Wow - don't Americans get worked up? I can always find something to calm you down - chamomile tea perhaps? The American - and indeed Australian governments do not push or make a mint from apricot kernals because there is no huge profit to be made like they get from the pharmaceutical companies. That's why so many 'alternative' therapies are overlooked. There is no gain to the governments so they don't push them.You know how governments like to keep people sick on their drugs so they can keep reaping the rewards. Hell, my chemotherapy pills - 5 of them - cost AU$5,000?!
Back to the Vitamin B17 debate. The Hunza people eat a lot of apricots and always crack open the kernel and eat the seed. The apricot seed contains Vitamin B17. Vitamin B17 is the anticancer vitamin. Some researchers have found that cancer and sickle cell anemia are caused by a deficiency of vitamin B17, just as scurvy is caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, pernicious anemia is due to a deficiency of vitamin B12 and folic acid, and pellagra is caused by a deficiency of vitamin B3. Vitamin B17 kills cancer cells without harming normal cells, making it nature's chemotherapy. If vitamin B17 was patentable cancer would not be the problem it is today. However, without sufficient zinc in the body, vitamin B17 cannot function. Also, results are better if the vitamin B17 is taken together with nutrients such as vitamin C, the other B vitamins, vitamin A, manganese, magnesium, and selenium. Doctors prescribing vitamin B17 will generally use it as part of a total nutritional program consisting of diet, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and essential fatty acids. Soy foods are not recommended because they have the effect of inhibiting the body's ability to absorb certain minerals including calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc.
The full story of vitamin B17 is to be found in the book World Without Cancer by G. Edward Griffin, American Media, 1997. This popular book is in its 13th printing and is highly recommended. Griffin also made a video tape entitled World Without Cancer summarizing the contents of the book. Alternative names for vitamin B17 are nitrilosides, amygdalin and laetrile. Regardless of what you have read in newspapers about laetrile, withhold your judgment until you have read the book and watched the video. Vitamin B17 is a standard part of alternative cancer therapy world-wide
Now, if you have managed to read all that, I can most certainly tell you I am not like your ex-husband's granny (is it any wonder it's an EX husband you refer to) I don't
see aliens, just write to them through the cellar and as I have no religion, I cannot comment on the last piece. I can't wait to hear from you again. I can get a lot more information about other cancer cures if you like, not just B17. Thinking about it, I probably need to get a naturopath to write to you?

By the way - do you have cancer? If not, why the fuck are you following this thread anyway?