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?
- How many of us think we may have cancers, but not too
sure?
- 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:
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| Terry Yip, my friend and neighbor who accompanied me to the talk |
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| A pose with my former colleague and long-time friend Ir. CK Cheong |
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| I was seated on the extreme left of the front row, hence difficult to take better photos of Dr. Lim. |
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| Dr. Lim discussing with the M.c. cum facilitator S. Yoga Thevan |
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| The standing microphone on the rostrum in front of me blocked the view of my photo-taking. I have taken a wrong seat! |
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| Besides being an eloquent speaker, Dr. Lim was full of body expressions throughout his talk |
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| A glimpse of the attentive packed audience |
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| The facilitator S. Yoga Thevan suggesting the CanSurvive Center to organize a talk solely on Nutrition by Dr. Lim |
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Reproduced below is the spontaneous reply by the Great Sifu in response to the blogger’s above posting:
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
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