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>>>Read this,it applies to men too

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>>>Prof Jane Plant

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>>>WHY WOMEN IN CHINA DO NOT GET BREAST CANCER

>>>By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD, CBE

>>>

>>>

>>>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 undergoneradiotherapy. 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 increasingage, 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 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 Nagasakihave similar rates. And

>>>remember, both cities were attacked withnuclear 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 inbreast 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 mainland China .

>>>

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

>>>cancerand 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

>>>backfrom China . 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 fibre.

>>>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

>>>dairyproduce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yogurt. 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 yogurts 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 yogurt 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 yogurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese, butter,

milk

>>>and yogurt 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

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>>>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 callipers 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

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>>>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 tumour got smaller

and

>>>smaller.

>>>

>>>And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining exponentially

>>>(a graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the tumour'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 tumour.

>>>

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

>>>produce from my diet, I practised 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

atCharing

>>>CrossHospital in London . He examined me thoroughly, especially

my

>>>neck where the tumour 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 sceptical. But I understand that he now

>>>uses maps showing cancer mortality 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 Plan