In the case of cancer, the immune system becomes severely
suppressed, partly because of the systemic weakening brought
on by the cancer process and partly because of the negative,
toxic effects of conventional cancer treatment – essentially
chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation.
A tumour can directly interfere with the functioning of a
vital organ, such as the lungs, liver, pancreas, brain, or
kidneys, in effect, strangulating it. When a cancerous mass
becomes too large, it steals nourishment from the organ,
secreting toxins into it, or causing some form of physical
obstruction that effectively shuts the organ down.
Severe malnutrition or emaciation, which is a condition of
cellular starvation called cachexia (pronounced cah-
CHECK-see-yah) may affect up to 90% of all advanced cancer
patients and account for 50% of all cancer deaths. The
cancer process effectively starves cancer patients, using up
their energy reserves. These effects primarily result from
the body’s shifting to an inefficient use of fuel sources,
as well as the person’s loss of appetite.
Protein-calorie malnutrition is not uncommon among
hospitalized patients in general, and can lead to overall
weakness, apathy, increases in mortality and surgical
failure, a reduction in immunity, and poor responsiveness to
treatment. Some cancer patients die from hemorrhage
(uncontrolled blood loss from a failure of the blood to
clot), which is a frequent cause of death in leukemia, but
can also occur when a tumour grows into a large blood
vessel. Cancer can impair the blood’s ability to form clots
and internal bleeding can occur readily and persistently.
Cancer can also cause excessive clotting and the formation
of thrombi (plural of thrombus, which is a blood clot
attached to the interior wall of a vein or artery), cutting
off the blood supply to a vital organ.

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Child receiving an oral polio vaccine.

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (the
vaccine) to produce immunity to a disease. Vaccines can
prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by a
pathogen. Vaccination is generally considered to be the most
effective and cost-effective method of preventing infectious
diseases. The material administrated can either be live but
weakened forms of pathogens (bacteria or viruses), killed or
inactivated forms of these pathogens, or purified material
such as proteins. Smallpox was the first disease people
tried to prevent by purposely inoculating themselves with
other types of infections; smallpox inoculation was started
in China or India before 200 BC.[1] In 1718, Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu reported that the Turks had a habit of
deliberately inoculating themselves with fluid taken from
mild cases of smallpox, and that she had inoculated her own
children.[2] Before 1796 when British physician Edward
Jenner tested the possibility of using the cowpox vaccine as
an immunisation for smallpox in humans for the first time,
at least six people had done the same several years earlier:
a person whose identity is unknown, England, (about 1771); a
Mrs. Sevel, Germany (about 1772); a Mr. Jensen, Germany
(about 1770); Benjamin Jesty, England, in 1774; a Mrs.
Rendall, England (about 1782); and Peter Plett, Germany, in
1791.[3]
The word vaccination was first used by Edward Jenner in
1796. Louis Pasteur furthered the concept through his
pioneering work in microbiology. Vaccination (Latin:
vacca—cow) is so named because the first vaccine was
derived from a virus affecting cows—the relatively benign
cowpox virus—which provides a degree of immunity to
smallpox, a contagious and deadly disease. In common speech,
‘vaccination’ and ‘immunization’ generally have the same
colloquial meaning. This distinguishes it from inoculation
which uses unweakened live pathogens, although in common
usage either is used to refer to an immunization. The word
“vaccination” was originally used specifically to describe
the injection of smallpox vaccine.[1][3]
Vaccination efforts have been met with some controversy
since their inception, on ethical, political, medical
safety, religious, and other grounds. In rare cases,
vaccinations can injure people and they may receive
compensation for those injuries. Early success and
compulsion brought widespread acceptance, and mass
vaccination campaigns were undertaken which are credited
with greatly reducing the incidence of many diseases in
numerous geographic regions.

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Can what you eat give yourself  breast cancer? A mountain of evidence says yes, and it is summarized in the latest issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.

For years, researchers have studied the role of diet in breast cancer. By comparing different countries, researchers found strong links between high-fat diets and breast cancer risk. The disease is rare where the diets are very low in fat and where rice and plants products are dietary staples. For example, before 1950, the rice-based Japanese diet drew less than 10 percent of its calories from fat. Breast cancer was exceedingly rare. But over the years, as Western influences have altered Japanese eating habits, breast cancer rates have climbed dramatically.

These international studies are just one line of evidence, however. Case-control studies are another research tool in which researchers compare diets of cancer patients (”cases”) with those of healthy women of similar age and background (“controls”).Such as studies have shown a link between fatty diets and higher risk of breast cancer, and even on cancer patient’s chances for survival. One study tracking Canadian breast cancer patients for ten years found that for every 5 percent increase in saturated fat in diets, the risk of dying of breast cancer shot up by 50 percent.

How does fat do its dirty work? Fats increase the amount of estrogen in the blood. In turn, this hormone stimulates breast cells in such a way that cancer is more likely to occur and is more aggressive. Fatty foods also leads to obesity which itself is linked to higher estrogen levels in the blood. Increased estrogen levels are also linked with early menarche (onset of first period), also a breast cancer risk factor.

Despite such evidence, doubts about the connection have persisted, fuelled mainly by the results of a large study of nurses run by Harvard University in which researchers found no association between fatty diets and breast cancer rates.

Why the conflicting results? Unlike the populations examined in international studies, the nurses were a fairly homogeneous group, all eating fairly high-fat diets. No group in the study was following anything similar to a traditional Asian diet or other low-fat diet.

As important as it is  to get fat off your plate, it’s just important to pile on the vegetables and other healthful plant foods. Their fiber helps cut breast cancer risk by naturally decreasing estrogen breast cancer risk by naturally decreasing estrogen levels. Plants foods are also rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C, and other vitamins which protect cells against damage. Unlike animal products, most plant foods have little fat and do not store up large amounts of pesticides residues.

A brisk morning walk – or any other regular exercise – also helps cut breast cancer risk. Skipping happy hour cocktails can also  do you a favour, too. Studies have shown that even one drink a day can increase your risk of breast cancer by 25 percent.

Starting today, you can boost your body’s chances of preventing and surviving breast cancer by giving it nature’s best ammo. Eat a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans every day. Limit your use of vegetable oil, alcohol, and skip tobacco and meat products. For  the most  balanced and  easiest  best nutritional lifestyle eating program, check out Dr.Anca’s FLT Program.

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When people in your close acquaintance are suffering with colds or other infections, Echinacea may be used as a prophylactic.

It stimulates the immune response and has antiviral actions. By taking a good Echinacea tincture in the very early stages of infection, a cold or flu can be nipped in the bud or prevented entirely. This requires listening to your body. The first symptoms are often tautness in the nasal mucous membranes, a scratchy throat and fatigue. Two to 5ml (1/2-1 teaspoon) of Echinacea tincture should be taken every 2 hours for the first day.

 Reduce the dose to 3 times daily and monitor your symptoms. If none appear, discontinue taking it 2-3 times daily for up to 3 weeks, then a break must be taken to rest your immune response.

To check for yourself how your immune system is doing, take my Immunity Self-Test

Vitamin E:  Taking 200 IU per day of vitamin E cut the risk of catching a cold by 20 % in a study of nursing- home residents by Tufts University. Vitamin E, an antioxidant, “helps reverse deficits in immune function that occur as you age,” says study coauthor David Hamer, M.D., adjunct associate professor of nutrition at Tufts’ Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition research centre on Aging.

·         How much: aim for 200 IU a day – no more.

·         How to get it: You probably get the RDA of 22 IU if you eat foods such as salad dressing; almonds and walnuts; leafy vegetables, such as spinach; and whole grains. To make up the difference, you need a supplement.

·         Must- know fact:  At high levels, vitamin E may thin the blood. This may help explain the higher death rates in people who exceeded 400 IU in recent John Hopkins research.

The optimal dose of vitamin D reduces the risk of developing:

Cardiovascular disease

Multiple sclerosis

Type 1 diabetes

Bone fractures

Cancer

Influenza and pneumonia, a major complication of influenza, cause more than 5,000 deaths in Canada each year alone.

         Every autumn the elderly and other high risk groups are encouraged to receive influenza vaccine (flu shots). Congress authorized Medicare funding for flu shots in 1993, believing that vaccination costs are less than hospitalization costs related to influenza complications. Was Congress misled when it authorized this $80 million per year Medicare flu shot entitlement?  Have recipients been misled?

        Although influenza is associated with more disease, hospitalization, and death in “at risk” populations, no adequate controlled studies exist which prove that influenza vaccine reduces the incidence of influenza in these groups (1).

Even if the flu shot was effective, it is not pure prevention- as natural health care Practitioners understand the word.

        Influenza virus strains mutate, necessitating a new vaccine each year. Technicians affiliated with the Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) collect influenza viruses from pigs and people in foreign lands, e.g., China. CDC personnel then attempt to predict which viruses will infect people in the U.S the following year—the CDC crystal ball. These CDC- selected viruses are distributed to vaccine manufacturers early in the year for influenza vaccine production for administration that autumn.

How good is the CDC crystal ball?

        Predicting which influenza viruses from China, for instance, will infect people in Toronto or Ohio a year later involves a fair amount of guesswork. Flu shot history is replete with examples of poor matches between influenza viruses in the vaccine and those actually infecting people.

         For example in the 1994-1995 flu season, the CDC reported that 43% of isolated influenza samples for the predominant virus (type A (H3N2)) were not similar to that in the vaccine. Likewise, for another type A virus (H1N1), 87% of samples were not similar to that in the vaccine. For influenza B, 76% of isolated samples were not similar to that in the vaccine (2).

         The CDC crystal ball also erred during the 1992-1993 influenza season when 84% of the isolated influenza samples for the predominant virus (A (H3N2)) were not similar to that in the vaccine (3).

     Despite its poor track record in predicting which influenza viruses will infect communities, the CDC claims that influenza vaccine is “approximately 70% effective in preventing influenza in “healthy persons less than 65 years of age” if “there is a good match between vaccine and circulating viruses” (4).

Depending on the study cited, vaccine efficacy actually ranges from a low of 0% to a high of 96%

(5) And, as illustrated above, the CDC often finds it difficult to match vaccines with circulating viruses.

    To justify its recommendation that all elderly persons receive flu shots, the CDC asserts that even though the vaccine does not prevent influenza very well, “the vaccine can be 50-60% effective in preventing hospitalization and pneumonia and 80% effective in preventing death’”(4)

   This optimistic scenario is clouded by results of the congressionally mandated $69 million 1988-1992 Medicare Influenza Vaccine Demonstration project.  This study, intended to promote  Medicare-funded flu shots, yielded  a disappointing 31-45% effectiveness ‘in preventing hospitalization for any pneumonia” during three influenza seasons (6). Results for the 1989-1990 season were described as “mixed at best,” with “Medicare payments… significantly higher for those who had been vaccinated” (7).

 Government agencies “calculated” an economic benefit of flu shots to Medicare by manipulating numbers in a computerized simulation until desirable results were obtained. The CDC reported that its theoretical assumptions did not include all vaccine-related costs. (6). Other recently publicized medical studies with similar economic claims for flu shots have been funded by a vaccine manufacturer (8,9).

    Considering that more than 90% of pneumonia and influenza deaths occur in persons 65 years of age or older, but that about 65% of all deaths (from any cause) occur in this age group anyway, it is nearly impossible to prove if flu shots significantly increase life expectancy in the elderly. Indeed one study of elderly Medicare patients in Ohio and Pennsylvania showed “no demonstrated effect of influenza vaccine in preventing death or limiting the length of hospital stay”.(10)

International controversy

  Health authorities in other countries do not share the U.S public health community’s enthusiasm for influenza vaccine. At on CDC- sponsored influenza symposium a British researcher stated, “The (influenza vaccine) recommendations are strong in certain countries, but weak in others, since not all authorities are convinced of the benefit of immunization” (emphasis added. He deplored the “unsatisfactory situation” of poor influenza vaccine efficacy, which “compares unfavourably with other virus vaccines” (14). Even CDC officials confessed that “influenza vaccines are still among the least effective immunizing agents available, and this seems to be particularly true for elderly recipients”.(5)

  Congress and the American taxpayer have been defrauded about the alleged advantages of flu shots. Instead of being an effective prevention, evidence indicates that flu shots may be useless. Although endorsed and funded by federal and state governments the shots seem only to benefit the companies who make them, public health bureaucrats who promote them, and medical personnel who administer them.

Here’s what you can do to prevent the outbreak of colds and flu as well alleviate the above symptoms:

MUCO COCCINUM

Prevent colds and flu from developing by taking Muco Coccinum at the first sign of symptoms-shiver, fatigue, fever, sore throats.

Muco Coccinum can also be taken preventively every 15 days from the beginning of the flu season.

ANGIPLEX

Angiflex offers immediate relief from sore throats due to clods or inflammation of the respiratory tract.

FEBRIPLEX

Febriflex offers immediate relief from fever, fatigue and symptoms that accompany influenza, colds and other respiratory ailments.

These are general suggestions for you to use on your own.  Best approach is seeeking individualized advice from a qualified health proffessional;  best thing is to check out my Cold and flu Treatment Protocol.

As ALWAYS, I welcome your comments/suggestons/ideas below: