Sunday, May 24, 2015

Dr. JB Lim Talks on "Nutrition & Cancer" to CanSurvive Centre Malaysia

On Saturday, May 23, 2015, I attended a talk entitled “Nutrition and Cancer: New Lamps for Old in Cancer Prevention and Treatment” delivered by Dr. Lim Ju Boo (BSc PG Dip Nutr MSc MD PhD (Med) FRSPH FRSM) organized by the Cansurvive Centre Malaysia Berhad at Malaysian Association for the Blind, Kompleks MAB, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur


I left home at 2.35pm and picked up my friend/neighbor Terry Yip to go to Brickfields, a familiar place to me where I have worked in an engineering consultant firm located there for 24 years from 1989 till 2013. 


We reached MAB at about 3.30pm.  After greeting Dr. Lim and his wife Sally, I was extremely touched when he gave me two antique Grundig transistor radios.  I also met a former colleague and long-time friend Ir. CK Cheong.

Dr. Lim started his talk at about 4.10pm by asking the audience three questions about:

     1.   How many of us actually have cancer or had history of cancer?
  1. How many of us think we may have cancers, but not too sure?
  2. How many of us are dead sure and absolutely sure we have no cancer?
There were a few shows of hands for the first two questions, but none including myself responded to the third question.  To everyone’s surprise, Dr. Lim told us that every one of us has cancer whether we like it or not.

He then explained about cancer epidemiology, pathology, immunology, cellular chemistry, toxicology, molecular biology, cellular signaling, anti-cancer principles in foods, how they act, how they protect, and yet how they can also cause cancers, and etc. with the help of more than 100 illustrative slides.

A point to note is the various causes of cancers: dietary exposures (30%), smoking (30%), genetics and hereditary factors (15%), infections (5%), environmental (5%), obesity and sedentary lifestyle (5%0, alcohol (3%0, pollution (2%), uv and radiation exposures (2%),  drugs (1%) and others (1%).

His lecture was very lively with many practical analogies drawing laughters from the floor at times, and was rich in attractive body expressions.  

When he mentioned about cancer-causing foods including pan-fried or grilled muscle meat, smoked food, dried meat, satay and sausage (‘lap cheong’) and etc., I suddenly realized why Mrs. Lim told me that Dr. Lim did not consume ‘lap cheong’ at all when I gave him a packet as a gift when we had dinner together at Kong Sai Restaurant P.J. on Chap Goh Mei of Chinese New Year this year.

Dr. Lim made a very philosophical remark after saying that all of us will die eventually with or without cancer.  He advised that:

“        When Death Comes
-         Accept it gracefully and without fear
-         Accept it with love in our hearts
-         Accept it willingly and ungrudgingly
-         Accept it with forgiveness in our hearts
-         Accept it so that the young and new can live
-         Death shall have no sting, no weight on us
-         Peace shall be upon us”

He was supposed to talk for two hours from 4.00pm till 6.00pm, but he was so eloquent that it stretched till 6.45pm after repeatedly requested by the M.C. to finish, without time for Questions & Answers session.

Dr. Lim concluded his talk by showing slides of his credentials including a nostalgic group photo of him as a young man standing beside Tunku Abdul Rahman and Lee Kuan Yew which instantly drew cheers and applauses from the audience.

I left MAB with Terry at 6.55pm without staying back for the refreshment as we were told that the organizer had prepared only 50 packets of food but the turnout far exceeded that figure.  I could not bid farewell to Dr. Lim as he was surrounded by inquisitive people asking questions on the floor, but managed to say goodbye to Mrs. Lim.

It was really an informative and educating lecture and hopefully I can get hold of a summary essay from Dr. Lim later to publish here.

The following are some photos taken by me during the talk and also two short video clips that I have uploaded into YouTube:  

Video Part 1:

Video Part 2:

Terry Yip, my friend and neighbor who accompanied me to the talk
A pose with my former colleague and long-time friend Ir. CK Cheong
I was seated on the extreme left of the front row, hence difficult to take better photos of Dr.  Lim.
Dr. Lim discussing with the M.c. cum facilitator  S. Yoga Thevan
The standing microphone on the rostrum in front of me blocked the view of my photo-taking.  I have taken a wrong seat!
Besides being an eloquent speaker,  Dr. Lim was full of body expressions throughout his talk
A glimpse of the attentive packed audience
The facilitator S. Yoga Thevan suggesting the CanSurvive Center to organize a talk solely on Nutrition by Dr. Lim
Stanley Ong, Deputy President of the Cansurvive Centre Malaysia Berhad, giving a concluding remark.
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Reproduced below is the spontaneous reply by the Great Sifu in response to the blogger’s above posting:

From: Lim Juboo
Date: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:38 AM

Dear Learned Ir. TO Lau,

I cannot help but to congratulate you for your excellent summary of my almost 3 hour presentation to CanSurvive Centre Malaysia  Berhad on this very important issue on nutrition and its relation to cancer.

Food can either protect or damage our body. I congratulate and admire your understanding of what I was trying hard to convey because you are a civil engineer and not a biological, clinical, medical or cellular scientist; yet you were able to grapple the technicalities of this very complex subject on cancer. 

If only those who took the trouble to come they too would have benefited a lot (hopefully). They would have learned how it is possible to arrest cellular cancers already existing in the body of almost everybody since young age, and yet these cells are unable to manifest itself into full blown clinical cancers until 30 – 40 years later in life because of our immunological defenses, repair mechanisms and constant apoptosis of damaged cells occurring in the tens of millions everyday throughout the body.

Joining in the attack against cancers are the angiogenesis arrests from the wide variety of fruits and vegetables consumed in our daily diet.  Unfortunately many people are too busy or unwilling to come and listen. 

The talk was over-subscribed by more than 50-60 extra people when the hall sitting capacity was only about 350. Many extra chairs from outside had to be brought in, with many more  standing at the back against the wall, while the rest entered the audio-video and recording control room watching the presentation through the glass wall.

It was very difficult for me with a mixed audience of scientists, doctors and lay people listening in. It was a 2 months preparation for me, reading and reviewing over 300 research papers on cancer epidemiology, statistics, pathology, molecular and cellular medicine, molecular signaling,  immunology, cancer bio-dynamics, angiogenesis, toxicology, food science, nutrition, herbal medicines,  their mode of action, etc…etc .

Given just less than 3 hours to present was a very hurried rush-through job for me.  I needed to translate the highly technical papers published in the literature into intermediate language in slide form for doctors, and then translate them further down into simple English for lay-audience. It was a multi-step language translation to get this very important message across to everybody. 

But I think you have got that message from the way you wrote your summary in your blog. I am thankful it got through to you even though you said it was just 10 %. A full audio-video has been recorded, and I shall give you a CD on it the moment it is produced.

There was also a request from the Malaysian Senior Scientists Association asking me to repeat my lecture to their members this coming June, the exact date yet to be finalized. 

Thank you for your presence and encouragement, and once again, congratulations to you.

This product (i.e. 28 Plus Mangosteen fruit cocktail) is highly cancer-protective. It works by arresting angiogenesis (development of new blood vessels) that supports cancer growth.  Even for those already diagnosed with clear clinical cancers, consumption of this preparation daily helps by delaying its progression by many fold.   

Lim ju boo

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