The aloe vera plant has long, spiked leaves, which are thick-skinned and contain a clear gel-like substance. It is used today in cosmetics, skin creams, burn gels and sun screen creams. The juice of the aloe vera plant may be consumed internally and is rich in vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

Mr Cabbage Head would like to present his own personal diet for you to try. This is not a short term fix; this is a daily routine to use for the rest of your life. The daily routine can be varied, but make sure the rules at the end are not broken. This page will be updated from time to time.

Morning wake up

Himalayan Crystal Salt washed down with lots of water.

You can purchase Himalayan Crystal Salt as large stones. Place these stones in a glass jar and fill with pure water. Always keep as a saturated solution by adding more stones if they all dissolve. Add 1 teaspoon (5mL) of this solution to a glass of water each morning. This has many minerals including trace elements not found elsewhere. This is the only form of salt that should be consumed.

Before breakfast

1 fish oil capsule.
5g Spirulina.
10g Rose Hip powder
10g Maca powder
A calcium & magnesium supplement.
A vitamin D supplement.

Breakfast

1 or 2 pieces of fruit.
Optionally, have some high quality cereal with goat milk

For hungry people try the The Mr Cabbage Head Power Breakfast.

Lunch

Your choice, but the rules below must be followed. A salad without dressing would be a good choice or maybe a wholemeal salad sandwich. Raw, unsalted nuts and sunflower seeds are great.

Afternoon snack

1 or 2 pieces of fruit.
Nuts may be eaten, but raw and un-salted.
For hungry people add the The Mr Cabbage Head Smoothie.

30-60 minutes before the evening meal

One serving of AIM Herbal Fiberblend for a gentle colon cleanse.

Evening meal

A small portion of meat (about 200g). Mostly this should be fish. Chicken is allowed. Red meat can be consumed once a week, but avoid beef. Lots of raw or lightly steamed vegetables. Always include a large portion of leafy, green vegetables.

Drinks during the day

Try not to drink for 30 minutes before and after a meal.
Drinks lots of water in between meals.
Freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice is good.
For hot beverages, green tea or herbal tea is best.

The rules of the Mr Cabbage Head Diet

Foods you must eat all the time

fresh fruit and vegetables
nuts
seeds
fish

These items may be consumed in moderation

alcoholic drinks
tea and coffee (if you must - only 1 cup a day)
dairy food
red meat
fresh eggs
whole grain based food
honey

These items must be avoided

salt
sugar
soft drinks
bottled fruit juice
wheat
potatoes
all soy products
beef
margarine
canola oil
refined grains
pasta, pizza and potato chips are not allowed.

Supplements

Check out some products used by Mr Cabbage Head.

Warning

If you have a serious illness, seek professional advice before making a radical change to your diet. It is your responsibility to ensure your daily intake of all essential nutrients is adequate.

Try this breakfast which is high in nutrients and fibre.

Ingredients:

10g ground flax seeds.
10g ground pumpkin seeds
10g ground sunflower seeds
10g chopped walnuts
10g chopped cashew nuts
10g psyllium husks

The flax seeds can be purchased ground, make sure they are refrigerated at the point of purchase. The pumpkin and sunflower seeds can be ground in a coffee grinder. Everything must be raw and unsalted.

Mix the ingredients in a bowl and add soy milk or water to make a consistency to your liking. This is a filling meal, so allow time to sit down and eat in a relaxed manner.

The quantities can be varied according to your needs. If you are still hungry afterwards then you need to increase the quantities.

Is there a natural cure for cancer? Mr CabbageHead examines claims regarding five possible natural cures for cancer.

Pau d’arco (Tabebuia impetiginosa)

Pau d’arco is a legendary herb from the Amazon rainforest that is claimed to be a proven cancer killer, especially of childhood leukemia. It has been used in South America for an enormous number of illnesses since the time of the Incas.

Andreas Moritz, a respected healer, tells this story of a 5 year-old girl who suffered from leukemia, and who was about to die. Her parents, in desperation, took her to the clinic of a Doctor Ruiz, who treated the girl with pau d’arco tea. In just 6 days, she had improved noticeably. Six weeks later, the little girl walked out of the clinic completely cured.

Graviola (Annona muricata and Annona montana)

Graviola sounds like some kind of Italian food, but it’s another claimed cancer-killer from the Amazon rainforest. Graviola is 10,000 times more toxic to colon cancer cells than chemotherapy and unlike chemotherapy, graviola has no harmful side effects.

In the early 1990s, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in America began a massive research program to see if they could synthesize the cancer-killing ingredients in graviola and create a synthetic version. Why? Because you can’t patent an herb; you can only patent your own synthetic version of naturally occurring chemicals in the herb. This company tried for seven years, but they couldn’t come up with a chemical isolate of graviola that was effective. However, the evidence they accumulated during those seven years proved beyond a doubt that graviola, the herb, was a miraculous cancer-killer.

Did they let the world know that? No, they didn’t. Instead, the directors of the giant pharmaceutical company swore all its scientists to secrecy, and destroyed all the information they’d learned. It would still be a secret if one man, the only one with a conscience, hadn’t broken the story to the media — most of whom ignored it.

Tayuya (Cayaponia tayuya)

Novel antioxidant chemicals have been discovered in tayuya and named cayaponosides (24 distinct cayaponosides have been discovered thus far). These phytochemicals have been documented to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties and, more recently, to have anticancerous potential. The National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan reported that five cayaponosides in tayuya exhibited significant anti-tumor-promoter activity in screening tests.

Tayuya is used in Brazil and Peru as a blood cleanser and general tonic.

Barbed skullcap (Scutellaria barbata)

Tea made from barbed skullcap has been used for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of cervical, glandular, liver, lung, and rectal cancer. Brian Wong, PhD, of Union College in Lincoln, Neb., tried giving it to a strain of mice bred to develop prostate cancer. Normally, these mice quickly develop fatal prostate tumors. Those who received barbed skullcap had much slower tumor growth.

By attacking the tumor’s blood supply, scutellaria may help to starve tumors to death by blocking their supply of oxygen and nutrients. Conventional treatments target tumor cells but also the normal cells. This causes a lot of side effects. Scutellaria is so selective for just tumor vessels it does not attack normal blood vessels.

“Researchers have been looking for something like this for years and we think that our findings look very promising — our research shows this should destroy all types of cancer” (Camber 2004).

Zeolite

Zeolite is a unique volcanic mineral that is claimed to be highly effective at destroying cancer cells. Results have been so impressive, anyone fighting cancer or wishing to prevent cancer should be using zeolite. It comes in two basic forms, a liquid zeolite, and a powdered micronized zeolite.

Part of what zeolite does is to work on a couple of the basic issues in cancer. It is a powerful detoxifier, and improves the alkalinity of your body. More importantly though, zeolite is a cancer killer as it can, when pulled into cancer cells, activate a gene which tells the cancer cell to die, or literally destroy the nucleus of cancerous cells.

Zeolite works exceptionally well at fighting cancer as an informal 14 month study several years ago showed. 65 people with mostly stage 4 cancer, who had a prognosis of about 2 months to live, were given a type of liquid zeolite. At the end of the study, 51 people were cancer free and six more were alive, but still fighting cancer. This is a 78% cure rate for terminal cancer, and an incredible 89% survival rate.

Note, that a variety of zeolite based products are available. Some have been proven effective, others are ineffective.

Zeolite has a more day to day use - as a very effective cleanser. Mr CabbageHead has found zeolite to be very effective in removing toxins from the body.

Warning

If you have a serious illness, seek professional advice. There may be a natural cure for cancer, but we must wait for proven scientific test results.

References:

Anon. Anti-tumor-promoter activity of natural substances and related compounds. Annual Report 1995. National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1996.

Betancur-Galvis, L., et al. Antitumor and antiviral activity of Colombian medicinal plant extracts. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 1999; 94(4): 531-35.

Camber, Rebecca. Mint hope for cancer cure. Manchester News. July 5, 2004.

Ducki S, et al. Isolation of trans 4-(4′-hydroxyphenyl)but-3-en-2-one from Scutellaria barbata. Planta Medica, 1996, 62, 185.

Gonzales, G. F., et al. Medicinal plants from Peru: a review of plants as potential agents against cancer. Anticancer Agents Med, Chem. 2006 Sep; 6(5) :429-44.

Hadfield JA, Ducki S, Hirst N, McGown AT. Tubulin and microtubules as targets for anticancer drugs. Prog Cell Cycle Res. 2003;5:309-25. Review.

Sun, X., et al. Selective induction of necrotic cell death in cancer cells by beta-lapachone through activation of DNA damage response pathway. Cell Cycle. 2006 Sep; 5(17): 2029-35.

Palaeontologists agree that our early ancestors ate much healthier food than we do today. Despite so-called advances in modern medicine, health problems escalate out of control: diabetes, heart disease, obesity, arthritis, cancer, constipation, diverticulitis, Crohn’s disease, hypertension. Many researchers attribute these diseases of modern life to the drastic changes in our diet.

Our genetic makeup is essentially unchanged over the last 50 thousand years, but the modern diet bears little resemblance to that of the early hunter gatherer.

The Hunter-gatherer diet

The Hunter-gatherer Diet is often called the Paleolithic Diet, Stone Age Diet or Caveman Diet.

Hunter-gatherers ate a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, roots, beans, nuts, tubers, pollen and flowers rich in antioxidants, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre. Researchers believe that the early humans ate up to 100 different varieties of plants. The meat of the hunter-gatherer diet was low in fat and cholesterol.

Furthermore, their diet had a much lower sugar content than ours, foods were consumed soon after gathering, and uncooked food was common.

Let’s explore some major shifts from the hunter-gatherer diet to the modern western diet.

Cultivated crops

As ancient populations began to grow in size they discovered how to cultivate crops; this permitted them to live in one place instead of wandering the earth in search of food. The variety in food diminished and as the population increased the soil became depleted of vital trace elements.

Contrast the rich variety of the hunter-gatherer diet with the low variety of fruits and vegetables in our modern diet. Modern cultivated crops grown in depleted soil and loaded with chemicals cannot compare to the nutrient rich wild plants of Palaeolithic times.

Another disadvantage of crop-growing was that humans now expended less energy on obtaining food. The agricultural revolution saw the start of our sedentary lifestyles that we as modern humans have perfected.

The shift to cooked food

The grains we consume today such as wheat are not a healthly choice. Many grains, beans and potatoes contain toxins in their raw state, have a high glycemic index and are low in vitamin content. When man discovered cooking about 10,000 years ago these foods could be suddenly be eaten. This revolutionised our diet, but is ruining our health.

Cooking also destroys vital micro-nutrients in food. One study found that stove-cooked spinach lost 77% of its folate; another study found that broccoli lost up to 97% of its antioxidants when nuked in the microwave.

Excess sugar

The caveman loved honey, but this was not a major part of his diet. Apart from honey, the hunter-gatherer had a diet free of sugar. In any case, wild harvested honey is rich in nutrients.

High cholesterol

The meat of the hunter-gatherer was low in fat and cholesterol - the opposite of most meats consumed today. We need fat in our diet - a zero fat diet will kill you. It is all about consuming modest amounts of the healthy fats. The modern obsession with beef is killing us and destroying our environment in the process.

High Sodium

The potassium levels in the hunter-gatherer diet was 5 to 10 times higher than sodium. The modern diet has more sodium than potassium. We sprinkle sodium chloride on our food and call it salt. Sodium chloride is a poison, salt is the term used for naturally occurring rock salt which is rich in many minerals and trace elements.

Acidity

The high fruit and vegetable intake of stone age man drove systemic pH toward alkalinity. Today, our high consumption of red meat, grains and diary foods is acid producing. Our bodies will try and balance the acidic condition by drawing on calcium reserves from our bones. Thus, we have an increase in osteoporosis. Don’t believe the hype of the diary industry; we should be getting our calcium from vegetable sources. There is evidence that over consumption of diary food causes osteoporosis.

High Blood pressure

The blood pressure among the remnants of forager populations is consistently lower than that considered healthy today. In addition, their blood pressure remains low in old age. Hypertension is non-existent in hunter-gatherers.

Can we do the Hunter-gatherer diet?

Modern diets are high in energy, low in micronutrients, high in fat and sugar, have a high GI and a low fibre content. Considering our genetic makeup hasn’t changed much in 50,000 years, it’s no wonder so many of us are sick! How do we break this pattern?

We can get much closer to our natural human diet - the Hunter-gatherer diet. It is simple, but you will need an iron will to get started. After some months you will feel great on the proper human diet and you will only go to the supermarket for toilet paper and other non-food items.

Let us know your story if you succeed in making the shift.

References:

Aird, William C. MD. Endothelial Biomedicine. Cambridge University Press. 2007.

Cordain, L. Implications of Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Diets for Modern Humans. In: Early Hominin Diets: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. Ungar, P (Ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.

Crawford, M and Marsh, D. Nutrition and Evolution: Food in Evolution and the Future. 1995.

Ungar, Peter S. Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable Kindle Books 2006.

Below are sites that I have found personally helpful.

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Used in Japan for years, spirulina is a microalgae grown in alkaline, warm-water lakes. Spirulina’s green colour is due to its chlorophyll content. Chlorophyll acts as an antioxidant and may have medicinal benefits against cancer. Spirulina is also rich in phycocyanin, a pigment with anti-cancer properties.

Studies show the anti-cancer properties of spirulina.

Beta carotene is one of the most effective substances for deactivating free radicals, which damage cells, leading to cancer. Spirulina is the richest beta carotene food known, having over ten times more beta carotene than any other food, including carrots. Studies show that vitamin A and beta carotene inhibit the development of various cancers and tumors. Beta carotene (and not the preformed Vitamin A from animal sources) correlated with lower cancer rates.

A 1987 Israeli study demonstrated natural beta carotene is more effective than synthetic beta carotene. Natural beta carotene is better assimilated by the body because it contains the 9-cis carotenoid isomer which is lacking in synthetic carotene molecules. This means that beta carotene in algae and vegetables has a greater antioxidant power than synthetic beta carotene.

An Indian study found that spirulina inhibits the growth of oral tumors: “We evaluated the chemopreventive activity of Spirulina fusiformis (SF) (1 g/day for 12 mos) in reversing oral leukoplakia in pan tobacco chewers in Kerala, India. Complete regression of lesions was observed in 20 of 44 (45%) of subjects supplemented with SF, as opposed to 3 of 43 (7%) in the placebo arm.”

The Harvard University School of Dental Medicine reduced oral cancer cells with spirulina extracts. A beta carotene solution applied to cancerous tumours in mouths of hamsters reduced the number and size of tumours or caused them to disappear. When a beta carotene extract was fed to 20 hamsters pre-treated to develop mouth cancer, none developed the disease. Tissue samples contained an immune stimulating substance believed to have destroyed cancer cells before they could multiply.

Spirulina as a supplement

A traditional food source in parts of Africa and Mexico, spirulina is a rich source of vitamins, minerals, and protein, GLA (essential fatty acid) and one of the few vegetable sources of vitamin B12. AS well as its potential anti-cancer properties, spirulina is a good supplement with many benefits.

References:

Amotz, B.A. Presentation to Polysaccharides from microalgae workshop. Duke University, 1987.

Balch, P.A. and Balch, J.F. Prescription For Nutritional Healing.

Mathew B, Sankaranarayanan R, Nair PP, Varghese C, Somanathan T, Amma BP, Amma NS, Nair MK. Evaluation of chemoprevention of oral cancer with spirulina fusiformis. Nutrition and Cancer 1995; 24(2):197-202.

Menkes, et al. Serum beta carotene, vitamins A and E, selenium, and the risk of lung cancer. N.E. Journal of Medicine, Nov. 1986, p. 1250.

Pitchford P. Healing with Whole Foods.

Schwartz, J., Scklar, G., Suda, D. Inhibition of experimental oral carcinogenesis by topical beta carotene. Harvard School of Dental Med. Carcinogenesis, May 1986, 7(5) 711-715.

Shekelle,R.B.etal. DietaryVitaminA and risk of cancer in Western Electric study. Lancet,1981,8257:1185-1189.