Why women in China don't get breast cancer

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(If you don't want to read the whole article - she cured her breast cancer

by

eliminating all dairy products - milk, cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream

and foods that have any of these in the ingredients.)

 

*By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD.*

 

*Why Women In China Do Not Get Breast Cancer*

*I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for

myself. I am a scientist - surely there was a rational explanation

for this cruel illness that affects one in 12 women in the UK?*

 

*I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergone radiotherapy.

I was now receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some

of the country's most eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt

certain I was facing death.*

 

*I had a loving husband, a beautiful home and two young children to

care for. I desperately wanted to live. Fortunately, this desire

drove me to unearth the facts, some of which were known only to a

handful of scientists at the time. Anyone who has come into contact

with breast cancer will know that certain risk factors - such as

increasing age, early onset of womanhood, late onset of menopause

and a family history of breast cancer - are completely out of our

control. But there are many risk factors, which we can control easily.

 

These 'controllable' risk factors readily translate into simple

changes that we can all make in our day-to-day lives to help prevent

or treat breast cancer. My message is that even advanced breast

cancer can be overcome because I have done it.

 

The first clue to understanding what was promoting my breast cancer

came when my husband Peter, who was also a scientist, arrived back

from working in China while I was being plugged in for a

chemotherapy session.

 

He had brought with him cards and letters, as well as some amazing

herbal suppositories, sent by my friends and science colleagues in

China.

 

The suppositories were sent to me as a cure for breast cancer.

Despite the awfulness of the situation, we both had a good belly

laugh, and I remember saying that this was the treatment for breast

cancer in China, and then it was little wonder that Chinese women

avoided getting the disease.

 

Those words echoed in my mind. Why didn't Chinese women in China get

breast cancer? I had collaborated once with Chinese colleagues on a

study of links between soil chemistry and disease, and I remembered

some of the statistics.

 

The disease was virtually non-existent throughout the whole country.

Only one in 10,000 women in China will die from it, compared to that

terrible figure of one in 12 in Britain and the even grimmer aver

age of one in 10 across most Western countries. It is not just a

matter of China being a more rural country, with less urban

pollution. In highly urbanized Hong Kong, the rate rises to 34 women

in every 10,000 but still puts the West to shame.

 

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates.

And remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in

addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also

expect to find some radiation-related cases, too.

 

The conclusion we can draw from these statistics strikes you with

some force. If a Western woman were to move to industrialized,

irradiated Hiroshima, she would slash her risk of contracting breast

cancer by half.

 

Obviously, this is absurd. It seemed obvious to me that some

lifestyle factor not related to pollution, urbanization or the

environment is seriously increasing the Western woman's chance of

contracting breast cancer.

 

I then discovered that whatever causes the huge differences in

breast cancer rates between oriental and Western countries, it isn't

genetic.

 

Scientific research showed that when Chinese or Japanese people move

to the West, within one or two generations their rates of breast

cancer approach those of their host community.

 

The same thing happens when oriental people adopt a completely

Western lifestyle in Hong Kong. In fact, the slang name for breast

cancer in China translates as 'Rich Woman's Disease'. This is

because, in China, only the better off can afford to eat what is

termed 'Hong Kong food'.

 

The Chinese describe all Western food, including everything from ice

cream and chocolate bars to spaghetti and feta cheese, as 'Hong Kong

food', because of its availability in the former British colony and

its scarcity, in the past, in mainland China.

 

So it made perfect sense to me that whatever was causing my breast

cancer and the shockingly high incidence in this country generally,

it was almost certainly something to do with our better-off,

middle-class, Western lifestyle.

 

There is an important point for men here, too. I have observed in my

research that much of the data about prostate cancer leads to

similar conclusions.

 

According to figures from the World Health Organization, the number

of men contracting prostate cancer in rural China is negligible,

only 0.5 men in every 100,000. In England, Scotland and Wales,

however, this figure is 70 times higher. Like breast cancer, it is a

middle-class disease that primarily attacks the wealthier and higher

socio-economic groups ¨C those that can afford to eat rich foods.

 

I remember saying to my husband, 'Come on Peter, you have just come

back from China. What is it about the Chinese way of life that is so

different?' Why don't they get breast cancer?'

 

We decided to utilize our joint scientific backgrounds and approach

it logically.

 

We examined scientific data that pointed us in the general direction

of fats in diets. Researchers had discovered in the 1980s that only

l4% of calories in the average Chinese diet were from fat, compared

to almost 36% in the West.

 

But the diet I had been living on for years before I contracted

breast cancer was very low in fat and high in fibre. Besides, I knew

as a scientist that fat intake in adults has not been shown to

increase risk for breast cancer in most investigations that have

followed large groups of women for up to a dozen years.

 

Then one day something rather special happened. Peter and I have

worked together so closely over the years that I am not sure which

one of us first said: 'The Chinese don't eat dairy produce!'

 

It is hard to explain to a non-scientist the sudden mental and

emotional 'buzz' you get when you know you have had an important

insight. It's as if you have had a lot of pieces of a jigsaw in your

mind, and suddenly, in a few seconds, they all fall into place and

the whole picture is clear.*

 

*

Suddenly I recalled how many Chinese people were physically unable

to tolerate milk, how the Chinese people I had worked with had

always said that milk was only for babies, and how one of my close

friends, who is of Chinese origin, always politely turned down the

cheese course at dinner parties.

 

I knew of no Chinese people who lived a traditional Chinese life who

ever used cow or other dairy food to feed their babies. The

tradition was to use a wet nurse but never, ever, dairy products.

 

Culturally, the Chinese find our Western preoccupation with milk and

milk products very strange. I remember entertaining a large

delegation of Chinese scientists shortly after the ending of the

Cultural Revolution in the 1980s.

 

On advice from the Foreign Office, we had asked the caterer to

provide a pudding that contained a lot of ice cream. After inquiring

what the pudding consisted of, all of the Chinese, including their

interpreter, politely but firmly refused to eat it, and they could

not be persuaded to change their minds.

 

At the time we were all delighted and ate extra portions!

 

Milk, I discovered, is one of the most common causes of food

allergies. Over 70% of the world's population is unable to digest

the milk sugar, lactose, which has led nutritionists to believe that

this is the normal condition for adults, not some sort of deficiency.

 

Perhaps nature is trying to tell us that we are eating the wrong food.

 

Before I had breast cancer for the first time, I had eaten a lot of

dairy produce, such as skimmed milk, low-fat cheese and yoghurt. I

had used it as my main source of protein. I also ate cheap but lean

minced beef, which I now realized was probably often ground-up dairy

cow.

 

In order to cope with the chemotherapy I received for my fifth case

of cancer, I had been eating organic yoghurts as a way of helping my

digestive tract to recover and repopulate my gut with 'good' bacteria.

 

Recently, I discovered that way back in 1989 yoghurt had been

implicated in ovarian cancer. Dr Daniel Cramer of Harvard University

studied hundreds of women with ovarian cancer, an d had them record

in detail what they normally ate. Wish I'd been made aware of his

findings when he had first discovered them.

 

Following Peter's and my insight into the Chinese diet, I decided to

give up not just yoghurt but all dairy produce immediately. Cheese,

butter, milk and yoghurt and anything else that contained dairy

produce - it went down the sink or in the rubbish.

 

It is surprising how many products, including commercial soups,

biscuits and cakes, contain some form of dairy produce. Even many

proprietary brands of margarine marketed as soya, sunflower or olive

oil spreads can contain dairy produce.

 

I therefore became an avid reader of the small print on food labels.

 

Up to this point, I had been steadfastly measuring the progress of

my fifth cancerous lump with calipers and plotting the results.

Despite all the encouraging comments and positive feedback from my

doctors and nurses, my own precise observations told me the bitter

truth.

 

My first chemotherapy sessions had produced no effect - the lump was

still the same size.

 

Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to

shrink!

 

About two weeks after my second chemotherapy session and one week

after giving up dairy produce, the lump in my neck started to itch.

Then it began to soften and to reduce in size. The line on the

graph, which had shown no change, was now pointing downwards as the

tumour got smaller and smaller.

 

And, very significantly, I noted that instead of declining

exponentially (a graceful curve) as cancer is meant to do, the

tumour's decrease in size was plotted on a straight line heading off

the bottom of the graph, indicating a cure, not suppression (or

remission) of the tumour.

 

One Saturday afternoon after about six weeks of excluding all dairy

produce from my diet, I practised an hour of meditation then felt

for what was left of the lump. I couldn't find it. Yet I was very

experienced at detecting cancerous lumps - I had discovered all five

cancers on m y own. I went downstairs and asked my husband to feel

my neck. He could not find any trace of the lump either.

 

On the following Thursday I was due to be seen by my cancer

specialist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He examined me

thoroughly, especially my neck where the tumour had been. He was

initially bemused and then delighted as he said, 'I cannot find it.'

 

None of my doctors, it appeared, had expected someone with my type

and stage of cancer (which had clearly spread to the lymph system)

to survive, let alone be so hale and hearty.

 

My specialist was as overjoyed as I was. When I first discussed my

ideas with him he was understandably skeptical. But I understand

that he now uses maps showing cancer portality in China in his

lectures, and recommends a non-dairy diet to his cancer patients.

 

I now believe that the link between dairy produce and breast cancer

is similar to the link between smoking and lung cancer. I believe

that identifying the link between breast cancer and dairy produce,

and then developing a diet specifically targeted at maintaining the

health of my breast and hormone system, cured me.

 

It was difficult for me, as it may be for you, to accept that a

substance as 'natural' as milk might have such ominous health

implications. But I am a living proof that it works and, starting

from tomorrow, I shall reveal the secrets of my revolutionary action

plan.*

 

 

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There is no question that there is a strong link between diet and

cancer, since some foods are acidic or promote and acidic environment

and cancer must have that to thrive. However, the conclusion that

cancer is caused by milk products is tenuous. Certainly,

homogenization and pasteurization can render it a poor choice of foods.

There are indeed populations that are intolerant of dairy products and

if you happen to be one of those that carry the genes, they are not good

for you. Since pasteurization kills off lactose and lactose aids in the

digestion of milk, there are even more people who can't tolerate it;

nevertheless, raw milk is generally a very good for most of us. Dr.

Plant needs to do some more work, IMHO.

 

Too bad that we are reading about dairy products when the general

population is eating things that are hundreds of times more negative as

food sources... and, all the while, the FDA and medical establishment

endorses this garbage as excellent dietary choices.

 

*By Prof. Jane Plant, PhD.*

 

*Why Women In China Do Not Get Breast Cancer*

*I had no alternative but to die or to try to find a cure for

myself. I am a scientist - surely there was a rational explanation

for this cruel illness that affects one in 12 women in the UK?*

 

*I had suffered the loss of one breast, and undergone radiotherapy.

I was now receiving painful chemotherapy, and had been seen by some

of the country's most eminent specialists. But, deep down, I felt

certain I was facing death.*