New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent
Cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention by: Mike Adams
Date: 9/28/2007 8:25:05 AM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 4407 times
Exciting new research
conducted at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Nebraska has
revealed that supplementing with vitamin D and calcium can reduce your
risk of cancer by an astonishing 77 percent. This includes breast
cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of cancer. This
research provides strong new evidence that vitamin D is the single most
effective medicine against cancer, far outpacing the benefits of any
cancer drug known to modern science.
The study involved 1,179 healthy women from rural Nebraska. One group of
women was given calcium (around 1500 mg daily) and vitamin D (1100 IU
daily) while another group was given placebo. Over four year, the group
receiving the calcium and vitamin D supplements showed a 60 percent
decrease in cancers. Considering just the last three years of the study
reveals an impressive 77 percent reduction in cancer due to
supplementation. (The full press release of this study is included
below. It provides more details about the findings.)
Note that these astonishing effects were achieved on what many
nutritionists consider to be a low dose of vitamin D. Exposure to
sunlight, which creates even more vitamin D in the body, was not tested
or considered, and the quality of the calcium supplements was likely not
as high as it could have been (it was probably calcium carbonate and not
high-grade calcium malate, aspartate or similar forms). What does all
this mean? It means that if you take high-quality calcium supplements
and get lots of natural sunlight exposure or take premium vitamin D
supplements (such as those made from fish oil), you could easily have
a greater reduction than the 77 percent reduction recorded in this study.
American Cancer Society opposes vitamin D
This research on vitamin D is such good news that the American Cancer
Society, of course, had to say something against it. An ACS
spokesperson, Marji McCullough, strategic director of nutritional
epidemiology for the American Cancer Society, flatly stated that nobody
should take supplements to prevent cancer.
If it seems surprising to you that the American Cancer Society -- which
claims to be against cancer -- would dissuade people from taking
supplements that slash their cancer risk by 77 percent, then you don't
know much about the ACS. In my opinion, the ACS is an organization that
actually prevents prevention and openly supports the
continuation of cancer as a way to boost its power and profits. The ACS
is the wealthiest non-profit in America and has very close ties to
pharmaceutical companies, mammography equipment companies and other
corporations that profit from cancer. Notice the name, too: It isn't the
American Anti-Cancer Society, it's the American Cancer
Society! What they really stand for is right in the name!
Click here to read more about the ACS and its financial ties to
chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies and radiology equipment
manufacturers.
The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and I've written
extensively about the criminal organizations that protect and promote
the industry. Just about everything the public is told about cancer by
these cancer institutions is a lie. Those "race for the cure" cancer
walks are a complete scam (they really aren't searching for any way to
prevent cancer or cure cancer, they're only searching for new patented
drugs to profit from cancer).
This research on vitamin D is a huge threat to the cancer industry
profit mongers because it reveals a way to prevent cancer for free
-- by seeking natural sunlight exposure and letting your skin
manufacture your own powerful anti-cancer medicine (vitamin D). The idea
that the cancer industry could lose 80% of its patients due to
widespread education about vitamin D and sunlight scares the living
daylights out of the cancer industry. Billions of dollars in cancer
profits are at stake here, so the pro-cancer groups have to do
everything they can to discredit vitamin D by creating doubt and
confusion. The degree of dishonesty at work here is almost unbelievable
to those who don't really know what's happening in the cancer industry.
Ten questions to ask yourself about the cancer industry
Consider these questions:
#1: Why does the cancer industry refuse to educate people about cancer
prevention?
#2: If people keep donating money for the "search" for a cancer cure,
why won't drug companies pledge to "open source" their patents on cancer
drugs to benefit the people whose donations funded them in the first
place? In other words, why do people donate money for cancer research
but then get charged for cancer drugs?
#3: Why does the entire cancer industry so strongly dissuade people from
using sunlight exposure to dramatically reduce their cancer risk? (Hint:
Follow the money to the sunscreen industry...)
#4: Why have all the really good cancer supplements, clinics and
naturopaths been banned, arrested or run out of the country? (Look up
the FDA's oppression of Lane Labs over MGN-3 for a fascinating review of
this...)
#5: The U.S. has poured billions of dollars into the cancer industry
over the last three decades. Cancer cures were promised in the 1970's.
Why are cancer rates still essentially the same today as they were in
the 1970's?
#6: Why does the cancer industry continue to use chemotherapy, radiation
and other toxic procedures to "kill tumors" when the latest science
clearly shows that cancer tumors are only the symptoms, not the
cause, of cancer? Chemotherapy destroys immune function and causes
permanent damage to the heart, brain and liver...
#7: The World Health Organization says that 70% of all cancers are
easily preventable through dietary and lifestyle changes. This latest
research shows that sunlight and low-cost calcium supplements can slash
cancer risk by 77% in women. Why won't conventional medicine embrace
this low-cost, safe and highly effective method for preventing cancer?
#8: The cancer industry routinely attacks anti-cancer herbs, superfoods
and supplements. Why is the cancer industry opposed to anti-cancer
nutrition? Why does it believe that only man, not nature, can
manufacture anti-cancer medicines?
#9: Dark skin pigmentation blocks ultraviolet radiation, meaning that
people with black skin need far more time under the sun to generate the
same amount of vitamin D as someone with white skin. Not surprisingly,
black women suffer extremely high rates of breast cancer while black men
show similarly high levels of prostate cancer. The white-dominated
medical industry pretends to be "mystified" by all this. Why won't
conventional medicine simple tell black people the truth about vitamin
D, skin pigmentation and cancer? Why do oncologists try to keep black
people ignorant about their vitamin D deficiencies?
#10: Why is it illegal for nutritional supplement manufacturers to tell
the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their products? Broccoli,
garlic, onions and sprouts all have powerful anti-cancer effects, as do
dozens of rainforest herbs (Cat's Claw, for example), Chinese herbs and
Western herbs. But the FDA threatens and censors any company that dares
to mention cancer prevention on its supplement products. Why is the
FDA enforcing a policy of nutritional ignorance with U.S. consumers?
Why does the federal government want people to remain ignorant of
methods for preventing or treating cancer?
You probably already know the answer to all these questions, because the
answer is the same for each one: Corporate profits. Cancer is
hugely profitable to treat. Substantially preventing cancer would result
in a loss of billions of dollars in profits for the oncologists, drug
companies, hospitals and clinics that currently prey upon the finances
of cancer victims.
The cancer industry is operated like a criminal racket, using false
information, intimidation, political pressure and propaganda to protect
its power base and keep its corporations profitable. And that, my
friends, is exactly why the industry is against the use of sunlight to
prevent cancer. Free medicine from the sky? The very thought of it makes
the cancer industry cringe. Sunlight doesn't even need a prescription,
you see, and it can't be patented, either.
Preventing cancer the
healthy way
Let me tell you how I prevent cancer. I take long walks in the desert
with no shirt on, and I don't wear sunscreen. I soak up the sun's rays
for many hours each week, and I never get a sun burn because I eat lots
of antioxidant-rich superfoods, berries and fresh produce.
I drink a raw superfood smoothie each morning, made of fresh produce and
superfoods. My two favorite recipes are chocolate (with raw cacao,
coconut oil or macadamia nut oil, raw avocado, spirulina, quinoa, banana
and almond milk) and super berry (fresh berries, freeze-dried berries,
egg white protein, stevia, aloe vera gel, fresh cucumber or watermelon,
celery).
I put no personal care products on my skin whatsoever: No deodorants, no
fragrance, no skin creams, no cosmetics and no sunscreen. This alone
saves me from exposure to hundreds of cancer-causing toxic chemicals
added to personal care products. I refuse to use chemical laundry
detergent and, instead, use natural laundry soap that grows on trees:
It's a natural soap berry product that we sell as a replacement for
chemical laundry detergents. You'll find it at
http://www.betterlifegoods.com
Corporate-controlled U.S. government doesn't want to prevent cancer
The U.S. government doesn't want the population to be free of cancer.
That's a strong statement, so let me offer you an undeniable piece of
strong evidence to back that up: The artificially low RDA numbers for
vitamin D.
One of the best ways to keep the population suffering from cancer is to enforce long-term nutritional deficiencies that lead to cancer.
The US government accomplishes this by keeping the recommendations for
vitamin D artificially low, practically guaranteeing that anyone who
follows the recommendations will eventually be diagnosed with cancer.
Vitamin D deficiency is the leading cause of breast cancer.
Most educated nutritionists agree that the daily dose of vitamin D for
an adult should be at least 1000 IUs, perhaps as high as 1400. But the
U.S. Institute of Medicine (IoM), which controls the recommendations on
these things, currently states that adults under 50 only need 200 IUs of
vitamin D a day. This policy is, in my opinion, an organized
conspiracy to keep the American people diseased by making sure they stay
deficient in anti-cancer nutrients. It serves the interests of all
the powerful corporations and non-profits that run Washington. And yes,
it is a conspiracy. I've documented it in far more detail in my book,
Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing
About Them, which reveals shocking details, documents and
photographs showing how modern medicine is a system that's literally
designed to keep the people in a state of chronic disease.
The FDA doesn't want people to prevent cancer either. That's why they've
aggressively attacked companies offering anti-cancer nutrients, and
completely censored the very mention of the word "cancer" by supplement
companies. In fact, the only reason I can print the information you're
reading right now is because I sell no food or supplements and my free
speech writing is not regulated by the FDA. If I were selling
supplements and writing these same words you're reading right now, I
would be arrested, charged with federal crimes, and put out of business
by state and federal authorities. That's the reality of the oppressive
medical environment under which we live today: Health is outlawed,
and only disease is allowed to be promoted.
The cancer industry, you see, is not merely incompetent; it is criminal. Intentionally keeping a population sick so that you can profit from
disease is a crime against humanity. And yet this is business as
usual in America's modern cancer industry.
Discrediting simple, free and safe cancer prevention strategies is
also criminal, and yet this is what the American Cancer Society
seems to do at every opportunity.
Plotting to profit from the suffering of other humans beings is evil.
And yet the entire revenue base of the cancer industry is based on
precisely that: Keeping people alive long enough to "treat" them with
overpriced toxic chemicals that can be billed to Medicare at 50,000%
markups over their manufacturing cost.
Cancer is big, big business. And curing cancer is a threat to all the
criminals participating in that industry: The non-profit employees,
oncologists, doctors, federal regulators, drug company executives, med
school propaganda teachers, pharmaceutical reps and many others. These
people cannot allow cancer to be prevented or cured. Their jobs and
careers are at stake.
Another outstanding source for learning more about the evils of the
cancer industry is G. Edward Griffin.
Click here to read our
article about Griffin or
click here for his
website.
Click here to see his video documentary on vitamin B17
A world free from cancer and full of abundance
Personally, I believe we could create a world virtually free of
cancer. We could accomplish it in two generations by taking tough action
to outlaw cancer-causing chemicals and investing in genuine cancer
prevention education. Drug companies would lose trillions of dollars in
profits, hospitals would lose huge amounts of patients, and pro-cancer
non-profit groups would lose power, money and prestige. But guess what? We'd all be better off without cancer.
Here's a startling statistic: Did you know that reducing the cancer
death rate by just 1% would be worth almost $500 billion to the U.S.
economy over the next hundred years or so? (Source: Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention) Drop the cancer rate by 10% and it's worth $5
trillion dollars to the economy. (These gains are due to increased
productivity and life spans of working, contributing people.)
We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by
77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and
calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. economy over
the next century.
That's enough economic productivity to pay off our entire national debt,
build new schools in every town and city in the country, provide free
college educations to all young people who wish to go to college, invest
billions in new energy technologies and even fund massive health
education campaigns to keep our population healthy. $38 trillion is a
lot of money. With that kind of increased abundance, we could build a
whole new society of health, wealth and education.
But guess what? The cancer industry won't let that happen. There's too
much short term profit to be made in keeping everybody sick. The cancer
industry is so evil that it will sell out our future in order to
maintain power, profits and control over the people today. The
cancer industry doesn't want cancer rates to go down, regardless of the
benefits to society or individual lives. The cancer industry wants there
to be MORE cancer, which is exactly why it opposes commonsense
prevention strategies that would reduce cancers. (It's true, this
industry actually opposes removing cancer-causing chemicals from the
workplace...)
Read more at Dr. Sam Epstein's website:
http://www.preventcancer.com
The bottom line in all this? New research shows us that using low-cost
calcium and vitamin D supplements (or just natural sunlight), we could
slash cancer rates by an astonishing 77 percent. The cancer industry
opposes this and is firmly positioned as an opponent of cancer
prevention. The industry depends on cancer to grow its own power and
profits, and it will invest in the de-education of the public in order
to maximize its own revenues.
Cures for cancer exist all around us: Sunlight, rainforest herbs,
anti-cancer foods and superfoods, etc. The causes of cancer are well
known: Toxic chemicals in foods, cosmetics, personal care products, home
cleaning products, and so on. So why don't we, as a nation, take steps
to outlaw the things that cause cancer while promoting the things that
prevent cancer?
The reason, once again, is because there's too much money at stake here.
The corporations are in charge, and as long as they're running the show,
cancer cures or prevention strategies that really work will simply not
be tolerated.
Creighton press release
Here's the original press release about the new findings on vitamin D
and cancer prevention:
OMAHA, Neb., June 8 -- Most Americans and others are not taking enough
vitamin D, a fact that may put them at significant risk for developing
cancer, according to a landmark study conducted by Creighton University
School of Medicine.
The four-year, randomized study followed 1,179 healthy, postmenopausal
women from rural eastern Nebraska.* Participants taking calcium, as well
as a quantity of vitamin D3 nearly three times the U.S. government's
Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) for middle-age adults, showed a dramatic
60 percent or greater reduction in cancer risk than women who did not
get the vitamin.
The results of the study, conducted between 2000 and 2005, were reported
in the June 8 online edition of the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition.
"The findings are very exciting. They confirm what a number of vitamin D
proponents have suspected for some time but that, until now, have not
been substantiated through clinical trial," said principal investigator
Joan Lappe, Ph.D., R.N., Creighton professor of medicine and holder of
the Criss/Beirne Endowed Chair in the School of Nursing. "Vitamin D is a
critical tool in fighting cancer as well as many other diseases."
Other Creighton researchers involved in the study included Robert Recker,
M.D.; Robert Heaney, M.D.; Dianne Travers-Gustafson, M.S.; and K.
Michael Davies, Ph.D.
Research participants were all 55 years and older and free of known
cancers for at least 10 years prior to entering the Creighton study.
Subjects were randomly assigned to take daily dosages of 1,400-1,500 mg
supplemental calcium, 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium plus 1,100 IU
of vitamin D3, or placebos. National Institutes of Health funded the
study.
Over the course of four years, women in the calcium/vitamin D3 group
experienced a 60 percent decrease in their cancer risk than the group
taking placebos.
On the premise that some women entered the study with undiagnosed
cancers, researchers then eliminated the first-year results and looked
at the last three years of the study. When they did that, the results
became even more dramatic with the calcium/vitamin D3 group showing a
startling 77 percent cancer-risk reduction.
In the three-year analysis, there was no statistically significant
difference in cancer incidence between participants taking placebos and
those taking just calcium supplements.
Through the course of the study, 50 participants developed nonskin
cancers, including breast, colon, lung and other cancers.
Lappe said further studies are needed to determine whether the Creighton
research results apply to other populations, including men, women of all
ages, and different ethnic groups. While the study was open to all
ethnic groups, all participants were Caucasian, she noted.
There is a growing body of evidence that a higher intake of vitamin D
may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of cancer, high blood
pressure, fibromyalgia, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, and
rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
Humans make their own vitamin D3 when they are exposed to sunlight. In
fact, only 10-15 minutes a day in a bright summer sun creates large
amounts of the vitamin, Lappe said. However, people need to exercise
caution since the sun's ultraviolet B rays also can cause skin cancer;
sunscreen blocks most vitamin D production.
In addition, the latitude at which you live and your ancestry also
influence your body's ability to convert sunlight into vitamin D. People
with dark skin have more difficulty making the vitamin. Persons living
at latitudes north of the 37th parallel -- Omaha is near the 41st
parallel -- cannot get their vitamin D naturally during the winter
months because of the sun's angle. Experts generally agree that the
RDA** for vitamin D needs to be increased substantially, however there
is debate about the amount. Supplements are available in two forms --
vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Creighton researchers recommend vitamin D3,
because it is more active and thus more effective in humans.
* Study participants came from the Nebraska counties of Douglas, Colfax,
Cuming, Dodge, Saunders, Washington, Sarpy, Burt and Butler. ** RDA
recommendations for vitamin D are 200 IU/d, birth-age 50; 400 IU/d,
50-70 years; and 600 IU/d, 70 years and older.
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