Stop Feeding Your Cancer by John Kelly

Author:John Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pentheum Press

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A Revolution of Thought

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”

– THOMAS JEFFERSON

Persuading patients suffering from cancer to eliminate animal protein from their food intake is especially problematic in Western countries, where dairy and meat are very much part of our daily diet. Constant, clever, all-media marketing makes the benign cow, the pig and the lamb popular culinary choices. Add to this a reassuring slice of science: the proteins contained in these animals’ make-up are almost identical to those found in the human body. So it seems logical to suppose that consuming animal products is the very best course for humans and is ideal for nourishing and repairing the body’s cells. For humans the fact that our favourite food is also the favourite food of cancer cells doesn’t compute. There is a psychological block, which I believe is nothing less than tragic.

We are all aware that meat and dairy produce have come under suspicion in recent times. During the last decades of the twentieth century, well-funded, coordinated and transparent research showed these foods were implicated in coronary heart disease, which, along with cancer, accounts for most premature deaths worldwide. It was the meat and dairy fats, and in particular the cholesterol, that were shown to be the problem. At the time it was difficult for people to accept that the foods they had been reared on since infancy might be associated in any way with fatal disease. Yet when the scientific medical community banded together and produced their irrefutable results, the doctors cooperated in encouraging people to accept the findings, and the pharmaceutical industry – and indeed the food industry – made the appropriate adjustments to promote and produce anti-cholesterol drugs and foods.

The difference between that situation and the role of animal protein in cancer is one of focus. For the coronary heart risk, unified research took place. The Seven Countries Study that formally started in the autumn of 1958 in Yugoslavia and engaged four regions of the world – the US, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Japan – is still ongoing. It has carefully compiled its findings with well-disseminated, coordinated recommendations and, after 50 years, is still well-funded and continues to fine-tune the results. By contrast the targeted research to support the indications that animal protein has a major role to play in human cancer is still fragmented within generic “nutrition” studies. Much of the problem may lie in as-yet-undiscussed global economic fallout. Medical institutions – whether the World Health Organization or the most futurist startup labs – are dependent on either government funding or private benefactors. Governments have a vested interest in economic stability: the food industry, as it has been honed for centuries, is an inviolable, economically sound model. Private benefactors are often wealthy investors whose altruism is combined with investment savvy: pharmaceutical profits are legendarily huge and consistent. The cash support that comes from both these sectors is the lifeblood of clinical studies. What government will invest heavily in trials that prove its principal

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