Cancer and Diet: Foods that cause cancer
By now we all must recognize the elephant in the room that is the link between diet, lifestyle, and cancer risk.
It is printed as a warning on packages of ‘food’ (processed, packaged, convenient, fast, food-like-stuff, AKA Standard American Diet) and on all forms of tobacco. Because of the carcinogens contained in our ‘food’ and the depletion of nutrients from processing food, we have reached a point where nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
The sources of carcinogens in the Standard American Diet (SAD) are from food additives, food processing, and food preparation. Artificial red food coloring can keep processed food looking fresher than they really are. Heat processing of fat together with amino acids is behind the formation of the carcinogens (grilling food), acrylamide (boiling or frying potatoes), and nitrosamine (from frying) in potatoes and in hot dogs respectively.
There is a clear link between GMO grains, changes in our intestinal microbial makeup, and the recent increase in human immune system problems. Consider the case of enriched wheat flour, which a few years after its introduction, required B vitamin enrichment because consumers were getting B vitamin deficiency diseases like pellagra and beriberi. This should be seen as the first sign that processing of food depletes nutrients. Whenever food is heated above 118 degrees Fahrenheit, its living enzymes are all destroyed taking away much of what the sun’s energy through nature made for us. Next consider the addition of agricultural pesticides to increase the per acre production of grains as a possible source of carcinogens. Here should also be mentioned genetically modified organisms (GMOs), particularly the genetic modification of North American soy, corn, canola, and cotton crops.
Here are a few of the most carcinogen laden foods. These are the foods you most definitely want to avoid 100% of the time:
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Fish are absolutely animal flesh! There is nothing different about eating a cow, a fish, or even a chicken for that matter. There are NO shades of grey here. We were NOT designed to eat anything from an animal and all effects are the same. It doesn’t matter if its farm raised or wild caught! Our oceans are polluted as well as the farms. Because of their feed source and the waters where farming is done, the fish flesh contains high levels of PCBs, flame retardants, and heavy metals. They are swimming in a crowd of other fish, breathing their waste, restricting movement, and their sources of food which may include animal byproducts and GMO source soy and corn. Then we take them home and fry them up with all these toxins and dipped in a GMO corn batter preparation. If you truly want health and to not build cancer, eliminating ALL animal products is NON-NEGOTIABLE!
The baby human body was designed for human breast milk (5% protein) not cow’s breast milk (10-15% protein). If 5% was all we needed at the time we were growing the most, how could we ever need more? If more is better, then go grab a rat and milk it! Rat milk is 49% protein! Casein (milk curd) is now considered THE MOST carcinogenic protein on the planet (China Study, Collin Campbell). Now add to it the pro-inflammatory omega 6 fats that are found in dairy fat just to raise our pain level. Along with these toxins are the antibiotic residues present, the pesticides from the GMO based feed, and possibly the most carcinogenic of all, the Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) given to cows by injection in order to increase milk production and a known human carcinogen.
It is really hard to consider adding this food to the diet of anyone, particularly our self, our friends or our loved ones. Believe me when I say that anything good in ‘food’ is surely destroyed by the extreme process of pasteurization and irradiation, both processes that is FDA required.
ALL frying and fried foods MUST GO! This includes ANY oil. Even the healthiest of oils, like coconut and olive oils, become carcinogenic once heated even to just a sauté heat. Fried potato products including French fries (AKA cancer fries), potato chips, and tator-tots, once exposed to hot oil (already made carcinogenic from heating), yield acrylamide which is also a known carcinogen. Cooking kills our food and releases toxins. We eat the dead food. We are what we eat. Hmm …
When there is an absence of nutrients to replace the ones being used to process this junk, many deficiencies will start to show up, and the body will have to work harder with the added stress from not having materials (simple to digest plant based raw foods) readily available to maintain homeostasis. Removing carcinogens removes disease!
ALL NON-organic foods are carcinogenic. Our non-animal food supply is sprayed with over 500 different chemicals before it ends up in your mouth. Of these 500 chemicals, over 450 are ILLEGAL in other countries because they KNOW they are carcinogenic! The top 12 of these non-organic foods, that are most heavily ‘carcinogized’ are CELERY, PEACHES, STRAWBERRIES, APPLES, BLUEBERRIES, NECTARINES, BELL PEPPERS, SPINACH, KALE, CHERRIES, and IMPORTED GRAPES. If you want to remain disease free then only buy these 12 foods organic.

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