Although the title suggests this book is about Lung Cancer - one of the cancers with the worst prognosis - Carl Helvie has written a book which could justifiably be considered to be one of the most comprehensive books which ought to be on the shelf of every practitioner, cancer patient and certainly oncologist and which shows how wrong the ‘death sentence’ often meted out by cancer doctors can be. It also shows, par excellence,  how someone, diagnosed with a supposedly terminal cancer can go about constructing a series of effective natural treatment strategies.

Flatulence (wind)

Your windiness will not affect your baby, unless it prevents you from eating regularly and properly, but you can stop it happening, and save yourself a lot of embarrassment, by taking the following measures:

Drugs that can make you worseAspirin and its relatives have a very bad effect on some people with rhinitis and/or asthma (see box on p. 151). Unfortunately, recent research shows that paracetamol is not safe either. It makes asthma more likely to develop in those who do not yet have the disease, and increases the severity of asthma symptoms for those who do. Unlike aspirin, paracetamol affects everyone, because it lowers the levels of a natural antioxidant, called glutathione, which the body makes to protect the lungs from oxidants. The greatest effects are seen in people who take paracetamol regularly (once a week or more), but even an occasional dose makes some difference.

This inspiring, authoritative, highly researched and substantive (450 pages) book combines the dramatic story of Katrina Ellis’ survival and conquest of terminal ovarian cancer over 20 years ago, and is perhaps the finest compilation I have seen of imperatively vital facts for cancer patients, families and support networks and all disciplines of health practitioners:

Stretching ought to play an important role in every individual’s daily exercise routine, whether they are a professional athlete or merely an average person striving to maintain a healthy level of fitness and strength. As anyone who has ever suffered an injury – sports or otherwise – realizes, stretching may play a central role in rehabilitation and recovery to full health, flexibility and fitness.

Dr Thomas Levy is undoubtedly one of the world’s foremost expert in vitamin C. As stated in a review of one of his previous books Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins – Curing the Incurable (2002. Xlibris Corporation; www.Xlibris.com) – www.positivehealth.com/book-view.php ?reviewid=91, Dr Levy trawled through the vitamin C clinical and scientific literature (>24,000 publications on MedLine) and re-unearthed (over the past 50-60 years) the highly substantive clinical and scientific evidence documenting vitamin C’s therapeutic efficacy for a wide range of serious, frequently fatal diseases including polio, hepatitis, measles, mumps, encephalitis, chickenpox, influenza, rabies, AIDS, Ebola virus, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as against many deadly poisons and toxins including alcohol, barbiturates, paracetamol, endotoxin, pesticides, radiation, strychnine, snake and spider venoms.