Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Healthiest Seed You Have Never Heard Of

There are hundreds of different types of cancer. The odds of getting some type of cancer at some point during your lifetime are relatively high especially considering what scientists tell us. They tell us that our bodies are continually making cancerous cells. That's pretty scary, isn't it? Well, there is a way to prevent those cancerous cells from ever developing into cancer. a way to destroy those cells before they have a chance to do any harm. It involves the use of apricot seeds.

Normally our immune systems can deal with the cancerous cells that our bodies are producing, scientists say. However, what if yours cannot? That means you will develop some type of cancer. So, perhaps you should try taking apricot seeds as a method of cancer prevention just in case.

Now, before you head off to your local health foods store or nutrition store and grab whatever bag of apricot seeds you can find, there are a few things you need to know. Generally, when you think about any type of food supplement, vitamin, or nutritional enhancement, you probably think about heading to your local health food store. After all, these types of stores more often than not carry all types of nutritional foods, vitamin supplements, and other varieties of healthy items that are not routinely sold at regular drugstores or grocery stores.

However, not everything can be found at your local health food store. For example, if you are trying to follow a cancer preventing regimen of eating apricot seeds, you will not be able to find the correct product for your regimen at any local store. First and foremost, the apricot seeds you would find at your local store are not the type of seeds you could use for cancer prevention.

Health food stores carry either sun-dried or roasted apricot kernels. While these may have nutritive benefits, they do not have any type of cancer preventive properties. Instead, you need raw apricot seeds. The cancer prevention properties of apricot seeds have not been proven by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In fact, the FDA does not agree that apricot seeds work to prevent cancer at all. They do not allow health food stores to sell raw apricot seeds. Well, it isn't completely disallowed; however, stores may not indicate in any way that they are selling the raw apricot seeds as a method of cancer prevention. For example, stores cannot even display the seeds anywhere near books that claim that apricot seeds could be used as a method of preventing cancer. If they do so, the FDA can prosecute.

The FDA has no problems with stores selling roasted or sun-dried apricot seeds, though. These do not have any type of cancer preventative properties. Internet laws, however, are different.

This is why people are able to purchase the raw seeds over the internet and raw is the way to go. The seeds can be purchased in quantities of a pound all the way up to fifty pounds and they are not expensive. One pound should last a person for a couple of months because you only have to eat a few per day.

Raw apricot seeds have a special construction that allows them to destroy cancerous cells in the process of roasting the seeds or sun-drying the seeds, this special construction is, itself, destroyed. Roasted and sun-dried seeds do not have the component that is necessary to destroy the cancer cells.

Raw seeds are comprised of amygdalin. Amygdalin has cyanide locked away that only cancer cells can unlock. When the amygdalin comes into contact with a cancer cell, the cyanide comes and destroys the cell. It is this component that the roasted and sun-dried apricot seeds are lacking.

Amygdalin is also called B17. In its extracted, pure form it is also known as laetrile. Laetrile has been used to treat cancer sufferers in some cancer clinics.

Raw apricot seeds have are similar looking to an almond and have a unique taste unlike any other nut. They are little bitter tasting but their nutrient value outweighs the taste. The seeds can also be ground up and used on salads, soups, yogurt, as a seasoning on number of foods, in your favorite smoothie, etc. They can also be eaten along with other nuts (highly suggest all nuts be raw), I particularly like eating them with raw walnuts.

I have been eating raw apricot seeds for quite some time and wish I would have known about them sooner. There is some controversy from certain sources but have to consider the source and the motive. Would highly suggest incorporating apricot seeds in your diet.

Joni Bell has many years of extensive study in the area of natural cancer prevention and treatment. Find out more by visiting http://www.apricotseedresources.com

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