Russ, your point on raw vs processed is a good one. However the listing makes no such distinction for coconut oil. The fact that cancer is virtually unknown among nearly all primitive societies is surely pointing the finger at western diet, lifestyle and polution as a, if not the, the major causative. To what extent western medicine's elimination of many infectious diseases and better hygiene has perhaps actually increased cancer rates (by pushing up the average life span, and suppressing survival-of-the-fittest selection pressures) is perhaps a mute point.
Kevin Nolan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Rosser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:01 PM Subject: Re: CS>Priorities > I think it's imperative to distinguish between the essential food product > and its processing! If you buy fats/oils in a form that has stable > shelf-life, it may be damaged. Concerning this list... > > > Foods Associated With Cancer Risk > > 1.. Fat, smoked, and cured meat - Harmful nitrites and nitrates. > > 2.. Butter, cream, high-fat cheeses - Non-essential saturated fat. > > 3.. Margarine and commercial oils - Harmful compounds. > > 4.. Vegetable shortening - Hydrogenated vegetable oils > > 5.. Tropical oils-palm and coconut - Non-essential. > > 4 & 5 aren't about oils at all--they're about the hydrogenation process, > which turns any oil into a tool of mass population-reduction. Raw butter & > cream are actually *medicinal,* and raw cheeses are concentrated sources of > thousands of different strains of friendly bacteria. Only rarified, > industrialized products merit such one-dimensional critique. > > > Notice #5; coconut oil is a no-no here, yet Mary Enig et al champions it > as > > an anti-cancer agent. It is this kind of disagreement among alternative > > health practitioners that leaves one wondering. > > Raw coconut oil? There was a HUGE thread about coconut's anti-microbial > properties some time ago. The lists harps on "saturated fat." Cancer was > unknown among Eskimos whie their diet was up to 90% fat, in the form of RAW > whale blubber, etc. Even the word "eskimo" means 'eats it raw.' > > --Russ > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
