I have friends who cured themselves of cancer with fasting and raw food! I will show it in my Movie!

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Permalink Reply by flower on May 2, 2009 at 10:16pm

Please put the whole breast cancer thing in it. Look on my page...THANKS FLOWER

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Permalink Reply by Priyam on May 6, 2009 at 7:49am

Bryan, I am a cancer survivor and totally into Raw foods. I also really appreciate what you are doing here and it is very inspiring to a lot of people. However, I must tell you that it is misleading IMHO to tell people that ANYTHING cures cancer. I have survived the 'Medical Model' of treatment and also pursued elements of Natural Healing. Telling people that something cures Cancer is just taking the same principles as the Medical Model and applying it to more 'alternative' or 'natural' means. The body heals itself. It often does so against great odds and all kinds of Medical and/or 'Alternative' treatments. The body and it's life force do the healing. Fasting, Raw foods or a healthy diet minimize the input of unhealthful substances into the body and thereby allow it greater freedom to do it's work. But there is nothing that we eat or take in that 'heals' anything.
My intention is not to bash your obviously well-intentioned efforts here. I just think it very important to be clear about these things. I personally feel it is important to realize how influenced we all are (including me) by the Medical Model which is based on combating disease - often in the form of symptoms; and that this is not an approach that is primarily designed to promote health. So i suggest that it is 'tricky', at the least, to take the Medical Model and think that we can apply it to Natural or Alternative methods.
I applaud your efforts & support of raw foods diet. I hope my words stimulate some thoughts about healing & health for all of us - especially those of us who have survived such a health crisis as cancer!! Peace!!

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Au on May 6, 2009 at 9:28pm

Hi Priyam I appreciate your comments and advice, suggestions of course. But the fact is we ALL HAVE CANCER! Yes we all have it in our bodies, but there are a few factors that "trigger" it and that is pollution, toxins, lowered immunity, some genetics comes into play. So you are right if you want to get ultra technical there is no "cure" but what is considered CANCER is when our immunity or body is over run but the malignent cells. RAW helps to "REVERSE" that if you want to get technical but I hear ya! Also look up Acrylamide on Google.com....

RAW Solves, prevents, "Reverses" many things...

Also have several friends that have medical proof their cancer was "cured" or "reversed" by using fasting, colonics and raw foods, it may not work for everyone but it did for them and they have medical proof of it.
I think there is a lot of room for research and the medical community mostly wants to find a PILL CURE so they can make more $$$ from people who have conditions that they want to heal. RAW by far is the best all natural solution or one therapy to try and explore, thanks for your comments.

Raw Organic Chef Bryan Au

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Permalink Reply by Priyam on May 6, 2009 at 10:20pm

Bryan, this is a fun discussion! and i do not wish to make it into debate. But, simply put, the notion that raw foods or anything else CURES is no different than the thinking that a pill will cure cancer. please think about it: it's the exact same paradigm. Just because raw foods is more 'natural' than drugs does not make it any difference. you are attributing to some external agent what teh body actually does on its own. The body heals itself not some external thing ingested or applied to it.
in regards to your expression that food RAW helps to "REVERSE" anything: again, i do not wish to split hairs with semantics; we are either ingesting toxic substances or not. when we are not, this could be labelled in one way as 'reversing'; What we are , in fact, reversing is our habit of ingesting toxic substances. i simply see it as the cessation of poisoning our system. Reversing our habit is more accurate IMHO.
'Medical Proof'? again, my take is that we wish to attribute to raw foods, fasting, etc the actual work that the body does. for example, I truly believe that chemo is poison. Yet if a persons survives cancer and was given chemo, should they then attribute that healing to the drugs? This is EXACTLY the same as what you are saying about raw foods. do you see that?
I am so delighted that your friends' cancers are gone. and medical acknowledgment of this is in no way proof that raw foods or fasting cured them. I survived cancer but did not do exclusively raw foods. can i then choose to declare what i think what 'cured' me? If I am cancer free according to medical tests, can I state with full certainty that whatever I ate or utilized (for example: herbs or supplements) 'cured' me?
i totally get that you are enthusiastic about a raw diet. I greatly admire and appreciate your infectious enthusiasm which inspires many of us. However, suggesting anything - even the raw foods we love & embrace for our own health - is still another version of the Medical Model. Thank you for your willingness to explore this with me!!!

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Permalink Reply by Priyam on May 7, 2009 at 8:01am

Bryan, allow me to approach this in a different way.
when one makes a statement like "I have friends who cured themselves of cancer with fasting and raw food!" it is very exciting & encouraging news. However, it is a very broad statement. I would certainly encourage raw foods to anyone fighting cancer. But can you see how this statement begs so many questions? Questions like: how much fasting? which raw foods? which raw food diet? were your friends 100% raw? 80%? what does it mean to eat 80% raw? can i eat _____ on a raw diet? should i fast on juice? only water fast? do i still see my doctor? should i still do chemo, radiation, etc if raw foods can cure? etc, etc, etc.....

I am totally with you in that I fully endorse raw foods. There is no doubt to me - whether there is medical proof & acknowledgment or not - that eating raw is an awesome tool for anyone facing an illness. My take is that, by eating healthfully or fasting, we are MINIMIZING the input of toxic substances into our bodies. This allows the body to do it's work of healing. To me, I could not call this a 'cure'.

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on May 7, 2009 at 8:27am

HI Bryan

I am feeling like you are taking some unnecessary risks right now. Not only do people already want to attack vegetarians but they are REALLY on the warpath right now. Look at how Peta bought space on billboards that said Go Vegetarian and were forced to take them down by the meat industry. Look at Oprah who was sued for saying be vegetarian on her show- by the meat industry. There have been authors sued for saying that. I can't remember the guys name right now but very prominent healthfood writer who has had a lot of spots on tv. I know the FDA has been given the right to go into a company and take everything just because they suspect something. Basically randsacking theplace, destroying product, sticking that product somewhere where it gets ruined so it can't be sold. Do you have a lawyer? You need to discuss this with some people skilled or who at least aren't in denial. If you want to be Jesus thatis one thing. But getting nailed to a cross, and having people take all of your money doesn't seem like what you really want.

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