If I told you about a plant that is 10,000 times more toxic to colon cancer cells than a common chemo drug; lethal to 12 different kinds of malignant cells, especially those that cause lung, prostate, and breast cancers; safe enough that it protects healthy cells instead of killing them; doesn’t cause extreme nausea or hair loss; doesn’t make cancer patients drop huge amounts of weight, get weak, or compromise their immune systems — would you want to know about it? Do you think someone with cancer that you know would like to know about it?

Well, the billion dollar drug company nearly covered this one up. They did for seven years, but thanks to an employee with a heart, let the cat out of the bag. The reason that they never went public with their findings was because they could not find a way to make a synthetic version that worked so they could patent it. The kind of information that I am about to reveal to you should never be covered up.

This incredible natural plant from the Amazon is called Graviola. The naturally occurring chemicals in graviola literally destroy cancer cells. And without harming healthy cells. In fact, extracts from the same plant actually boost immunity!

It was in 1976 when this was discovered. Since then, over 20 different lab studies, including prolonged research by Purdue University and the National Cancer Institute, all pointed to the same thing: Graviola is a dynamo when it comes to destroying cancerous cells.

What is Graviloa?

Graviola is a small, upright evergreen tree growing 5 to 6 meters in height with large dark green and glossy leaves. It is indigenous to most of the warmest tropical areas in South and North America. It has a large heart-shaped edible fruit that is 6-9″, yellow green in color.

The earliest studies were between 1941 and 1962. In an 1976 plant screening program by the National Cancer Institute, the leaves and stem of Graviola showed active cytotoxicity against cancer cells and researchers have been following up on this research ever since.

Three separate research groups have isolated novel compounds in the seeds and leaves of Graviola which have demonstrated significant anti-tumorous, anticancerous and selective toxicity against various types of cancer cells. One showed that Graviola was cytotoxic to colon adenocarcinoma cells in which it was 10,000 times the potency of adriamycin (a chemotherapy drug).

Graviola is also known (AKA) as Paw Paw. North American Paw Paw is said to be much stronger than South American Paw Paw.

The purpose of this article is not to teach you everything about Graviola, but to inspire you to do your own research on this amazing plant, if you have or know anyone that has cancer. This could be the answer to prayers.

Fred Fishburne and his wife are owners of a successful health store in McDonough, Ga., since 1994, specializing in combining supplementation and proper nutrition for optimal health benefits. Visit at: prohealthnut.com prohealthnut.com to read more health articles.

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Asbestos is a strong, incombustible, naturally occurring fibrous and silicate mineral used widely in insulation and manufacturing industry. It has great strength, chemical and thermal stability. Three types of asbestos found are chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite. Manufacturing processes leave behind small and buoyant fibers near chemical factories using asbestos. Workers are constantly exposed to such wastes and constantly inhale or swallow these near invisible fibers. A number of serious diseases are caused by inhaling these fibers such as mesothelioma and other kinds of chronic lung diseases.

Mesothelioma is defined as a type of cancer that affects mesothelial cells that are found in linings of internal organs in the human body. A doctor who was conducting an autopsy for lung disfiguration accidentally discovered presence of these fibers. Initial diagnosis paved the way for further research by other doctors leading to discovery of this dreadful disease. This disease was mainly diagnosed in factory workers and miners and factory owners were held responsible for failing to detect its harmful effects.

Asbestos has now been identified as a hazardous substance that endangers human health. Numerous legal provisions have been incorporated to protect interests of workers. America has not banned asbestos completely but has laid down guidelines and laws to protect workers from being afflicted by such diseases. Mesothelioma is not detected in its earlier stages and is diagnosed only in its later stages. This makes it increasingly difficult for law firms to prove their case in spite of prescribed government guidelines.

Workers now have the right to take their factory to court and file a case against them with help of asbestos attorneys who specialize in these kinds of court cases. Such lawyers could be attached to a specific law firm or may operate on their own. They often have the expertise and background knowledge of all such asbestos related cases and are in a better position to fight these cases in the court of law than ordinary lawyers. Dedicated teams of lawyers work together to protect the rights of the affected people and help in securing necessary compensation. These attorneys apply different litigation techniques to fight such cases in the court of law.

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How long a prostate cancer survivor lives depends on a multitude of factors. It does not necessarily reflect the success of the treatment. To that extent the survival rates, whether for five or ten years are meaningless for an individual. When and how a person will die is beyond anyone to know. To say that he died unnecessarily or prematurely is a projection of one’s own prejudices as a result of his analysis. In my opinion, and I might be an absolute minority, there is no such thing as unnecessary or untimely death. Death is death, period; the qualifiers do not make any difference.

They are also the products of a conditioned mind. People use other qualifiers as well. For example, we often hear of a horrible death especially in connection with cancer. Or we come across the milder statement: ‘It was not a nice death’. In actuality it is the life prior to death that is horrible because of the pain and suffering during that period of existence. The death ends that horrible existence. Children die or persons die in the prime of their lives; these are called untimely deaths. What is a timely death? Is it the death at a ripe old age irrespective of the nature of life in the preceding years? What do we know about death? As Confucius said: “We do not even know what life is. How can we then know anything about death?” To add qualifiers to death presupposes that knowledge.

People young and old die of starvation as we have witnessed so graphically during the past few years; others die in accidents. We call these deaths unnecessary or avoidable. Many die in natural disasters; we call these acts of God. People have died in famines and disasters in all ages all over the world. Circumstances shape the events that lead to these deaths and these circumstances are beyond man’s control. We can analyze the events and come up with ideas as to what could and should have been done to avoid them but man’s role in shaping historical events is incidental. Man does not make history although historians will always say otherwise. A confluence of circumstances makes things happen. This confluence, as of stars, is beyond anyone’s control and, even worse, it is not predictable. Men can take steps to avoid a recurrence of undesirable events, at least ones that are man-made, but these steps can not guarantee success simply because there is another group of men on the other side of the fence trying to do exactly the opposite. In the final analysis man is just a pawn in the hands of circumstances.

It is the same way with an individual’s life. One broods over his past and says ‘if only I had done this’. Or he thinks about someone’s death and says ‘ if only he had done this or that, he would be alive’. But ‘if only’ is in the realm of fantasy. The fact is that those things were not done or could not be done. If a person dies of lung cancer and he had been a smoker, his death is attributed to smoking. There are any number of people who were chain smokers but developed no lung problem. The body has so many unknown facets that make positive assertions meaningless. All we have is evidence in the form of correlations and again we are dealing with numbers and probabilities.

For a patient faced with a fateful decision all this discussion of numbers may give an impression of total uncertainty and chaos. But the purpose here is to show that no rule of thumb based on numbers or statistics can be followed blindly. Each individual is different, he can not take a decision entirely based on what happened to another man or group of men. He should look at the numbers and make his own informed judgment after a frank discussion with his physician. The doctor’s word is not gospel and there should be no hesitation on the part of the patient to put forth differing opinions or suggestions. It is his life at stake and the ultimate choice must be his own. In order to make that choice he should be fully aware of the limitations of each and every piece of information being used. His active participation in the treatment is essential; for this he must understand what is going on at every stage from a patient’s perspective. Only then he will have the satisfaction of having done everything to the best of his ability. The outcome is in the future and, hence, unknown and largely unpredictable. Worrying about it serves no purpose. At this point ‘que sera, sera’ is the best attitude; it is not fatalistic, it is the only realistic attitude one can have.

Dharmbir Rai Sharma is a retired professor with electrical engineering and physics background. He obtained his M.S. degree in physics in India and Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University. He has taught in universities here and also in Brazil, where he spent sometime. He maintains a website cosmosebooks.com cosmosebooks.com devoted mainly to philosophy and science.

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Green tea has long had many health benefits associated with it and its curative properties have been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years.

Green tea, black tea and oolong tea are all made with the leaves of the Camellia sinensis bush. Green tea is made from unfermented leaves and is reputed to contain the highest concentration of polyphenols, chemicals that act as powerful antioxidants. The more the leaves are fermented, the lower the polyphenol content and the higher the caffeine content. Tea polyphenols are classified as catechins and green tea contains six primary catechin compounds: catechin, gallaogatechin, epicatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epigallocatechin gallate (also known as EGCG). EGCG is considered to be the most active component in green tea and is the best researched of all the green tea polyphenols.

Several studies have suggested that green tea and green tea extract have cancer-fighting abilities, possibly because the tea’s concentration of antioxidants such as EGCG help minimize the cell damage that can lead to cancer.

A recent study conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota has demonstrated the benefits of green tea in adult sufferers of leukemia. EGCG (the key antioxidant in green tea) has been shown to kill cancer cells taken from leukaemia patients and put in a test tube.

Doctors at the clinic reported that four patients had started using green tea on their own last year, after hearing media reports about its health benefits. All four patients had CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia). In the months after they started drinking green tea or taking green tea extracts, three of them showed measurable improvements in their condition. The fourth patient who did not show an improvement in her cancer overall, still exhibited an increase in her white blood cell count.

In one case, a patient had been showing progressive swelling in her lymph nodes before she starting taking green tea capsules twice a day. Swelling of the lymph nodes is one of the characteristic symptoms of CLL. However, over the next year the patient’s lymph nodes steadily reduced in size.

Other research has come up with an explanation for why regular green tea drinkers have a low incidence of gastric and oesophageal cancers. Researchers have found that EGCG, the anti-cancer compound in green tea, works in a similar way to the anti-cancer drug methotrexate. Both work by blocking the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase, which is essential to the growth of tumour cells. However, the benefit of EGCG over methotrexate is that it has far fewer side effects.

The same study also showed that blocking the dihydrofolate reductase enzyme lowers folic acid levels. This side effect could explain the increased risk of birth defects and explains why some studies suggest green tea increases the risk of birth defects such as spina bifida. However, in a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California in Oakland, researchers found that women who drank more than one half cup of caffeinated green tea every day doubled their odds of conceiving. Women seeking to conceive or who are already pregnant are advised to consult their medical practitioner about the risks associated with drinking green tea.

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