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Cancer Causers: Pesticides and Herbicides
Crops in this country - on some 900,000 farms and millions of acres of land - are sprayed with 1.2 billion pounds of pesticide a year. Some 70% of livestock are also doused regularly with poisons, and that may play a major role in the proliferation of Creutzfeld-Jacob (Mad Cow) disease. Many pesticides, such as aldrin, dieldrin, endrin and heptachlor, have been proven harmful to humans [and pets] and banned by the Environmental Protection Agency. The problem is that a significant amount of our food is grown in other countries - where the use of these chemicals is still legal. It has been determined that people living in the industrialized world have as many as 75 pesticide and herbicide residues stored in their fat cells. Most of these compounds are fat-soluble and are therefore trapped in the body for an entire lifetime. Importance of Essential Fatty Acids We have established that Omega-3 fats prevent cancer and stop its spread by reducing inflammation. They do the same for neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, kidney failure, arthritis and heart failure. Omega-3 fats also stop cancer by stimulating detoxification, building antioxidant enzymes and preventing DNA damage. Conversely, an overload of Omega-6 fats speed the growth and spread of cancer. But I am always surprised that most doctors make little use of the information we have on this vital connection - while food producers continue to add tons of harmful fats to their products [as is so common in the pet food industry] - and our diets. Avoid Soy Of greatest concern is the recent finding that glutamate is a powerful stimulant of cancer growth and invasion. Our national obsession with soy is ludicrous when you realize that soybeans have one of the highest glutamate levels in the plant kingdom. 
Dr. Russell Blaylock is a nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, health practitioner, author and lecturer. For the past 26 years, he has practiced neurosurgery in addition to having a nutritional practice. He recently retired from his neurosurgical duties to devote his full attention to nutritional studies and research. Dr. Blaylock has authored three books on nutrition and wellness, including “Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills”, “Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life” and his most recent work, “Natural Strategies for the Cancer Patient.” An in-demand guest for radio and television programs, he lectures extensively to both lay and professional medical audiences on a variety of nutrition-related subjects. Dr. Blaylock is a member of the international board of the World Natural Health Organization. He is the 2004 recipient of the Integrity in Science Award granted by the Weston A. Price Foundation. Dr. Blaylock serves on the editorial staff of the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association and is the associate editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, official publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He previously served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., and is currently a visiting professor of biology at the Belhaven College also in Jackson.
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