Vegan YouTuber Who Claimed Raw Food Cured Her Cancer Dies From Disease

Newsweek ^ | 2/21/18 12:58 PM | Kashmira Gander

[rlmorel]

Funny how the debate always seems to go one way on this.

I disagree with people who think curing a cancer can be done by following a certain diet or eating some unusual thing, but I believe if they want to do it, they should be able to. If they die, that is on them.

If I want to engage chemotherapy, the same people will mercilessly ridicule you, accuse you of being a dupe of “big Pharma” and feeding “the health care scam”.

[logi_cal869]

There’s much truth to that statement for reasons almost no one understands the cause (it’s not the radiation).

[T-Bone Texan]

That people are such credulous, mouth breathing followers of fads has made me lose faith in my fellow American.

Oh but hey, are we still doing dicks out for Harambe, or can I put this back now?

And also, folks are snorting Tide Pods now. Everyone’s doing it, and I want to fit in with the cool kids, so....

[T-Bone Texan]

I’d ask Steve Jobs about how drinking kale smoothies cured his otherwise easily-treated cancer, but I can’t.

[rlmorel]

Well, he had pancreatic cancer, and to my understanding, that one is a pretty deadly cancer. It is treatable early on, the problem with it is that people often show no symptoms at all until it is too late, and the 5 year survival rate for that cancer is 25%...so it is a bad one.

But I know exactly the point you make, and agree.

[Buckeye McFrog]

She could have chosen medical treatment and still died.
Possibly much more miserably.

[Rockingham]

In principle, her approach makes sense in that the right kinds of greens have potent anti-cancer effects, while glucose from sugars and starches helps feed cancer growth. In one famous example, a Greek American with terminal lung cancer declined treatment and went back to his boyhood home in Greece to die among friends and family. Living in a simple hut on a remote island, he ate nothing but wild greens that he collected on the hillsides, supplemented with olives and occasional small portions of cheese and fish. After six months, his health improved and he was found to be clear of cancer.

Yet there is an inherent fallacy in advancing such accounts in that few people are able to make such wrenching changes in diet and lifestyle. Modern medical science has no easy answer for cancer treatment, but it is making progress. Eventually, within a decade or so, cancer will be mostly treatable and curable even with the faults of our modern diet and lifestyle.

[exDemMom]

Cancer cells use exactly the same nutrients as any other cells in the body. Anecdotal, unverifiable stories aside, there is no way anyone’s diet is going to cure a cancer.

[Rockingham]

Let me be clear: I would not recommend a “diet cure” in place of conventional treatment for cancer, but diet can be an important part of avoiding or combating cancer. The medical evidence shows that a Mediterranean type low inflammation index diet and at least moderate physical activity reduces mortality from cancer and other causes. Moreover, cancer cells are by definition abnormal and do better with high glucose than with ketones and related compounds that the body produces for fuel during fasting and when on low glycolic diets. The old advice of “starve a fever” may be ill-founded, but “starve a cancer” may soon be common medical advice.