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Experiences, Large Scale, and Clinical Test reports

Here we give a collection of applied research, clinical and field test reports, antique and modern knowledge, and other experiences from sufficient identifiable and trusted sources.

We did our best to exclude questionable information. However, the following references are far from comprehensive. Too many are cooking their soup on cancer fear and on hypochondrias; and in a $900 billion business, one may expect to read through tons of misleading information. That includes all and any information coming from parties occupied with sales in the cancer industry, directly and indirectly.

Disclaimer: We are no researchers, investigators and no health care providers, and we do not provide for legal due diligence and medical advise. Instead, we ask you to use your own capacities and to perform your own research. You may use the following information as a first step in your efforts.

Last update: Friday, January 16, 2009

Chronic and Temporary Conditions

1. Cancer: 1, 3, 4, 26

2. Cancer Prevention: 16

3. Alternative Cancer Cures: 6, 9, 17

4. Alternative Cancer Prevention: 10, 23, 24

5. Leukemia: 4, 20

6. Immune system:  17, 23, 24

7. Internal Inflammations: 15, 27

8. Blood, Vascular, and Cardiovascular Diseases: 12, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26

9. Gastrointestinal Conditions: 12, 17, 23

10. Rheumatic Diseases, Gout, Arthritis: 17

11. Skin and Dandruff: 12,

12. Physical and Chronic Conditions: 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 22

13. Depression: 17, 24

14. Pregnancy: 17

References and Comments:

1: Z Gesamte Inn Med. 1959, 14 (8): 408-412.
Tumorbehandlung mit roten Rüben
A. Ferenczi, District Hospital Csorna, Hungary
(Article in German, download free of charges)
English Translation of the clinical test report above:
Tumor Treatment with Red Beets.
A. Ferenczi, District Hospital Csorna, Hungary
Copyrights for the English translation: BetterBe Inc. Download for non-commercial purposes free. In all other cases please contact info@betterbe.ca.

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3: Z Gesamte Inn Med., 1961, 16 (10): 437-439.
Tumorbehandlung mit roten Rüben bzw. mit Anthozyan-Farbstoffen
A. Ferenczi, District Hospital Csorna, Hungary
(Article in German, download free of charges)
English Translation of the clinical test report above:
Tumor Treatment with Red Beets or Anthocyan Pigments, respectively
A. Ferenczi, District Hospital Csorna, Hungary
Copyrights for the English translation: BetterBe Inc. Download for non-commercial purposes free. In all other cases please contact info@betterbe.ca.

4: Z Gesamte Inn Med., 1961, 16 (13): 574-576.
Zusätzliche Behandlungsmethoden bei Krebs, Leukämie und anderen Tumoren?
(Schluss aus Nr. 11)
Dr. med Siegmund Schmidt, Naturheilverfahren, Bad Rothenfelde
(Article in German, download free of charges)
English Translation of the clinical test report above:
Additional Treatment Methods of Cancer, Leukemia, and other Tumors?
(End from Nr. 11)
Dr. med Siegmund Schmidt, Naturheilverfahren, Bad Rothenfelde
Copyrights for the English translation: BetterBe Inc. Download for non-commercial purposes free. In all other cases please contact info@betterbe.ca.

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6: Natural Cancer Treatments
The professional written and very comprehensive commercial for Phi Natural Health International LTD (copyrighted 2004) has many merits, names no author, and describes nearly all anticancer diets and alternative treatments.

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9: COMPREHENSIVE CANCER THERAPY, Arlin J Brown's cancer therapy advice:
Revised 1996 by Arlin J. Brown, (References revised Dec., 2003).
Very short and skillful written appreciation of several alternative cancer cures.

10: Dr Johanna Budwig Diet
The most famous anticancer flax oil/cottage cheese diet, with many testimonies and success stories. Dr. Budwig's cookbook is available in English (Original copyright 1952 by Dr. Budwig, 1994 for the English version, published by Apple Publishing Co. Ltd in Vancouver, BC).

11: CA Cancer J Clin 2006; 56:254-281, doi: 10.3322/canjclin.56.5.254
American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention
Lawrence H. Kushi, ScD, Tim Byers, MD, MPH, Colleen Doyle, MS, RD, Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD, Marji McCullough, ScD, RD, Ted Gansler, MD, MBA, Kimberly S. Andrews, Michael J. Thun, MD, MS and The American Cancer Society 2006 Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee
Dr. Kushi is Associate Director for Etiology and Prevention Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA.
Dr. Byers is Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics; and Deputy Director, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO.
Ms. Doyle is Director, Nutrition and Physical Activity, Cancer Control Science, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Bandera is Assistant Professor, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.
Dr. McCullough is Nutritional Epidemiologist, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Gansler is Director of Medical Content, Health Promotions, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.
Ms. Andrews is a Research Associate, Cancer Control Science, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.
Dr. Thun is Vice President, Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.

12: Biomed Pharmac other. 2007 Dec;61(10):640-58. Epub 2007 Nov 20.
Lifestyle-related factors and environmental agents causing cancer: an overview.
Irigaray P, Newby JA, Clapp R, Hardell L, Howard V, Montagnier L, Epstein S, Belpomme D.
Cancer Research Center, Association for Research and Treatments Against Cancer (ARTAC), 57-59 Rue de la Convention, 75015 Paris, France. philippei.artac@gmail.com

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14: Cancer Letters, Volume 143, Supplement 1, September 1999, Pages S19-S23
International Symposium-Workshop on Epidemiology and Prevention of Cancer
Major avoidable risk factors of cancer
S. Tominaga, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, 1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan

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16: American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), Press Release Feb. 11, 2008
Cancer Experts: Don’t Look to Supplements for Cancer Protection.
Shannon Campbell 202-328-7744 x235, Glen Weldon 202-328-7744 x312

17: Beetroot (2004): Chapter 6, Health and Nutrition
Stephen Nottingham's comprehensive knowledge and experiences with red beets. Many statements were not up-to-date at the time of writing, and many of his remarks in direction of Ferenczi are not reliable or even wrong (compare FAQ, Question 18).

18: Russian healers claimed that beets could cure tuberculosis, scurvy and toothache while some Russian women used beet pigment to rouge their cheeks and keep away mosquitos.
http://gggiraffe.blogspot.com/2008/01/whb-vegetable-stories-and-potato-salad.html

19: Rev Environ Health. 2008 Jan-Mar;23(1):1-37.
Environmental and occupational causes of cancer: new evidence 2005-2007.
Clapp RW, Jacobs MM, Loechler EL.
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA. richard.clapp@gmail.com
Abstract:
What do we currently know about the occupational and environmental causes of cancer? As of 2007, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) identified 415 known or suspected carcinogens. Cancer arises through an extremely complicated web of multiple causes, and we will likely never know the full range of agents or combinations of agents. We do know that preventing exposure to individual carcinogens prevents the disease. Declines in cancer rates-such as the drop in male lung cancer cases from the reduction in tobacco smoking or the drop in bladder cancer among cohorts of dye workers from the elimination of exposure to specific aromatic amines-provides evidence that preventing cancer is possible when we act on what we know. Although the overall age-adjusted cancer incidence rates in the United States among both men and women have declined in the last decade, the rates of several types of cancers are on the rise; some of which are linked to environmental and occupational exposures. This report chronicles the most recent epidemiologic evidence linking occupational and environmental exposures with cancer. Peer-reviewed scientific studies published from January 2005 to June 2007 were reviewed, supplementing our state-of-the-evidence report published in September 2005. Despite weaknesses in certain individual studies, we consider the evidence linking the increased risk of several types of cancer with specific exposures somewhat strengthened by recent publications, among them brain cancer from exposure to non-ionizing radiation, particularly radiofrequency fields emitted by mobile telephones; breast cancer from exposure to the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) before puberty; leukemia from exposure to 1,3-butadiene; lung cancer from exposure to air pollution; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) from exposure to pesticides and solvents; and prostate cancer from exposure to pesticides, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and metal working fluids or mineral oils. In addition to NHL and prostate cancer, early findings from the National Institutes of Health Agricultural Health Study suggest that several additional cancers may be linked to a variety of pesticides. Our report also briefly describes the toxicological evidence related to the carcinogenic effect of specific chemicals and mechanisms that are difficult to study in humans, namely exposures to bis-phenol A and epigenetic, trans-generational effects. To underscore the multi-factorial, multi-stage nature of cancer, we also present a technical description of cancer causation summarizing current knowledge in molecular biology. We argue for a new cancer prevention paradigm, one based on an understanding that cancer is ultimately caused by multiple interacting factors rather than a paradigm based on dubious attributable fractions. This new cancer prevention paradigm demands that we limit exposure to avoidable environmental and occupational carcinogens, in combination with additional important risk factors like diet and lifestyle. The research literature related to environmental and occupational causes of cancer is constantly growing, and future updates will be carried out in light of new biological understanding of the mechanisms and new methods for studying exposures in human populations. The current state of knowledge is sufficient to compel us to act on what we know. We repeat the call of ecologist Sandra Steingraber: "From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act."
PMID: 18557596 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

20: Anemia: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/anemia-000009.htm

21: Betaine Lowers Homocysteine Levels
http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/479/

22: Betaine: Use against Atherosclerosis, Diabetes, Myocardial infarction, Obesity, Stroke
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/betaine-000287.htm
From the University of Maryland, Medical Center, Center for integrative Medicine

23: http://townsendletter.com/June2003/medicinalfoods0603.htm
Enhancing the effects of folate with whole foods that prevent colon cancer and maintain intestinal integrity. (Medicinal Properties in Whole Foods).
From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Nick, Gina L.

24: Vitamin B 9 (Folic Acid), use against Alzheimer's disease, Angina, Atherosclerosis, Breast cancer, Burns, Cervical dysplasia, Colorectal cancer, Crohn's disease, Depression, Hypercholesterolemia, Myocardial infarction, Osteoporosis, Ulcerative colitis
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/vitamin-b9-000338.htm
From the University of Maryland, Medical Center, Center for integrative Medicine

25: Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, April 1, 2006; 83(4): 905 - 911.
Dietary choline and betaine assessed by food-frequency questionnaire in relation to plasma total homocysteine concentration in the Framingham Offspring Study.
E. Cho, S. H Zeisel, P. Jacques, J. Selhub, L. Dougherty, G. A Colditz, and W. C Willett
From the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (EC, GAC, and WCW); the Departments of Nutrition (WCW and LD) and Epidemiology (GAC and WCW), Harvard School of Public Health; Boston, MA; the Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (SHZ); and the US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA (PJ and JS)

26: Eur J Nutr. 2006 Mar;45(2):113-22. Epub 2005 Jul 20.
The effects of cranberry juice consumption on antioxidant status and biomarkers relating to heart disease and cancer in healthy human volunteers.
Duthie SJ, Jenkinson AM, Crozier A, Mullen W, Pirie L, Kyle J, Yap LS, Christen P, Duthie GG.,
Phytochemicals and Genomic Stability Group, Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen (Sco) AB21 9SB, UK. sd@rri.sari.ac.uk, PMID: 16032375

27: Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, February 1, 2008; 87(2): 424 - 430.
Dietary choline and betaine intakes in relation to concentrations of inflammatory markers in healthy adults: the ATTICA study
P. Detopoulou, D. B Panagiotakos, S. Antonopoulou, C. Pitsavos, and C. Stefanadis
From the Department of Nutrition Science–Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece (PD, DBP, and SA), and the First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece (CP and CS)

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