Gabriel Cousens
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 Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens. Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
?Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked, or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
?Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90 percent in all foods tested. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 It is important to stress that all known human carcinogens are also carcinogenic in mice or rats. Given this evidence, and for safety's sake, it seems wise to assume the opposite is true—that animal carcinogens are human carcinogens—unless good experimental evidence to the contrary can be produced.
According to Dr. L.S. Gold and co-workers, of a list of eighty possible carcinogenic hazards to humans, the average cholesterol-lowering drug was ranked second.300 According to FDA safety guidelines, a medication must not produce cancer in test animals at doses twenty-five times the usual dose. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The possible role of vitamin C in preventing cervical dysplasia is of special interest because vitamin C is involved in collagen synthesis, detoxifies chemical carcinogens, interferes with the formation of chemical carcinogens, and modulates the immune system. It has been demonstrated in more than one study that there is a significant decrease in vitamin C intake as well as plasma levels of vitamin C in patients with cervical dysplasia.54-55 Vitamin C supplementation has not been studied by itself as a treatment for cervical dysplasia. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 During these same decades, the idea that chemicals from our industrial age could trigger cancer would become so widely accepted that the term "carcinogens" would emerge as a household word by the 1970s. But science would be sluggish to accept the idea that chemicals could have similar effects on the human immune system. So slow that, even to this day, there still exists no comparable word to "carcinogens" in the world of immunology. |
Bottom Line Health
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| High-heat cooking and grilling produce carcinogens that increase cancer risk. If you do grill, marinate fish or meats in vinegar, lime juice, teriyaki sauce or other marinades, and turn once a minute. This reduces the production of carcinogens by approximately 90%.
USE HERBS AND SPICES OFTEN
Garlic, anise and other herbs, as well as ginger and other spices used in cooking, contain high levels of anticancer phytochemicals. To increase flavor, add herbs and spices to your foods instead of salt, sugar or fat. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The possible role of vitamin C in preventing cervical dysplasia is of special interest because vitamin C is involved in collagen synthesis, detoxifies chemical carcinogens, interferes with the formation of chemical carcinogens, and modulates the immune system. It has been demonstrated in more than one study that there is a significant decrease in vitamin C intake as well as plasma levels of vitamin C in patients with cervical dysplasia.54-55 Vitamin C supplementation has not been studied by itself as a treatment for cervical dysplasia. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Inhibition of the enzyme CYP2E1 may prevent activation of small molecular weight chemical carcinogens such as dime-thylnitrosamine. Additionally, capsaicin may have a protective effect on metabolism, DNA binding, and mutagenicity of selected chemical carcinogens, including aflatoxin and tobacco-specific nitrosamine. These data suggest a chemoprotective effect of capsaicin (Surh & Lee, 1996; Sufh & Lee, 1995).
In a case-control study conducted in Mexico City, a significant correlation was found between consumption of hot pepper and gastric cancer (Lopez-Carrillo et al, 1994). |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Once transferred, it may switch on genes that produce toxins, allergens, or carcinogens, create genetic instability and, in higher organisms, switch on dormant viruses.
The promoter can also transfer and may switch on random genes or viruses
Critics of GM crops have been concerned that the CaMV promoter, used in nearly all GM crops, might transfer into gut bacteria or human DNA. If it does, it may permanently turn on native genes to produce toxins, allergens, carcinogens, or antinutrients. It may turn on genes that regulate cell division, causing cancer. |
Bill Sardi
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 While not an excuse to endure exposure to avoidable carcinogens, most programs to rid the environment of toxic agents are not likely to reduce the incidence or mortality of cancer.
I 1 There is too much emphasis that cancer in one location is different from cancer in another location in the body. There are universal factors involved in all cancers. An exception is cancer involving sex hormones (breast and prostate cancer). |
Mark Schapiro
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 All act like light switches of toxicity upon the human body —potent neurotoxins and carcinogens that most countries in the world had agreed to kick out of global commerce.
Over half a century, hundreds of millions of tons of these chemicals have been sprayed from nozzles, coated onto seeds, and leaked from factories and waste dumps into the soil and water supply. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Also, B vitamins help us eliminate certain drugs, carcinogens, and steroid hormones.
These B vitamins are vital to health and life. Now we will take a look at the individual B vitamins. Each one has its own character.
Vitamin Thiamin, the Carbo Burner
Thiamin was first discovered in Japan in the early 1900s, when the lack of thiamin in white rice caused beriberi. Thiamin was first synthesized in 1936. Thiamin is found in rice bran and rice germ, both of which are removed when white rice is made from brown rice.
Thiamin plays a key role in the metabolism of energy in all cells. |
| Inadequate water intake has been correlated with increased rates of bladder cancer because of the longer time that the bladder may be exposed to potential carcinogens.
One half-gallon to one gallon is a reasonable range of liquids for most people to drink each day. Hard work in the hot sun greatly increases water needs. Coffee,
Figure 7-2 Blood pressure and water retention. tea, sodas, and alcoholic beverages are not good water substitutes as their diuretic action causes losses of about half of the amount taken. |
| Flavins derived from riboflavin play a vital role in the metabolism and elimination of toxins, drugs, carcinogens, and steroid hormones. One flavin, the coenzyme FAD is also needed in the reduction and oxidation cycle of glutathione, as shown in Figure 1-6. This glutathione reduction and oxidation cycle has a major role in protecting us from free radicals such as hydrogen peroxide. When glutathione protects us from free radical oxidation, it becomes oxidized. FAD is needed to reduce (recharge) the glutathione and return the glutathione to its protective state. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Hair dyes (highlights are okay), make-up (women who use make-up on a daily basis can absorb up to 5 pounds of chemicals into their bodies each year, many of them carcinogens), deodorants, toothpaste, commercial synthetic shampoos, moisturizing creams, hand lotion and other such substances, all release large amounts of chemical toxins into the lymph ducts of the breasts, causing lymphatic congestion and high levels of toxicity there.
A Note on the Risks of Wearing Bras:
Wearing bras regularly also impairs proper lymph flow and may greatly increase the chance of developing breast cancer. |
| When you burn paraffin candles, they put out soot and smoke, along with toxins and carcinogens, including very harmful chemicals dispersed by the commonly used lead-core wicks (as studied & reported by the University of Michigan). You would probably never burn paraffin candles unless the bad smell they produce (comparable to diesel fumes) were not covered up by synthetic fragrances, many of which are irritants or toxins themselves. |
| The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has labeled nitrosamines "one of the most formidable and versatile groups of carcinogens yet discovered." In other words, if you are a smoker or if you drink beer, wine, or tea and eat meat, you produce one of the most deadly toxins that can be found anywhere. As it turns out, most meat-eaters also drink wine or beer, and many of them smoke, too. |
| Adding chlorine to drinking water causes a chemical reaction that results in the formation of a cocktail of carcinogens.
Some of nature's most valuable and essential anti-cancer and disease-preventive phytochemical nutrients, which are commonly found in natural foods, have been discovered to form deadly cancer-causing substances when consumed or combined with chlorinated tap water. This has recently been confirmed by a joint study undertaken in Japan by research scientists at the National Institute of Health Sciences and Shizuoka Prefectural University. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Processed meats, such as hot dogs, contain nitrates and nitrites—precursors to carcinogens. Antioxidants (page 467) found in multivitamins keep nitrates and nitrites from converting into those carcinogens. Therefore, the association between vitamin consumption in children and protection against childhood cancers remains plausible, though unproven.
Fish
Fish eaters have been reported to have low risks of cancers of the mouth, throat, stomach, colon, rectum, pancreas,32 lung,33 breast,34 and prostate. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Many of them contain proven carcinogens, yet we utilize them everyday. You don't have to swallow them to be affected. Your body can be contaminated through your skin, nose, mouth and eyes and you may not even know it. We have become addicted to convenience and forgotten common sense. But there is hope. There are many natural cleaning alternatives available that are highly effective and safe for use in the home or office. Please see the Resources section at the end of this chapter or visit www.FitAdvocate.com for more information. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Since September 2006, a state law has required schools in New York to use cleaning products that do not carry any endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, or scents that can trigger reactions such as asthma. Other states may soon encourage similar changes, especially if they hear from enough constituents who support such legislation. Meanwhile, most grocery stores now offer a wide array of safe and toxin-free cleaners (Biokleen, Earth Friendly, and Seventh Generation offer toxin-free product lines). As an alternative, try making your own household cleaners. It's both easy and inexpensive. |
| The best we can do to describe the notion that environmental chemicals might be linked to autoimmunity is to use the clunky phrase "environmental autoimmune disease triggers," which is analogous to saying "environmental cancer disease triggers" instead of, simply, "carcinogens." The term "autogen," I believe, might prove useful for this purpose, and I will use that term to describe chemical triggers to autoimmune disease throughout the remainder of this book. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| If it does, it may permanently turn on native genes to produce toxins, allergens, carcinogens, or antinutrients. It may turn on genes that regulate cell division, causing cancer. In addition, the recombinant hotspot believed to be located in the promoter might lead to instability (additional recombinations) in the DNA, with unpredicted consequences. Since the DNA of higher organisms such as humans, animals, and plants contains dormant viruses, the transfer of promoters between species may also increase the likelihood that such a virus would be activated (see section 2.5). |
| Unfortunately, biotech companies avoid using modern techniques to identify and quantify many known nutrients, antioxidants, mutagens, carcinogens and toxins in plants. Instead, they typically measure only a few items at a gross compositional level (e.g. total protein, total carbohydrates) rather than specific components (e.g. what proteins, what carbohydrates). Furthermore, studies are designed to make it difficult to identify significant differences (see part 3). |
Andreas Moritz
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| Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant shown to block thirty different carcinogens and proliferation of the AIDS virus in test tube experiments. Studies have revealed a strong correlation between increased glutathione intake (from food) and decreased risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer.
I have been eating avocado in my daily lunch salad (avoid eating it in the evening) for over 20 years and found it to be one of the most nutritious foods around.
Mashing an avocado and rubbing it into your hair for five minutes after washing will add luster to your hair; rinse afterwards. |
Ray D. Strand
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 A principle you will learn to appreciate is that if we reduce our exposure to all of these carcinogens, we will produce fewer free radicals for our body to fight. For example, it's difficult for me to recommend eating a healthy diet supplemented with nutritional medicine to a patient who is smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. I know the effect will be minimal at best; and unless he stops smoking, chances of decreasing the risk of cancer are definitely compromised. |
Ron Garner
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 By-products of manufacturing processes that use chlorine, and compounds formed when chlorine interacts with organic matter, called organochlorines, are a serious threat to our health and the environment, both as potent carcinogens (dioxins and pcbs) and as xenobiotics. They are considered so serious that President William Clinton, the World Health Organization (who), and the United States-Canadian Joint Commission (ijc) have called for a phase-out of the use of chlorine and chlorinated compounds.6
However, "calling for it," and actually seeing it done, are two different things. |
| More than 50 of these are known carcinogens and others are suspected mutagens which can cause harmful changes in the genetic material of living cells.12 Visible tobacco smoke represents only about 5 to 8 percent of the chemicals released from a burning cigarette. The rest are invisible. Some of these chemicals include: lead, carbon monoxide, vinyl chloride, hydrogen cyanide, benzene, ammonia, acetone, and nicotine. Nicotine is a powerful nerve stimulant, is extremely toxic, and is the most addictive drug known. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Scientists from the Food Research Laboratories, located in the Shizuoka area of Japan now famous for reduced risks of cancer, found that the incidence of small intestine cancer in rats exposed to carcinogens declined significantly if they were also exposed to green tea extract. Other Japanese researchers agree with this finding. In studies of cancer in mice, animals fed a diet supplemented with EGCG developed half as many tumors of the small intestine as did animals without supplements. |
| Decreasing the Contact of carcinogens With Cells
An enzyme called ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) is the "rate-limiting enzyme" in cancer growth. All cells need the product of ODC in order to initiate cell division. Without ODC, cancerous cells cannot proliferate and normal cells cannot be transformed into cancerous cells; when ODC is no longer available, the tumor cannot continue to grow. Consequently, agents that block induction of ODC can prevent the growth of tumors. |
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