Golden ticket
Is it just me or does it seem like the medical industry doesn’t particularly WANT to eradicate cancer? I know that’s a pretty drastic accusation, but how else do you explain the fact that every time research points to a natural vitamin or mineral proven to dramatically reduce cancer risk, “experts” come out of the woodwork arguing against it and insisting that “more research is needed.”
More research? For what? Likely for a profitable — sorry, I mean patentable (of course those terms are essentially interchangeable anyway) — synthetic version of the all-natural nutrient that’s already making inroad where science has never been able to.
This time around vitamin D is the nutrition anticancer wunderkind.
While those of us who have been reading Dr. Wright’s Nutrition & Healing have known for years that this nutrient has cancer preventive properties, the mainstream is just starting to catch on. In June, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published one of the first studies to make headlines in national news outlets. The research showed that vitamin D can reduce cancer risk by as much as 77 percent.
And yet, public health officials STILL won’t recommend it as a way to prevent cancer. In fact, one of them, Dr. Jacques Rossouw of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), actively argues against these results, insisting that a study he’d conducted previously showed no benefit of vitamin D on cancer rates.
Of course, I can’t help but wonder if Rossouw’s stance has more to do with protecting his own precious ego and not being proven wrong than it does with protecting the health of the people he’s supposed to be serving as a member of the NIH.
But I digress. The point here, regardless of what self-interested naysayers want you to believe, is that vitamin D is not just an essential nutrient: It may also be your golden ticket to a long, cancer-free future.
Source:
“Vitamin D may cut cancer risk,” ABC News (www.abcnews.com), 6/8/07
