe. If we once again review Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
which again was founded in 1987 by Imperial Chemical Industries, we see that
their trademark slogan is "Early detection is your body's best prevention.
If I were an uninformed woman who did not have any health education, who
believed in the media, the press, and most public statements, my initial
reaction would be that the statement by Breast Cancer Awareness clearly
indicates that mammograms are the way for early prevention.
I walk the streets, listen to the many women who are afraid, the many women who
have fibroid tissues, and their willingness without hesitation is to do just
what their doctor orders. HELLO! American women, wake up!
Prevention and profit don't mix. Breast cancer is on the rise. To
add another twist to an already tragic situation, the tumor that the medical
field has already established as a foreign growth in a woman's body can actually
be considered the body's intelligent defense mechanism against all the intake of
toxic material that the average woman is consuming. The body's
intelligence is always working for our highest good from the date of conception
to the day of death. Indurations or tumors as stated by T.C. Fry are
"an increase in the fibrous elements known as scarring and
encapsulation. This process engulfs the toxic material from the rest of
the body in a gel like hardened sac." According to most hygienic
practitioners such as T.C. Fry, Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, and Dr. J.H. Tilden,
"This is the last intelligent thing the body does in the stages of
disease." If I understand this statement it means that tumors are a
sign of the body's intelligence and that because of our continual intake of
toxic material the body creates a gelatinous mass not only to enclose the old
toxin but to enclose any new toxic material which we intake.
Excellent! Women should be overjoyed at such an occurrence. The
medical field should be ecstatic, honored, and overjoyed that such a wondrous
thing can be created for our benefit. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
I'm in my seventh day of writing and researching, and I'm pulling my hair. I'm
screeching and screaming. I feel anxious, happy, sad, and glad. All
these emotions are flying within my every breath. Although I am not a
woman, this week I am living the fear, reading about deaths of young women, old
women, married women. Horror stories are followed by tragedy. Is
there an end in sight?
Loren Lockman, director of the Tanglewood Wellness Center, relates the story of
Barbara (not her real name) who at the age of 40 was diagnosed with breast
cancer. She knew not of Kristine Nolfi, M.D. who beat breast cancer with raw
food. She knew not of Lorraine Day, MD who also beat breast cancer with raw food.
She did not read the stories of Eydie Mae who wrote How I Conquered Cancer
Naturally. Instead she trusted her doctors. Whatever they said she
did. In my opinion, everything that happened to her could have been
completely avoided if only she checked out other possibilities rather than
depend so much on her primary doctor. They too can become blinded by
what is truth and what is lie. Needless to say, what happened,
happened. Barbara was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went the
traditional route of medical treatment. She underwent 14 months of chemotherapy
as well as a radical mastectomy (i.e., removal of her breast, lymph
nodes). All these procedures were done under the guise of prevention and
stopping the cancer growth. If this would have squashed the cancer growth
then Barbara could have somehow justified these procedures. Unfortunately,
she was diagnosed with a tumor on her other breast. Luckily for Barbara
she studied, she educated herself, she sought relief, and she learned to become
a warrior rather than a victim. She learned about raw food, she learned about
fasting. She learned about her body's wisdom. What is truth, what is
false? Barbara decided to go on a 40-day water fast at Tanglewood Wellness
Center. She allowed her body to heal itself without drugs, without
chemotherapy, and even without food (see fasting article). Barbara's body
with her internal forces not being used up by the digestive process instead
directed its energy to eat up the toxic material that was in her body.
Sounds wild. Sounds easy. Sounds too hard to believe, but in 40 days
Barbara had last 40 pounds, lost her bitterness about her breast removal, and
best of all lost her tumor.
So we rejoice in this story. We share Barbara's story.
Why breast
cancer, and what are the options? These questions have been 40 years in
the making. There is a whole infrastructure of research, hospitals, doctors,
schools, medical books, pharmaceuticals, and words of gibberish that have
created this insistence for continual confusion.
It is on this understanding of not understanding that a simple guy like myself,
with no financial backing, no schooling, no team of financial resources, and
believe it or not, not even a desk, who has discovered what so many have known
but don't realize they know. Breast cancer is not only preventable, but it
doesn't even have to exist and only then in rare circumstances. So I thank
myself (the researcher), my wife (my financial stability who makes my newsletter
writing possible, my nights all seven of them, my hours of total work, and Toby
(my editor who takes this printed gooblegash, edits, types, and transforms this
into something readable, holding all that I have written as close to the truth
as possible). I urge, I demand, I beg, I plea to all readers both men and
women, to pass this copy to as many people as possible through email,
newspapers, schools hospitals, whatever means possible. There are 15
million women who want to know the Breast Cancer Answer.
I thank you for your time
Arnold
Next week's topic is Leukemia
References:
Food for Life by Neal Barnard, M.D.
Merck Manual 17th Edition
How I Conquered Cancer Naturally by Eydie Mae
Raw Food Treatment of Cancer by Kristine Nolfi, M.D.
Cancer Answer by Albert E. Carter
Food Revolution by John Robbins
Clinical Evidence 5th issue 2001 United Health Foundation
Alternative Medicine Presented by Burton Goldberg
Mammogram Benefit Questionable, article from Healthy Immunity
God's Way to Ultimate Health by Dr. George H. Malkamus
Nutrition and Athletic Performance by Douglas Graham, D.C.
Self-Healing Powers by T.C. Fry
Women Take Back Your Life by Stor Morningstar
Health Report by Victoria Bidwell
Interviews:
Loren Lockman, Director of Tanglewood Wellness Center 301-320-9249
Special Inspiration: Anna Inez, Director of Health and Education Center in
Pines Grove, PA, 570-739-2940
Videos by Lorain Day, M.D.: Drugs Never Cure Diseases, Believing is
Seeing
PS: For those who want to dare, we now sell burgers, steaks, cookies, and
crackers in bulk. They are raw, they are vegetarian, and they are good.
Call New Dimension Monti and Michele 215-884-9564 or 1-800-676-8224
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