What China Study Reveals About Cancer and Our Food Choices
"The China Study is simply blowing me away. And I’m only on page 70!
Here’s what’ I’ve learned so far.
There are three stages of cancer, which the author compares to planting a lawn. The Initiation Stage is like putting seeds into the soil. The Promotion Stage is when the grass begins to grow, and the Progression The China Study is simply blowing me away. And I’m only on page 70!
Here’s what’ I’ve learned so far.
There are three stages of cancer, which the author compares to planting a lawn. The Initiation Stage is like putting seeds into the soil. The Promotion Stage is when the grass begins to grow, and the Progression Stage is when the grass gets out of control and grows places you don’t want it to grow.
The chemicals that “plant the seeds” of cancer are called carcinogens and they originate primarily from industry byproduct but can also be found in nature.
Professor Campbell (author of The China Study) found that decreasing dietary protein decreases the chance that carcinogens will evolve into tumors into the Initiation Stage.
He also discovered that when protein needs are exceeded, disease onset begins (the Promotion Stage).
Finally – here’s the doozy – plant protein does not promote cancer growth, even when consumed at higher levels. Only animal protein promotes cancer growth.
In fact, plant protein actually DECREASES tumor development.
Stage is when the grass gets out of control and grows places you don’t want it to grow.
The chemicals that “plant the seeds” of cancer are called carcinogens and they originate primarily from industry byproduct but can also be found in nature.
Professor Campbell (author of The China Study) found that decreasing dietary protein decreases the chance that carcinogens will evolve into tumors into the Initiation Stage.
He also discovered that when protein needs are exceeded, disease onset begins (the Promotion Stage).
Finally – here’s the doozy – plant protein does not promote cancer growth, even when consumed at higher levels. Only animal protein promotes cancer growth.
In fact, plant protein actually DECREASES tumor development.
Which Juicer Is Best?
"Drinking a large amount of healing and restorative juices is at the heart of the Gerson Therapy that is often used for treating serious illness and disease. For more detail on what the treament involves see Juicing and the Gerson Therapy. For the Gerson Therapy to have the best chance of success it is suggested that the right type of juicer should be used.
When Dr. Gerson first developed his therapy which involves consuming large amounts of fruit and vegetable nutrients he believed liquifiers (blenders such as the Vitamix) would be the solution but he found the high speed rotating blades caused a loss of enzymes and other nutrients.
In order for the patient to consume the high levels of fruit and vegetable nutrients required every day a huge amount of fruit and vegetables must be processed. It would be impossible for the patient to eat the fruit and vegetables whole or even in blended form as blending does not remove any of the bulk of the ingredients. Juicing on the other hand removes the bulky fibre from the ingredients and so enables the patient to receive all the nutrition benefits in an easy to consume drink.
Dr Gerson found that centrifugal juicers caused a loss of enzymes and other nutrients due to their blades which rotated at high speeds.. After more research Dr Gerson found that a two stage juicing process was necessary in order to get the best results from the treatment. This two-step process involved firstly grinding the fruit and vegetables, mixing the pulp together and then secondly pressing the pulp to extract the juice from it....
Gerson Therapy juicers
The Gerson Institute recommend the Norwalk Juice Press which will handle both the grinding stage as well as the pressing stage. The Norwalk juicer is powered and uses a hydraulic action and so requires little energy for using it. The Norwalk juicer is therefore suitable for patients with low strength / energy levels. The Norwalk Juice Press is at the top end of the price range.
The Champion juicer is recommended for the grinding stage of the two stage juicing process. It does not press the juice however and so it must be used in combination with another juice press in order to have the desired juice quality for the Gerson Therapy.
Manually powered juice presses may not be suitable for all patients as they require more energy and strength to operate them.
Other juice presses include the Welles Juice press (now known as the Persons Juice Press) and the K&K juicer.
The cheapest and most common type of juicer is the centrifugal juicer but these are NOT suitable for use in the Gerson Therapy.
When Dr. Gerson first developed his therapy which involves consuming large amounts of fruit and vegetable nutrients he believed liquifiers (blenders such as the Vitamix) would be the solution but he found the high speed rotating blades caused a loss of enzymes and other nutrients.
In order for the patient to consume the high levels of fruit and vegetable nutrients required every day a huge amount of fruit and vegetables must be processed. It would be impossible for the patient to eat the fruit and vegetables whole or even in blended form as blending does not remove any of the bulk of the ingredients. Juicing on the other hand removes the bulky fibre from the ingredients and so enables the patient to receive all the nutrition benefits in an easy to consume drink.
Dr Gerson found that centrifugal juicers caused a loss of enzymes and other nutrients due to their blades which rotated at high speeds.. After more research Dr Gerson found that a two stage juicing process was necessary in order to get the best results from the treatment. This two-step process involved firstly grinding the fruit and vegetables, mixing the pulp together and then secondly pressing the pulp to extract the juice from it....
Gerson Therapy juicers
The Gerson Institute recommend the Norwalk Juice Press which will handle both the grinding stage as well as the pressing stage. The Norwalk juicer is powered and uses a hydraulic action and so requires little energy for using it. The Norwalk juicer is therefore suitable for patients with low strength / energy levels. The Norwalk Juice Press is at the top end of the price range.
The Champion juicer is recommended for the grinding stage of the two stage juicing process. It does not press the juice however and so it must be used in combination with another juice press in order to have the desired juice quality for the Gerson Therapy.
Manually powered juice presses may not be suitable for all patients as they require more energy and strength to operate them.
Other juice presses include the Welles Juice press (now known as the Persons Juice Press) and the K&K juicer.
The cheapest and most common type of juicer is the centrifugal juicer but these are NOT suitable for use in the Gerson Therapy.
Gerson Therapy Green Drink
Last night my husband and I juiced and drank the Gerson Therapy Green Drink for the first time. I wouldn't call it delicious but it's not bad. It was kind of like drinking a green coleslaw because the flavor of the cabbage was strong.
I've read that some folks hate the Gerson Therapy Green drink. I frankly don't understand why anyone dislikes it. If you've struggled with it let me know.
I've read that some folks hate the Gerson Therapy Green drink. I frankly don't understand why anyone dislikes it. If you've struggled with it let me know.
Vegetarian Eating
" Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food. That, more of less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy." -Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food-
"People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease...People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored." -T. Colin
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"People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease...People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. These results could not be ignored." -T. Colin
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China Study Eating Advice
How have your views changed?
A.
I was raised on a dairy farm. I milked cows. I went away to graduate school at Cornell University, and I thought the good old American diet is the best there is. The more dairy, meat and eggs we consumed, the better. The early part of my career was focused on protein, protein, protein. It was supposed to solve the world’s ills. But when we started doing our research, we found that when we start consuming protein in excess of the amount we need, it elevates blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis and creates other problems.
The problem is that we study one nutrient out of context. That’s the way we did research — one vitamin at a time, one mineral, one fat. It was always in a reductionist, narrowly focused way. But I learned that protein is not quite what we thought it was. We’ve distorted our diet seriously through the ages, and we have all the problems we have because of that distortion.
What loomed large for me was that we shouldn’t be thinking in a linear way that A causes B. We should be thinking about how things work together. It’s a very complex biological system. The body is always trying to restore health every microsecond of our lives. How do we furnish the resources for the body to use? In order to try to understand that, we shouldn’t be giving ourselves individual nutrient supplements. We shouldn’t be trying to discover which gene causes what. But those two areas have become the major focus of research over the years.
Q.
So how should we be eating?
A.
I don’t use the word “vegan” or “vegetarian.” I don’t like those words. People who chose to eat that way chose to because of ideological reasons. I don’t want to denigrate their reasons for doing so, but I want people to talk about plant-based nutrition and to think about these ideas in a very empirical scientific sense, and not with an ideological bent to it.
Source:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nutrition-advice-from-the-china-study/?src=me&ref=health
A.
I was raised on a dairy farm. I milked cows. I went away to graduate school at Cornell University, and I thought the good old American diet is the best there is. The more dairy, meat and eggs we consumed, the better. The early part of my career was focused on protein, protein, protein. It was supposed to solve the world’s ills. But when we started doing our research, we found that when we start consuming protein in excess of the amount we need, it elevates blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis and creates other problems.
The problem is that we study one nutrient out of context. That’s the way we did research — one vitamin at a time, one mineral, one fat. It was always in a reductionist, narrowly focused way. But I learned that protein is not quite what we thought it was. We’ve distorted our diet seriously through the ages, and we have all the problems we have because of that distortion.
What loomed large for me was that we shouldn’t be thinking in a linear way that A causes B. We should be thinking about how things work together. It’s a very complex biological system. The body is always trying to restore health every microsecond of our lives. How do we furnish the resources for the body to use? In order to try to understand that, we shouldn’t be giving ourselves individual nutrient supplements. We shouldn’t be trying to discover which gene causes what. But those two areas have become the major focus of research over the years.
Q.
So how should we be eating?
A.
I don’t use the word “vegan” or “vegetarian.” I don’t like those words. People who chose to eat that way chose to because of ideological reasons. I don’t want to denigrate their reasons for doing so, but I want people to talk about plant-based nutrition and to think about these ideas in a very empirical scientific sense, and not with an ideological bent to it.
Source:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nutrition-advice-from-the-china-study/?src=me&ref=health
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