TURNING CANCER ON AND OFF!

I've heard about the book entitled The China Study here and there and seen it referenced periodically. I figured it was time to get my own copy and begin reading it, which I did last night. 

The China Study was written in 2006 by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and his son Thomas M. Campbell II.

From the back cover:

"By any measure, America's health is failing. We spend far more, per capita, on health care than any other society in the world, and yet two-thirds of America are overweight, and more than 15 million American have diabetes. 

We fall prey to heart disease as often as we did thirty years ago. The War on Cancer, launched in the 1970, has been a miserable failure. Half of all American have a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and more than 100 million Americans have high cholesterol.

To make matters worse, we are leading our youth down a path of disease earlier and earlier in their lives. One-third of the children in this country are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. 

Our kids are increasingly falling prey to a form of diabetes that used to be seen only in adults, and children now take more prescription drugs than ever before.

These issue all come down to three things: breakfast, lunch and dinner."

WOW! But that's not what rocked my world. This is:

Based on studies in the Philippines and India, Dr. Campbell learned that when carcinogens (cancer causing toxins) are present in the body, the crucial element determining if cancer will be expressed is the level of animal protein in the diet.

"In one group, they administered the cancer-causing aflatoxin (natural occurring toxic fungus in grains), then fed a diet that was composed of 20% protein, a level near what many of us consume in the West. 

In the other group, they administered the same amount of aflatoxin, but then fed a diet that was only composed of 5% protein. Incredibly, every single animal that consumed the 20% protein diet had evidence of liver cancer, and every single animal that consumed a 5% protein diet avoided liver cancer. 

It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition trumped chemical carcinogens, even very potent carcinogens, in controlling cancer."

"Low-protein diets inhibited the initiation of cancer by aflatoxin, regardless of how much of this carcinogen was administered to these animal. After cancer initiation was completed, low-protein diets also dramatically blocked subsequent cancer growth. 

In other words, the cancer-producing effects of this highly carcinogenic chemical were rendered insignificant by a low-protein diet. In fact, dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and turn off cancer growth simple by changing the level (of protein) consumed."

"What protein consistently and strongly promoted cancer? Casein, which makes up 87% of cow's milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy."

Is your mind blown, like mine? Turn ON and OFF cancer with animal protein, especially casein??? While we may not be exposed to aflatoxin, there are many toxins in the air, water, and in our food and body products no matter how stringent we are about avoiding them. An optimal diet is imperative to cancer prevention.

What is a mother of a "cheeseatarian" child to do???

1. First we will look for goat milk cheese (like chevre) and sheep milk cheese (like feta) alternatives, preferably raw. 

2. Secondly we will look for recipes that make "cheeses" out of nuts (cashews, macademia, pine, etc.)

3. We will avoid soy cheese because many brands contain casein. (Isn't that a sucker punch for vegans and casein avoiders?) I'm not a big fan of processed soy anyhow, so that's not such a big deal, but I bet many people didn't know that many soy cheese brands contain animal protein - read your labels!!!

4. OneHealthyKid.com is getting taken over by momma! It will be dedicated (now that it has been abandoned by THE KID) to the journey, including recipes, to the land of no cow milk products, namely cheese and butter.

Bella already no longer drinks cow milk nor eats flesh foods, which is good. But if I were to take away her cheese, she'd be left with little to eat (well a lot, but little that she would embrace at this point). We must find some alternatives!!

An herein lies my work. If can convince a stubborn 7.5 year old to give up cow cheese and learn to love other animal milk cheeses and more plant protein, then I will have done something more difficult than changing my own diet. 

Oh, what little Buddhas children are and how they arrive to teach us our grandest life lessons. 

Live Light, xo-C.

Comments

[Laurie Martin]

Great, great, great info! Thanks for all of your heart felt energy researching and reporting to us!
Laurie
http://www.smileacrossyourheart.com

[Pam Awad]

Thank you so much, Carla! I have long been aware of many benefits of vegetarian and low-processed foods due to the difficult search for food allergies with a child...but it is extremely useful for me to know that casein is an activator for cancer causing agents present in the body. Wow!