An article just came out in Business Week about the rising cost of health care and refers to a recent study on the treatment of cancer with the new generation of highly individualized targeted cancer drugs. GENETECHS`S(DNA) AVASTIN or IMCLONE`S (INCL) ERBITUX . These drugs can cost US$100,000 or more but they add only a few months of life for most patients, they do offer however a slim chance of a longer benefit to a few, therefore cancer patients demand them and doctors recommend them in the hope that they might get lucky. The section of the article I`ve told u about is on page 2, if u don`t want to read the whole thing. CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE .
How come patients are not demanding fruit and vegetables to eat and drink and turning down these chemicals that cost an arm and a leg and the precious little time u paid for( if u r lucky) is spent either in hospital or feeling awful all day.
I will never understand it....
My little study shows that people who never had chemo, more of them are around years later........so why when we go and get the dreaded diagnoses, do we panic and spend millions to burn out our cells ? Then when we have 2 feet in the grave instead of one,we start talking about green juice and start taking some strange things,guinea hen whatever,any new thing on the market.....why don`t we start drinking the green juice from when we get the dreaded diagnoses ? I can`t tell u how many people are around using that method and living to tell the tale.........
Plus when last i checked weren`t fruit and vegetables cheaper than chemotherapy ?
This article is telling us that in Europe they are turning down patients if they feel they don`t need these expensive medications as they don`t feel it's worth it.
A woman i knew who had several rounds of chemo, told me she ate lots of vegetables, cooked vegetables that i`m sure were cooked into oblivion,with white rice and her meatkind or a salad with lots of dressing and chicken........how can eating like that plus chemo get u to pull one foot out of the grave even for a little while ? It can`t, so after a year of chemo, she passed.
We are all feeling that it can`t happen to us but look around u, 6 out of 10 of us will die from a chronic illness. Diabetes, stroke, heart disease etc....
Plus can i tell u that saying u eat a lot of vegetables means nothing as ' a lot of vegetables' normally means 2 or 3 spoons of some kind of cooked vegetable or a salad.
I think the food and drug administration is now saying we should have 9 servings of fruit and vegetables per day up from 5 and we weren`t even having 5 .
That's where glyconutrients comes in. Fruit and vegetables zapped into powder and tablet form.....Think of it how many of us eat that amount of fruit and veg each day even the vegetarians among us? And bear in mind it went up because they say the quality of fruit and vegetables have deteriorated over the years what with pesticides and insecticides and poor quality of soil.
The other day i was having lunch and someone who knows i eat ' a lot of' fruit and vegetables made a fruit juice for me. When it came my friend drank it. When i asked her what she was doing she said 'u can`t have it as it has in sugar'. Sure enough when i asked the person who made the juice she said yes she had put sugar in it as most people like their natural fruit juices sweet....well if that is your practice i`m here to ask u......
WHAT'S THE POINT?
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