“Death by Dairy” – MUST READ Breast & Prostate Cancer Advice

1 out of 9 women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In fact, it is the second leading cause of cancer death for women (after lung cancer) and the leading overall cause of death in women between the ages of forty and fifty five.

For too long women have erroneously believed that their is little or nothing they can do to prevent this dread illness. Our major medical efforts are directed towards detecting and treating, rather than preventing, breast cancer.

Professor Jane Plant, one of Britian’s most eminent scientists, contracted breast cancer in 1987. She had five recurrences, and, by 1993, the cancer had spread to her lymph system. When orthodox medicine gave up and she was told that she only had three months to live, she determined to use her extensive scientific training and her knowledge of other cultures to find a way to survive.

In her research, she was startled to find that in China breast cancer affects far fewer women than in Western countries. Plant considered that there could be a dietary trigger for the illness. As she continued her scientific investigations, she became convinced that there was a causal link between consumption of dairy products and breast cancer.

Jane Plant finally defeated her breast cancer, in part because she used her training and knowledge as a natural scientist to understand it – and then overcome it. Combining the diet her research had led to with traditional medician treatment, Professor Plant was not only able to triumph over her own disease but also to pass on what she had discovered to help more than sixty other women successfully fight their breast cancer.

In her book ‘Your Life In Your Hands – Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast Cancer‘, women will be presented for the first time with a compelling body of evidence strongly suggesting that consumption of dairy products may cause breast cancer. It will demonstrate the specific changes that women can make in their day-to-day lives to help prevent and treat breast cancer.

With a clear statement of the scientific principles behind her discovery, Professor Plant includes detailed suggestions for ways to alter your diet by eliminating or reducing consumption of many suspected cancer-causing agents, especially dairy products, and replacing them with healthful alternatives. She offers as well detailed menus and recipes to help you make the transition and enjoy it.

‘Your Life Your Hands‘ is a revolutionary book that will change the lives of millions of women.

Rich Woman’s Disease – Summary

• A rational explanation of cause and effect has been found now for many types of cancer, following Professor Richard Doll�s break-through in the 1950s, which showed the link between smoking tobacco and lung cancer. For many types of cancer, we know that the disease is caused or triggered by something we do or are exposed to, including industrial chemicals and viral or bacterial infections. Some members of the exposed population may be more likely to be affected because of their genetic makeup, but many cancers for which there is now a well-established rational cause are related to lifestyle or environmental factors.

• The incidence of breast cancer in some Western countries, and expecially on the eastern seaboard of the United States, which includes many ethnic groups and hence a mixed gene pool, is similar to that of the incidence of lung cancer among heavy smokers. This strongly suggests that something is causing the disease and that the cause relates to something that the higher socioeconomic groups in rich countries are doing.

• Eastern communities have traditionally had exceptionally low rates of breast and prostate cancer (compared with Western countries). However, when Eastern people move to live in the West, their rates of breast and prostate cancer approach those of Western countries.

• The rates of breast and prostate cancer also increase when Eastern people adopt a Western lifestyle in their own countries: in China the slang name for breast cancer translates as “Rich Woman’s Disease.” Typically Eastern diets have included more of the things eaten in the West, including meat such as port, chicken, and duck (although in smaller quantities), but traditionally Eastern diets have NOT included dairy products.

• The consumption of Western food, including dairy products such as milk, ice cream, and reprocessed dairy cow meat as in sausages and burgers, is increasing as countries like Japan embrace �development.� This process of Westernization typically begins in urban centres. Breast and prostate cancer rates are increasing in these countries, and breast and prostate cancer rates in Eastern countries are significantly higher in urban than in rural areas.

• Modern genetic research and molecular protein studies indicate that in the case of breast cancer the damage to the cell, which causes the wrong chain of protein signals to be relayed, leading to uncontrolled growth that is cancer, is at a superficial level in the cell (between the receptors and intercellular fluid) – not deep inside the cell as is the case in some other types of cancers.

• Only 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are the result of inherited mutated (damaged) genes (BRCA-1 and BRCA-2), which are called tumor suppressor genes. These genes normally produce proteins to slow down cell growth. However, the disease does not always develop even in those carrying the mutated gene. This observation and the fact that they are tumor suppressor genes suggests that even where people have inherited mutated genes, their risk of cancer can be reduced if factors signaling the cell to produce too much or the wrong sorts of growth factors are removed.

• Milk and the meat of dairy animals contain significant amounts of growth factor called insulin-like growth factor-1, or IGF-1, and hormones such as prolactin.

• The levels of IGF-1 in milk have probably increased due to selective stock breeding and the adoption of high-yielding species for dairying. Available estrogen levels may also have increased, because pregnant cows now continue to be milked.

• The use of genetically engineered hormone recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), or bovine somatotropin (BST), to increase milk yield is associated with IGF-1 levels in milk at the highest part of the normal range.

• IGF-1 and prolactin are known to promote the growth of breast and prostate cancer cells in laboratory cultures. This strongly suggests that they can do the same in humans, too, if they enter the bloodstream. Breast tissue has receptors for IGF-1, IGF-2, and prolactin.

• Casein, the main milk protein, has been shown to protect growth hormones contained in milk from being broken down during digestion.

• Modern methods of processing milk (including, for instance, homogenization) may further protect the cancer-promoting chemicals from breaking down in the gut, so that significant quantities are absorbed into the bloodstream. The direct effect of these chemicals on the digestive tract has been suggested by some scientists to cause colon cancer.

• Research on humans shows that premenopausal women with high levels of circulating IGF-1 have a higher risk of breast cancer, and men with high levels of this circulating growth factor are at greater risk of suffering from prostate cancer than those with lower levels.

Jane A Plant, Ph.D., C.B.E., is one of Britain’s most distinguished female scientists. She is chief scientist of the British Geological Survey and continues to sit on many influential government and international committees. In 1999, she was awarded Britain’s most prestigious science honor, the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize (previous recipients include the inventor of the World Wide Web, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, and the scientist who cloned “Dolly,” the sheep). Professor Plant lives in Nottingham with her husband and children.