While most may think they are poisonous and should be avoided, they are harmless as long as eaten in moderation. For example if you eat the flesh of the fruit along with the seeds you'll be fine. If however you decide to eat a whole cup of apple seeds you could end up with cyanide poisoning.
It's really no different than with any other food. If you eat too many candies you'll end up with an upset stomach. If you eat greasy foods you'll end up with heart disease. Drinking to much alcohol can cause alcohol poisoning.
Here is a list of food high in Vitamin B-17. By eating these foods in moderation, on a daily basis and refraining from other junk food we can live long, healthy lives without having to worry about becoming a victim of cancer.
Beans:Black beans, Black-eyed peas, Burma, Chickpeas, Fava, Garbanzo, Green pea, Kidney beans, Lentils, Lima beans, Mung, Rangoon, Scarlet Runner, and Shell.
Berries:
Blackberry, Boysenberry, Chokeberry, Christmas berry, Crabapple (Wild), Cranberry, Currant, Elderberry, Gooseberry, Huckleberry, Loganberry, Mulberry, Quince, Raspberry, and Strawberry.
Grains:
Oat groats, Barley, Brown Rice, Buckwheat groats, Chia, Flax, Millet, Rye, Vetch, and Wheat Berries.
Grasses:
Acacia, Aquatic, Johnson, Milkweed, Sudan, Minus, Wheat Grass, and White Dover.
Leaves:
Alfalfa, Beet tops, Eucalyptus, Spinach, and Watercress.
Nuts:
Bitter Almond, Cashew, and Macadamia.
Seeds:
Apple, Apricot. Buckwheat, Cherry, Chia, Flax, Millet, Nectarine, Peach, Pear, Plum, Prune, Sesame, and Squash.
Sprouts:
Alfalfa, Bamboo, Fava, Garbanzo, Lentil, and Mung.
Tubers:
Cassava, Sweet Potato, and Yams.
In order to spread, some cells from the primary cancer must break away, travel to another part of the body and start growing there. Cancer cells do not stick together as well as normal cells. They also may produce substances that stimulate them to move. But how do cancer cells travel through the body?
There are three main ways a cancer spreads
- Local spread
- Through the blood circulation
- Through the lymphatic system
There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Most cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which they start - for example, cancer that begins in the colon is called colon cancer; cancer that begins in basal cells of the skin is called basal cell carcinoma.
All cancers begin in cells, the body's basic unit of life. To understand cancer, it's helpful to know what happens when normal cells become cancer cells.
The body is made up of many types of cells. These cells grow and divide in a controlled way to produce more cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy. When cells become old or damaged, they die and are replaced with new cells.
However,sometimes this orderly process goes wrong. The genetic material (DNA) of a cell can become damaged or changed, producing mutations that affect normal cell growth and division.Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign tumors aren't cancerous. They can often be removed, and, in most cases, they do not come back. Cells in benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body.
Malignant tumors are cancerous. Cells in these tumors can invade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body. The spread of cancer from one part of the body to another is called metastasis. Some cancers do not form tumors. For example, leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood.
Estimated new cases and deaths from cancer in the United States in 2010:
New cases: 1,529,560
Deaths: 569,490