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From: tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions)
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Subject: Re: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy  FLAME!!
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 13:47:16 EST
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> In response to some thing that came onto my terminal:
> 
> > Laetrile is one of the less common B vitamins. (I forget which one)
> 
> WRONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!! WRONG!!!!!
> Laetrile is not a B vitamin.  It never has been, it never will be.
> It is classified as a cyano-polysaccaride, that is a sugar that contains
> a cyano chemical group.  It is basically cyanide conjugated to a very
> large sugar.  B vitamins are not sugars. They never have been and they
> never will be.  
> 
> I believe that a definition of vitamin is in order.
> 
> A vitamin is a substance that you must provide in your diet, without which
> you will die.  Not get sick, but die.  That is dead, deceased, past-away,
> stiff, rigormortized, left for the vultures, not going to come back again in
> this present form, dead.
> 
> Did your mother warn you about eating enough peach, prune or apricot pits?
> If it was important, she would have said something and I think that staying
> alive is one of those things that she would have considered important.  
> 
> 
> > Hard to imagine a B vitamin hurting anyone.  (if you get more than
> > you need, your body dumps the extra)
> > 
> I won't even bother to argue whether vitamins can hurt you or not.
> It should be obvious that if you can die of too much water, then you
> can die from too many vitamins.
> 
> > Nutritional type therapys are much better, since they work *with*
> > your body, instead of *against* it, as drugs tend to do.
> 
> Statements like the one above make me very depressed.  It is based
> on what someone read in a book by somebody who got on a talk show and 
> who happens to know this doctor who's cool and has had an aunt that had
> this lump on her leg that went away when her microwave oven broke down and
> swears that running backwards reverses time.
> 
> The world is in sad shape. 
> 
> -- 
> Carter Bullard
> ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
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       You want	FLAME you opened yourself up perfectly.	 Laetrile
       is the common name for Vitamin B17 no matter what your
       opinion might be	(just like B15=Pangamic	acid, B13=Orbic
       acid, B12=Cyanocobalamin, B6=Pyridoxine,	need I go on).

       My mother never told me to eat peach pits, unfortunatly she
       also didn't tell	me not to use refined sugar and	flour or
       chocolate or caffine or eat to much meat.  Obviously your
       mother knew as little about nutrition as	yourself and some
       of the other people partaking in	this discussion.  The B
       vitamins	are neccessary for the proper nerve balance of the
       body and	I dare say we could not	live without them.

       As for your dislike of nutritional methods remember that	bad
       nutrition is at the heart of many of todays major ills.	It
       is proven, scientific fact that in areas	of the world where
       people eat good food and	have a proper attitude these
       problems	(cancer, heart conditions, arthritis, etc) are
       almost unknown.	The only person	who can	cure you of a
       disease is yourself, if you denie your body of the building
       blocks and tools	then all the drugs cannot help you.