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DIABETIC APES BANANA THER
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"MICHAEL" == MICHAEL O’DEA <michael.o writes: We have heard time and time again that sharks don’t get cancer, neither do eskimos and that the incidence of cancer in Japan is low.
Mostly, it’s people trying to sell bits of sharks that claim that they don’t get cancer. How true is the statement? Is it true that eskimos don’t get cancer—I’ve not heard that one before? Frankly, I find both quite implausible, regardless of how often I’ve heard them. — Bruce Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/
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Yes, sharks can get cancer. Including cancer of the cartilage.
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Mostly, it’s people trying to sell bits of sharks that claim that they don’t get cancer. How true is the statement? Is it true that eskimos don’t get cancer—I’ve not heard that one before?
I expect the second rumour is propagated by people trying to sell bits of Eskimo… 
— regards, IanP (I may be having intermittent mailer problems. If you’ve mailed me recently, and not had a reply, please try again…) Poole, Dorset, UK IT Project Specialist - Ideas for Hire
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DIABETIC APES BANANA THERAPY Can this miraculous breakthrough in the treatment of diabetic apes be extrapolated to the human condition?
Bananas have a rather high glycemic index, resulting in postprandial hyperglycemia in many diabetics (me, in particular) unless accompanied by a rapid release of insulin. (See Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, v69, pp100-107 (1991) for a review of the glycemic index.) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – We have heard time and time again that sharks don’t get cancer, neither do eskimos and that the incidence of cancer in Japan is low. On the other side of the coin, we are continually bombarded (however so subtly) with the merits of scientific study into the "likely success" of transplanting foetal ANIMAL organ(ism)s, tissues or cells into the human body although such transplants with human donors have largely proved unsuccessful in the past. Could we possibly, dare I say, be barking up the wrong tree? Are these sufficient criteria for embarking on extensive scientific investigation? Possibly so. What about the fundamental crux of the matter? That diabetes (IDDM), like so many of the ills besetting modern man, is an auto-immune disease, where for one reason or another the body has decided to attack itself. Such diseases may well thrive regardless of whether one isolated diseased part of the body is replaced with a healthy substitute or if one follows the strict diet regime of the great white pointer. Clearly, a multi-pronged approach is needed to both stimulate and enhance the immune system as well as assist the regeneration of any diseased state. The rationale being to raise the vitality of the body sufficiently to allow it to heal itself – au naturel. What other factors are involved? Could the solution be other than "medical" or scientific? Is this the only area of investigation we can make a quantifiable analysis? Is that necessary? When we find the answer, we will have cured AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, MS, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus and much more including diseases which have a significant auto-immune element to them such as cancer. Anyway, whatever treatment(s) we may undertake we must do so with the utmost faith and conviction – there’s at least power in that. Over to you. Michael P.S. could anyone please post this to any relevant newsgroups, I’m off eating bananas with the eskimos.
Huh? What do *any* of the above statements have to do with reality? [I've crossposted to alt.usenet.kooks - TDS.]
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DIABETIC APES BANANA THERAPY Can this miraculous breakthrough in the treatment of diabetic apes be extrapolated to the human condition? We have heard time and time again that sharks don’t get cancer, neither do eskimos and that the incidence of cancer in Japan is low. On the other side of the coin, we are continually bombarded (however so subtly) with the merits of scientific study into the "likely success" of transplanting foetal ANIMAL organ(ism)s, tissues or cells into the human body although such transplants with human donors have largely proved unsuccessful in the past. Could we possibly, dare I say, be barking up the wrong tree? Are these sufficient criteria for embarking on extensive scientific investigation? Possibly so. What about the fundamental crux of the matter? That diabetes (IDDM), like so many of the ills besetting modern man, is an auto-immune disease, where for one reason or another the body has decided to attack itself. Such diseases may well thrive regardless of whether one isolated diseased part of the body is replaced with a healthy substitute or if one follows the strict diet regime of the great white pointer. Clearly, a multi-pronged approach is needed to both stimulate and enhance the immune system as well as assist the regeneration of any diseased state. The rationale being to raise the vitality of the body sufficiently to allow it to heal itself – au naturel. What other factors are involved? Could the solution be other than "medical" or scientific? Is this the only area of investigation we can make a quantifiable analysis? Is that necessary? When we find the answer, we will have cured AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, MS, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus and much more including diseases which have a significant auto-immune element to them such as cancer. Anyway, whatever treatment(s) we may undertake we must do so with the utmost faith and conviction – there’s at least power in that. Over to you. Michael P.S. could anyone please post this to any relevant newsgroups, I’m off eating bananas with the eskimos. "Just Do It – in Bondi!" ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
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