MD "Discovers" Nutrition Through Cancer

MSNBC produces again. Here's an article about an MD who had cancer, chemo failed...well they probably don't believe it did...but his cancer came back, so to me that's a fail. His oncologist said he could eat whatever he wanted, that it wouldn't make a difference. And the MD learned that his cancer specialist didn't know as much as he thought he did.

Some highlights:

1. It's a little known fact that nutrition is barely taught in med schools.

2. Food has healing "powers"

3. Natural cancer-fighting is not an oxymoron

4. To date there's no alternative approach that can cure cancer

5. The medical establishment is slow to embrace a natural anticancer approach despite available research

In regards to number 4, I'd like to point out that there aren't many, if any, scientific articles that support the effectiveness of an alternative approach to cancer, but that does not mean one doesn't exist. If you're religious, remember there's no scientific evidence that God exists either.

As for #5, how much money do you think there is in cancer? How much money is donated to "find a cure" for breast cancer? How much money is spent on these ribbon campaigns? How much money does Big Pharm put in its pocket from the sale of $30,000 treatments? How much money would Big Pharm lose if people spent a fraction of that money at their local farmer's market? Is there an incentive for food to be promoted or proven to be an effective cancer remedy? I've heard rumors of the FDA banning the term "anticancer" when it comes to food. That's an interesting thought isn't it?