From the National Health Federation: http://www.thenhf.com/JANUARY_2005_NEWSLETTERhtml.htm

"Defending Against Cancer

by Mauris L. Emeka

-- a self-help article about important dietary changes for preventing and overcoming cancer --

The Body’s Cure for Cancer --
It is often said that we all get cancer from time to time, but that the body cures it and allows us to go on living normal lives. What mechanism does the body use to cure cancer in the course of our daily lives? That question was asked roughly 100 years ago by a renowned Scottish embryologist named Dr. John Beard.

Dr. Beard’s work has long been ignored by conventional medicine, although in recent years his important findings are being re-discovered. His research is documented in “The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Its Scientific Basis”,copyrighted in 1911. It explains that the body cures cancer with protein digesting enzymes supplied by the pancreas. Research shows that protein digesting enzymes can dissolve the protein coating from around cancer cells, and this enables white blood cells (which are part of the immune system) to destroy the cancer cells. Cancer cells are actually trophoblasts cells that are misbehaving-- that is, they are trying to do the wrong thing at the wrong time and place. Trophoblasts cells are basic to the development of every newly conceived baby. But if out of control trophoblast activity begins to occur in later life then cancer is the result. Thanks to Dr. Beard's research he proved that if there are enough enzymes, especially enzymes designed to digest protein, then cancer cannot gain a foothold.

Food Enzymes, the First Line of Defense --
There is a problem: Dr. Edward Howell, M.D. notes in his seminal work Enzyme Nutrition, that the pancreas (which was just mentioned) has a limited capability to produce enzymes. Add to that the fact that the pancreas is almost always over-worked trying to produce enough digestive enzymes to digest the cooked food that we eat. Cooked, refined and processed foods have no enzymes. The body is at greatest risk of cancer when the pancreas can no longer produce an adequate supply of protein digesting enzymes.

But there is good news! Through diet, we can do something about a scarcity of protein digesting enzymes. It is possible to make it so the pancreas does not have to work so hard. That can be done by significantly decreasing the consumption of animal protein (because animal protein requires lots of protein digesting enzymes), and by eating more raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, since they are rich in enzymes. And note this: the tropical fruits papaya (and their seeds) along with pineapple are especially important, because their enzymes closely mimic the protein digesting enzymes produced by the pancreas. (That’s why meat tenderizers contain papaya). Our first line of defense against cancer is therefore protein digesting enzymes (and other food enzymes) all of which can be gotten from raw whole foods."

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