Martha Hoff, MFCC
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Cancer Studies for Determined People

Dietary Initiators and Promoters

Eating and drinking foods with high sugar content produced faster growing and more deadly tumors in animal tests. The researchers felt the insulin triggered by the sugar was the culprit. Insulin acts like a powerful fertilizer on cancer cells, greatly speeding up the growth of tumors. Clinical Nutrition (9,2:62).

Several researchers (Birger Jansson, Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Stephen Thompson, Ph.D., researcher at the University of California San Diego, and Maryce Jacobs, Ph.D., former research director of the American Institute of Cancer Research) have found a link between dietary potassium and sodium ratio, and cancer progression. It was found that a low intake of potassium compared to sodium could cause cancer progression. Dr. Quillin explains that all of your cells are bathed in a salty ocean water, with higher concentrations of potassium inside the cell to create the "battery of life."Quillan, Patrick, "Beating Cancer With Nutrition", Nutrition Times Press, Tulsa, OK 1994.

A study by researchers at Roswell Park Memorial Institute found that drinking whole milk is a large risk factor in developing cancer. On the other hand, people who drank low-fat milk had fewer cases of cancer then those who didn’t drink low- fat milk. Nutrition and Cancer (13,1&2:89).

Nicotine: Acts as a cancer promoter, making it easy for all cancers to spread. Dreher, H. "Your Defenses Against Cancer". New York: Harper & Row, 1988, 149.

Partially hydrogenated oils: highly carcinogenic effect. Enig, M.G.; et al. "Dietary Fat and Cancer Trends." Federal Proceedings 37 (1978): 2215-2220 (note: I have only seen this reference, I will add more when I see the article-Martha).

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