Breast Cancer Prevention Awareness

By the end of 2013, an estimated 232,340 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and an estimated 39,620 women will die from breast cancer. Much emphasis has been given to “Breast Cancer Awareness“, while very little attention has been paid to “Breast Cancer Prevention“, despite that a link between cancer and diet has been known for years. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1988; National Research Council, 1982, 1989)

Dr. Christine Horner had become a plastic surgeon and spokesperson for the American Cancer Society on the subject of breast cancer. After seeing breast cancer patients showing up in her office at earlier and earlier ages, she felt there must be a cause. It was then that she realized, being trained in Western medicine, that she had never been trained in nutrition. Western medicine’s focus on drugs and operations were not working to reduce the occurrence of breast cancer as far as she was concerned, so she now has a website to promote the available information on ways to prevent breast cancer.

Guidance about what foods to eat “if you survive breast cancer” should be followed in order to prevent it in the first place.

• Get regular, intentional physical activity.
  
• Reduce your lifetime weight gain by limiting your calories and getting regular physical activity.
  
• Avoid or limit your alcohol intake.
  

You can see an interview done by Dr. Mercola with Dr. Horner in 2011 on YouTube here.

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Why do you Use Aspartame?

Aspartame, an artificial sweetener marketed under the names of NutraSweet® and Equal® and now AminoSweet (marketed in Europe as a natural product) is marketed to reduce weight. A recent study published this week from a Purdue researcher, suggests the opposite. There are massive studies on this product, and to this day, the battle between health advocates and the food industry rages on. Do you use Aspartame to lose weight?

“85% of all complaints registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerns aspartame’s adverse reactions.”

“Currently, aspartame is found in more than 6,000 products and is consumed by over 200 million people around the world.”

A 60 minutes report from December of 1996 had some highlights listed below:

1. Debate began in 1975 about its effect on causing brain cancer.
2. In 1980, the FDA had 2 separate panels (3 scientists each) evaluate the product release. Both panels said the product should not be released without further testing.
3. In 1981, Dr. Arthur Hall Hayes was appointed the Commissioner of the FDA. He over-ruled both panels and approved the release. Two years after it was approved for dry products, it was approved for soft drinks. Hayes left the FDA a few months later to take a job for the PR firm that works with Searle, the then owner of Aspartame. (Dr. Hall was selected by Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of J.D. Searle, who in 1981 was on Ronald Reagan’s transition team. The History of Aspartame)
4. Out of 164 tests conducted on Aspartame, 74 funded by industry, 100% found it to be safe. Of the 90 independent studies, 83 identified a problem.

Bittersweet: The Truth About Aspartame

Aspartame and brain tumor links in 2005 (methanol and formaldehyde)

Data from 2012 :

Brain tumors are the:

Second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children (males and females) under age 20 (leukemia is the first).

Second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in males ages 20-39 (leukemia is the first).

Fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in females ages 20-39.

Eating a healthy diet during brain cancer treatment, and before can be found here.

“Most people think they are a victim of their genes, helpless to stave off some of the most dreaded diseases. We aren’t helpless at all; in fact, the power is largely in our hands. It’s on our forks, actually.”