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Hi Dudley,

Do you know if when they say " Their new study shows that people consuming

the highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit " whether it is

through consuming foods high in vitamin E or if it is in pill form?

One of my friends who has been participating in a study over the last six

years on the effects of vitamin E and selenium on prostate cancer was just

told to stop taking the pills as they were showing they could contribute to

cancer.

Also, there was a study on lycopene that revealed in food form it is quite

preventative and even showed signs of contributing to lowered PSA scores,

but in pill form actually increased the risk of prostate cancer.

I think we're going to discover (if we haven't already but it just hasn't

been published) that food forms of all of our nutrients will show much

greater benefit with much less risk than pill forms, but we must be careful

because there are a great many financial interests served with the pill

forms of these things. I defer to Cayce...

" ?All such properties that add to the system are more efficacious if they

are given for periods, left off for periods and begun again. For if the

system comes to rely upon such influences wholly, it ceases to produce the

vitamins even though the food values may be kept normally balanced. And

it's much better that these be produced in the body from the normal

development than supplied mechanically; for nature is much better YET than

science! " (759-13)

" ?there has so oft been the attempt to create a balance by concentrated

chemical forces being given, that the proper assimilations are often

destroyed. " (1206-8)

" Knowing the tendencies, supply in the vital energies that ye call the

vitamins, or elements. For, remember, while we give many combinations,

there are only four elements in your body, - water, salt, soda and iodine.

These are the basic elements, they make all the rest! Each vitamin as a

component part of an element is simply a combination of these other

influences, given a name mostly for confusion to individuals, by those who

would tell you what to do for a price! " (2533-6) - This reading was given

in 1942. Things sure haven't changed much!

Cheers,

Robin

[cures for cancer] Fw: Vitamin E Prevents Lung Cancer

Vitamin E Prevents Lung Cancer

Vitamin E Prevents Lung Cancer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 29, 2008

Vitamin E Prevents Lung Cancer

News Media Virtually Silent on Positive Vitamin Research

(OMNS, October 29, 2008) Researchers at the University of Texas

Cancer Center have found that taking more vitamin E substantially

reduces lung cancer. Their new study shows that people consuming the

highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit. When they compared

persons taking the most vitamin E with those taking the least, there was a

61% reduction in lung cancer risk. (1)

Lung cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer on earth; over 1.3

million people are diagnosed with it each year. With medical treatment,

survival rates are " consistently poor, " says Cancer Research UK. Lung

cancer kills nearly 1.2 million per year. It accounts for 12% of all

cancers, but results in 18% of all cancer deaths. (2) Anything that can

reduce these dismal facts is important news . . .very important. Yet the

mainstream media have virtually ignored vitamin E's important role as a

cancer fighter.

A sixty-one percent reduction in lung cancer with vitamin E? How

could the news media have missed this one?

The news media probably did not miss it: they simply did not report

it. They are biased. You can see for yourself what bias there is. Try a

" Google " search for any of the major newspapers or broadcast media, using

the name of the news organization along with the phrase " vitamin E lung

cancer. " When you do, you will find that it will quickly bring up previous

items alleging that vitamin E might (somehow) increase cancer risk. You

will find little or nothing at all on how vitamin E prevents cancer.

Indeed, the bias is so strong that even a qualified search for " increased

vitamin E reduces lung cancer " will still, and preferentially, bring up

media coverage alleging that vitamin E is harmful. Negative reporting sells

newspapers and pulls in viewing audiences. The old editors' adage must

still be true: " If it bleeds, it leads. "

Here's more positive vitamin E cancer research that the media

" missed. " A study in 2002 looked at patients with colon cancer " who

received a daily dose of 750 mg of vitamin E during a period of 2 weeks.

Short-term supplementation with high doses of dietary vitamin E leads to

increased CD4:CD8 ratios and to enhanced capacity by their T cells to

produce the T helper 1 cytokines interleukin 2 and IFN-gamma. In 10 of 12

patients, an increase of 10% or more (average, 22%) in the number of T

cells producing interleukin 2 was seen after 2 weeks of vitamin E

supplementation. " The authors concluded that " dietary vitamin E may be used

to improve the immune functions in patients with advanced cancer. " That

improvement was achieved in a mere two weeks merits special attention. (3)

Was it on the news? Did you hear about how high doses of vitamin E

help cancer patients' immune systems in only two weeks? Why not? Might the

answer possibly have anything to do with money? One cannot watch television

or read a magazine or newspaper without it being obvious that drug company

cash is one of the media's very largest sources of revenue. Given where

their advertising income comes from, it is hardly a big surprise that media

reporting on vitamins is biased. Well-publicized vitamin scares feed the

pharmaceutical industry. Successful reports of safe, inexpensive vitamin

therapy do not.

One commentator has observed that pharmaceutical and other

" corporations marshal huge public relations efforts on behalf of their

agendas. In the United States the 170,000 public relations employees whose

job it is to manipulate news, public opinion and public policy in the

interests of their clients outnumber news reporters by 40,000. " (4) Another

commentator wrote that " Janine of Fairness and Accuracy in

Reporting (FAIR), a news media watchdog group, told the American Free Press

that 60 percent of journalists surveyed by FAIR admitted that advertisers

'try to change stories (and) there is an overwhelming influence of

corporations and advertisers' on broadcast and print news reporting. " (5)

Drug companies don't have any drug that can reduce lung cancer risk

by 61%. If they did, you would have heard all about it in their

advertisements. And it would be all over the news. Positive drug studies

get the headlines. Positive vitamin studies rarely do. This is an enormous

public health problem with enormous consequences. A cynic might say that

press and television coverage of a vitamin study tends to be inversely

proportionate to the study's clinical usefulness. Truly valuable research

does not scare people; it helps people get well. It would be difficult to

identify anything more helpful than actively reporting the story when a

vitamin is shown to reduce lung cancer by 61%.

The good news about how important high quantities of vitamin E are in

combating cancer is not arising out of nowhere. A US National Library of

Medicine MEDLINE search will bring up over 3,000 studies on the subject,

some dating back to 1946. By the early 1950s, research clearly supported

the use of vitamin E against cancer. (6) Before 1960, vitamin E was shown

to reduce the side effects of radiation cancer treatment. (7) In reviewing

vitamin E research, one notes that the high-dose studies got the best

results.

Vitamin E is not the sure cure for cancer. It is not certain

prevention, either. Stopping cigarette smoking is essential. But vitamin E

is part of the solution, and we need more of it. An independent panel of

physicians and researchers (8) has recently called for increasing the daily

recommended intake for vitamin E to 200 IU. The present US RDA/DRI is a

mere 15-20 IU/day.

It is time to raise it. A lot.

References:

(1) Mahabir S, Schendel K, Dong YQ, Barrera SL, Spitz MR, Forman MR.

Dietary alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols in lung cancer risk.

Int J Cancer. 2008 Sep 1;123(5):1173-80.

(2)

http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/geographic/world/commoncanc

ers/

(3) Malmberg KJ, Lenkei R, sson M et al. A short-term dietary

supplementation of high doses of vitamin E increases T helper 1 cytokine

production in patients with advanced colorectal cancer. Clin Cancer Res.

2002 Jun; 8(6):1772-8.

(4) Robbins R. Global problems and the culture of capitalism. Allyn

and Bacon, 1999, p 138.

http://www.globalissues.org/article/160/media-and-advertising

(5) Prestage J. Mainstream journalism: Shredding the First Amendment.

Online Journal, November 7, 2002.

http://www.globalissues.org/article/160/media-and-advertising

(6) Telford IR. The influence of alpha tocopherol on lung tumors in

strain A mice. Tex Rep Biol Med. 1955;13(3):515-21. Swick RW, Baumann CA,

WL Jr, Rumsfeld HW Jr. Tocopherol in tumor tissues and effects of

tocopherol on the development of liver tumors. Cancer Res. 1951

Dec;11(12):948-53.

(7) Fischer W. [The protective effect of tocopherol against toxic

phenomena connected with the roentgen irradiation of mammary carcinoma.]

Munch Med Wochenschr. 1959 Sep 4;101:1487-8. German. Also: Sabatini C,

Balli L, Tagliavini R. [Effects of vitamin E and testosterone in

comparisons of skin exposed to high doses of roentgen rays administered by

semi-contact technic.] Riforma Med. 1955 Apr 30;69(18):Suppl, 1-4. Italian.

See also: Graham JB, Graham RM. Enhanced effectiveness of radiotherapy in

cancer of the uterine cervix. Surg Forum. 1953;(38th Congress):332-8.

(8) Doctors say, Raise the RDAs now. Orthomolecular Medicine News

Service, October 30, 2007.

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v03n10.shtml

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Many full-text nutrition and vitamin therapy research papers are

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