Asparagus- A cancer cure?

unknown said:

54 f100

I am very familiar as I have restored several early 50s trucks. It was a 252 cubic inch OHV V-8 with cork main seals. Most of them leaked oil like a seive. It had an oil bath air filter, a cannister oil filter and vacuum powered wipers.

Sorry Max

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

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GKH,

I agree with all you have written on this topic. I was listening to a health show on the radio about a year ago. The guest was a nutrition writer/expert, who is also into "holistic health." She had come down with late-stage cancer, and her oncologist recommended immediate chemo. She decided on "herbal treatments" instead, coupled with yoga-meditation, in which she "visualized the elimination of the cancer cells from her body."  She was soon much worse and began chemo in the hospital soon thereafter, and gained full remission.

Jim Fixx, the Run for Your Heart author who preached how to keep a healthy heart into old age via exercise and diet, died at the age of 52, while running !  Of a heart attack !  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx  His arteries were mostly massively clogged, and he was the world's authority on "how to avoid coronary heart disease !"

People in our "junk food" USA now live longer than they have ever lived before, although obesity is a huge epidemic.  I am perplexed when some authors complain that women get poorer health care in the US than men, when women on average consistently live about five years longer than men.  I can't  "do that math"  in such a way that the statistics woprk out.

My grandma out on the Kansas farm used to have a rhyme about eating our vegtables (frersh from the garden in their yard):

"Eat first what you don't like, then what you do." My grandpa always replied" Eat what you like, and stick the rest in your pocket."
PS: He outlived grandma by many years.

People cling to nutrition theories for a sense of control; they want to feel like life is not random, like they can do something. It is a psychological mechanism that yields comfort.  I eat as healthy as I am comfortable with, have never smoked in my life, etc.  

But it is still the luck of the draw....

max

I have never been an exercise nut but about 15 years ago I started doing the vitamin thing. I had a very active job and traveled around the world almost constantly. It required stamina. I started getting sick, mostly digestive problems. doctors could find nothing wrong. One of my "hippie chick" friends recommended meditation, vitamins, restricted diet etc. ( she is now dead from cancer). I stopped eating airline food, even on the long flights to Asia and Africa. I took vitamins ( D, multi, the "antioxdants", CO Q-10' fish oil etc.)  i stopped eating meat other than on special occasions. None of that helped. Then I was put on statins and triglycerides and cholesterol fell in line. I have often wondered if that Diet may have contributed to my illness, especially the bleeding in my stomach. I suspect a better explanation is that I have had the lymphoma for many years and that the symptoms I had were caused by cancer and not diet Or vitamin deficiencies. As you said, it was my attempt to feel in control but was likely just a waste of money.