[WanderingOak]

Originally Posted by bylto

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Vitamin B-17 is one of the main sources of food in cultures such as the Eskimos, the Hunzas, the Abkasians and many more. Did you know that within these tribes there has never been a reported case of cancer? According to Dr. Krebs, we need a minimum of 100 mg of vitamin B-17 (the equivalent of about seven apricots seeds) too nearly guarantee a cancer free life. Foods that contain vitamin B-17 are as follows:

* KERNELS OR SEEDS OF FRUIT: The highest concentration of vitamin B-17 to be found in nature, aside from bitter almonds. Apple, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, plum, prune.
* BEANS: broad (Vicia faba), burma, chickpeas, lentils (sprouted), lima, mung (sprouted), Rangoon, scarlet runner.
* NUTS: Bitter almond, macadamia, cashew.
* BERRIES: Almost all wild berries. Blackberry, chokeberry, Christmas berry, cranberry, elderberry, raspberry, strawberry.
* SEEDS: Chia, flax, sesame.
* GRASSES: Acacia, alfalfa (sprouted), aquatic, Johnson, milkweed, Sudan, minus, wheat grass, white dover.
* GRAINS: oat groats, barley, brown rice, buckwheat groats, chia, flax, millet, rye, vetch, wheat berries.
* MISCELLANEOUS: bamboo shoots, fuschia plant, sorghum, wild hydrangea, yew tree (needles, fresh leaves).

Someone could possibly benefit from this info which is why I am posting it although I'm not 100% sure of its accuracy. Anyone heard of this before or have any thoughts on the matter?

I have to question a number of the statements from the site. What first came to my attention was the very broad statement that nobody of the Eskimos, the Hunzas, or the Abkasians people have ever gotten cancer. That sounds highly improbable, but the site at least doesn't give any statistical data to back it up. Then, it gave a list of sources for B-17, all of which are plant based. The Eskimos, at least, are a paradox, able to thrive on their traditional diet which consists primarily of meats and fat. Again, the list of sources for B-17 was all plant based, and I doubt many of which would thrive in the arctic. Second, many of the items on the list are toxic, including bitter almonds, apricot kernels, peach and plum pits, apple and pear seeds, and yew. While yew may have some anti-cancer properties, I wouldn't consider them to be the result of some secret vitamin that nobody else knows about.