Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cherie Calbom, M.S., is a nutritionist and the author of more than ten books, including the bestseller Juicing for Life. She is known as "The Juice Lady" to millions. Cherie's juice therapy and cleansing programs were part of St. Luke Medical Center's complementary and adjunctive cancer care treatment protocols. John Calbom, M.A., is a behavioral medicine specialist, psychotherapist, and priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. He was Vice President of St. Luke Medical Center and worked as a behavioral medicine therapist with cancer patients. Michael Mahaffey, P.C., was diagnosed with acute leukemia over twenty years ago and given about thirty days to live. Mahaffey defied the odds and went on to devote his life to helping cancer patients survive.

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THE COMPLETE CANCER CLEANSE

Nelson Books

Contents

PART ONE: The Complete Detoxification Program1. A Three-Part Strategy for Healing.............................................22. Facts about Cancer and Cleansing..............................................173. The Detoxification Channels...................................................334. Whole Foods for Cleansing.....................................................605. Healing, Cleansing Foods......................................................916. The Cleansing Programs........................................................1277. Supplementing Your Cleanse....................................................1728. Cleansing Your Environment....................................................1959. Emotional Cleansing...........................................................22710. Mental Cleansing.............................................................24311. Spiritual Cleansing..........................................................258PART TWO: A Renewal of Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Spirit12. Only Thirty Days to Live.....................................................27613. No Longer Separate and Alone.................................................29314. Celebrate Life!..............................................................308Epilogue.........................................................................317Acknowledgments..................................................................319Appendix and Resource Guide......................................................321Products and Information.........................................................324Notes............................................................................328Index............................................................................342

Chapter One

Love's strength, stands in love's sacrifice, and he who suffers most, has most to gain. -Author Unknown

Cancer is still the great mystery disease. We all pray that we'll never get it, yet here we are. When first diagnosed, we search for answers to a myriad of questions: What is cancer? What caused it? What are my treatment options? Will I die? Cancer diagnosis is shocking enough to send us into a state of terror, like being thrown into the strong currents of a rushing river. We want answers, and we want them now.

Answers are essential: the better informed we are about our disease, the greater the odds of overcoming it. The history of cancer incidence in the West, and particularly the United States, speaks volumes. Prior to this century, cancer was rare and afflicted only a small percentage of the population. Stanislas Tanchou, a French pioneering scientist in the field of vital statistics in the 1830s, tabulated Paris mortality rates; he reported that cancer deaths comprised about 2 percent of the total number of deaths at that time. At the turn of the century, the cancer death rate in the United States was calculated at about 4 percent of the population.

Current cancer statistics are sobering:

* Cancer is the cause of one in five deaths in the United States

* Cancer will affect one in three people in the United States

* Over 1.2 million cases of invasive cancer are diagnosed each year.

* An additional 1.5 million cases of noninvasive cancer will be diagnosed yearly.

* More than five hundred thousand people will die from cancer each year.

* Children ages three to fourteen years die of cancer more than any other disease.

* The total cost of cancer care and mortality is over 15 percent of all health-care costs, exceeding more than 110 billion dollars.

Statistics do not show that we are making progress in prevention or treatment of cancer. Indeed the facts show the opposite-we are losing the war. The number of new cases of nearly every form of cancer has increased annually over the last century. From 1930 to the present, despite all our therapies and technology, cancer incidence has continued to increase.

WHAT IS CANCER?

Cancer is not a disease of modern man. For more than four thousand years it has afflicted human beings. In fact, ancient Egyptian and Greek medical tracts describe cancerous conditions. Writings about Cosmos and Damian, healing physicians of the third century, recount the unusual healing of deacon Justinian's cancerous leg.

Hippocrates described the illness, calling it karkinos, meaning the crab. Historical writings describe tumor growths as having a central area with channels that spread out like arms into surrounding tissue. Ancient observers thought these growths looked like a crab; therefore, it's logical that the Latin word for crab is cancer.

By simple definition cancer is a malignant growth or growths and the illnesses caused by those growths. It all starts in a cell. That cell (or group of cells) escapes homeostatic control (equilibrium of the internal environment), reproduces at will, and shows abnormal growth patterns. Also known as neoplasms (meaning new growth), these growths compete with normal cells for energy and nutrition, and are to some degree autonomous. "New growth" is not an accurate description of most cancers, however, because it often takes from five to twenty years for a tumor to develop from the first mutated cells to a tumor mass.

Cancer cells lose the more specialized functions characteristic of normal cells while at the same time acquiring increased growth function. This increase results in an invasion of the surrounding tissue and the formation of secondary growths at a distance-known as metastasis. Their metabolism is different from that of a normal cell; something happens to alter these cells chemically. Professor Otto Warburg, two-time Nobel Prize-winner in medicine, was the first to suggest that cancer cells are anaerobic, meaning that they function in the absence of free oxygen. He discovered that oxygen in cancer cells was replaced by an energy-yielding mechanism known as glycolysis, which means that the cancer cells feed on the fermentation of glucose (sugar).

Cancer has two characteristics that make it life threatening: it invades tissue and spreads to vital organs where it may compress, obstruct, or destroy vital functions. As cancerous tumors attach themselves to organs, tissues become oxygen starved. Cancer cells appear to take priority over normal cells in acquiring amino acids and nutrients; thus the tumor grows while the rest of the body experiences deficiency and often wasting.

The development of cancer is considered to be a two-stage process. During the initiation stage there is a transformation of a cell, causing it to change (mutate) in some manner, due to the interaction of such factors as chemicals, radiation, viruses, or injury. The transformation occurs rapidly, but the transformed cell or cells may be dormant for a long time until activated by a promoting agent(s). During the promotion stage, many substances, even noncarcinogens such as hormones, can play a part in the rapid cell division characteristic of cancer. In this promotion stage, the tumor...