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Is
the cancer epidemic a wakeup call? Just in this last week. I have been getting several not-so-subtle messages that we are all being subject to physical, electrical, chemical, and emotional stressors that separately may not be significant enough to truncate our health, but combined might be enough to overwhelm our bodies ability to raise a defense. The pediatric department of the local medical school hospital thinks that childhood cancer is reaching epidemic proportions. When I took my training there fifty years ago, we saw a couple of those nasties a year. Now the wards are full of these pathetic cases. What is going on? I heard a lecture by Dr. Eric Dover, a medical doctor who practices in Salem Oregon, and has been bird-dogging chemicals, PCBs and other chemicals in our country. There are currently 70,000 chemicals in used in urban and rural sites with 2,000 of these admitted toxins being added each year. None of these chemicals is offensive or dangerous when used by itself in the amounts stated on the label (are we sure?) but when added to the rest of them, the effects are cumulative. Some of these have hormone-like effects and can (and do) change physiological functioning. DDT use has been banned in out country, but it is manufactured here and sent to countries overseas for use there. This and other pesticides are on plants, fruits, and vegetables, which we import. I am sure I am not getting any of that. (Sure.) Dogs and cats --- and possibly children --- are getting a load as they are closer to the ground. Leonard Horowitz, DMD, wrote his book /Emerging Viruses, /a well researched book, in which he pointed out how the vaccines we so cavalierly inject in to children (and adults) have served to hurt the immune systems of those injectees, rather than helping their immune systems. He points out that Robert Strecker, Ph.D., a pharmacist, helped develop a virus in 1969 that could be used by our Department of Defense (DOD) as part of biological warfare. WHO, Rockefeller, and the World Bank worked to develop 70,000 strains of viruses from 1965 to 1975. These researchers knew in 1961 that the SV40, the monkey virus, causes cancer. In West and Central Africa the incidence of measles per 100,000 population 12 months fell after a mass immunization campaign but in 15 months the rate returned to precampaign disease in these countries. (Did they really immunize them?) Widely used vaccines such as pertussis are known to increase and modify immunological reactivity profoundly. The incidence of SIDS isappeared in Japan in 1975 when these DPT shots were postponed. In 1971 the NCI had a report that nutrition was the answer to cancer. It was suppressed. Barbara Lee Fisher,
co-founder of NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) stated
: "Every citizen is forced by law to use vaccines which are
being poorly studied, tested and regulated for safety as well
as unsafely administered, and no one is held accountable when
a citizen, usually a child, is injured or killed by that product."
Forcing individuals to risk injury or death without their consent
is a violation of civil and human rights, the Nuremberg Code,
and the Helsinki The point here is that the immune system is important not only to combat infections due to germs, viruses, and fungi, but also is essential in combating cancer and tumor growths. Some good evidence points out the connection between chemical spills or releases and the appearance of cancer in nearby residents. The USA has an environmental quality department (DEQ) that is supposed to be watching for these spills and the illegal dumping of dangerous cancer producing chemicals and bring the perpetrators to a speeding justice. It is sadly understaffed. Overexposure to the sun's harmful ultraviolet light can damage children's skin. The American Academy of Dermatology estimates that up to 80% of a person's lifetime exposure to potentially damaging ultraviolet light occurs before the age of 18. Ultraviolet rays pose a threat to children because severe sunburns experienced in childhood increase the likelihood of developing malignant melanoma, the most deadly kind of skin cancer. Last year there were an estimated one million new cases of skin cancer in the United States. The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) believes that children are particularly vulnerable to environmental health risks because of their developing, immature immune systems. Children are at increased risk from many environmental threats in three ways: 1. Rapid changes in growth and development, plus their immature body organs and tissues, and weaker immune systems in infancy make children more susceptible to environmental threats. 2. Children eat proportionately more food, drink more fluids, and breathe more air per pound of body weight, and they play outside more, they are more exposed to environmental threats. 3. Their behavior -- such as crawling on the ground or the floor -- exposes them to different environmental hazards. These health hazards: pollution, lead-based paints, mercury fillings, resistant microbes in drinking water, and persistent industrial chemicals may cause cancer or induce reproductive or developmental changes. We know these environmental hazards truncate the immune system, but the large chemical companies believe that each of their compounds is safe, by itself. But when accumulated they become toxic. Each year, more than 100,000 children accidentally directly ingest pesticides. EPA estimates that last year, a total of 30 million Americans drank contaminated water. If one can smell it, it is having an effect on the body. Polluted waters not only affect children when they swim in our lakes and streams, but also when they eat certain freshwater fish. Hundreds of beaches are closed each summer due to raw sewage and other contamination raising special concerns that pregnant women and children should not eat fish caught in the water because of contamination. From January to September 1994, some 1,500 fish advisories were posted -- with 73 percent of them related to mercury contamination. If children are exposure to high doses of methyl mercury and PCBs during pregnancy, they may develop learning disabilities, cancer, and delayed development. EPA banned PCBs in 1976 because they cause cancer; but this toxic chemical continues to persist in the environment, often in contaminated fish. Toxic waste dumps are a neighborhood blight and a health hazard to our communities, especially to our children. Ten million children under the age of ten-years -- live within four miles of a toxic waste dump and our cities are littered with thousand of abandoned industrial sites. Toxic chemicals not only lead to cancer in children, but can also damage reproductive and thyroid hormones. These endocrine disrupters may also play an important role in reproductive cancers. Second-hand tobacco:
A recent CDC study estimates that children exposed EPA regulates these chemicals one at a time. EPA has finally begun to phase in a method to assess the combined risk posed by such chemicals; the multifactorial approach seems to make sense. Our government is trying to encourage the use of safe, cost-effective methods as alternatives to traditional pesticides: the use of biological pesticides. Reevaluations are being done at a rate of 40 per year. Why not eliminate the manufacture and use of pesticides and herbicides altogether? However, that might hurt big chemical businesses. The prohibition of the burning of hazardous waste has slowed the emissions of dioxins -- a family of toxic chemicals that causes cancer in animals. Dioxin and other bioaccumulative chemicals concentrate at higher levels in breast milk. The Great Lakes next to Canada pose particular health effects on reproduction, and children's development and immune systems. Electrical equipment may contains PCBs. Twelve major utility companies have reported that they have removed almost 90 percent of PCBs from their equipment. Is it too late? We have a few immune
system boosters that will counteract these poisons, and are effective
in controlling infections, hyperactivity, some nervous and mental
disease, such as autism. Our topsoil and consequently our foods,
no matter how natural they are grown, are mineral and vitamin
deficient. Vitamin C is our best defense and everyone should be
on this one even before birth. Three thousand mgs daily for the
pregnant woman is a start. The baby should get 100 mg per day
per month of age. (The six month old would get 600 mg, the year-old
gets a thousand mgs daily, the two year-old would get 2,000 mgs.,
etc.) A daily dose of 2,000 to 5,000 mg would be prudent for a
lifetime. Beta-carotene, vitamin E, magnesium, co-Q-10, plus the
B vitamins would be a start. Dr. Darryl See has stated that 35%
of cancers are due to our unsatisfactory diet. New research has
indicated that glyconutrients support the immune system. We all
get enough glucose and galactose, but for the complete complement
we need fucose, mannose, xylose, and others which are provided
if we eat enough mature, vine-ripened, flash-frozen, organically
grown fruits and What to do: Avoid these stupid, useless procedures, additives, and medical suggestions: fluoride (another poison; does not help toughen the teeth and might lower the IQ), aspartame, (many are very sensitive to this), mercury/silver amalgam fillings (lowers resistance to diseases, especially of the nervous system), forgo the vaccinations (they are not effective and apparently lower the immune system function), sugar, coffee, and anything else you like. Exercise, go to church (remember God is good, and Satan is bad), laugh more than you cry (laughter promotes endorphins which improves the immune system). A little red wine helps. (Especially if you are French.) References: /Role of
Dietary Fat/, /Cancer Correlated with high Fat Diet/, Erickson,
/Vitamin
C levels Lower in Cancer Group, / Stahelin, HB, et al. /J. Nat.
/Induction
of Unscheduled DNA Synthesis by Sodium Fluoride/, Tsutsui, T.
/Anticarcinogenic Effect of Magnesium/, Blendell, J.M., /Med. Hypothesis/, 6:863-87, 1980. /Immunization:
Theory vs. Reality. Expose’ on Vaccinations. /Miller, |