In cancer fight, a spice brings hope to the table

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 11, 2005 | TODD ACKERMAN

[backhoe]

Thank you, Carolyn, I will remember that.
Just for the sake of accuracy, while melanoma is what killed my BIL, quite ironically my first wife died from a stroke- after apparently beating both malignancies. Berry aneurism in the circlet of Willis. Nobody saw it coming- it was silent & undetected until it burst. On her 36th birthday, within minutes of the hour she was born-- it makes me subscribe ( to an extent ) to what I call the "Big Clock Theory"-- that each of us has a clock running on us, and until it strikes, you can literally stand up and walk through Hell unscathed- and when it chimes that final time, no power on Earth can help you.

[little jeremiah]

There is a world of difference between vegetarians who eat milk products, and vegans. Vegans are nutcases who ruin their health.

I have been a milk product eating vegetarian for 35 yrs, raised two kids on the diet who have stuck with it even into adulthood, and they are healthy beautiful women.

It is the lack of milk products which destroy the health of vegans, or those whackjobs who eat only raw food.

[Churchillspirit]

You make a very good point.

[little jeremiah]

It can be called "karma" (though most people misunderstand the meaning of the word), or destiny. I've seen two friends, one a very, very dear friend, live very healthy lives with good diets and habits, and succumb to cancer at 28 and a young 50.

What really matters is not how long we walk the earth, but what our destination is after we leave. What lessons we learn here.

I've had some severe illnesses in my time, and they have taught me lessons I value like treasures.

[backhoe]

It can be called "karma" (though most people misunderstand the meaning of the word), or destiny. I've seen two friends, one a very, very dear friend, live very healthy lives with good diets and habits, and succumb to cancer at 28 and a young 50. What really matters is not how long we walk the earth, but what our destination is after we leave. What lessons we learn here. I've had some severe illnesses in my time, and they have taught me lessons I value like treasures.

Soldiers call it "seeing the elephant," and there are many ways to do this.

[little jeremiah]

Hmm - could you explain "seeing the elephant"?

[CDHart]

Interesting theory. Your wife dying at 36 -- that must have been awful for you. Aneurysms are not usually detectable until they go. What we need is a body scanner like they used on Star Trek, and I think the MRIs, etc. are the forerunner of that.

Carolyn

[backhoe]

Facing death.

[backhoe]

Interesting theory. Your wife dying at 36 -- that must have been awful for you. Aneurysms are not usually detectable until they go.

I was 31 at the time, and the richness of ironies still rankles, a little. In all the tests they ran, they never x-rayed her head-- she had been born with it. Or so the pathologist claimed. If she had not had her neck broken in a wreck ( which, among many other things, caused chronically low [ 60/40 ] blood pressure ) it probably would have burst long before that, since prior to becoming handicapped, she was quite the athlete. Archer, runner, swimmer, horsewoman.

[who knows what evil?]

Cinnamon is supposed to be very good for diabetics, too.

No question about it...cinnamon is an essential part of my family's daily diet. Cancer treatment is one issue, but a cure? Never happen.

[CDHart]

"Archer, runner, swimmer, horsewoman."

I can't imagine how hard that must have been for both of you.

Carolyn

[who knows what evil?]

I'm convinced that the diet played a large part in my case.

You are absolutely correct. Many cancers are the result of a poor diet (soda, fast food, and other nutritionally bankrupt "foods"). Chemo destroys the very immune system that your body needs to fight the cancers.

[who knows what evil?]

We have always thought that GOD put on earth something to cure every disease, all we have to do is locate them.

Bingo.

[CDHart]

Well, actually, I did do the chemo and the surgery. But while I was doing chemo, my blood counts were great and I had none of the problems usually associated with chemo, except for a little nausea. When they removed the left upper lobe of my lungs, there were no viable cancer cells according to pathology.

The surgeon himself told me that at first they thought they had removed the wrong lobe. The tumor was obvious in an X-ray they took the day before the surgery.

I don't pretend to have all the answers but I do believe that the diet alone, along with prayer of course, might reverse cancers that are considered inoperable or badly metastasized.

Carolyn

[manic4organic]

Mmmmm...Tikka Masala.

[Marysecretary]

I don't think the medical researchers will find a cure for cancer but from what I've been reading, there are natural cures out there. If you can keep your body alkaline, they say you can't get cancer. It can't exist in a body that's alkaline. An acid body catches all kinds of diseases. I wish they'd look more into that. Diet is an important part of staying and getting healthy.

[Marysecretary]

Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time to live and a time to die. I, too, believe we are here for a time, a season, and when it's time, it's time.

[Marysecretary]

Amen. I feel the same way.

[Revolting cat!]

[Marysecretary]

I, too, have heard of different teas. One of them is 'casie's tea' or essiac. You can get it in health food stores.