NaturalNews.com
Originally published July 18 2008

Raw Broccoli, Cabbage Slash Bladder Cancer Risk by 40 Percent; Cooking
Destroys Benefits
by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Eating as little as three small servings of raw
cruciferous vegetables per month, such as broccoli and cabbage, has
been found to decrease the risk of developing bladder cancer by an
astonishing 40 percent. This was discovered by researchers from the
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. The study is only one of
several that have recently added to the evidence that raw fruits and
vegetables dramatically lower cancer risk.

In this study, researchers conducted a survey on the dietary habits of
1,100 people, 275 of whom had bladder cancer. They found that among
both smokers and non-smokers, those who ate three or more servings of
raw cruciferous vegetables each month had a 40 percent lower risk of
developing bladder cancer. Compared with smokers who did not eat that
amount, non-smokers who ate three or more servings of raw cruciferous
vegetables per month had a 73 percent lower chance of developing
bladder cancer.

Keep in mind that this research only involved three small servings a
month! That's a ridiculously small amount of vegetable matter, and yet
it had a profound anti-cancer effect.

Given that these cruciferous anti-cancer nutrients only stay in the
body for about twelve hours, these study subjects only experienced a
total of about 36 hours with these nutrients (out of a total of 720
hours in a typical month). In other words, they only had these anti-
cancer nutrients in their bodies five percent of the time and yet,
astonishingly, their bladder cancer rates plummeted by 40 percent!

Also remarkably, the researchers did not find a protective benefit
from eating the same quantity of cooked cruciferous vegetables. This
indicates that the anti-cancer properties of cruciferous vegetables
are destroyed by cooking.

This is exactly what the leaders of the raw foods movement have been
saying for years: Dr. Gabriel Cousens (www.TreeofLife.nu), David Wolfe
(www.SunFood.com), the Boutenko family (www.RawFamily.com), David Rain
(www.JuiceFeasting.com), Nomi Shannon (www.RawGourmet.com), Angela
Stokes (www.RawReform.com), Brian Clement (www.hippocratesinst.com),
Max Gerson (www.Gerson.org) and many others.

Keep in mind, too, that conventional medicine pill pushers have
derided the raw foods movement for years, claiming raw foods have
absolutely no health effects whatsoever on the human body. That
outmoded view, of course, is considered hopelessly ancient by all but
the most out-of-touch doctors and skeptics. What we're finding today
is not only that raw foods are good medicine, but in fact raw foods
are the BEST medicine for virtually all the big diseases now
devastating Western civilization.

The findings of the Roswell Park study were presented at a meeting of
the American Association of Cancer Research in Philadelphia.

Why raw vegetables not only prevent cancer, but REVERSE cancer
Cruciferous vegetables, also known as vegetables in the mustard or
cabbage family, are some of the most widely consumed vegetables in the
world, accounting for 10 of the most popular vegetable foods. The
family includes not only cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, but also
arugula, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, daikon, garden cress,
horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish, rape (canola), rapini,
rutabaga, tatsoi, turnip, wasabi and watercress.

These vegetables are known to be high in important nutrients such as
vitamin C and selenium, and they also contain hundreds of plant
compounds that are known to fight cancer. One of these groups,
isothiocyanates, has gained enormous attention over the last few years
as an anti-cancer "medicine" provided by foods.

There have been 55 key epidemiological studies conducted on the
relationship between cruciferous vegetable intake and cancer,
according to the World Cancer Research Fund. Sixty-nine percent of
those studies show a positive correlation between cruciferous
vegetable intake and lower cancer risk. Interestingly, few of these
studies tracked raw vegetable intake vs. cooked intake, and there is
little doubt that the 31 percent of the studies showing no cancer risk
decrease were likely tracking the intake of cooked vegetables. (Modern
nutritional researchers remain ignorant about living foods vs. cooked
foods, and they group them all together, oblivious to the fact that
cooked foods lack the natural medicine of raw foods...)

Isothiocyanates inhibit both cancer and tumor development by directly
blocking the carcinogenic action of free radicals. In other words,
they prevent free radicals from attacking healthy cells and turning
them cancerous. One specific variety, phenethyl isothiocyanate, has
even been shown to induce cell death in certain cancer lines,
including those that are resistant to chemotherapy drugs. (Oncologists
remain indignant, however, insisting that cancer patients should never
use food to treat cancer... that's why they also ran Max Gerson out of
the country...)

Heat and irradiation destroys the medicine in foods - just what the
FDA wants!
These plant-based medicines, however, are delicate molecules that are
easily destroyed by heat. Cooking these foods obliterates the medicine
they contain. So does food irradiation, by the way: Microwaving
broccoli destroys up to 98% of its phytonutrients, including its anti-
cancer nutrients.

The FDA, curiously, wants to pass regulations that would secretly
irradiate the national food supply without any requirement whatsoever
that such treatment be mentioned on the label of irradiated foods. My
recent article, "FDA Leaps from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate,
Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety over Salmonella" explains how
the FDA is exploiting food safety scares as a way to generate a fear-
based public reaction that will ultimately result in a mass
irradiation of the entire food supply. See http://www.naturalnews.com/023614.html

Why is that an important goal for the FDA? Because fresh produce is
just about the only thing keeping many Americans off pharmaceuticals
and out of the hospital. Take away the natural medicine found in fresh
produce, and you create a windfall of sickness and disease that
doubles or triples the profits of the drug companies. Food irradiation
is the FDA's devious plan to sicken the U.S. population and accomplish
this financial goal for influential drug companies. (Sound crazy? You
don't know the real FDA. Read about it here: www.NaturalNews.com/the_FDA.html
)

Listen to Health Ranger Show #52: The Food Irradiation Plot to hear
the full story on this. It's available as a downloadable MP3 file
here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html

Fortunately for Big Pharma's sick profits, many Americans cook their
vegetables right now, destroying their natural medicines and keeping
those consumers in a state of chronic degenerative disease. "Cooking
can reduce 60 to 90 percent of isothiocyanates," said Li Tang, a lead
researcher of the study mentioned above.

Read more about the health benefits of raw foods in my interview with
Dr. Gabriel Cousens at: http://www.naturalnews.com/015187.html

Also, be sure to visit the NaturalNews raw foods page at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html

Yet more science shows the anti-cancer benefits of raw vegetables
Another recent Roswell Park study also uncovered evidence of the
protective effects of cruciferous vegetables. Researchers took two
groups of rats that had been engineered to develop bladder cancer and
supplemented the diet of one group with freeze-dried broccoli sprout
extract. They found that rats who ate more broccoli sprouts extract
had significantly lower rates of bladder cancer.

(For the record, NaturalNews does not condone the use of animals for
experiments, especially animals engineered to develop cancer. But at
least in this study the rats were receiving nutrients rather than the
usual pharmaceutical chemicals injected into them during drug industry
trials...)

The researchers found that the isothiocyanates from the broccoli
sprouts were processed by the rat's bodies and excreted within 12
hours. According to lead researcher Yuesheng Zhang, this suggests that
the chemicals protect the bladder while they are stored there,
awaiting excretion.

"The bladder is like a storage bag, and cancers in the bladder occur
almost entirely along the inner surface, the epithelium, that faces
the urine, presumably because this tissue is assaulted all the time by
noxious materials in the urine," Zhang said. Change the liquid being
stored in your bladder, and you change your risk of bladder cancer.

In other words, healthy pee keeps you cancer-free!

Healthy poo, by the way, stops colorectal cancer, which is yet another
reason to stop eating milk, cheese, beef and other animal products.
Soak the inside of your bladder and large intestine with vegetable
juices, and cancer just vanishes. Someday, silly oncologists will
abandon their toxic chemotherapy drugs and learn to just prescribe
broccoli sprouts.

(As a side note, dogs have been trained to smell bladder cancer in
human urine. A person who has bladder cancer emits a nasty smell in
their urine, and it's not very difficult for dogs to pick up on this.)

Ninety percent of bladder cancers occur along the inner lining.
Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the ninth
most common cancer in women in the United States. More than 47,000 men
and 16,000 women nationwide are diagnosed with the disease each year.
Chemotherapy is utterly useless against bladder cancer. Five-year
survival rates are ZERO percent better than doing nothing at all. In
fact, chemotherapy is highly toxic to the bladder and kidneys, causing
cellular damage that actually leads to more cancer later on.

Adding to the evidence that uncooked fruits and vegetables help
protect against cancer, researchers at Ohio State University found
that the eastern black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, offers
protection against cancer of the esophagus.

In this study, human patients with a condition known as Barrett's
esophagus, which often leads to esophageal cancer, were fed freeze-
dried black raspberries (1.1 ounces for women and 1.6 ounces for men)
every day for six months. At the end of that time, researchers
measured blood levels of two chemicals that indicate the risk of
cancer.

Patients given the raspberries had 58 percent lower levels of 8-
isoprostane, which is correlated with cancer risk, and 37 percent
higher levels of GSTpi, which is known to protect against the cell
damage that leads to cancer.

Black raspberries are particularly high in anthocyanins, a powerful
antioxidant found in many other foods, including red cabbage. See
www.NaturalNews.com/anthocyanins.html

Anthocyanins are among the pigments that give fruits and vegetables
their bright colors. Every bright color found in fresh produce is, in
fact, a powerful natural medicine. Studies have shown that
anthocyanins protect against not only cancer, but also diabetes,
bacterial infections, inflammation, neurological diseases and the
symptoms of aging.

The conclusion: Raw foods halt disease and greatly enhance health
The conclusion to all this is that consuming raw fruits and vegetables
is an astonishingly powerful way to halt degenerative disease, stop
cancer, reverse diabetes, end heart disease and enhance your health.
All the pharmaceuticals in the world can't compete with the protective
power of the tens of thousands of natural medicines created by Mother
Nature and found in the very plants sitting in your local grocery
store right now.

This is why juicing fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis is
possibly the single most important nutritional strategy you can pursue
for protecting yourself against degenerative disease. I juice every
single day. My own personal recipe is as follows:

(All produce is organic)
• 2 large bunches of celery
• 4 large carrots
• 1 large bunch of parsley
• 2 medium apples
• 1 medium lemon or grapefruit
• 1 large bunch of kale
• 1 large bunch of spinach or salad greens
• Small pieces of ginger, turmeric root and beet
• 1/2 container of fresh sprouts (alfalfa or clover) - This can be
changed to broccoli sprouts for cancer patients.

I juice all this up, creating a beautiful green / orange liquid. Then
I blend 2 cups of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, etc.) in my Vita-
Mix, keeping the fruit pulp in the blend, then I pour that liquid into
the vegetable juice. This creates a delicious fruit-and-vegetable
blend that keeps the fruit fiber but juices away the rough vegetable
fiber. I like the fruit fiber because many of the natural medicines in
fruit are found in the skin, locked into the fiber. So I always blend
fruit into my juice and drink this slightly-thickened juice blend.
It's absolutely delicious!

For people preventing or battling cancer, simply boost up the anti-
cancer ingredients: Turmeric, broccoli, cabbage, kale, sprouts, etc.
Cancer simply melts away when bathed in these vegetable juices.

To make the whole thing sweeter, add a bit of stevia to the final
blend. If it's still too bitter for you, try adding more lemon or
citrus, which masks the bitter taste of vegetables. If it's still too
bitter, you are probably a sugar junkie (like I used to be) and your
taste buds are all skewed. Get off the sugar for 30 days and
everything natural will suddenly taste better.

Adding watermelon to your juice makes it super tasty, but raw foods
experts like Dr. Cousens would strongly recommend you avoid
watermelon. The glycemic index is too high. People suffering from
chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease need to stick
with low-glycemic juicing for a long, long time, until their
metabolism gets healthy again. Only then, when you're fit, active and
exercising at least ten hours a week (like me) can you start to take
up high-glycemic fruit juices.

Remember, I used to be pre-diabetic. I went through the healing
process, repaired my body, and now I have the joy of exercising as
much as three hours a day. That affords me the metabolic privilege of
drinking just about any fruit juice I want, without any negative blood
sugar effects. But that's only because I'm burning calories day and
night. If you're obese or overweight, you'll have to steer clear of
fruit juices until you get body fat below about 15% for men or 20% for
women. Even then, make sure you watch things very carefully. Ideally,
you'll do all this under the supervision of a naturopathic physician.
Or just go to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona and get
Dr. Cousens to help in person! (www.TreeofLife.nu)

A great resource on how to do juicing is also found at www.JuiceFeasting.com

I created a 6-hour audio CD course with David Rain entitled, The
Secret of Juice Feasting, available here: http://www.truthpublishing.com/product_...

You can also listen to my audio interview with David Rain, where we
discuss Juice Feasting, here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html#45

I've also got a new interview with Dr. Gabriel Cousens coming soon
here on NaturalNews, so watch for that in a few weeks.

Juicing can save your life and get you off dangerous pharmaceuticals
The bottom line to all this, folks, is that juicing vegetables is the
secret to reversing disease now and preventing disease for a lifetime.
But it has to be fresh, raw, living juice.

Remember, pasteurized vegetable juices purchased in bottles at the
store are worthless! That includes all the Naked Juice, V8, Odwalla
and other brands that claim to be good for you. While they're not bad
for you, they're also DEAD JUICE. That means they have virtually none
of the nutritional healing benefits of fresh, living juice. Don't be
fooled by healthy-sounding bottled juice products. If it's in a
bottle, it's dead. And dead juice doesn't support life.

There is only one way to get fresh, unprocessed, living juice: Make
your own juice! This is the simple secret to staying healthy, vibrant
and mentally sharp for the rest of your long, enjoyable life: Juice
your way to health! (And then supplement with superfoods, herbs, and
other targeted nutritional needs.)

Juicing is the future of medicine. It cures cancer. It reverses heart
disease. It stabilizes cholesterol and blood pressure. It ends kidney
stones and gall stones. It reverses depression and psychosis. It
builds strong bones and strong muscles. It absolutely reverses
diabetes in a matter of days, and it obliterates obesity in a matter
of weeks. And in doing all that, it makes virtually all
pharmaceuticals obsolete.

Juicing and raw foods go hand in hand. They are the answers to disease
and sickness. No wonder Big Pharma and the FDA don't want you to find
out about the true healing power of plant-based nutrition, huh?

Recommended Resources
Raw foods and superfoods: www.SunFood.com

Best consumer juicer: Breville (www.Breville.com)

Best blender: Vita-Mix (www.Vita-Mix.com)

Spiritual Nutrition by Dr. Gabriel Cousens: Free download of book
summary at www.HealthBookSummaries.com

NaturalNews page on raw foods: http://www.naturalnews.com/raw_foods.html

Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona (I'll be there!): www.RawSpirit.com

Really raw cashews (and Bliss Mix!): www.TransitionNutrition.com

Delicious Raw Chocolate Bars: www.EverythingRaw.com

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