Terry Jones Has Cancer

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Terry Jones, 64, of Monty Python fame, has bowel cancer, which his surgeon feels 'fairly confident' has been caught at an early stage. Jones is in a private London hospital and will have an exploratory operation in the next few days. His agent says he is in 'great spirits' and is still hard at work - he was told of the diagnosis just days before Wednesday's premiere of the Monty Python musical 'Spamalot', when he appeared alongside fellow Pythons Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam.

Jones directed Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and The Meaning of Life, often taking female roles in the films and sketches. Perhaps his most famous line was in Life of Brian when, playing the eponymous hero's mother, he said, "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy."

Good luck, TJ.
 
One of the most underestimated cancers . What evidence exists seems to suggest excessive red meat and not enough vegetables can help make you a candidate for this . It's one of the more common cancers and it most closely associated with working class men in their 50's but given the countrys eating habits that is going to change . It is far more prevailant in working class areas . Eating green veg especially and cutting down on red meat has been proven to cut the risk of it occuring
 
If that were true, then it's odd than the Inuit eat no fruit or vegetables (never mind 'five a day'), but only fish and seal meat, and live cancer-free into old age. Also the Masai, not given to growing crops or eating them bar a bit of bought cassava or maize - living energetically on a diet of animal protein (lots of fresh blood, yum, yum) which seems to do them no harm, either. So I will posit that it isn't red meat eating that does it, but mixing fruit and veg in with animal proteins. Seems that on cultural evidence, they don't go well together.
 
Well there's a good reason to do the Atkins ! I'd be genuinely interested in that research Jon .
 
Having just lost a very dear friend, who I knew from 1977 when I worked as a working pupil at a stud farm to this horrid disease, I wish Terry all the very best.
 
No research, Sols, just a personal observation. (Didn't you read my "20 Years Among the Seal-Holes" and "My Life Among the Masai 1900-1978"??) On the other hand, Japanese fisher families who lived almost exclusively off the fish caught in a certain area had high levels of bowel cancer, until it was discovered that the rivers around them were contaminated with lead!

On a very slightly more serious note (E Flat), the Hays Combining Diet has been very successful in lowering cholesterol, maintaining energy levels and keeping people at a reasonable weight. I had the book (failed, back of class) but its premise is that some foods are bad to combine - the effect is to slow down the transit of food through the gut, often resulting in putrid matter remaining too long in it, leading to a variety of gut ailments, the ultimately nasty one being cancer. It doesn't seem to be a matter so much of what you eat, but your gut transit time that is important. Even the Inuit cope with VAST amounts of saturated fats from the seals - just think of them sitting in their igloos gnawing on large hunks of blubber. (Known locally as 'McCriricks'.)

So, having a good poo at least once a day is probably what keeps bowels nice and healthy. With the reduction in exercise (inc. physical labour which is now done by machinery) among the Western countries, there's a tendency for food not to literally be 'worked off'. It's not so much constipation, but just a slow transit, which causes the problems with the gut. That might explain why 'working' men - those who use heavy machinery now to dig roads, instead of the healthy navvies of yesteryear, may become more prone to gut diseases.

There is a vast amount of literature available on theories to do with gut transit, including overgrowth of candida albicans, which can be overcome by regularly ingesting at least three types of anti-candida 'friendly bacteria', and candida overgrowths are very much more prevalent in Westerners eating higher levels of sugars, and using antibiotics and other drugs which affect the immune system.

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A disease in the meat chain will kill you all
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One of my brothers was diagnosed with this just over two and a half years ago.Luckily it had not broken through the bowel wall, although two large growths were removed. (Misdiagnosed as stress for 8 months by his GP, who just happens to be a horse trainer in his spare time. Just as well he went for a second opinion when he did.) Touch wood - so far he is okay despite an inconvenient side effect but although being raised at home on a diet of meat and two veg and fish on a Friday, thanks to his wife of 36 years, before she left him that is, he had/has a very healthy diet and doesn't go overboard on red meat.
 
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