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Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower have recently come under a lot of attention mainly for their anti-cancer effects. Broccoli, for instance, is a wonder food, one of the best nutrition bets around. Not only is broccoli high in fiber and vitamin C, it provides folic acid, calcium magnesium and iron. Certain chemicals found in broccoli and related vegetables appear to help prevent lung cancer – even in smokers.

Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and Their colleagues in China studied people in Shanghai. The people in these Chinese communities eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables. They also smoke a lot, which puts them at higher risk for lung cancer. When the researchers tested the blood levels of the people who smoked and also ate a lot of cruciferous vegetables, they found that these people had a 36 percent lower cancer rate than the smokers who didn’t eat the cruciferous vegetables.
Scientists found that if you ate cabbage more than once a week you were only 1/3 as likely to develop colon cancers as someone who never ate cabbage. In other words, one serving of cabbage a week could cut your chances of colon cancer by 66 percent. Even if you ate cabbage once every two or three weeks, the risk dropped by forty percent.
The most effective members of the cruciferous family are: broccoli, Brussels, sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, cress, horseradish, kale mustard, radish and turnip.

Surgical castration (or bilateral orchidectomy) is the simplest and cheapest method to reduce a man’s testosterone levels for good. It involves removing both testicles during a short surgical procedure and this brings about an irreversible drop in testosterone levels. This method of reducing testosterone is the most rapidly effective, with levels dropping by 90 percent within hours of the operation.
The surgery itself can be performed either as day surgery or may require a night in hospital. Most men have a general anesthetic so that they are unaware during the procedure. However it can also be performed with a spinal anesthetic, where the patient feels nothing from the waist down, or more rarely a local anesthetic where an injection into the scrotum numbs the tissues before they are cut. A small cut is made in the scrotum. The blood vessels that supply the testicle and the vas deferens, the tube that carries the manufactured sperm back into the body prior to ejaculation, are tied and divided, then both testicles age removed. The scrotum is then sewn up again. So that the scrotum does not look empty some urologist will put in silicone plastic wishes them. A dressing will be put over the scrotum to prevent excess bruising or post-operative bleeding and this can be removed the following day. Most patients are discharged within 24 hours.

It is an incredible feat that organisms can begin from one cell and then differentiate and compartmentalize into the millions of diverse tissue and organ niches that represent a mature body. Why brain, fingernail, liver, intestine and bone cells ever become what they are is mystery enough. Why they stay what they have become while still retaining the full genetic information to produce an entire new body, compounds the miracle even more.

Cancer is a condition in which cells lose their orientation and proliferate uncontrollably. Any cell can become cancerous. A lot of them do, but are squelched by cell death (apoptosis), the immune system or nipped in the bud by DNA repair mechanisms. Successful cancer cells escape these impediments, disregard normal cellular checks and balances and become an island unto themselves with only their own survival and self-interests at heart.

The cause of cancer is no mystery. It is our aberrant modern living context that has put us at cancer risk. When cells are forced to bathe in a milieu (the tissue soup we create with modern foods, drugs and lifestyle) entirely unlike what they are genetically programmed to expect, they revert to their most primitive directive – multiply, multiply, multiply – without regard for neighbors. It’s a sort of payback for our disregard for “neighbors when we pollute and repudiate nature. Why should our cells be polite to their neighbors if we don’t have regard for ours? Since the immune system is compromised from the chronic stresses created by modern living, defenses are down. Couple this with the nutritionally depleted and perverted modern processed diet and you have the incubator for cancer.

Today, about one in three humans will get cancer. In pets it is worse and perhaps the leading cause of death. No evidence exists that the disease was of similar incidence before our modern era. President Nixon’s “War on Cancer” (beginning in the early 1970s) is the most failed and embarrassing “military” campaign ever undertaken by any nation at any time in history. One person in 30 got cancer at the beginning of the 20th century, now almost one in two do.

So, to increase the chance of having cancer, or to speed its progression, eating the standard modern fare is the way to go. Get lots of sugar and lots of grain-based foods such as pasta, bread, cereal, bagels, donuts (which convert to sugar after consumed) and lots of vegetable oils. Increase carbohydrates, eat oleo and look for low-fat foods. Drink very little water and instead enjoy acidified pop and municipal acidic water. Tumors thrive on this banquet.

Finally a delicious way to fight a deadly disease: “Cancer cells forget how to die – they just grow and grow and grow,” says Daniel Nixon, MD, president of the American Health Foundation in Valhalla, NY.

Solution: Raspberries, which have a chemical called ellagic acid that kills cancer cells by reinstituting their ability to die.

So far, ellagic acid has worked in test tube and animal studies; Dr. Nixon is studying whether eating raspberries can reduce the number of colon polyps in people at risk of colon cancer.

Strawberries, raspberries, jambools have plenty of ellagic acid. But the top source is Pomegranates.