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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Information on Cancer

CANCER UPDATE

I received this reading via an email, and have adapted it for posting here. Even though it's not related to frisbee, but just wanted to share it, in case it is useful (read: no water bottles in freezer).


1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.


2. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

3. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

4. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

5. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

6. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.


CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a.
Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful.
A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.


b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells.To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).


Other Do's and Don'ts
a.
Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

b. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

c. No plastic containers in micro.

d. No water bottles in freezer.

e. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Forehand Clinic



Though the application is for Disc Golf, but there are some pointers that you can pull use for Ultimate. Check it out.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Dratss' Call Tree

Our flow of information



Hi Dratss,

We have a Call Tree in place. Information (on training, pick-ups, AGM etc) will be passed down the tree to Weihao, Amy, Ivan, Derek and Yeesin. The 5 of them will be responsible for informing the people in their group.


Please send on the same message so that information will not be distorted. When your replies are required (on attendance etc), please reply to the SMS so that the 5 of them can revert to Xuefen and I.


For the newbies, please inform them according to who had invited them for the game. E.g. Melvin to inform Sharon, Esmond, Gabriel, Xiaowei, while Yeesin inform Ruth etc.



Thanks !

Legoman

Super Heroes Summer League 2007

Super Heroes Summer League registration is now open!

Hey Singapore!

Hot on the heels of Winter League, we are bringing you, Super Heroes Summer League 2007! Starting from the 3rd of Jun, till the 28th of Jul, in the middle of summer in sunny Singapore, super heroes and super heroines of all ages, powers and physique will be forming teams to pit their skills against one another for the title of “The Ultimate Super Hero Team”!

This will be a co-ed, hat league, which means both Super Heroes and Super Heroines will be playing on the same team. Teams will be formed from Captains drawing the names of the heroes randomly out of a quantum optimizer. Registration for the league will start on the 7th of May, and will close on the 21st of May. This can be done on the Sing Ultimate Website itself.

For those of you who aspire to lead a superhero team to victory and glory, please indicate your desire to captain a team in the registration form. Such a desire is not without its benefits, as not only will captains will pay a discounted fee, your name will forever to placed in the Halls of Valhalla. For those of you looking for more details, please visit the Oracle for your answers.

We hope to see all of you down there playing your hearts out!

Super Heroes Summer League Committee. The original article and image courtesy of Singapore Ultimate

Wisconsin vs Florida 2007

Monday, May 07, 2007

Family Guy and Ultimate Frisbee

Value of Community Site Questioned

Chief Administrator considers tearing down site
DRATSS- Chief Administrator OSM has hinted of plans to tear down the DRATSS community since it posed no added value to the DRATSS community. "Initially, it was hoped to be a site to disseminate information. But I guess my vision was ghastly overrated." says OSM.

The site has been going through construction lately in view to celebrate the dawning of the new age of a new DRATSS. However, shocking rumours of the tear down was confirmed when the press contact OSM for verification. "It has been a year? Well, we have seen good days on the site but I think it is just a bubble. People do not really intend to make this site an integral part of the culture. I am still not sure though, but plans to tear down the site has been definitely a serious consideration."

Backing up the rumours is the removal of blogging rights from the contributors who have remained silent since rights to blog have been granted.

The news to tear down the site will only be confirmed when OSM returns from his Hong Kong trip, after the 17th May 2007.