喜鵲問我 World without Cancer 這本書有沒有中文版，我沒見到。這本書有一章專門談氰化物恐慌，不過比較無聊。有趣的兩小段我這裏介紹一下。
書中大篇幅介紹了罕薩人的食譜，據說吃大量的B17。100多歲的人很常見，而且身體狀態就像50多歲。當然原因可能不光是飲食，幹淨無現代人壓力的環境也很重要。
不知有沒有人去旅遊過？希望有一天我能去實地見識一下，看看這本書裏講的故事是不是真的。
Chapter Three An Apple A Day
Our grandparents accumulated experience through trial and error, and have since been proven to be infinitely wise. 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away' have been more than an idle slogan, especially in an era when it was customary for everyone to eat the seeds of those apples as well.
It is a fact that the whole fruit—including the seeds—of an apple contains an amazingly high concentration of vitamins, minerals, fats, and protons that are essential for health. Apple seeds are especially rich in ni-trilosides or vitamin B17. The distasteful "spring tonic" also was a rich source of nitriloside. Arid grandma's apricot and peach preserves almost always contained the kernels of these canned fruits for winter eating. She probably didn't know what they contained or why they were good for you. But she knew that theywere good for you simply because her mother had told her so.
And so we see that, in the past fifty years, the foods that once provided the American people with ample amounts of natural vitamin B17 gradually have been pushed aside or replaced altogether by foods almost devoid of this factor. Significantly, it is during this same period that the cancer rate has moved steadily upward.
Chapter Four The Ultimate Test
The best way to prove or disprove the vitamin theory would be to take a large group of people numbering in the thousands and, over a period of many years, expose them to a consistent diet of rich nitriloside foods (B17 比如蘋果籽), and then check the results. This, surely, would be the ultimate test.
Fortunately, i,t already has been done.
Hunza is is a tiny kingdom between West Pakistan, India, and China. These people are known to the world for their amazing longevity and good health. It is interesting to note that the average Hunza diet contains over two hundred times more nitriloside than the average American diet. Over there a man's wealth is measured by the number of apricot trees he owns. And the most prized of all foods is considered to be the apricot seed.
British surgeon and physician Dr.Robert McCarrison wrote in January 7, 1922 vissue Of the Journal of The American Medical Association, Dr. McCarrison reported: The Hunza has no known incidence of cancer. They have . . . an abundant crop of apricots . These they dry in the sun and use very largely in their food.
Visitors to Hunza, when offered a fresh apricot or peach to eat, usually drop the hard pit to the ground when they are through. This brings looks of dismay and disbelief to the faces of their guides. To them, the seed inside is the delicacy of the fruit.
