CANCER - A NUTRITIONAL DISEASE

Sir Arbuthnot Lane said: " cancer is a disease of civilization." The more sophisticated a civilization is in food preparation, the more cancer become prevalent. There is no such thing as cancer among those leading primitive lives - meaning those whose food preparation have least to do with heating and processing. Among those who feed themselves with on "the white man's diet" like fast food, canned food, junk food or heavy-meat filled food were the most likely candidates to be afflicted with cancer.

The cure for cancer is found on the plate. The food we eat is a lifetime and lifestyle decision if you don't want to get entangled in dreades diseases. Dr. Johanna Budwig said: "the harm done by eating the wrong kind of food fats has serious repercussions in all realms of life including healthy mental and spiritual functioning. Eat the wrong kind of food and everything else goes haywire in your life.

Food by itself has no healing or nourishing power. It is the innate and intelligent functions of your body that does the healing and nourishing. Raw food and the proper environment gives the body the raw materials it needs to detoxify, create energy and rebuild. The body knows how to heal, nourish and rebuild itself. But if you feed it with the wrong food, it reacts and you get sick. Over time, the healing, cleaning and nourishing functions of the body break down and cancer cells wreak havoc.

Raw food like fruits and vegetables is the ideal. The problem with eating canned food or artificially processed food is that the living cells of the body do not take nourishment from dead and artificial ingredients in cooked food. So after taking a typical meal of cooked food, a person thinks his stomach is full or that he has satisfied his nutritional needs or that his hunger is mitigated. But in reality, cooked food starves the body cells. While the hunger maybe mitigated, it compromises the nutritional component for the body to rebuild, nourish and heal itself.

Instead of eating meat, whether pork, beef, chicken or fish, substitute these with nuts - peanuts, almonds, cashew nuts, etc. . . You can have citrus fruit juices for the morning meals, raw vegetables for noon meals and then fruits and slightly cooked vegetables for evening meals. Sugars should be taken from fruits and vegetablells.

Be aware, a man does not get sick or die in abstaining from meat. Rather a human being gets sick because he eats meat or too much of meat. Get real and be natural. There is wisdom in the saying that "an apple a day takes the disease away" so does mango, orange, peanuts and veggies.