Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to billions. 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. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

There are two ways in treating cancer that is chemotherapy and radiation. 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. Radiation however destroys cancer cells and also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs. Initial treatment with these two will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use does not result in more tumor destruction. They can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

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 Mänuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

b. 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.

c. 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.

d. 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).

e. 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.

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

During the fly-by around Mercury, the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, observed what seemed to be scalloped edged cliffs which had been mostly created by the shrinking action of the planet as it cooled in time. The same evidence has been observed by the Mariner 10 orbiter during its three fly-bys around the planet, albeit Mariner 10 images seem to suggest that they could have only formed in the early history of Mercury.

The real question is: why isn’t any older features remnant of the shrinking of Mercury on its surface. Virginia Tech professor Scott D. King believes that the loss of heat from the mantle through the crust may have also had an important role in the dynamics of the formation of scalloped edges. Thus, while waiting for the MESSENGER spacecraft to collect gravity and topographic data in order to test this theory, professor King started creating a computer simulation of the silicate mantle of Mercury to model the three-dimensional heat convection patterns which take place beneath the surface.

According to King, mantle convection of Mercury would form long and linear rolls on the surface, opposite to compression alone which would create a random pattern. Further still, it is now obvious that these features created by contraction, assisted by heat convection, are much more different that what we have seen on all the other rocky planets in the solar system, because Mercury is much smaller than the others – meaning it would have a thinner mantle and a larger core in relation to its size.

This basically means that the orientation of the features is determined only by mantle convection, thus MESSENGER could collect data to confirm the model, as all evidence points towards a still active convection process. It is clear that scalloped edged cliffs stopped forming a couple of billions of years ago, but the planet is so cool now that not even mantle convection could further modify the structure of the surface.