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¢ Flora cancelled and I am still awaiting the results of the latest scan. I feel fit as a fiddle. I pay attention to my diet and I thank God quite literally for vitamin B17. It is time the NHS [National Health Service] recognised this vitamin as an alternative to the conventional treatments. I consider that any money spent on B17 is money well spent." fiddle. I pay attention to my diet and I thank God Flora was diagnosed with stage-four bowel cancer in 1999. quite literally for vitamin B17. It is time the NHS [National "Before the operation they gave me chemotherapy, which was Health Service] recognised this vitamin as an alternative to the devastating. By the end of the course, I could hardly stand. They conventional treatments. I consider that any money spent on B17 then removed the tumour from my bowel. I was told the cancer is money well spent." had spread to the liver. I was offered further chemotherapy, but declined. I attended Middlesex Hospital and had five sessions of What Are We Eating? laser treatment to try and contain the liver cancer, followed by It is interesting to note that there are cultures today who remain more chemotherapy. After the fifth time of trying to contain the almost entirely cancer free. The Abkhasians, the Azerbaijanis, the cancer, they said that it was beginning to grow yet again. So I Hunzas, the Eskimos and the Karakorum all live on foodstuffs began an organic diet and attended the Dove Clinic for intensive rich in nitriloside or vitamin B17. Their food consists variously vitamin C treatment with other supplements. It was there that I of buckwheat, peas, broad beans, lucerne, turnips, lettuce, sprout- was told about vitamin B17. I added that to my regime. Over a ing pulse or grain, apricots with their seeds, and berries of various period of time, the cancer completely disappeared from my liver. kinds. Their diet can provide them with as much as 250-3,000 It is now February 2002 and I have been one year clear of cancer. mg of nitriloside a day. The founding I am maintaining my organic diet father of vitamin B17 research, Ernst and eating about 50 apricot ker- T. Krebs, Jr, studied the dietary nels a day. I'm 64, I've returned habits of these tribes. Krebs stated: " . . to work and I feel fine. "Upon investigating the diet of ...today, large doses of vitamin C Treatments such as these should these people, we found that the seed are used by many practitioners for at least be made known to of the apricot was prized as a delicac: . . eae atients by the NHS."” iP’ P y | P 'y and that every part of the apricot was cancer patients in nutritiona There are literally thousands of utilized."* therapy, who believe Pauling was people who can attest to the The average Western diet, with its . h h h . pharmacological, life-saving refined, fibreless foods, offers less rig t and that the popular nutrient power of vitamin B17 and its than 2 mg of nitriloside a day. It has iS indispensable to the body in its supporting nutritional regime. also been noted that natives from And the same can also be said of these tribes who move into fight to regain health from cancer." vitamin C. "civilised" areas and change their diets accordingly are prone to cancers Vitamin C at the regular Western incidence. The all-round benefits of vita- min C to the human physiology The Right Materials have been known and utilised for centuries. In terms of its bene- In his book, Preface to Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure, Dr __ fits in cancer treatment and prevention, we read the following Alexander Berglas has this to say about cancer incidence: from Phillip Day: "Civilization is, in terms of cancer, a juggernaut that cannot be "Dr Linus Pauling, often known as the ‘Father of Vitamin C' stopped... It is the nature and essence of industrial civilization to and twice awarded the Nobel Prize, declared that daily intake of be toxic in every sense... We are faced with the grim prospect up to 10 grams a day of the vitamin aids anticancer activity within that the advance of cancer and of civilization parallel each __ the body. other."* "Pauling was largely derided for making these declarations but, The human body has an amazing capacity to recover, if we look _ today, large doses of vitamin C are used by many practitioners for after it properly and if we supply it with the proper materials for cancer patients in nutritional therapy, who believe Pauling was repair. Working with non-toxic, physio-friendly treatments can right and that the popular nutrient is indispensable to the body in only work in our favour. Just look at the side-effects of vitamin _ its fight to regain health from cancer."* B17 as described by G. Edward Griffin in World Without Cancer: Vitamin C can protect against breast cancer. After reviewing "B17 side effects include increased appetite, weight gain, low- 90 studies on the relationship between vitamin C and cancer, ered blood pressure, increased hemoglobin and red blood cell Gladys Block, PhD, at the University of California at Berkeley, count, elimination or sharp reduction of pain without narcotics; concluded: builds up the body's resistance to other diseases, is a natural sub- "There is overwhelming evidence of the protective effect of vit- stance found in foods and is compatible with human biological amin C and other antioxidants against cancer of the breast."” experience, destroys cancer cells while nourishing non-cancer And Geoffrey R. Howe, of the National Cancer Institute of cells..."%° Canada, reviewed 12 controlled case studies of diet and breast Compare the above with the side effects from chemotherapy cancer and noted that vitamin C had the most consistent statisti- and radiation: the dizziness, skin discolouration, nausea, cally significant relationship to the reduction of breast cancer diarrhoea, loss of hair, loss of appetite, organ failure, internal risk.” bleeding, etcetera, etcetera. On the subject of the importance of mineral and vitamin supple- How long will it be before we find ourselves looking back on — ments, a recent New York Times front-page article quoted Dr these treatments in the same way as we now look back on the —- Geoffrey P. Oakley, Jr, at the Centers for Disease Control and blood-letting and ammonia infusions exacted upon King Charles Prevention in Atlanta, as saying: II? Notwithstanding the often life-saving surgical removal of "We, the physicians, were mistaken not to recommend vitamin cancerous tissue, could there possibly be a more inhumane supplements to our patients for so long. We need just to admit treatment in the 21st century than conventional cancer therapy? that, on this one, we were wrong."*' The Right Materials In his book, Preface to Cancer: Nature, Cause and Cure, Dr Alexander Berglas has this to say about cancer incidence: "Civilization is, in terms of cancer, a juggernaut that cannot be stopped... It is the nature and essence of industrial civilization to be toxic in every se We are faced with the grim prospect that the advance of cancer and of civilization parallel each other."* The human body has an amazing capacity to recover, if we look after it properly and if we supply it with the proper materials for repair. Working with non-toxic, physio-friendly treatments can only work in our favour. Just look at the side-effects of vitamin B17 as described by G. Edward Griffin in World Without Cancer: "B17 side effects include increased appetite, weight gain, low- ered blood pressure, increased hemoglobin and red blood cell count, elimination or sharp reduction of pain without narcotics; builds up the body's resistance to other diseases, is a natural sub- stance found in foods and is compatible with human biological experience, destroys cancer cells while nourishing non-cancer cells..." Compare the above with the side effects from chemotherapy and radiation: the dizziness, skin discolouration, nausea, diarrhoea, loss of hair, loss of appetite, organ failure, internal bleeding, etcetera, etcetera. How long will it be before we find ourselves looking back on these treatments in the same way as we now look back on the blood-letting and ammonia infusions exacted upon King Charles II? Notwithstanding the often life-saving surgical removal of cancerous tissue, could there possibly be a more inhumane treatment in the 21st century than conventional cancer therapy? 36 ¢ NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2002