Milk & Breast Cancer

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Milk & Breast Cancer

I am going to forward this without much commentary because

it may be helpful or interesting to many of you; however, I cannot forward it

with no commentary at all.

First, there is something to consider about native diets or diets with cultural

origins that make sense for people of the same origins. This is an

immense topic and goes well beyond concepts of blood types and deeper into more

academic issues such as how many generations it takes for the body to adapt to

new factors in the life style, whether something as modern as telephones or

television or as biologically profound as vaccines or chemicals.

Second, there is always room for questioning the product under scrutiny and how

it is processed. If milk and other dairy products were the cause of

breast cancer, the incidence of breast cancer among Northern European and

Indian women would have been as high in the 19th century as it was in the 20th

century. However, the epidemiology of breast cancer shifted enormously in

the 20th century and it did, in fact, correlate fairly well to affluence,

meaning it was higher in Finland and Switzerland and Marin County (California)

than in certain other areas. The incidence in these hugely affluent areas

was one-in-three women BUT the rate dropped significantly following the

scandals in hormone replacement protocols and shifts to more natural methods of

controlling how the body works.

Third, there are countless studies correlating to pasteurization of milk,

shortcuts in the cheese industry that utilize completely different methods for

creating the firmness desired in cheese, and bovine growth hormone administered

to cows providing the milk consumed.

Four, there are studies by Moerman (Holland) and Budwig (Germany) that propose

quark as the food of choice for cancer patients; and there are studies in India

of yoghurt and ghee used as solo diets for a few weeks to clear cancer from the

system.

Five, there are studies that I saw nearly 40 years ago in France that compared

Vietnamese and French tolerance of dairy products and concluded that blood type

A has more trouble metabolizing milk. This brings up the question of why

people might be milk intolerant, and I suspect that there is no similarity

between pasteurized dairy products that are refrigerated and fresh milk that is

boiled with spices or immediately converted to yoghurt.

I could go on for pages but then you would not probably find anything of

interest in the article below. So, I will stop but only after adding that

if your consumption of dairy products consists largely of what you find in

standard supermarkets, you might find a lot to consider in the remission

account of Prof. Plant.

Many blessings,

Ingrid

Why women in China do not get breast cancer

Giving up milk is the key to beating breast cancer

By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD, CBE

(Extracted from 'Your Life in Your Hands,' by Professor Jane Plant)

I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for myself. I am a

scientist - surely there was a rational explanation for this cruel illness that

affects one in 12 women in the UK ?

I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergone radiotherapy. I was now

receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some of the country's most

eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt certain I was facing death. I had a

loving husband, a beautiful home and two young children to care for. I

desperately wanted to live.

Fortunately, this desire drove me to unearth the facts, some of which were

known only to a handful of scientists at the time.

Anyone who has come into contact with breast cancer will know that certain risk

factors - such as increasing age, early onset of womanhood, late onset of

menopause and a family history of breast cancer - are completely out of our

control. But there are many risk factors, which we can control easily.

These 'controllable' risk factors readily translate into simple changes that we

can all make in our day-to-day lives to help prevent or treat breast cancer. My

message is that even advanced breast cancer can be overcome because I have done

it.

The first clue to understanding what was promoting my breast cancer came when

my husband , who was also a scientist, arrived back from working in China

while I was being plugged in for a chemotherapy session.

He had brought with him cards and letters, as well as some amazing herbal

suppositories, sent by my friends and science colleagues in China.

The suppositories were sent to me as a cure for breast cancer. Despite the

awfulness of the situation, we both had a good belly laugh, and I remember

saying that if this was the treatment for breast cancer in China, then it was

little wonder that Chinese women avoided getting the disease.

Those words echoed in my mind. Why didn't Chinese women in China get breast cancer?

I had collaborated once with Chinese colleagues on a study of links between

soil chemistry and disease, and I remembered some of the statistics.

The disease was virtually non-existent throughout the whole country. Only one

in 10,000 women in China will die from it, compared to that terrible figure of

one in 12 in Britain and the even grimmer average of one in 10 across most

Western countries. It is not just a matter of China being a more rural country,

with less urban pollution. In highly urbanized Hong Kong , the rate rises to 34

women in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame..

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates. And remember,

both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual

pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related

cases, too.

The conclusion we can draw from these statistics strikes you with some force.

If a Western woman were to move to industrialized, irradiated Hiroshima , she

would slash her risk of contracting breast cancer by half.

Obviously this is absurd. It seemed obvious to me that some lifestyle factor

not related to pollution, urbanization or the environment is seriously

increasing the Western woman's chance of contracting breast cancer.

I then discovered that whatever causes the huge differences in breast cancer

rates between oriental and Western countries, it isn't genetic.

Scientific research showed that when Chinese or Japanese people move to the

West, within one or two generations their rates of breast cancer approach those

of their host community.

The same thing happens when oriental people adopt a completely Western

lifestyle in Hong Kong . In fact, the slang name for breast cancer in China

translates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is because, in China, only the

better off can afford to eat what is termed ' Hong Kong food'.

The Chinese describe all Western food, including everything from ice cream and

chocolate bars to spaghetti and feta cheese, as ' Hong Kong food', because of

its availability in the former British colony and its scarcity, in the past, in

mainlandChina .

So it made perfect sense to me that whatever was causing my breast cancer and

the shockingly high incidence in this country generally, it was almost certainly

something to do with our better-off, middle-class, Western lifestyle.

There is an important point for men here, too. I have observed in my research

that much of the data about prostate cancer leads to similar conclusions.

According to figures from the World Health Organization, the number of men

contracting prostate cancer in rural China is negligible, only 0.5 men in every

100,000. In England, Scotland and Wales, however, this figure is 70 times

higher. Like breast cancer, it is a middle-class disease that primarily attacks

the wealthier and higher socio-economic groups, those that can afford to eat

rich foods.

I remember saying to my husband, 'Come on , you have just come back

fromChina . What is it about the Chinese way of life that is so different?'

Why don't they get breast cancer?'

We decided to utilize our joint scientific backgrounds and approach it

logically.

We examined scientific data that pointed us in the general direction of fats in

diets. Researchers had discovered in the 1980s that only l4% of calories in the

average Chinese diet were from fat, compared to almost 36% in the West.

But the diet I had been living on for years before I contracted breast cancer

was very low in fat and high in fiber. Besides, I knew as a scientist that fat

intake in adults has not been shown to increase risk for breast cancer in most

investigations that have followed large groups of women for up to a dozen

years.

Then one day something rather special happened. and I have worked

together so closely over the years that I am not sure which one of us first

said: 'The Chinese don't eat dairy produce!'

It is hard to explain to a non-scientist the sudden mental and emotional 'buzz'

you get when you know you have had an important insight. It's as if you have

had a lot of pieces of a jigsaw in your mind, and suddenly, in a few seconds,

they all fall into place and the whole picture is clear.

Suddenly I recalled how many Chinese people were physically unable to tolerate

milk, how the Chinese people I had worked with had always said that milk was

only for babies, and how one of my close friends, who is of Chinese origin,

always politely turned down the cheese course at dinner parties.

I knew of no Chinese people who lived a traditional Chinese life who ever used

cow or other dairy food to feed their babies. The tradition was to use a wet

nurse but never, ever, dairy products.

Culturally, the Chinese find our Western preoccupation with milk and milk

products very strange. I remember entertaining a large delegation of Chinese

scientists shortly after the ending of the Cultural Revolution in the 1980s.

On advice from the Foreign Office, we had asked the caterer to provide a

pudding that contained a lot of ice cream. After inquiring what the pudding

consisted of, all of the Chinese, including their interpreter, politely but

firmly refused to eat it, and they could not be persuaded to change their

minds.

At the time we were all delighted and ate extra portions!

Milk, I discovered, is one of the most common causes of food allergies. Over

70% of the world's population are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose,

which has led nutritionists to believe that this is the normal condition for

adults, not some sort of deficiency.

Perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we are eating the wrong food.

Before I had breast cancer for the first time, I had eaten a lot of dairy

produce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yoghurt. I had used it as my

main source of protein. I also ate cheap but lean minced beef, which I now

realized was probably often ground-up dairy cow.

In order to cope with the chemotherapy I received for my fifth case of cancer,

I had been eating organic yoghurts as a way of helping my digestive tract to

recover and repopulate my gut with 'good' bacteria.

Recently, I discovered that way back in 1989 yoghurt had been implicated in

ovarian cancer. Dr Cramer of Harvard University studied hundreds of

women with ovarian cancer, and had them record in detail what they normally

ate. wish I'd been made aware of his findings when he had first discovered

them.

Following 's and my insight into the Chinese diet, I decided to give up

not just yoghurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese, butter, milk and

yoghurt and anything else that contained dairy produce - it went down the sink

or in the rubbish.

It is surprising how many products, including commercial soups, biscuits and

cakes, contain some form of dairy produce. Even many proprietary brands of

margarine marketed as soya, sunflower or olive oil spreads can contain dairy

produce.

I therefore became an avid reader of the small print on food labels.

Up to this point, I had been steadfastly measuring the progress of my fifth

cancerous lump with calipers and plotting the results. Despite all the

encouraging comments and positive feedback from my doctors and nurses, my own

precise observations told me the bitter truth.

My first chemotherapy sessions had produced no effect - the lump was still the

same size.

Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to shrink.

About two weeks after my second chemotherapy session and one week after giving

up dairy produce, the lump in my neck started to itch. Then it began to soften

and to reduce in size. The line on the graph, which had shown no change, was

now pointing downwards as the tumor got smaller and smaller.

And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining exponentially (a

graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the tumor's decrease in size was

plotted on a straight line heading off the bottom of the graph, indicating a

cure, not suppression (or remission) of the tumor.

One Saturday afternoon after about six weeks of excluding all dairy produce

from my diet, I practiced an hour of meditation then felt for what was left of

the lump. I couldn't find it. Yet I was very experienced at detecting cancerous

lumps - I had discovered all five cancers on my own.. I went downstairs and

asked my husband to feel my neck. He could not find any trace of the lump

either.

On the following Thursday I was due to be seen by my cancer specialist at

Charing Cross Hospital in London . He examined me thoroughly, especially my

neck where the tumor had been. He was initially bemused and then delighted as

he said, 'I cannot find it.'

None of my doctors, it appeared, had expected someone with my type and stage of

cancer (which had clearly spread to the lymph system) to survive, let alone be

so hale and hearty.

My specialist was as overjoyed as I was. When I first discussed my ideas with

him he was understandably skeptical. But I understand that he now uses maps

showing cancer portality in China in his lectures, and recommends a non-dairy

diet to his cancer patients.

I now believe that the link between dairy produce and breast cancer is similar

to the link between smoking and lung cancer.. I believe that identifying the

link between breast cancer and dairy produce, and then developing a diet

specifically targeted at maintaining the health of my breast and hormone

system, cured me.

It was difficult for me, as it may be for you, to accept that a substance as

'natural' as milk might have such ominous health implications. But I am a

living proof that it works and, starting from tomorrow, I shall reveal the

secrets of my revolutionary action plan.

Extracted from Your Life in Your Hands, by Professor Jane Plant. (PIA)

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