Former Texas Governor Ann Richards announced today she has been diagnosed
with cancer of the esophagus and will be undergoing treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Richards,
72, was the 45th Texas governor, a Democrat serving from 1991 to 1995. She rose to nationwide fame as the keynote
speaker at the 1988 Democratic National Convention with the line referring to George H.W. Bush, "Poor George, he
can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." The risks for cancer of the esophagus are far greater for heavy drinkers and smokers. Richards once stated, "I smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish,'' when she sought treatment for alcoholism in 1980.
"Ann Richards holds a special place in Texas history," said Gov. Rick Perry. ''Anita and I join Texans across the state in sending our prayers and best wishes." We wish her all the best too, and a speedy recovery.
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Now certainly the scariest disease in the United States is cancer. Everybody is very horrified when you talk about cancer. People get nervous. And in my tape “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie” I talked about the anti-cancer diet that was found. Everybody goes berserk when I say things like that, “No, there’s no such thing as an anti-cancer diet”, and there you see it. This is a newspaper article, it was actually a news release by the National Cancer Institute. They did a five year study in Henan Province in China, and they chose to go to Henan Province in China because it had the highest rate of cancer in the whole world. They took 29,000 normal healthy people, between the ages of 40 and 69, divided them up into small groups, gave each group a different vitamin, different mineral, combinations of vitamins and minerals, to see if any nutrient or combination of nutrients would reduce this horrible rate of cancer in Henon Province. What they found out was, if you take a single vitamin, don’t expect too much positive to happen. We’re not too surprised at that. Lynus Pauling, one of our favorite sons here in California, two Nobel Prizes, took 10,000mg of Vitamin C everyday for 35 years, and still died of prostate cancer at age 93, 7 years short of the magic number of 100. Well they did find one group that showed significant benefit. This group, had 20 cents a day worth of 3 nutrients, pitifully low dose, double the American RDA, - Beta Carotene, Vitamin E, and the trace mineral Selenium. The group showed a reduction in deaths from all causes of 9%. Suicide, car accidents, things like pneumonia, heart disease, ruptured aneurysms, diabetes and cancer. It reduced all cancer deaths in this group by 13%, and the type of cancer most common in Henon Province, stomach cancer, and lower esophageal cancer they reduced by 21%. Saved almost 1 out of 4 that were projected to die from esophageal and stomach cancer. Just simply from these 3 nutrients, Beta Carotene, Vitamin E, and Selenium. There was a redo on this by the University of Arizona, and this was published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 25, 1996, on Christmas Day, and this should have been the greatest healing and medical story in history. It did not even make the top 10 Associated Press news stories for 1996. That’s how biased the medical profession is against nutrition. This should have been the greatest health story in recorded history. By:
Dr. Wallach
Posted at 1:29PM on Mar 10th 2006 by Lou