Topic: A cure for cancer?

[Michelle]

you can read forever about this on the net.......

http://www.food.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/2006/apr/apricot

[Clive]

We buy a lot of stuff at Julian Graves.  It's a shame they withdrew the product instead of simply re-labelling it!

[Sandra]

Stick to the rare steak, guys, its much tastier and safer for you.

I have never heard of anyone coming to any harm from overeating steak but I have heard of people having problems from eating too many carrots and also from taking too many vitamin pills 

[GillE]

Nobody is suggesting you should avoid any particular sort of food, Sandra.  Personally, I subscribe to the notion that a wide-ranging diet is probably the healthiest of all and I enjoy a steak too, now and then.  It's just that we don't have enough B-17 rich foods in our diet and if we did, cancer would be far less common.

I went shopping for B-17 rich foods yesterday and they're surprisingly difficult to find.  I did buy some millet grain and instead of cooking it as directed on the packet, I mixed it in with some cooked rice alongside a beansprout and quorn stir-fry.  You'd have loved it Sandra  !  Actually, it gave the rice a lovely crunchy texture and it's something I'm going to use again, often.

Gill

[Clive]

I've just discovered another valuable source of B17 in my diet.  Warburton's seeded batch bread contains millet seed which is rated "medium" for B17 content.  For lunch I eat a cheese and salad sandwich consisting of two large slices of seeded batch, thinly sliced extra strong cheddar, tomato, mixed lettuce leaves and watercress.  I've now increased my raspberry intake for breakfast and have roasted sweet potato 3 or for times a week with my evening meal. 

[Michelle]

I went to the health food shop and I could find nothing I wanted, not even tablets!

Millet is really good for you actually, I read this earlier.

http://chetday.com/millet.html


I didn't know it was in roti and chapati.........time to go for a curry 

[GillE]

The assistant in my local Holland & Barratt had to go to a book on vitamins to see if there was a reason why they didn't stock vitamin B-17.  To my amazement, it actually said B-17 is carcinogenic!  Yet everywhere I look on the internet I see good reports of B-17; I'm starting to believe the conspiracy theorists.

After all, so many people are employed in cancer treatment that it would cause economic upheaval if a cure or (even worse) a method of prevention was found.  The government wouldn't like that.  Moreover, who tells us what's safe to eat?  Pharmacists.  Who sells us drugs to treat cancer?  Pharmacists.

Gill

[Clive]

Thanks for the millet information Michelle.  I think I am in agreement with you Gill.  Successful drugs are huge money-spinners and it's in the interest of the companies that produce them that we have to use them.  You definitely have to go out of your way to  get a daily dose of B17 but I'm going to make certain that I try and get my share! 

[Sandra]

I didn't know it was in roti and chapati.........time to go for a curry 

Sounds good to me Michelle 

I think that a good hot curry is about the only way to make most vegetables palatable, unless you get cows, pigs and sheep to eat them first and convert them to meat 

[GillE]

Don't you eat any vegetables at all, Sandra?

Gill

[Simon]

I've just discovered another valuable source of B17 in my diet.  Warburton's seeded batch bread contains millet seed which is rated "medium" for B17 content.  For lunch I eat a cheese and salad sandwich consisting of two large slices of seeded batch, thinly sliced extra strong cheddar, tomato, mixed lettuce leaves and watercress.  I've now increased my raspberry intake for breakfast and have roasted sweet potato 3 or for times a week with my evening meal. 

Your continued quest for immortality is admirable, Clive.  At this rate, you'll outlive us all!   

On the subject of vegetables, I love them, provided they are cooked properly - preferably hardly at all.  There's nothing worse than soggy sprouts, or any overcooked veg.  Nice and crunchy for me!  Favourites are cauliflower, carrots, and most green veg, but I'm not keen on spinach or parsnips. 

[Clive]

When you get to my age Simon you need all the help you can get to survive the night!     I can't stand soggy veg either.  Mine are always steamed to keep them nice and crunchy.  But I can't stand sprouts!  Broccoli is my favourite.

[GillE]

I'm another one for the crispy veg .  It's best either lightly steamed or stir-fried, especially cabbage.  There's only one vegetable I won't touch - broad beans .

Gill

[Clive]

Oh I love broad beans.  Frozen ones are a very convenient standby if you run short of other veg.  It's only sprouts and cauliflower that I wont eat.  But why do I enjoy cauliflower cheese??? 

[Sandra]

Don't you eat any vegetables at all, Sandra?

I try not to eat too many Gill 

There are no vegetables that I can say I really enjoy and which I would miss if I never ate another one.
I dont like the taste of most of them.

I eat potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips, carrots and peas occassionally but I prefer mushy peas to all other types, not the tinned ones, proper ones made by soaking overnight.
I quite like corn on the cob but not loose corn.
I like asparagus, avacado, chillies, peppers, garlic, mushrooms and depending how its cooked and what with butternut squash.

If I could afford it I would happily fill my plate up with meat and have some nice bread for most of my meals, unfortunately I am a bit fussy about the meat I eat as I dont like cheap fatty cuts of meat.

I could live off bread, meat, eggs and cheese quite happily.
In fact a few years ago I went on the Atkins diet for about 10 weeks and quite enjoyed it as most days I was having cheese omelettes for brunch and in the evening I was having fried fillet steak with a nice creamy red wine sauce, avacado and a big wedge of stilton cheese.
Some nights I would have chicken in place of the steak or maybe a rump steak.

I lost weight, felt great and was never hungry.

The one thing I missed was milk as thats restricted on the Atkins diet, due to the carbohydrates. I like a lot of milk in tea and a lot of cups of tea through the day and I also like drinking milk.

I could live like that quite easily if the meat and stilton didnt cost so much and I didnt have to give up my milk