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Lung cancer cured with Omega-3 fats

The article below has to be regarded as a natural cure for lung cancer. D.H was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2000. As of April 2004 he managed an overall decrease in lung  cancer tumor mass by about 90 percent.

by Gang Wu

Ron Pardini is not a medical doctor. Yet he is seen as a hero by his cancer-stricken neighbor, “D.H.” Pardini helped the 78-year-old after D.H. was  diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

“In 2000 he was told by his doctor he had only a few months to live,” said Pardini, a professor of biochemistry and associate director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Nevada, Reno. “But five years later, he is still alive, and has even gained a little weight.”

The cancerous tumors found in D.H.’s lungs have shrunk to 10 percent of what they were in 2000, according  to last year’s computed tomography (CT) scans.

What worked with DH is not a common medical treatment such as chemotherapy or surgical excision. It was a nutritional intervention, drastically increasing the patient’s intake of omega-3 fatty acids, which are often found in fish oil or golden algae oil.

Pardini’s previous research showed that omega- 3 fatty acids significantly depressed the growth of human mammary, ovarian, colon, prostate and pancreatic cancer cells that were injected into athymic mice—also known as nude mice

His studies  also demonstrated that fish oil consumption improves a mouse’s responsiveness to chemotherapy.

Fish oil research was  inspired by observations that Inuit Eskimo populations have less breast and prostate cancer deaths.

So far, though, most studies in this country are limited to animal models, but a case study about D.H., which was published in the recent issue of the Nutrition and Cancer journal, could be a major step forward for human clinical trials.

While beginning to take high dose of fish oil and golden algae oil capsules daily, D.H. also reduced  corn-based foods from his diet. Corn contains omega- 6 fatty acids that Pardini said are found to increase cancer growth.

Pardini is optimistic of what his findings may  contribute to cancer treatment.

“We ha ve good evidence for employing nutritional interventions to improve cancer treatment and patient well-being,” he said.

Pardini wants to be able to provide viable non-toxic,  over-the-counter solutions for the numerous people with fear of cancer in the back of their minds.

The Nutrition and Cancer article is co-authored by Nevada nutrition Professor David Wilson and University of Nevada medical school Professors, Steven Schiff, Stephen Bajo and Randall Pierce.

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SF protest joins Ron Paul, Matt González and John Dennis

­A new political era without Democrats and Republicans is being born
­Congressm­an Ron Paul and presidential candidate Ralph Nader.

by Marvin Ramírez

While the mainstream media keep the people living in an illusion with yellow journalism images and entertainment mockery that make many believe that everything is fine in the country – a movement of people denouncing that everything is really not alright, is unfolding.

Three third-party candidates, Congressman Ron Paul, vice presidential candidate and former San Francisco Supervisor Matt González and John Dennis, 8th Congressional District  candidate, will stage a big rally from 2 to 4 p.m. in San Francisco Civic Center on Sept. 4, which promises to be the beginning of a united front against the status quo and the monopoly of politics by a multi-millionaire elite.

It will be a non-partisan, antiwar, anti-Washington and anti-incumbency free speech rally, and is expected to attract a big crowd of Green Party, Republicans and Independents members and sympathizers from many parts or the country.

This denunciation includes violation of the Constitution (Patriot Act, FISA), illegal wars, usurpation of the basic human and bill of rights of the people, taxation without representation, an imposed police state that mostly serves to collect taxes for the international bankers and not serve the people, and the advent and consolidation of a new world government to control the masses and enslave North Americans through the United Nations and the current corrupt banking system.

This enslavement, activists say, is conducted via the private Federal Reserve Bank, owned by the International Monetary Fund, a foreign corporation. Paul wants just that, to take away the power to printing the currency from a private bank and give it back to the government, including the introduction of a new bill to audit the U.S. gold reserves, which are reportedly stored at the New York Federal Reserve and Fort Knox.

Currently, the Federal Reserve Bank prints the paper money (the dollar), which is backed by nothing, and then loans it to the government with interest  – while the people pay the interest. He believes that by having the government to start issuing money, it will eliminate all interest rates that everyone, including the government, now pay on all loans when purchasing automobiles, student loans, real estate, etc.

Paul has championed the cause to remove the Federal Reserve Bank as the issuer of money for a longtime, and has submitted legislation to Congress for it, but it has failed to pass. This would also eliminate the national debt and save the nation from an eminent economic collapse.

“Today’s coming together of third party candidates marks the beginning of the realignment of American politics,” said Green Party leader Ralph Nader, while criticizing the current two-party political system funded by the same money donors that holds a monopoly of the entire U.S.  political system.

“The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two-party system (Democratic and Republican), which in reality is a one-party system with no possible chance for the changes to occur which are necessary to solve our economic and foreign policy problems,” Paul said in an interview.

“I think its important to build alliances, especially with others whom we may disagree with on other issues, in order to achieve the critical mass we need to truly end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to keep these conflicts from expanding, as they currently are, into Yemen and Pakistan,” said vice presidential candidate and former San Francisco Supervisor Matt González in an interview to Fog City Journal.

And while many worry of the danger Paul is exposing himself to, with his political revolution challenging the bankers, he doesn’t seem to be dissuaded from his political goal to guarantee Americans their civil liberties, privacy rights, low taxes, low regulation while opposing the police state.

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Children want to know Is the President listening

by Raisa Camargo

Editorial cartoonists delight in exaggerating the size of Barack Obama’s ears, but families being torn apart by federal immigration policies are wondering if he’s ever going to listen to them. In the latest attempt to repair the nation’s broken immigration system, more than 500 children paraded outside the White House on July 28 to prevent the deportation of their parents.

Elementary school students Jonathan Monterosa and Edgar, who didn’t reveal his last name, traveled from Chicago to stand and march for more than two hours under a blazing sun.

“We want to keep  ourfamily united,” Jonathan told Hispanic Link.

Edgar added that his father feared deportation as he described his personal terror — and he’d be left alone with nothing to eat.

An estimated four million children are citizens living in the United States, mostly born here to an undocumented parent, according to data collected in  2008 by the Pew HispanicCenter.

The number of children who risk losing their parents overwhelms the 400,000 persons the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency (ICE) anticipates deporting this fiscal year. That is nearly a 10 percent increase above the total in 2008 during the Bush administration.

Congressman Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois, speaking before the march, bared the empathy he felt for the children while stressing the importance of immigration reform to a crowd of more than 1,500 persons. He was arrested in May for civil disobedience along with 35 advocates in favor of the DREAM Act outside the White House.

“The next time I come to the White House and they shackle me, I am not going to bring $100 to pay the fine. If they let me go, I am coming back because of these innocent children,” Gutiérrez, who is Puerto Rican, said in Spanish. He repeated his promise severaltimes. “We are not going to permit leaving them without shelter, without justice and left in need of their parents’ love.”

Advocates and children representing organizations in states spread from coast to coast — Florida, Maryland, Illinois, Texas, Illinois, California — waved signs with slogans and wore shirts emblazonedwith such pleas as “Don’t Deport My Mom” and “It’s in your hands, Mr. President.”

Daisy Cuevas, the 7-year-old girl who told Michelle Obama this past spring about her mother’s undocumented status, energetically led the march.

The crowd shouted in unison, “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido, Obama escucha, estamos en la lucha, aquí estamos y no nos vamos!”

Although the vibrant speeches captivated onlookers across the streets, for parents waiting on their deportation status, the march was more than just a gamble.

Viviana Oxlaj López worried about her six children’s wellbeing if she is deported back to Guatemala. She said her 10-yearold daughter was becoming ill thinking about the separation.  Hispanic Link.

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Colombia and Ecuador make progress

by the El Reportero’s news services

On 26 August the foreign ministers of Colombia and Ecuador met in Ipiales, Colombia (7km from the border with Ecuador) and got on well. The two neighbours do not yet have full diplomatic relations witheach other and have had a series of rows ever since Colombia raided a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucuionarias de Colombia (Farc) camp inside Ecuador on 1 March 2008, killing 26 people. The clear results of the five hour summit were an agreement to restart bilateral commissions and a commitment to  clear away obstacles to betterrelations.

The 2011 race for the Peruvian presidency heats up

The elections for mayor in Lima and for the presidencies  of the country’s 25 regions on 3 October signal the start of the final lap in the race to become Peru’s next president. The presidential and congressional elections are in April 2011. Latin News.

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Ceremony to recognize local heroes in San Mateo

The Berríos Brothers and their father (with the micro

by the El Reportero’s staff

With the number of  home foreclosures on the rise in recent months, moreand more Americans are facing the harsh consequences of where they will live. For people living on limited incomes, who are also struggling with mental health issues, substanceabuse conditions, or  physical disabilities, it can be even more challenging to find and maintain affordable housing.

Change Agent Housing Committee will present the third annual Housing Hero Awards to honor individuals who help secure stable housing for people with complicated behavioral, medical, financial and social issues. This year, more than 100 local housing providers were nominated to be “Housing Heroes” by their coworkers, clients/consumers, and community members.

The ceremony will be held on Wednesday, September 15, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the San Mateo Main Library, located at 55 West 3rd Avenue in San Mateo. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mary Taylor Fullerton at 650-573-2306 or mfullerton@co.sanmate o.ca.us

CCSF starts school semester with Mexico of my heart concert

Elena Durán, one of the leading flute players in the world today, will perform at City College of San Francisco, when this learning institution is celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Mexican Revolution its 100th anniversary and Mexico’s 200th year of independence.

The event, “México de  Mi Corazón” is a concert of music from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema as performed in the movies by‘Los Tres Gallos’: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante and Javier Solis, and it includes movie clips supplied by Fundación Televisa.] Luis Zepeda on piano.

Durán was born to Mexican-American parents in East Oakland, California and was self-taught until the age of eighteen. After high school she studied at Mills College and at the age of only twenty she was appointed Lecturer in Flute  at Stanford University.

However, after two years she resigned her post at Stanford to resume her studies in Europe with Jean Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, Aurèle Nicolet and James Galway.

On August 28, at 7 p.m., at Diego Rivera Theater at Ocean Campus of City College of San Francisco 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco. Tickets: $25.00/ $15.00 seniors/students. Free parking on street and campus lots.

San Francisco celebrated with art

Celebrate! San Francisco ™ is a gallery-based exhibit to be launched at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. It is a pilot project focused on two simple questions: How are San Franciscans celebrating the human experience given present circumstances?

And, what innovations/ best practices are being developed in local communities and industries that can be replicated on a broader scale? By meaningfully engaging the dynamic talentpresent in San Francisco, we hope that gallery visitors will have greater reason to celebrate the life and culture of San Francisco.

Exhibition Participants Angela Angel, Michael Arcega, Karen Brasier, Robert Burnside, Rosie Byers, Angelis Candler, Tân Khánh Cao, Susan Cervantes, Ilana Crispi, Robin David, Darren de Leon, Jazmin Jones, Toan Lam, Raymond Madarang, Jane Martin, Mike L. Miller,Derrick Miller-Handley, David Molina, Juanita MORE!, Ellen Murland, Diego Pacheco, Virgo Paraiso, Tino Rodriguez, Rafael Sanhueza-Leni, Susana Valdez, Marilyn Yu, and Zineblasters.

Curated by Emael. For a complete list of bios and  event calendar, please visitwww.icelebratemycity.com. What city will be next?

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Two salsa legends got together for a one-time, live performance of a classic recording

The Berríos Brothers and their father (with the micro

by Antonio Mejías-Rentas­

REUNITED: Composer Larry Harlow conducted a 40-piece ensemble in the staging of his classic 1977 recording – as part of the Aug. 1 Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert series. The concert at Damrosch Park in Manhattan featured a special performance by Rubén Blades, who sang lead vocals for the Grammy-  nominated album.

It marked the first performance together in decades of two o salsa’s most  respected musicians.

Harlow, a fierce pianist audiences best remember as “el judí maravilloso”– said it wasn’t hard to get the Panamanian singersongwrite to  recreate. “Rubén had just finished being the tourism minister for Panama. He hadn’t performed for four  years and he was raring to go,” Harlow said in an interview.

Harlow was a rising salsa star at New York’s Fania label in the early ’70s when Blades worked  in the mail room. Harlow recognized Blades’ talent and eventuallly hired him for his band, helping launch one of salsa’s most distinguished careers.

“He said it was payback,” Harlow said of Blades’ acceptance. “Reuniting with Harlow, a true star in this genre and an old colleague at Fania, is important to me,” Blades said in a separate interview.  “It will mean going back to pieces of my past, to when I started in New York as a young undocumented [worker].”

To mark the historic performance, Código Music, which now owns the Fania catalogue– is releasing a re-mastered,  limited edition of Laraza latina.

Harlow said he had dreamed for years of staging a live performance of the rare salsa suite, which tells the history of Afro-Caribbeanmusic. The lone other time it had been performed live was in a 2009 student production at Cal State Los Angeles, where Harlow endows a  scholarship. It was there where Harlow met Cuban singer Adonis Puentes, who will be featured at the New York concert.

While Blades could commit only to the New York show, Harlow said he hopes to take the show on the road, perhaps with  salsa stars Luis Enrique or Gilberto Santa Rosa singing the lead part.

HE WROTE THE SONGS: Roberto Canto- ral, the Mexican composer of some of the best known Spanish-language songs of  the last century, has died.He was 80.

His songs — El reloj and La barca are among the classics — were performed  by the top stars in the Spanish-speaking world. As one of his country’s top composers, he was a strong advocate of copyright laws and had been the president of the Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México  since the ’80s.

He was als o the father of actress Itatí Cantoral. Roberto Cantoral reportedly fell ill while at his home in Brownsville, Texas. He was put on a flight to a Mexico City hospital, but his wcondition forced the pilot to land the plane in Toluca, where he was hospitalized and shortly thereafter died, on Aug. 7.

The SACM said that El reloj and La barca each were recorded over a thousand  times. Hispanic Link. Has notado que por mucho que trabajas y te

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SF students continue academic achievement

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

A SFUSD statement said atht district-wide, San Francisco’s test scores continue to improve in both English Language Arts (ELA) and Math tests. Proficiency rates in ELA improved by 2.3 percent (Grades 2-11) and by 3 percent in Math (Grades 2- 7). Over half (56.3 percent) of the district’s students are ‘proficient or above’ in ELA and approximately two-thirds (65.2 percent) of students are ‘proficient or above’ in Math (Grades 2-7).

Over 90 percent of SFUSD schools showed increases in either English Language Arts or Math scores. Approximately two-thirds of the schools  improved in both content areas.

For the second year in a row, San Francisco public school’s African- American and Latino students have narrowed the  achievement gap in their California Standards Test (CST) scores.

In 2010 testing, the growth in Math profi ciency rates for African-Americans was 4.8 percent and Latinos was 3.6 percent (for the entire district, the 2010 growth  was 3 percent). In English Language Arts (ELA), African- Americans matched the district performance at   2.3 percent while Latinos exceeded the rate at 3.2 percent.

USCIS reminds eligible Salvadorans to re re-apply for the TPS

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, for its initials in English) reminds Salvadorans (and persons without nationality, whose last residence was in El Salvador) who are in the country under the Temporary Protection Status (TPS), to submit  their re-inscription before the deadline of September 7, 2010.

The 18-month extension of TPS for El Salvador will remain in force until March 9, 2012. The persons who have received the TPS previously have to re-apply for the extension during the period of re-inscription. If you do not present a request of re-inscription during the period stipulated without a justifi ed excuse, you might lose the benefi ts of the TPS, such as the employment authorization and protection from deportation from the  United States.

Additional details on the extension of the TPS for El  Salvador, including requisites of petition, tariffs and procedures, are available in www.uscis.gov/espanol, on the TPS page and in the Notifi cation of the Federal Record. To obtain more in formation, the petitioners can communicate to the USCIS calling 1-800-375- 5283, or their Consulate General.

Applicants who do not have access to the Internet can call the Line of Forms  at the USCIS, 1-800-870-3676.

Nurses protes t management plans to slash their healthcare benefi ts

Registered nurses from Children’s Hospital Oakland, joined by other hospital employees, rallie outside the facility Aug. 18 to protest management efforts to sharply reduce current healthcare coverage for nurses and their families. Children’s has signaled that they also intend to demand cuts in health benefits for other hospital workers as well.

The nurses charge that hospital administrators are trying to penalize the RNs and other employees for extremely poor management decisions with sharp and unwarranted reductions in health coverage.

Such cuts would push  Children’s well below community standards for healthcare coverage offered by other Bay Area hospitals, driving RNs away from the hospital and reducing patient access to the hospital’s most experienced nurses, warns the California Nurses Association.

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Reflexions of an old lady before the Congress of Argentina

sent by an anonymous author

A few days ago, Elena D’Angelo de Marcone, an Argentine lady of 86 years of age appeared in a public hearing of the Parliament of Tucumán to defend “with tooth and nail the family “  before the attempts to legalize the “marriage” between people of the same sex.

Doña Elena affected to the legislators and all present ones during one of the so many public hearings summoned by the Commission  of General Legislation of the Senate of the Nation, in order to know the opinion and desire the town of the provinces on controversial project of law that tomorrow will be put under voting.

“X X” for them? And that corresponding the psychological characteristics will accompany them until death? , it questioned.

Doña Elena considered that to give the force of law to the unions between people the same sex, “is like using a pair of shoes, both for the left foot, or both for the right foot. Is that how they spend their time?

Are the problems of those minorities are going to condition and change the healthy customs of the Argentine family? “It is possible that we are prepared to go to jail to deny to us to resign to our more expensive moral values? Or is that the laws are turned to so immense and absolute power that they make ever more useless the use of free will? You, men and women, Senators of the Nation are going away to make people in charge of so large felony?  Although in the House of Representatives this law already has been approved, you can still reflect and change history “, she reminded.

“Be that as it may,  they know one thing: the Argentine family lives,barks, and annoys in the belly of each generous and sacrificed mother, and in the heart of each male and courageous man who fights for life and to bring children into the world, or better, into the Mother country. This Mother country ours needs people and not of aborted children, nor drugs and ways to prevent births and less of these sterile pairs that form a culture of death! “, it added. See the problem of  gay marriage in the U.S.A.. http://www.gloria.tv/ ?media=79991

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The Chinese United States

by Jorge Mujica Mexico del Norte

Some news this week… the Senate could hold hearings on the reform. Even more news, the hearings would be led, if they happen to happen, by four Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell along Jon  Kyl plus John McCain andLindsey Graham.

The last ones are, supposedly, about the only Republican Senators who support immigration reform… or at least used to… But the reform these Senators want hearings on is not immigration reform but the 14th Amendment reform. Our readers may wonder why Latinos should care if four Republican Senators discuss the U.S. Constitution, so let’s make it clear: if they change it, they could take away the citizenship status to millions of Latino and other immigrant’s kids.

The 14th Amendment is the one granting citizenship to all persons born between the line where Mexico ends and the line where Canada starts, plus a bunch of islands all over the planet and Alaska. It was approved on July 9, 1868, and it starts with  “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It was approved to give citizenship to the sons and daughters of former slaves after the Civil War.

These Republicans say they wan to change it because, Lindsey Graham told Fox News “the birthright citizenship is a magnet for illegal aliens to the United States.” Graham added that it would be a move to stop something he calls “birth tourism, in which travel firms in China sell travel packages designed to allow pregnant women to give birth in the US.”. I can see the danger now! Can you imagine 100 million Chinese women coming to give birth in the U.S. each year? By 2015 we would be the Chinese United States!

In The Hands Of The Enemy

The argument is idiotic and the target here is not Chinese, but the sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants. Besides idiotic, it is not new. Back in 2008 the Republican Party discussed an amendment to the 14th

Amendment that read something like “To be a U.S. citizen you would need that at least one of your parents be a citizen of the United States and that neither of both have violated the immigration laws”. It was not approved under the consideration that it could harm John McCain’s presidential campaign…

To change the Constitution you need two thirds of the vote in each chamber in Congress, plus the approval of 34 state legislatures, meaning this amendment to the amendment is going nowhere except maybe …China or further away… As Republican delegates realized two years ago at their National Convention, taking away their citizenship to children of the undocumented would only increase the numbers of those in need of legalization to around 16 million instead of 12.

The question is, then, why proposing the amendment now? The answer is simple: elections.

It seems Republicans already decided Latino voters don’t decide anything. In other words, instead of trying to win back the Latino vote they have lost because of their anti immigrant politics, they are trying to win the white vote they lost in 2008 to Barack Obama. Wise strategy… in the short term, but Latinos will have more and more votes in a few years, so it is a short-sighted strategy for the long term. But obviously the issue here is not pregnant Chinese tourist and neither undocumented parents, but the U.S. perception of immigrants and how far to the right they can take the discussion of the immigration reform.

Democrats responded via Congressman José Serrano, who stated in an editorial that “the Constitution should never be changed for the worst”, and call the attention to the fact that the Republicans’ amendment would not affect undocumented immigrants but their U.S. citizen children, and that would be unconstitutional.

The only answer from the Obama administration came via Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security and therefore highest immigration authority, who declared herself “surprised” by the Republicans “they presented this idea instead of discussing immigration reform”. The bad part of her statement is that she added, “Immigration reform depends on the cooperation of the Republican Party. Democrats can’t do it themselves”.

To me that sounds like “immigration reform depends on the enemies of immigration reform”. It is to surrender. If Republicans do not deserve a single Latino vote, it looks to me like Democrats do not deserve a single one either…

México del Norte can read at: http: //mx.groups.yahoo.com/ group/mexicodelnorte/

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What doctors won’t tell their cancer patients about high fructose corn syrup

by Jenny Thompson The Health Science Institute

A California researcher has called on the federal government to “step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in our diets.”

Right. I can see it now: Federal HFCS agents roaming grocery store aisles and hanging out beside soda machines where they’ll advise  consumers to step back on their HFCS consumption.

Or maybe this researcher– Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA–has something else in mind. Maybe he’s aware that the U.S. government has generously contributed to the HFCS boom by imposing high tariffs to discourage sugar imports, while subsidizing farms thatproduce the raw material for  HFCS: corn.

In any case, Dr. Heaney just wants to help cancer patients  live longer.

Can’t argue with that.

Cancer 101

When Dr. Heaney and his UCLA team recently exposed pancreatic cancer cells to fructose, they found that fructose prompted a dramatic growth of the malignant cells.

In the journal Cancer Research, they wrote, “These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation.” And even worse, they believe that fructose may have this effect on other types of cancer cells–not just pancreatic cancer.

Of course, the Corn Refiners Association immediately responded with a press release, calling the conclusions of the UCLA study “premature.”

Fair enough. After all, it was a lab study, and what happens in a Petri dish can be very different from what happens in the body.

Still, I’d be willing to bet a paycheck that further research will very likely show that fructose does play some sort of role in cancer cell proliferation. For two reasons: 1) HFCS intake has already been linked with increased pancreatic cancer risk, and 2) It’s all about sugar, which is 50% fructose and 50 percent glucose.

About 80 years ago, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., showed that glucose is a potent fuel for cancer cell growth. And this wasn’t some harebrained theory. It was proof. And it won Dr. Warburg a Nobel Prize.

For decades, the medical community has been aware of the danger for cancer patients who eat foods with added sugars and refined simple carbohydrates. So for every cancer patient, this advice should be considered Cancer 101: Wean yourself from these foods, and then restrict consumption as much as possible.

As for high fructose corn syrup, if you have cancer, you can’t go wrong to avoid it completely. And if you don’t have cancer… well, you can’t go wrong to avoid it completely!

But whatever you do, don’t wait for the government to dream up some bureaucratic Rube Goldberg program designed to step back our HFCS intake.

 

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