eugenez@azure.UUCP (Eugene Zinter) (02/27/85)
I see one group of people saying B17 exists (with no proof). I see another group of people telling the first group that they are insane (basically) and that B17 doesn't exist (with no proof shown to the first group). Why not prove this the easy way? Someone with a good reference book (like perhaps Carter Bullard) please show the molecular definition of a B Vitamin. Show the existing B Vitamin molecular definitions and then show the molecular definition of the supposed B17 molecule. Then point out how this B17 molecule differs (even if it is self-evident) from the B Vitamin group. It would also help if someone used English that doesn't require translation into real world English. There now, isn't it a lot easier to do it this way, rather than watching everybody ranting and raving at each other like little children do when they disagree? This B17 thing started a long time ago. The theory I read about was that normal healthy cells (human) are unaffected by Laetrile molecules. However there is something peculiar to cancer cells that allow them to unlock the Laetrile molecule. That is, the CYANIDE within the Laetrile is released only when the Laetrile comes into contact with cancer cells, thus poisoning and killing ONLY the cancer cells. Supposedly this also keeps women from getting pregnant because the newly developing fetus has this same strange "ability" to unlock the Cyanide. An example was quoted about some island where the native women eat papaya seeds daily. As long as they eat their daily ration of papaya seeds, they never get pregnant. I do not know if the theory holds any water, but the example of eating papaya seeds may be true. Papaya seeds also contain Laetrile. Myself, I am leary of eating foods that contain poison (cyanide for example). I try to mimimize my intake of toxic poisons anyway I can. I believe if I eat TRULY natural foods (you won't find too many in most "health food" stores), I won't develop cancer and won't have to resort to all the known (and unknown) remedies to save myself. Eugene C. Zinter
figmo@tymix.UUCP (Lynn Gold) (03/14/85)
> Myself, I am leary of eating foods that contain poison > (cyanide for example). I try to mimimize my intake of > toxic poisons anyway I can. I believe if I eat TRULY > natural foods (you won't find too many in most "health > food" stores), I won't develop cancer and won't have to > resort to all the known (and unknown) remedies to save > myself. > > > Eugene C. Zinter Adele Davis said the same thing. She died of lung cancer. --Lynn Gold Tymnet, Inc. ...tymix!figmo