Are Cancer Treatments Effective - The Real Story

Written by Lena Sanchez


Are Cancer Treatments Effective - The Real Story © By Lena Sanchez

I do not wish this article to be discouraging and I do offer an alternative atrepparttar end, so do not despair half way through reading.

Let's look atrepparttar 115574 2000 sad stats on American Healthcare's $1.3B industry. 1 out of 3 people get cancer, 1 out of 2 get heart disease, obesity is at epidemic levels, 70% of children are getting hardening deposits in their arteries as early as 12 years of age. And here isrepparttar 115575 worst one of all, 62% of accidental deaths are attributed to prescriptions. 2001 found prescription deaths greater than illegal drug deaths. In 2000 109,000 people died from prescription drugs another 2.2 million survive but have illnesses or severe debilitation caused by prescription use. So what does that tell you about how well we are doing as a westernized medical society? The figures for 2001 & 2002 aren't in yet but believed to be even more severe.

"Deadly Medicine? Every year over 500,000 people worldwide die from illness or organ diseased fromrepparttar 115576 side effects of pharmaceutical products," saysrepparttar 115577 Journal ofrepparttar 115578 American Medical Association (JAMA). These pharmaceuticals are used to treatrepparttar 115579 most deadly diseases known to Western Man: heart attack, cancer, and stroke."

I shudder when reading reports like these, even though most are from a few years back, sadlyrepparttar 115580 story is that repparttar 115581 healing rate has not increased but actually decreased in some areas! I wonder how many people have lost their lives early because of money andrepparttar 115582 medical mess that has been created by perpetuating cancer cures inrepparttar 115583 medical community that aren't really cures but money producers?

Harvard University's published cancer mortality for 2,000 excluded non-melanoma skin cancer, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, stomach cancers and other rare cancers. Their death figures fromrepparttar 115584 top fourteen cancers were 216,700 men and 197,600 women, children were not reported. Aside from certain rare cancers, it is impossible to detect any sudden changes in repparttar 115585 death rates for any ofrepparttar 115586 major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy.

Whether any ofrepparttar 115587 common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established. In most common solid tumors-lung, colon, breast, etc. chemotherapy is NOT curative.

Whyrepparttar 115588 growth in chemotherapy inrepparttar 115589 face of such failure? A look atrepparttar 115590 financial intercourse between a large cancer center such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) andrepparttar 115591 companies that make billions selling chemotherapy drugs makes for revealing why.

James D. Robinson III, Honorary Chairman ofrepparttar 115592 MSKCC Board of Overseers and Managers, is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb,repparttar 115593 world's largest producer of chemotherapy drugs. Richard Gelb, Vice-Chairman ofrepparttar 115594 MSKCC board is Chairman ofrepparttar 115595 Board at Bristol-Myers. Richard Furlaud, another MSKCC board member, recently retired as Bristol Myers' president. Paul Marks, MD, MSKCC's President and CEO, is a director of Pfizer.

Very few know that chemotherapy drugs are not FDA approved. They are legally administered underrepparttar 115596 Rule of Probable Cause" states that experimental drugs may be used ifrepparttar 115597 side effect of repparttar 115598 drug is no worse thanrepparttar 115599 end effect ofrepparttar 115600 disease. In fact, every chemotherapy bottle is stamped "For Experimental Use Only" andrepparttar 115601 patient must sign a release beforerepparttar 115602 doctor will prescribe or administer it.

Multiple papers have been written stating that while some oncologists inform their patients ofrepparttar 115603 lack of evidence that treatments work...others may well be misled by scientific papers that express unwarranted optimism about chemotherapy. Still others respond to an economic incentive. Physicians can earn much more money running active chemotherapy practices than they can providing solace and relief...to dying patients and their families."

Is sugar bad for you?

Written by DJ and stephanie


The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away allrepparttar vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients. What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance whichrepparttar 115573 human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere nearrepparttar 115574 quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman and child.

The biggest reason sugar does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic is twofold:

(a) It is considered a "food" and ingested in such massive quantities, and

(b) The damaging effects begin early, fromrepparttar 115575 day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its formula. Even mothers milk is contaminated with it ifrepparttar 115576 mother eats sugar, and

(c) Practically 95% of people are addicted to it to some degree or other. Sugar is eaten to excess It has been said thatrepparttar 115577 criteria as to whether a substance (any substance) is harmful or medically beneficial isrepparttar 115578 quantity in which it is used inrepparttar 115579 human body. To point to a dramatic illustration: we all know thatrepparttar 115580 venom of a rattlesnake, a cobra, water moccasin, coral, and other venomous snakes is deadly torepparttar 115581 human system. There are some snakes whose bite is so deadly it can cause death within a matter of seconds. Nevertheless, even snake venom, deadly as it is, has been used for therapeutic, medical purposes when used in minute quantities. History of sugar Whereas sugar had been around in minute quantities for several thousand years, it was practically unknown and formed an insignificant part ofrepparttar 115582 average diet inrepparttar 115583 Classical civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Greeks (who had a word for nearly everything!) did not even have a word for it. Even in medieval Europe it was practically unknown and then only a rare delicacy inrepparttar 115584 royal courts. Duringrepparttar 115585 last major Crusade that ended in 1204 some ofrepparttar 115586 Christian Crusaders were introduced to sugar freely used byrepparttar 115587 Saracens. The Moors when invading and colonizingrepparttar 115588 southern part of Spain grew sugar cane on Spanish soil and refined sugar. When Spain drove outrepparttar 115589 Moors, it inherited some ofrepparttar 115590 cane plantations. It was during this time that Christendom took its first big bite ofrepparttar 115591 forbidden fruit and liked it. Sugar is addictive A second reason that sugar is so harmful is that like heroin it is addictive, and being delectable and seductive torepparttar 115592 taste, it is also habit forming. Starting with sugar inrepparttar 115593 baby's formula, people not only develop a strong taste for sugar but an insatiable craving for it so that they never seem to get enough of this poison. Sugar is an unnatural chemical Why is sugar so devastating to our health? One reason is it is pure chemical and (like heroin) through refining has been stripped of allrepparttar 115594 natural food nutrition that it originally had inrepparttar 115595 plant itself. Heroin and sugar are arrived at by very similar processes of refinement. In producing heroin,repparttar 115596 opium is first extracted fromrepparttar 115597 poppy: The opium is then refined into morphine. The chemists then went to work on morphine and further refined it into heroin, proclaiming they had "discovered" a wonderful new pain-killer that was non-addictive. So they said.

Cont'd on page 2 ==>
 
ImproveHomeLife.com © 2005
Terms of Use