Shocking Facts about Cancer and Chemotherapy-Johns Hopkins.

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AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins : 1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size. 2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime. 3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours. 4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. 5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system. 6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc. 7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. 8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction. 9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications. 10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites. 11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. WHAT CANCER CELLS FEED ON: a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt. b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are being starved. c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer. d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C). e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water – best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it. 12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup. 13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells. 14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells. 15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life. 16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Free Public Transport? Does it make sense?

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• Traffic congestion may be reduced;at the same time higher investments are required for increasing the fleet.
• Air pollution is more from public transport in India.
• Overall fuel consumption may marginally be reduced for people may not  like to travel in free transport for want of amenities and privacy;possibly private vehicular traffic might increase.
• Where is the justification for taxing people who have private vehicles in the form of parking space fees,road up gradation etc as they are already paying road taxes?
• Cars are also seen as status symbols as well;people who use them shall continue using them and more people would go in for purchasing vehicles.
• Human Nature being what it is, people would like to stamp their individuality in owning cars.You can not quantify human nature and reduce it to mere numbers by imagining to follow ‘greatest good for the greatest numbers’
• Sections of the society shall resent this as this move amounts to penalizing those who have succeeded economically.
• Problem is free sops for election/ vote banks.We have already created a section that does not want to work because of sops.Do we want to be a nation of  sloths and useless people who can produce nothing but live off a section of the society who have worked hard and become successful?
• By the same logic shall we offer everything free where losses are insurmountable because of avaricious politicians and bad planning and administration?
• Comparing small cities with hard-working people with our people is a basic fallacy.

Story:

Can Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses be made completely free for everyone to use? The idea might sound utopian, but experts point out that there is sound logic behind offering free public transit.

In light of Transport Minister K.N.Nehru’s announcement in the Assembly recently that the State Transport undertakings are set to incur a loss of Rs.1,000 crore this fiscal, the focus has shifted to defining this ‘loss.’

The Minister was essentially referring to the cash loss that is likely to be incurred, a little over one-third of which is due to the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, and the rest due to operational loss. Are there any grounds on which this cash loss can be translated into social profit?

Since the benefits of public transit are broader than are apparent with strict financial book-keeping, is there a rationale for universal free public transport?

Can Metropolitan Transport Corporation buses be made completely free for everyone to use? The idea might sound utopian, but experts point out that there is sound logic behind offering free public transit.

In fact, a number of mid-sized towns and cities across the world already have free public bus, train, or tram systems. The city of Hasselt in Belgium, for example, converted its entire bus networks to zero fare in 1997. Public transport ridership increased by as much as 13 times by 2006, according to a study done by the Belgian government.

Even while making the bus services free, the authorities through a combination of measures have made personalised transport expensive. This includes earmarking certain areas where entry of personal vehicles is by a fee and levy of a green tax.

The free bus service results in various benefits for the residents such as better air quality, lesser congestion and reduction in fuel consumption, a significant shift to public transit, fewer traffic accidents and increased access to work places for the poor.

According to an annual survey of air quality conducted by Simple Interactive Models for better air quality (SIM-air), an NGO based in New Delhi, the health cost of polluted air in Delhi in 2009 was Rs.2,450 crore.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article1122086.ece

Shall we hoist Indian Flag in Pakistan,PM?

I shall hoist in my site.Any problems?

We should not hoist the Indian Flag in,

Assam because of ULFA

Nagaland, because of Bodo problem

Andhra/West Bengal because of Telengana/Maoists

Karnataka because of Yeddiyurappa’s problem

Bihar because Lallu has lost the elections

Maharashtra because of  Raj Thackeray

Tamil Nadu because of Tamil secessionists

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Jai Hind!?

Story:

With BJP planning to hoist national flag in Srinagar on the Republic Day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said parties should desist from scoring “political points” or “promoting divisive agendas” and peace should not be disturbed in the “sensitive” Jammu and Kashmir.

Observing that the Republic Day is “a solemn occasion”, he said, “It is not an occasion to score political points, to embarrass state and local administrations, to create situations that could lead to entirely avoidable problems, or to promote divisive agendas.”

“It is my hope that all our citizens and political parties will heed this call and will do nothing that will disturb peace and harmony, or detract in any way from the dignity of Republic Day,” Singh said in a statement.

He said it was “all the more important to observe maximum restraint particularly in a sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir.”

Though he did not name anybody, he was apparently referring to BJP’s ‘Ekta Yatra‘ which is planned to proceed to Srinagar to hoist the national tricolor at the historic Lal Chowk, because of which the government is apprehending trouble.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has made it clear that it will not allow hoisting of the national flag by BJP on that day but the party is adamant on going ahead with the plan.

Singh observed that over the years, the states have devised their own time-tested and publicly-accepted procedures for the Republic Day celebrations within a common national framework.

 PM asks parties not to promote divisive agendas on Republic day – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-asks-parties-not-to-promote-divisive-agendas-on-Republic-day/articleshow/7342552.cms#ixzz1BrRz9725

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Here’s the situation. This republic day, the nationalist party BJP wants to hoist the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk, a troubled area in Kashmir. The spot has frequently been witness to struggles between Indian forces, Kashmiri separatist forces, and Pakistan-aided militants. The J&K government calls this attempt by the BJP a provocation to violence. The BJP and its supporters say it is a shame to say that hoisting the Indian national flag on Indian ground is a cause for trouble. The central government, curiously, has remained silent on the matter.

Following is a TV discussion on the matter hosted by the NewsX channel.

Here’s the situation. This republic day, the nationalist party BJP wants to hoist the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk, a troubled area in Kashmir. The spot has frequently been witness to struggles between Indian forces, Kashmiri separatist forces, and Pakistan-aided militants. The J&K government calls this attempt by the BJP a provocation to violence. The BJP and its supporters say it is a shame to say that hoisting the Indian national flag on Indian ground is a cause for trouble. The central government, curiously, has remained silent on the matter.

Following is a TV discussion on the matter hosted by the NewsX channel.

Here’s the situation. This republic day, the nationalist party BJP wants to hoist the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk, a troubled area in Kashmir. The spot has frequently been witness to struggles between Indian forces, Kashmiri separatist forces, and Pakistan-aided militants. The J&K government calls this attempt by the BJP a provocation to violence. The BJP and its supporters say it is a shame to say that hoisting the Indian national flag on Indian ground is a cause for trouble. The central government, curiously, has remained silent on the matter.

Following is a TV discussion on the matter hosted by the NewsX channel.

http://www.vmohanty.com/2011/the-lal-chowk-situation/