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Cancer Alternative Treatments: Documentary Analysis
Cancer Alternative Treatments

The year 2008 was one of the most difficult one of my life emotionally. On March 4th 2008 my Grandpa died of pneumonia. This is the first time in my life that someone close to me had died. I was in 7th grade at the time. I remember how everyone in my family was saddened and in a sense shattered by this event. At first I was in complete shock for the longest time and in disbelief that he passed. We were supposed to celebrate his birthday four days later on March 8th.
My Tia Meli had cancer during this time and she was not told right away that her father had passed away. She did go to the funeral once she was told. My Tia passed away April 14th 2008, seven days after her birthday and a month after my Grandpa. I remember when we
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Edward Griffin theorizes that cancer is a result of a lack or deficiency of a specific nutrient or vitamin. This nutrient or vitamin he says people with cancer lack, is “vitamin B17.” It also goes by the name of amygdalin, nitriloside, and Laetrile. Vitamin B17 is found in various grasses in nature and Griffin explains that there has never been an animal found in nature with cancer. He says it’s only when animals are taken from the wild and put in man-made exhibits such as zoos’ that they then develop cancer. He gives very specific examples of what happened to bears in a zoo. Over a six year period five bears died from cancer. In captivity animals are not freely allowed to eat the foods they would forage for in their natural habitats. Bears in the wild consume berries that contain vitamin B17. When a bear kills a deer, by instinct they eat the rumen or stomach which contains nitrilosides (vitamin B17) from the various types of grasses the deer consumed. It is when they are captive and are not being fed foods that are rich in nitrilosides (vitamin B17) that they develop and are often killed by

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