Poland’s Health Minister, Ewa Kopacz, was heavily criticized for her decision not to purchase the swine flu vaccines. The Polish Ombudsman, Janusz Kochanowski (appointed as the mediary for citizen rights) threatened to sue Kopacz for her decision.

Kapacz considered purchasing the vaccines for Poland, but decided the pharmaceutical company’s terms were unacceptable. Instead, she adopted an anti-swine flu strategy that resulted in the virus being less virulent in Poland than other countries.

The European council’s Committee on Social Health and Family Affairs said Ewa Kopacz’s decision was the right decision.

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The news is not that we are bombarded with cancer causing chemicals in our food, medicine, and our environment, but that the Government’s advisors are actually admitting this.

A recent report from the President’s Cancer Panel, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, is a hard hitting report that calls on America to rethink the way we fight cancer, including, but not limited to, a much more serious regulation of cancer-causing chemicals.

On page five of the report they say, “With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or understudied and largely unregulated, exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is widespread. One such ubiquitous chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), is still found in many consumer products and remains unregulated in the United States, despite the growing link between BPA and several diseases, including various cancers.”

The report also states that only a few of the 80,000 chemicals we use in the U.S. have been tested for safety and “Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.”

Full Report: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, What We Can Do Now

With so many alternative health practitioners talking about essential fatty acids, it’s interesting to see how many of them don’t really know what essential fatty acids are. Most say something like “Omega 3s and Omega 6s are essential fatty acids”. This is an inaccurate statement.

By definition, there are only two essential fatty acids; alpha-linolenic acid (one of many omega-3 fatty acids), and linoleic acid (one of many omega-6 fatty acids). The body can convert these two essential fatty acids into all the other fatty acids the body needs, but the body is not always able to do this adequately for optimum health. For this reason, a wide variety of healthy fats are essential for optimum health.

For more on fat check out our article,  FAT.

Each diagnosis of cancer is (on average) worth somewhere between $300,000 and $500,000 to the medical industry. More than half of this money goes to the drug companies. Due to lobbying and other incentives, it’s no secret that both the FDA and the AMA are heavily influenced by drug companies.

What if we’re not crazy? What if nutrition could not only prevent cancer, but cure it as well? What would the FDA, politicians, drug companies, unhealthy food companies, and the American Cancer Society stand to gain? What do they stand to lose?

In the United States the cost of treating cancer has doubled within the last 20 years.  But according to a new study, the rising cost of cancer treatments is not the reason. The study shows that cancer accounts for only five percent of the U.S. total medical costs which has not changed much in the last 30 years.

In other words, medical costs as a whole have doubled in the last 20 years. The rise in cost of cancer treatment appears to be caused by more people getting cancer.

We also hear the argument that cancer rates are rising becuase the American population is living longer. We at Organic Lifestyle Magazine contend that this is inaccurate. Studies that show people are living longer are flawed because they take into account the infant mortalities, and people dying in wars. The actual average age the elderly die at is not significantly older then it was 50 years ago. It seems to us that the rise in cancer costs, which appears to coincide with the rise in overall medical costs, is skyrocketing because more and more people are seeking medical treatment. And the amount of people seeking treatment for medical problems is climbing faster than the population increase.

The big C – Cancer. The word strikes fear in the bravest of us all, and rightly so. The American Cancer Society reveals the current, chilling statistics: one out of every two men and one out of every three women will battle cancer at some point in their lives. And too often, they will lose. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.

The National Cancer Institute’s statistics report a 66%, five-year survival rate. Longitudinal studies reveal a 58-59% twenty-year survival rate. Conventional medicine claims today’s statistics prove current treatments are effective at curing cancer or at the very least extending life. Not everyone agrees with these claims.

Cancer is a slow moving disease; early detection is increasing. The earlier cancer is detected, the greater the odds of living for five years, with or without effective treatment. Critics, such as Mike Anderson, (from the documentary, Healing Cancer from the Inside Out) contend the increase in numbers of cancer patients living for five years is caused by the increase in early detection rather than the efficacy of current conventional treatment. In addition, he contends the methodology of reporting numbers is highly suspect—that the cancer industry massages numbers to support claims of effective treatment.

The National Cancer Institute’s data graphs show significant improvement in the survival rate for lymphoma and melanoma. When these numbers are combined with the statistics for all types of cancers, the overall cancer survival rates dramatically improve. But when the other cancers are looked at individually, their survival rate from 1975 through today shows negligible improvement on a graph.

Cancer begins with a single damaged cell—a cell that refuses to follow a normal life cycle of growth, division, and death. The cancer cell mutates and refuses to die; instead dividing to form a mass we call a tumor, or, in the case of leukemias, disrupting normal processes in the bone marrow and blood.

As cancer grows, tumors impede normal function of organs and body systems. The bloodstream and the lymphatic system become the means for cancer cells to invade other parts of the body.

Conventional treatment zeros in on the tumor or tumors, primarily using surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to kill the cancer cells. Treatment is aggressive and invasive. Chemotherapy and radiation destroy healthy tissue as well as cancerous tissue. Chemotherapy also suppresses the patient’s immune system, raising the risk of death by other causes such as pneumonia.

Nutritionally based alternative treatments such as the Gerson and Budwig diets view the tumor as a symptom of disease, not the cause. Treatment is focused on building health, strengthening the immune system and the liver, raising oxygen in the cells, detoxifying the body, and eliminating the wastes created as the body wages war against the cancer.

Whichever protocol you choose to follow, select a proven path and fully consider your ability to comply. If you’re a person who “can’t follow a diet to save my life,” conventional treatment may be a better fit for you. If you choose the alternative route, be sure to surround yourself with a safe and protective support system. Naysayers, both professionals and laymen, are vicious. They will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to undermine your decision, your confidence, and your resolve. They will truly believe you to be a fool in need of their advice and they will make every effort to bring you over to their way of thinking. Strangely enough, their concern for you, heartfelt as it may be, may vanish when alternative treatment is successful. Don’t be too surprised when they don’t show the least interest in your success.
You choose the way you live. You choose your quality of life. Choose well.

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