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Expectations for a Cancer Cure

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Posted in the cancercured forum of yahoo groups was an invitation for a film showing of “Expectations for a Cancer Cure”, a film made in 2006.

Maybe someone in NY is interested in this event

From: CRAAB! Office
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: Event on Monday, February 11th

FILM TO BE SHOWN – “On the Attack – Expectations for a Cancer Cure”

Part II of the “War on Cancer” film series

Monday, February 11th, 2008
Gilda’s Club, Latham, NY
6- 8 pm

Discussion will follow.

~ This film explores why many cancer researchers are disillusioned with the current “war on cancer” and why they see the need to forge a new direction for cancer research ~

Registration Required: please call CRAAB! at 435-1055.

Space is limited, so please call soon!

*Funded by a grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, Northeastern New York Affiliate

My 2nd son came down with a fever due to too much junk food

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Remember when I told you the kids went out on a saturday late afternoon and came home tired late at night after eating tons of junk food? It was bread, dough nuts, pizza and pasta all in one junk food night. This Monday morning my 2nd son came down with a fever and which lasted the afternoon and until now in the evening before we sleep.

Good instincts. He wasn’t hungry the whole day and abstained from food. At lunch he just had soup. When he woke up from his afternoon nap he had a guava and some coconut juice to drink. At dinner time I managed to give him a kayomito / star apple which I believe is a super fruit.

I did notice bad instincts from my son as in the morning he kept insisting on eating a boiled / cooked egg. And when we were giving him broth and fruits he wanted white rice. I should look more into this and try to interpret his body wisdom. Maybe he doesn’t eat enough fruit. Maybe I should stuff him with more fruit so he has no rice cravings.
Anyway this evening great marketing talk from his older brother convinced him to taste the kayomito. And he loved it.

My wife and her sister thinks my son “caught” a virus or some germ from his cousin and his nannie who had a fever in that same outing. If my son’s immune system was not compromised with the monotonous processed sugars in the junk food he ate, then he would have resisted whatever germs there were. It is the terrain… Louis Pasteur was wrong.

Why was my son down with a fever? His body was processing the junk.

To help relieve my son of the junk food I gave him and his older brother 3 tablespoons of Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea around 1pm today. Around 6 to 7 pm they unloaded their stinky poops. Flour, slowing down the bowels, sticking to the intestinal walls making their innards stink.

I do think my son will recover tomorrow. I’ll have to be on my guard that the super foods I invested in today reach his tummy. I bought kayomito, native guava, coconuts with thick meat, and saba bananas. All organic, all in season, all wild. Philippine super fruits.

Children don’t have to eat junk food to have a good time

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The kids went out to town with their cousins to have a good time.  I was disappointed when they got home and I saw the boxes and leftovers they brought home with them.  Seems they had dough nuts, pizza and pasta with shellfish.  All bad.  All refined starch.  All processed junk food.  Good for the business establishments as the junk food they serve is at minimal cost but sold at maximum profits.  Bad for my children, it’s all garbage.

This breakfast my wife and I had to work to swamp over the junk with a good raw breakfast.  My wife marketed her raw milk raw mango shake.  Then after a few minutes we had a picnic in the garden with book reading while the kids snacked on ripe lanzones fruit.  And those who wanted had raw coconut juice and coconut meat.

My wife read 2 books.  The kids enjoyed themselves in the outdoors and got some sun.

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Dietary needs change as your age and state of health dictates

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I’ve been exploring the many different healthy diets. Shopping around if you will. I’m interested in the healing diets and the longevity diets. Those two are different. For example, I have seen that there are cases when raw paleolithic diet is called for. The high fatty content of such a diet may help heal certain conditions faster. Also depends on the environment, where in the world the person is, his genetic roots, his disease condition. Raw fruitarian may be called upon for certain cases as well… for faster detoxing, for curing cooked food cravings, curing addictions… and may be advantageous if the person lives in the tropics. I live in the tropics where fruits are essentially grown organic or wild.  Fruitarianism and periodic fasting is a key to longevity.

Just as babies require mothers milk and turn to other foods as they grow older. Children will have different needs. Teenagers too. Young adults as well. Middle age and old age will require other foods. I have come to a realization that we must continuously be in tune with the needs of our bodies. And in a family with mixed ages, we should not impose the same foods for people of different ages, conditions, and cravings. We must be conscious with our health and our feeding. We parents must be attuned to the needs of each individual child. I have noticed that my number 1 child’s food preferences and needs are very different from my number 2 and number 3.

So let’s keep an open mind on what is optimal food. But not grains. Grains are all bad. Grains are now classified under junk food in my book. This includes rice, bread, pasta, cakes, pancit, noodles, etc.

Filipino grain addiction a root cause of diseases

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I was participating in a raw paleolithic diet discussion regarding grain consumption by some asians. Someone cited that the Japanese and the Singaporeans ate some rice:

I lived in Singapore for some years and worked with the local people. They might have eaten rice 3 times a day, but it was only about a handful at a meal. I don’t call that a lot. Occasionally they would also have an egg.

hey, i’d like to add something about these seemingly bizarre dietary practices in east asia. i lived in Japan for five years consecutively. loved it the entire time, btw. anyway, most every japanese person i knew ate rice about three times a day. almost every one was eating white rice, too, NOT whole grain. they were almost all slim. but, like someone else just commented, its all about calories in and out at the end of the day, the japanese i knew were eating a small handful of rice at each meal. in other words, even though they were consuminghigh glycemic white rice (pretty much sugar), it made up only a small portion of a larger meal usually containing very good quality protein
and a higher fat content than most 2008 americans eat (they do NOT, thankfully, have the fat-fear that we are plagued with). in other words (big surprise here…), its about balance.

now, dont get me wrong, living back in the states i am a little-to-NO carbohydrate carnivore all the way. no grains for sure and not even many veg, to be honest. i am all about grassfed beef, fish and dark chicken. anyhow, balance balance balance for most people on the earth is the secret, and history’s proof.

Then I chimed in about my observations of Filipinos, I’m pretty sure you will agree:

Hello,

I am a Filipino living in Manila, Philippines. I can contribute that Filipinos are rice addicts and eat more carbohydrate crap than those examples you gave.

Filipinos are hooked on rice. No, addicted to rice! Rice in the morning, noon and night. Rice cakes in the mid afternoon or mid morning. It is insane. Add bread, noodles and crackers to this along with the rice. Add the sweets, the coffee, softdrinks.  Let’s add porkas well. And if in the big city like Manila, a whole lot of junk food and fastfood. All cooked, all processed, they see that almost everything has to be cooked. Most can’t afford fruits. Most can’t afford quality meats, thus they buy farmed pork, farmed fish, farmed chicken; all fed on commercial feeds, they live in their own crap, and these creatures are stinky, weak and diseased.

I see many Filipinos are fat and diseased, most are constipated.

Then someone responded:

I see many Filipinos are fat and diseased, most are constipated. Many? That’s all? They should all be ten feet underground! LOL!

Funny huh? Beyond rice, it is much worse. The urban Filipino’s favorite style of cooking is FRIED. Frying with the cheapest trans fat cooking oil like corn oil, “vegetable” oil, canola oil, etc. The favorite food combination is RICE + MEAT, the most difficult combination requiring both an acid environment (for the meat) and an alkaline environment (for the rice). Fruits are seen as decoration, dessert or a luxury item only the rich can afford.

And in between meals? Merienda / snacks? More rice! Rice cakes like puto, kutchinta, suman, pancit / noodles, instant noodles, bread. A new favorite is bread with noodles!

Not only that, virtually ALL commercial restaurants and canteens and cooks have a cultural mindset that all meals need to be cooked and all meals need MSG!

Four year old boy doing major detox via allergy symptoms, skin pantal, itches

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My four year old 2nd son exhibited allergy symptoms beginning around 2pm today. Almost full body itch. Pantals. I don’t know what pantal is in english. His face is misshapen too. And his left ear eczema excreted new fluids.

Serious stuff. Maybe it was the birthday party last saturday afternoon with the dirty ice cream / sorbetes and the party food which included spaghetti with tomato sauce and pork. Maybe the raw salmon we had last night which was farmed was a colored salmon, not fresh enough? Or maybe the raw tuna last night? Maybe the salad dip grandma made with him of which he was the official taster? The dip had extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vineger, manuka mustard and honey, orange.

Our cook Manang Maring doesn’t like us feeding raw fish to the kids. She blames the raw fish and the raw eggs.

Whatever it is. Time to help my son mobilize his detox symptoms. Gave him coconut juice to drink, also prepared avocado leaves tea, also gave him 3 tablespoons of Dr. Tam’s miracle tea, and will give him some apple juice to mobilize his liver.

Little girl’s thumb burned by clothes iron

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We were in the house when I heard my little 3 year old girl crying her heart out in the adjacent house. I immediately rushed to her aid to find out what was bothering her. It seemed that the help and the aunties have not figured out the problem yet or aren’t doing anything about it. Upon asking my girl she pointed to a burned left thumb, the inner part had a big 1 inch long blister.

Auntie and my wife were busy shushing me to psych out the kid as if “it’s alright, it’s ok”. Crap. This is a time for doctor Daddy action. No psyching out will cure my kid if you don’t act. So I picked up my kid and brought her to our house so I can treat her myself.

I checked what the problem was. Burned left thumb. Looks like first degree. From a clothes iron. I immediately told my wife to get some ice cubes in a cup, then added water. Dunked her little thumb and hand in the ice cold water.

I went out the garden looking for our aloe vera plants. Darn, the big aloe veras were nowhere to be found. I only found some tiny ones. These will have to do for now. So I got one small leaf and opened it up for my girl.

Then I thought about the old aloe vera gel from the health store in the refrigerator. I put it into a cup and replaced the ice water with the stored cold aloe vera gel.

Then I thought, that’s not enough, I need real aloe vera, the big ones. I know two blocks away my office landlord’s house has aloe vera adorning her front side walk. I drove up with a maid and asked her to pluck one big leaf. No need to ring the doorbell. We were in a hurry.

We got home and filleted the bigger aloe vera leaf and mashed it with a spoon in a wooden bowl. After some relief with the cold old aloe vera, it was time for my daughter to transfer her thumb to really fresh aloe vera gel. There she found better relief.

Then I drove up downtown to get some medical tape. I got the idea of using the young aloe vera leaf strips as bandage, the medical tape to hold it in place so there is continuous contact with the healing aloe vera gel and her burned thumb.

Hopefully that will be enough for tonight. Will have to observe her thumb in the next few days.

I’ll have to get to the bottom of how they were able to get near a live hot iron tomorrow.

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