Cancer love simple foods. There’s a big buzz on what you should eat or not to eat to fight cancer. Sometimes, this gets confusing. Sugar is a simple food. People believe that sugar feed cancer. However, the truth is cancer research doesn’t show any direct link. Sugar doesn’t make cancer replicate faster. Your cancer mass doesn’t grow any bigger with high intake of sugary food on occasional time. more…
I was surfing the web for some anti-cancer foods when a mangosteen ad caught my eye. Known as the queen of fruit, Mangosteen grows in Southeast Asia and in other tropical countries. An exotic fruit, it comes a long way for us here at temperate countries.
Legend has it that Queen Victoria was desperate to taste mangosteen. She offered a reward of 100 pounds and even knighthood to anyone who can provide her the fruit. Despite the incentive, none of her subjects even the most enterprising was able to bring her mangosteen. more…
Does a beer belly reflect a bigger prostate mass? I became aware of this during by the presentation of Dr. Nilesh Patil at the American Urology Association in San Francisco. Dr. Patil concluded that fatter men have a larger prostate tumor mass. A urologist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, he based this conclusion from 3,300 surgical procedures on prostate glands. However, there had been a large variation in each group that lowers the impact of the data. more…
My team mate discovered a video that simplifies fighting cancer growth. It was presented in simple terms by William Li, president of Angiogenesis Foundation. This non-profit organization is re-conceptualizing the global fight against cancer.
The concept of angiogenesis was discovered 40 years ago by the late Dr. Judah Folkman. Angiogenesis means sourcing out nutriments through the growth of blood vessels. William Li presented a new way of battling cancer – anti-angiogenesis through the food we eat. more…
What’s a great way to enjoy the nice weather? A BBQ or a cookout of course! It will also be a perfect time to de-stress and to re-bond with friends and family. You can have it on a beautiful moonlit night or any time you prefer. But you’re scared. The newspapers and the net have warned you that grilled burned meat turns into a carcinogenic nightmare. You might even decide to sell your grill set and skip it altogether. But what’s summer without a BBQ or a cookout? more…
If you’re a big fan of western and cowboy movies, this would look familiar to you. Probably, you’ve known the salesman in a big chariot advertising a formula painted at the side. The man – Ralph Schauss from Wyoming – is the developer of the vitae elixxir or the elixir of life. He’s a businessman in his 80’s.
Very little is known about the ingredients of the formula. It is a thick herbal concoction of some herbs with St. John’s Worth as one of ingredients. Some say the mixture tastes horrible! The old man has no medical or scientific training whatsoever. He looks tame and nice. He purportedly developed the mixture to cure his own cancer.
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Funny, while enjoying myself on Facebook I stumbled upon The Daily Mail list of “Things that Give you Cancer.” Some things on the list are age, air travel, allergies, artificial flavors, baby food, bath water, being a woman, being a man, being skinny, being southern, breastfeeding, broken hearts, bubble bath, calcium, cereal, coffee, dogs, Facebook (huh!), internet, lipstick, modern living, money, older fathers, perfume, rice, soup, shaving, war in Iraq, working and the list ended on x-rays. Reading the list made me shake my head in disbelief and amusement that I burst out laughing!
These things seem satiric but can surely scare people. Where are the scientific bases of these listed things? If you take it seriously, you’ll end up suffering life instead of having fun. more…
Cabbage – ever present in supermarkets, grocery stores and farmers market – is one incredible functional food. Classified under the Crucifer family of plants, cabbage is brimming with phytochemicals. Phytochemicals – as we all know- are chemicals that check cancer cells in their own unique way.
Cancer research scientifically proven, cabbage can decrease your chances of developing breast cancer. You won’t need to consume a ton of cabbage to avail of those cancer-fighting phytochemicals. Half a cup daily is all that’s recommended. This is easy to do. Incorporate it in your daily meals such as in your soups, stews, tacos or in your pizza to name a few. This veggie is a versatile ingredient in almost all types of cuisine.
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Last week, I attended the conference of the American Association of Cancer Research in Washington, DC to present a poster on my cancer research.
And oh boy, was I lucky! It was enlightening, exhilarating and fun. This was easily the biggest conference on cancer research. The cancer meeting was well planned and went marvelously. There were 20,000-30,000 attendees from all corners of the globe. It would have been more, if the volcanic ashes of Eyjafjallajokull didn’t deter the Europeans to attend. (The European airports were closed.)
The participants were cancer researchers and drug company people. There were the ubiquitous salespersons you bump into during health and medical conferences. The convention center was huge. You could land a plane in the poster hall where cancer researchers enthusiastically displayed their latest cancer results. There were 100 conference rooms in all! You can say that cancer -the longtime bane of mankind – is a topic expected to merit such attendance and pomp. more…
This alternative treatment is outright weird if not fishy. The name, 714-X, is derived from the numerology of the inventor’s name, Gaston Naessens. 714-X had been analyzed by the FDA. The active ingredient is 0.01% camphor or scientifically designated as trimethylbicyclonitraminoheptane chloride. Most of the rest is 94% water.