The Beautiful Truth

Hi all, this is just a short post about a movie that Derek and I recently watched. It's a documentary made by a 15 year old, homeschooled boy from Alaska. He sets out to prove and disprove different theories concerning cancer, its causes and treatments. He and his father fly all over the country to interview patients, doctors, different people working in the food industry, etc. I have to admit, when Derek told me that he wanted me to watch this documentary...I was about as excited as I get to clean the kids' bathroom toilet;O) but...afterwards, I was very grateful that Derek had literally MADE me sit down and watch this. It's quite interesting and very informative. Anyway, Derek has requested that everyone take time to rent this movie. We rented it through Netflix and had it streamlined from our laptop. Here's a link to the movie's webpage:

http://www.thebeautifultruthmovie.com/


Thanks,

Misty and Derek

An Interesting Message from a Friend

Below is a copy of a private message sent to me from a friend on Facebook (Thanks Ronnie!!)


Hey - Derek is WAY ahead of the game for this coming out!

JOHNS HOPKINS(very interesting) New Info on cancer

Excellent information!!!I'm passing it on to everyone.......PLEASE READ


I THINK EVERYONE WILL FIND THIS VERY INFORMATIVE.


AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

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 cellsin their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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 color. 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. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruit 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).

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.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. 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.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. 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. Learn to laugh.

16. 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.

1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin.. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Interview w/Rick Warren

This came to me in an email, twice! I forwarded it on, but it is so good, that I couldn't resist posting it here as well:O)

An Interview with Rick Warren (REMEMBER, HE WROTE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE)

You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is a short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life' author.

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body --but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.? No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is 'my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her.? It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people ...You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.? It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.? That's why we're called human beings, not human doings. Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.

My Lean Mean Cancer Fighting Machine

Whew...we've had a busy few weeks!!

Let me get to Derek's updates first...
Derek completed his 21 day, deep cellular detoxification (http://www.drcelltox.com/). I'm so proud of his strong will and determination. He then ordered the 'Bob Beck Protocol'. There was a small misunderstanding concerning exactly what products, company, and the price of the products...so we are waiting for the rest of it to come in the mail. During this time, Derek happened upon the name of a naturopathic doctor in our area http://innovationsfps.com/wellness.html). We had our first appointment with Dr. Wilson on Wednesday, April 8th. She spent a little over two hours with Derek. She was extremely thorough. She wrote up a very strict protocol for Derek...including recipes, diet, what supplements to take when...etc. Two things that we learned yesterday were that 1) Derek's blood sugar level was slightly high and needs to come down (sugar feeds cancer) and 2) His body fat ratio was just a tad bit higher than what it needs to be, as well. I was a bit shocked by both of those little tidbits, as Derek has radically changed his diet and lost so much weight!! All in all it was a very positive experience and she gave us a great deal of information. I am learning that there is definitely an art to this...to ridding oneself of cancer the alternative way!! So...she did some tweaking to his 'treatment plan' and before long, Derek will be a lean mean cancer fighting machine!! Derek is scheduled to return in two weeks for blood work.

In other Pressley household news~
Nate got glasses and is amazed at how well he can see ~haha!! Derek got new glasses as well, and they both look very handsome in their new glasses;O) Nate crossed over from Webelos to a Boyscout; we are so proud. He had his first camp out with the Boy scouts and made it through a 5 mile hike. Hannah started volleyball and is really giving it her all!! She is having so much fun playing. We are proud of how hard she tries and her work ethic during practice. She too has been very active in Junior Girl scouts. She took a cooking class, and made a delicious dinner for the entire family complete w/salad and dessert!! She also took a cake decorating class, and made an adorable smiley face cake. Caedmon lost his first tooth!! He has been doing so well in school this year on his spelling tests, his reading and his handwriting is beautiful!! Selah does pretty well with her big girl potty and likes wearing big girl panties...sometimes. She has a huge vocabulary and cracks us up daily with the things that she comes up with...She is quite a character!! She is still the boss, or so she thinks!

Spring Break was beautiful for the biggest part of the week, and we enjoyed the time off. We stayed up late and slept in, often!! On Derek's day off we packed a picnic and headed out to Waterloo for lunch. We fished, and Derek was the only one to catch anything...one small bass. We walked around the entire 'lake', fed the ducks and finally, gave up on the fishing and played at the playground. All in all, spring break was very relaxing, and we got very little accomplished other than some good quality, family time together!!!

Once again..God has used a dear one to remind us that we are not in this alone. He has shown us, through the kindness of others, that He knows our needs and that He will provide! I am blessed by His goodness. I am amazed at His timing!! So, the following is a message to someone special...~THANK YOU~ Thank you for the card and gift!! It came at THE right time!! God knows!! He knows our needs!! And even though, we do not know who you are...God does, and I know that He will bless you! What you sow you will reap. We pray for you, and we thank God for you..for your sensitivity to the Spirit, and we thank God for your generosity:O) God bless you!!

Well...that's all I have at the moment. To each of you who take the time to check in on us, and who continue to pray for us...we thank you so much. The prayers and support we have received have kept us going. Thank you:O)
~Misty