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Dr. Josef Issels, one of the foremost cancer specialist in the world and director of his world famous cancer clinic, says, “Excessive eating of meat and other cholesterol rich foods not only contributes to atherosclerosis and consequently, impaired blood circulation and diminished oxygenation of cells, but also increases the risk of tumour development”. Research studies have shown that limiting the use of meat and animal fats, including butter, will reduce the risk of cancer.
Over-consumption of protein not only causes deficiencies of Vitamin B6, B3 and magnesium, but also a chronic pancreatic enzyme deficiency, which is considered one of the most important causes of cancer in countries with high protein consumption. It has been statistically demonstrated that countries with high animal protein consumption have a greater incidence of cancer and countries where the traditional diet is low in animal protein, even low in any kind of protein, have little or no cancer at all. Americans eat more protein than any other country in the world and they also lead the world in cancer statistics. Most leading cancer researchers and nutritionally-oriented doctors, such as Dr. Max Gerson, Dr. Werner Kollath and Dr. Alan H. Nittler, are convinced that over-indulgence in protein and the body’s inability to properly digest and utilize it, is one of the prime causes of cancer.
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Unfortunately, not even breast milk is immune from a toxic environment. Low doses of environmental toxins are fat-soluble and are stored in fatty tissue, such as breast tissue. Mother’s milk contains 3 percent fat. The chemicals stored in mother’s fat are not released in significant amounts except during breast-feeding. Breast-feeding lessens the mother’s body burden of toxic chemicals. A six month old breast-fed baby gets more than 10 percent of the cumulative body burden of chemicals up until the age of twenty and receives five times the allowable daily limit of PCBs set by international health standards for a 150 pound adult.7 A woman passes half of her lifetime accumulation of dioxins and PCBs onto her child when she nurses for just six months.
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When compared to the variations of hormone levels during menstruation, with oestrogen and progesterone peaking and troughing every four weeks or so, pregnancy and breast-feeding can actually be a mercifully peaceful interlude for the female breast. Western women’s lifestyle, with early onset of menstruation and relatively few pregnancies, contrasts starkly with the way of life in developing countries where there is generally a much later onset of menstruation and more pregnancies. Both these factors have a profound effect on the incidence of breast cancer. With each pregnancy a woman is exposed to progesterone and oestriol (E3), both of which have a protective effect against breast cancer.
The differences can be quite striking: a girl in the West who starts menstruating at the age of eleven, and has, on average, two full-term pregnancies, will have about 400 menstrual cycles during her reproductive life. On the other hand, a South American woman whose puberty is delayed to around the age of sixteen, and has repeated pregnancies throughout her life, may have fewer than 100 menstrual cycles, due to the pregnancies followed by prolonged breast-feeding, which inhibits the return of menstruation. These differences account, at least in part, for the higher incidence of breast cancer in the West, and this is one of the few ‘defmites’ about breast cancer. Women who have no children at all, for instance nuns, are considered high-risk as they consistently have higher oestrogen levels than women who have borne children.
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There are a great many different types of cancer. Each of the many different types of normal cells in our bodies can give rise to a cancerous growth under certain circumstances. Cancers start more often in cells which frequently replace themselves than in cells which are very stable. When we study a specimen from a cancer under the microscope we find that the cells look quite different from the normal mature cells of the organ in which the growth began. The cancer cells are bigger, and less differentiated. As you would expect from their appearance, these cells are useless. They are not capable of carrying out the special functions of the cells from which they started.

Some cancer cells are so undifferentiated that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the pathologist to work out where in the body they originated. It is important to establish the origin of a cancer as this tells us how it is likely to behave and what treatment is likely to work against it. Therefore, the pathologist must study specimens from poorly-differentiated cancers very carefully. To establish where it started, he or she tries to find traces of the more specialised structures which occur in normal mature cells. Sometimes special techniques are used on the specimen to make such traces apparent.

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Home-made Vegetable Stock (Cleansing Broth)

4 tomatoes

2 potatoes

1/4 small cabbage

2 sticks celery

1 litre water

2 onions

2 carrots

4 spinach leaves

Combine all of the ingredients with skin still on and simmer for one hour. Strain, discarding the vegetables. Store vegetable stock in a glass jar, in the refrigerator.

Salt Substitute

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 teaspoon dried thyme

1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes

1 teaspoon ground mace

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon dried sage

Mix all of the ingredients together.

Yogurt Cheese

100 ml of low-fat yogurt

Line a bowl with muslin cloth. Fill the cloth with yogurt and tie the cloth in a bundle. Suspend the bundle over a sink or bowl for 5 to 6 hours, or until the whey has drained completely. Store and cool.

Vitality Sandwiches for a Snack

Here is a selection of my favourite sandwich fillings. Simply fill two slices of rye bread or pita bread with any of the following combinations. The sandwiches are great with a salad or can be eaten on their own.

• 120 grams cottage cheese with a large handful of alfalfa sprouts.

• 120 grams hummus and a large handful of alfalfa sprouts, together with some refreshing

cucumber slices.

• 1/4 packet of cooked tofu with lettuce, sprouts and grated carrot.

• 1 sliced tomato and a large handful of watercress.

• 50 grams canned salmon or tuna in brine, cucumber slices and a large handful of watercress.

• 120 grams of cottage cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, rocket leaves

• 1/4 packet of cooked tofu, watercress, black sesame seeds

• 1 hard-boiled egg with watercress, tomato and lettuce.

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