Cancer, diet and global warming with the producer of curing cancer from the inside out

In this article, Mike Anderson shares about cancer, diet, and global warming. Mike Anderson, is a medical researcher, author of The Rave Diet, and filmmaker / producer of “Eating” and “Healing Cancer from the Inside Out.”

Kevin: So, Mike. If all of this doesn’t work, what is?

Michael: Food. I put some studies on the film … the Office of Technology Assessment funded the Gerson Therapy. It beat the pants to conventional treatments. This was at different stages of the melanoma. It just takes the pants off conventional treatments. They don’t like these studies. They don’t want to finance them. It is very hard.

Macrobiotics was presented to the NIH, the National Institute of Health and they tried to get funding because they had six terminal cases, cancer cases, where the cancers were totally reversed. They were all biopsied and they were all confirmed and everything. Now, wouldn’t you think that people should be interested in this? Who should fund more studies? No, they cannot get money for more funds for anybody.

You know that allopathic medicine does not, their story is to shut down any nutritional approach because they are very threatened by it. This was even around the turn of the century, 2001 or so. It’s on the website, the Sushi Institute. Anyway, they are totally threatened because it works. It is more effective. Instead of destroying the body, you are trying to build it.

I specifically included macrobiotics because they have a long history, 100 years of history. In fact, the founder of Macrobiotics reversed the cancer. But they have a long history of reversing cancers. So I look at the macrobiotics and that’s almost 100% done. Then I look at raw, and that’s 100% raw, raw. And I think the bottom line here is that, the common ground is that they’re all plant-based, 100% plant-based. They are all organic. Organic is very, very important because organic foods are so much richer in micronutrients, the antioxidant families. Those are the ones that will fight cancer effectively. It’s an organic whole food diet and that’s it. Whether raw or cooked, it’s partly a personal preference, in terms of the box and so on.

Kevin: You knew this movie was going to make waves. So one, how did you prepare for it? Two, what kind of feedback have you gotten from people who weren’t happy?

Michael: In fact, I didn’t prepare much for it. What I did was try to make it as credible as possible and close the loop on all the arguments. To make it as tight as possible. I’ll tell you a story. I don’t know if Brian Clement wants me to tell him this or not, he was interviewed in the movie, but he and his wife watched it for seven hours, seven hours looking for a way out. They were mainly looking for an angle that conventional medics could use to attack me and they couldn’t find it. So my approach was to make it as tight as possible and as credible as possible. As a result of that, I haven’t had a lot of negative comments, except that people don’t want to talk to me.

I’ve been to KPFK, they are a local non-profit station here in Los Angeles. I’ve been there and they were very responsive, as was the audience. I mean, people are hungry for this new thing. But getting it out there is very, very difficult.

People will say, “Oh my gosh. You should be on the main news shows” and things like that. And I say, “Well, have you looked at the sponsors of those news shows? They will never accept me.” You know, you have meat, dairy, and drugs and I’m preaching against all of those. So it’s hard to get it out, but word of mouth is extraordinarily strong; is driving all of this. And thanks to programs like yours and others, more and more people are getting on the train.

I was at the Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona this weekend and a lady and her husband came by, specifically to see me. They flew in from Tampa. And it was because they saw “Healing Cancer” a month ago. His father started with colon cancer, it spread to his liver, now it’s in his lungs. You have received a round of chemotherapy; I couldn’t take it anymore. So they were looking for something. They put him on a diet and within a month all of his cancer markers had dropped dramatically. They were delighted with the whole thing. They wanted to fly and thank me for that.

The strange thing is that most people think that cancer is this dreaded disease that kills people. Well, you know, cardiovascular disease kills more than twice as many people as cancer, that’s a pretty scary disease. But people keep in mind that cancer is scarier, but it is not. It can be controlled through food. People get the idea that, well, cancer is a dangerous disease that needs strong medicine. You need something that will make people fall and vomit all day for days and it will make them sick. That is strong medicine. You need the opposite. You need something that strengthens the body. People, if you stop this toxic diet and get on a good diet, you will see miraculous things happen. Not only with cancer, but the whole body will be cured.

Kevin: Let’s talk a bit about the Rave diet. There are many people who are on this call who do not know what that is. So, let’s give you a little information on that and …

Michael: OK. I wrote the book mainly because people were asking me for something to go with the “Eating” DVD. Because after watching the “Eating” DVD, they’ll say, “Okay, I’m ready to change my diet, but what should I do?” And even though I list, at the end of the movie, all kinds of books, and on the website even more, they wanted something from me. So I wrote it primarily as a very short, very easy to read, very short guide, if you will, on how to switch to this diet.

I also have a transition diet, because sometimes it is difficult for people to go on the full Rave diet. So I have an easier transition diet so they can evolve into it. One man, for example, was too much for him because he had been eating processed foods his entire life and had horrible gas from all the fiber. So I tell people, “Calm down. You can go slow,” you know, unless you have a terrible disease that you’re fighting. But what Rave stands for is an acronym, it means there are no refined foods. The A is not food of animal origin, the V, which gets me in trouble with most people all the time, means there are no vegetable oils; E stands for no exceptions and exercise. There are a number of subrules within that. It’s not just that acronym. For example, eat at least half of your food without cooking. Also ingredient lists, it has a full explanation of how to read ingredient lists, etc. But it is very well done.

Kevin: No oil. Let’s talk about it.

Michael: OK. I got it mostly, I started if you look at Ornish, Essylstyn, Furman, a lot of doctors who really reversed heart disease and have studies to prove it; all specifically exclude vegetable oils. There are clinical studies, it tears the arteries. Essylstyn says it’s as good for your arteries as roast beef. If you look at the nutrient scales, the key to a good diet is getting as much nutrients per calorie as you can. If you look at vegetable oils, they have the lowest nutritional value of any food on the planet. It’s all fat, very few nutrient values ​​per calorie.

It is a refined food, on top; the molecules of vegetable oils are unstable. They produce free radicals. It is a promoter of some cancers, particularly skin cancers, and so on. So I’m just saying that there are substitutes for that. If you’re cooking and want to brown potatoes or something, use applesauce or apple juice or vegetable broth or something like that. You have to cook it slower, but it browns just as well. So that’s the problem with vegetable oils. I tell people at first with this, “Hey, if you do, you can reverse your heart disease.” I’m not going to go against all the doctors who have successfully proven that heart disease can be reversed. All exclude vegetable oils.

Kevin: Yes, I think it makes sense to follow the research of the people you mentioned, like Furman and Essylstyn and these guys, rather than recreating the wheel in a theory.

Michael: Well well. I have to continue; these guys are my heroes. I can’t challenge them and I want to, if someone comes out with a heart disease reversal study that specifically includes vegetable oils, then I’ll take a second look at it, just like they do. But so far that has not happened.

Kevin: Who do you think you have learned the most from?

Michael: Damn, I don’t know. That is hard. They all say the same thing, essentially, in different ways and are doing their thing. At the beginning, there was John Robbins, the emotional, environmental aspect, in particular. He was huge. McDougall, it was huge too. He was giving all this health boost. Then of course Fuhrman and Ornish and a few others, Esselston. I’d say probably McDougall and, at first, McDougall and John Robbins.

Kevin: Great. You mentioned global warming, again, and I think we should probably talk about that because it was an additional part of the movie, “Eating.” What are some of the implications of the way we eat, in relation to global warming and the environment?

Michael: It’s methane, that’s the most important thing that has been overlooked. I’m not an expert on that, but what I did was summarize what the experts have said. It’s hard for people to visualize this, but there are hundreds of millions of cows and other animals that emit methane, both from their mouths and their butts. It enters the atmosphere and methane is a powerful heat hunter, much more powerful than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide will stay in the atmosphere much longer, but methane actually traps heat. Studies have shown that, in fact, methane has caused almost half of global warming to date. The number one source of methane is the animals we raise and eventually eat. So the great thing about methane is that it only stays in the atmosphere for eight years. If people reduced their consumption of animal products, they could recycle them very quickly. There could be a more immediate impact on global warming, on cooling. That’s not going to happen, but let’s say everyone in the world cut 1/3 of their meat consumption and reduced livestock accordingly. That could have a huge impact on global warming, and very soon. Whereas the carbon dioxide that remains in the atmosphere for so long. It is not going to have such an immediate impact and that is what we need, it is an immediate impact, because we are there, as they call the turning point.