ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> <title>The Voice Of Orthodoxy</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-color: #ecedf2; } .style81 {color: #0C5ADC; font-weight: bold; } .style82 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } --> </style></head> <BODY LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0> <table width="784" height="111" border="0" align="center" bordercolor="#E9E9E9" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td height="45" bgcolor="#9999FF"> <p align="center"><font size="+6" COLOR = #990000> THE VOICE OF ORTHODOXY</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="45" bgcolor="#9999FF" valign="top" > <p align="center"><b><font size="+2"> <i>A Bimonthly Conservative Journal To Defend The Apostolic Faith, Morals And Canons Of The Ancient Orthodox Church.</b></i> <strong> <table width="784" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td align = "left">Volume : XIV</td> <td align = "center">MARCH - APRIL 2010</td> <td align = "right">Issue : 2</td> </tr> </table> </strong> <marquee scrollamount="2" direction="left"><i>ORTHODOXY: THE TRUTH BEARER; FOR REQUESTS CALL: 773-480-7273</i></marquee> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="784" height="758" border="0" align="center" bordercolor="#E9E9E9" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="164" height="182" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#9999FF"><br /> <table width="96%" height="75" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#9999FF"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="153" valign="top"> <table> <tr> <p><img src="../../images/st.mary.jpg" width="153" height="209" /></p> </tr> </table> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#eef5f9"> <td bgcolor="#ecedf2" height="14"><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="98%" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="15%" height="16"><div align="right"> <div align="justify"><font color="#333333" size="2"><width="8" height="9" /></font></div> </div></td> <td align="justify" width="85%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#333333" size="2"><a href="../../default.html">Home</a></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#eef5f9"> <td bgcolor="#ecedf2" height="14"><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="98%" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="15%" height="16"><div align="right"> <div align="justify"><font color="#333333" size="2"><width="8" height="9" /></font></div> </div></td> <td align="justify" width="85%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#333333" size="2"><a href="../../current.html">Current Issue</a></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#eef5f9"> <td bgcolor="#ecedf2" height="21"><table width="99%" height="18" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="15%"><div align="right"> <div align="justify"><font color="#333333" size="2"><width="8" height="9" /></font></div> </div></td> <td align="justify" width="85%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#333333" size="2"><a href="../../archives.html">Archives</a></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </br> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Sponsors &gt;&gt;</strong></font><br /> <table width="98%" height="159" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#ecedf2"> <tbody> <tr bgcolor="#eef5f9"> <td width="149" bgcolor="#ecedf2" height="23"><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%" align="center" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><div align="justify"></div> <font color="#333333" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" class="style45"><b>Coming Soon..</b></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="EditRegion13" --> <table width="620" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <p align="center"> <font size="5" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>A Foolproof Anti-Cancer Diet& With Just One or Two Drawbacks</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The Athonite Anti-Cancer Diet</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The Monastic Republic Of Mount Athos</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>If you want to avoid cancer, live like a monk. That is the inescapable conclusion from research into one of the world s most renowned monastic communities.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The austere regime of the 1,500 monks on Mount Athos, in northern Greece, begins with an hour s pre-dawn prayers and is designed to protect their souls.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Their low-stress existence and simple diet (no meat, occasional fish, home-grown vegetables and fruit) may, however, also protect them from more worldly troubles.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The monks, who inhabit a peninsula from which women are banned, enjoy astonishingly low rates of cancer. </b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Since 1994, the monks have been regularly tested, and only 11 have developed prostate cancer, a rate less than one quarter of the international average. In one study, their rate of lung and bladder cancer was found to be zero.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Haris Aidonopoulos, a urologist at the University of Thessaloniki, said that the monks diet, which calls on them to avoid olive oil, dairy products and wine on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, helped to explain the statistics.  What seems to be the key is a diet that alternates between olive oil and nonolive oil days, and plenty of plant proteins, he said.  It s not only what we call the Mediterranean diet, but also eating the old-fashioned way. Small simple meals at regular intervals are very important. </b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Meals on the peninsula, which the Prince of Wales has visited regularly and which can only be reached by boat, are ascetic and repetitive affairs that have changed little over the centuries, although there are variations between the 20 monasteries.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The monks sit in silence while, from a pulpit, passages from the Bible are read in Greek. They eat at speed  as soon as the Bible passage is over, the meal is officially completed.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The staples are fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice and soya dishes, and bread and olives. They grow much of what they eat themselves. Agioritiko red wine is made locally from mountain grapes. Dairy products are rare  female animals are banned from the autonomous semi-state.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Life on Athos has changed little over the past 1,043 years. Breakfast is hard bread and tea. Much of the day is taken up with chores  cleaning, cooking, tending to crops  followed by a supper, typically of lentils, fruit and salad, and evening prayers.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Some of the seaside monasteries specialise in catching octopus, a delicacy that is softened up by bashing on the rock. Fish also feeds the Athos cats, protected by the monks for their mouse-catching prowess. Of all domestic animals, only cats are exempt from the ban on females. Some of the monks live in hillside huts or cliff-side caves perched above the sea as satellites of the main establishments, perhaps the closest that modern Christianity gets to medieval hermits. They depend for their sustenance on handouts of bread and olives.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>On holidays and feast days such as Christmas and Easter, when other Greeks are feasting on roast meat, the monks prefer fish, their only culinary luxury. Father Moses of the Koutloumousi monastery, one of the 20 organised cloisters scattered over the Athos peninsula, said:  We never eat meat. We produce most of the vegetables and fruit we consume. And we never forget that all year round, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, we don t use olive oil on our food. </b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The olive-oil routine, which also applies to wine and dairy products, appears to have no religious significance, but is a way of eking out their supplies.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>All the monks stick to the rigorous fasting periods of the Orthodox Church, in which a strict vegan diet is prescribed for weeks at a stretch.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Michalis Hourdakis, a dietician associated with Athens University, said:  This limited consumption of calories has been found to lengthen life. Meat has been associated with intestinal cancer, while fruit and vegetables help ward off prostate cancer. </b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>The lack of air pollution on Mount Athos as well as the monks hard work in the fields also played their part, the researchers said. There was no mention, however, of whether the absence of women had any effect on the monks renowned spiritual calm.</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Salad days</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Breakfast Hard bread, tea <br> Lunch Pasta or rice,vegetables, olive oil <br> Dinner Lentils, fruit and salad, olive oil. Red wine</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Monday, Wednesday and Friday no olive oil</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Holidays and feast days Fish and seafood</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b>Wonders of Athos</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b> Most of the monasteries on Athos run on  Byzantine time , with the clock resetting at sunset</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b> Legend has it that women were banned because the monks became too frisky with shepherdesses</b></font></p> <p><font size="4" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><b> Vatopedhiou, Prince Charles favoured retreat, claims to have saints bones, the whip used to scourge Christ, St Stephen s ear, fragments of the True Cross, and the Virgin Mary s chastity girdle </b></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L">Source:</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3007206.ece" target="_blank"><font color="#000080" size="3" face="Nimbus Roman No9 L"><u>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/<WBR>tol/life_and_style/health/<WBR>article3007206.ece</u></font></a> <br> </p> </table> </body> <!-- InstanceEnd --></html>