The latest study has found that diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer's, stomach ulcers and an array of other conditions as well: Women eating the most processed meat were 25 per cent more likely to die early than those eating the least processed meat, while men had a 16 per cent increased risk.

Gardasil: So far, more than 11,900 girls and young women have reported adverse events - including paralysis, coma, seizures and more. The number of deaths reported is currently between 32 and 45, based on different sources. That number may seem statistically low compared to the number of girls that have received it, but if it were your daughter, the statistics wouldn't matter.

Vitamin B17/Laetrile is probably one of the most controversial medical topics in the last 30 years. When the B17 comes into contact with cancer cells, there is no Rhodanese to break it down and neutralise it, but instead, only the enzyme Beta-Gucosidase is present in very large quantities. When B17 and Beta-Glucosidase come into contact with each other, a chemical reaction occurs and the HCN and Benzaldehyde combine synergistically to produce a ‘poison’ which destroys and kills the cancer cells.

Vitamin B17 is found in almost all fruit seeds such as the apple, peach, cherry, orange, nectarine and apricot, as well as some beans and many grasses such as wheat grass. The seeds of these fruits (particularly apricots) hold the source of one of the most important nutrients known to man. It is one of the main food sources in cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Himalayan Hunzas and the Abkhasians. Did you know that within these tribes there has never been a reported case of cancer? Research has shown that these tribes never contract cancer or suffer from heart disease if they stick to their native diet, which is exceptionally high in both apricots and millet.

Now in a combined study from China and the US, researchers say that regular consumption of green tea may reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer by about 12 per cent. Tea has been used as an alternative medicine in China for thousands of years. In China, tea has been hailed as a miracle elixir with the power to do almost everything from lowering stress hormones and soothing the symptoms of PMS to protecting against disease.

It seems that we’re in for a bumpy ride in more than one way this year. Whilst I can perhaps still excuse the government for not finding clear answers to our economical prospects for 2009, I cannot excuse them in any way for not presenting solutions in fighting cancer and helping to prevent this disease form causing so much pain and suffering. Why am I saying this? Let’s look at the four cancer culprits mentioned in the headlines...

So which ‘powerhouse vegetables’ exactly do we need to incorporate in our diets? Cruciferous vegetables includes not only cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, but also arugula, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, daikon, garden cress, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, radish, rape (canola), rapini, rutabaga, tatsoi, turnip, wasabi and watercress.

Few people understand the vital importance of the lymphatic system. And because it is overlooked or forgotten we don’t pay attention to keeping it healthy – a potentially fatal mistake which could keep all of us in the loop of bad health or even send us on the rocky road of developing cancer and other life threatening diseases.

The idea that vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, could be used to treat cancer was advanced in the 1970s by American scientist Linus Pauling. He is one of a small number of individuals who received a Nobel Prize more than once.

In an ideal world breast cancer should be detected at its very early stages, before the tumour has grown to a sufficient size. Unfortunately, for the tumour to be detected by a mammogram or physical examination it must’ve grown for several years, and achieved more than 25 doublings of the malignant cell colony. You guessed it: By the time you get a warning from your mammogram the tumour may already be at a growth-stage where it is too difficult and too late to treat.