At the end of last week, my daughter, Shanna, shared an item on Facebook. I shared it because I thought I might want to write about it.
TaDa.
In part, the missive was about how to avoid cancer, and it began, "AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY …"
A friend of mine who lives to debunk items on the Internet, and Facebook in particular, debunked it as a hoax, and said Johns Hopkins' website had nothing about this. Probably not, though it intrigues me this friend, who constantly decries the time all of us spends on the Internet and the Internet in general, would spend so much time trying to find what was on John Hopkins' website so that he could debunk the item.
But as many of you already know, I digress often.
In any case, part of what was said in what essentially was a blog by some unknown character, and which Snopes.com says was a hoax was this:
What cancer cells feed on (according to this article):
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Note: Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt. MD Anderson says sugar doesn't lead to cancer; instead, it's about what it does for your waistline that leads to cancer. And I have no idea what Manuka honey is and don't really want to find out.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells will starved. Studies agree that using less than whole or 2% whole is better.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer. True, but, it's BEEF...
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes t o nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.True, but it's NOT BEEF...
To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). WE HAVE A JUICER SO WE'RE GOLDEN
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water–best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it. No studies show any correlation between caffeine and cancer, THANK GOD
You can do your own research, rather than accepting anything off a website run by someone or other like Snopes, but again, I digress.
Here's the point. My question is this, if one can't drink coffee, eat beef, stay away from broccoli, at least have artificial sweeteners, not eat any fish that isn't fried, then what the heck are we living for in the first place?
Cancer is terrifying on my list of things I don't want. Not at the top (ALS, Alzheimer's or such), but on the list. Cancer killed by closest aunt, my mother, my father. Cancer, to coin a phrase I've heard somewhere, sucks.
But a little elderly lady at one of our churches years ago, when told she had two different kind of cancers, chose to have no treatment. I asked her, sincerely wondering, why. She said it's about quality of life. I had never actually given that a whole lot of thought. After that, I've always thought about it.
It is about quality of life, or it should be, I think and I've counseled. Fighting for life with every breath, but knowing when it is time is a blessing from God Himself. If we live our lives filled with fear the next Big Mac is going to kill us, I wonder whether that is abundant living or not.
Wonder what Snopes.com might think about that?
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