Ridiculous cancer email

Bonnie sent me an email with some information about cancer and nutrition, that was supposedly from the John Hopkin's Research Institute. For those of you who aren't familiar with John Hopkin's, it is a very prestigious research institute with a very good reputation. Thus, after reading the email I found it VERY hard to believe it's from John Hopkin's, since most of the information contained within is wrong and false. I would like to highlight some of the more ridiculous statements made in the email. I understand that some of the statements might not be as ridiculous to other people, since I do happen to know a lot about this sort of sciency stuff, but I will try to explain why they are ridiculous so you don't fall victim to believing other such rubbish.

1. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk, cancer cells are being starved.

WHAT??!! Cancer cells DO NOT FEED ON MUCUS. This is true for the very simple fact that mucus remains in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and most cancers are NOT found in the GI tract. Thus, they do not come in contact. Mucus does not feed cancer. Mucus is not broken down and does not enter the bloodstream, thereby to travel to cancers and feed them. So, cutting out milk does not, in fact, have any effect on cancer.

2. Cancer cells thrive in an acid enviroment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork.
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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.

The acidity or alkalinity (pH) of your food does not affect the overall pH in your body. First of all, everything you eat is broken down in your small intestine and subsequently absorbed into the bloodstream. The bloodstream has an entire buffering system contained within it to keep its pH at the correct level, without which we would die. The pH level in the blood is crucial because it allows oxygen to be collected from our lungs, and then released once it is in our tissues. Any acidity or alkalinity in your food, which would enter your bloodstream in the small intestine, would be buffered by your blood and would not be transported to the rest of your body. In addition, all food must pass through your stomach, which is very acidic and DOES NOT become alkaline - EVER. No matter what you eat (unless you do something really bad, like drink a base. And then you would die). Thus, any 'alkaline' foods you eat will have their alkalinity negated once they reach your stomach. In summary, you cannot change the pH of your body by what you eat. This would be bad. Don't try to do it. Your body knows what pH it should be. Let it do its job.

3. 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.

YOU CANNOT ABSORB LIVE ENZYMES. Once your food reaches your stomach, it enters a very acidic enviroment. If there were any live enzymes in your food, they are quickly inactivated by this inhospitable environment. Once in the stomach, enzymes start digesting your food. The digestion continues once the food reaches the small intestine. The enzymes digesting your food digest everything up into little itty bitty bits, such as amino acids (the buidling blocks of proteins and ENZYMES), lipids (the building blocks of fats), nucleic acids (the building blocks of DNA or RNA) or carbohydrates (the building blocks of sugars). All LIVE ENZYMES will also be digested into little itty bitty bits such as amino acids or peptides (small strings of amino acids). You cannot absorb live enzymes. The small intestine is designed to absorb the building blocks, not entire enzymes.
The other part of this statement is also wrong. Even if you could absorb live enzymes, they would not reach the cellular level within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance the growth of healthy cells. Your food doesn't make it to your small intestine in 15 minutes - it is in the stomach for awhile while it is physically mashed and partially digested by enzymes, before it continues to the small intestine. Therefore, you couldn't absorb anything within 15 minutes through the small intestine. The stomach, on the other hand, doesn't absorb very much in general, and thus would not be a candidate for absorbing 'live enzymes'.

4. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

Again, WHAT??!! Cancer cells do not have a tough protein covering. But, more distressing to me, ENZYMES USED TO DIGEST MEAT CANNOT TRAVEL THROUGH THE BODY TO ANY TISSUE WHERE A TUMOR MIGHT BE. This is just ridiculous. As I have said, whole, live enzymes do not leave the digestive tract. They cannot enter the bloodstream and travel to a tumor, there to digest away at some mythical protein covering on a cancer cell. In addition, how do these digestion enzymes 'know' where to go to digest the cancer? Please do not believe this bulls**t. It's total bologne.

These were just the most outrageous comments made in this email, passing itself off as real scientific literature out of John freaking Hopkin's institute. I can only hope it doesn't scam too many people and cause them to start malnourishing themselves according to the information supplied in this email. It should serve as a warning to all those out there - anyone can write anything they want and it can all be false. In this case, this email had some small half truths that sound ok, except they aren't totally correct. From these half-truths, completely false statements are concluded. It is wrong. Please take it from someone with 8 years of post-secondary under their belt, with a specialty in microbiology and immunology.