Lorraine Day

Not to be confused with Laraine Day.

Lorraine Jeanette Day M.D. (July 24, 1937 – ) is a practitioner of alternative medicine who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer, as a result of God showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan.^{[citation needed]} According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system which must be cured by diet. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition, dehydration, and stress."

A former surgeon, she is now completely opposed to mainstream medicine, claiming that "the entire foundation of conventional medicine is based on error," that standard cancer treatment has never cured anyone, and that nobody should undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer or use vaccination for infectious disease.

She also rejects the common medical theories regarding the causes and cures of ADHD, SARS, anthrax, smallpox, bird flu, and vision problems. Her theory implicates many common foods as harmful, such as "sugar is as addictive as cocaine" and "paralyzes the immune system for four hours" and "the more milk you drink, the more osteoporotic you become." She claims that drugs never cure disease and maintains a website where she markets books, videotape, and alternative medicines such as Barley Green.

In 2004, she began marketing her "Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore" videotape with an infomercial which was declared to be "misleading" by the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in December 2004.

Biography

Day graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 1969 and trained in orthopedic surgery at two San Francisco hospitals. She became an associate professor and vice chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. During the mid-1980s, she received considerable media attention related to the risk of acquiring AIDS through exposure to the blood of AIDS patients during trauma surgery, publishing a book, AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You, wherein she states that in 1989 she retired from surgery due to the excessive risk of acquiring AIDS.

Day's website, books, and videos describe the experience with cancer which led to her conclusions regarding disease. In 1992 she noticed a small lump in her breast, but did not seek medical care for another year. The pathology report from her excisional biopsy on October 26, 1993, posted on her website, reports a 1.7 centimeter tumor containing an infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma extending to the margins of the biopsy specimen. Her medical report from November 2, 1993 advised removal of a wider chest area as well as the lymph nodes in her armpit, followed by radiation treatment. Day underwent wide excision, but refused drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation. She began eating a strict vegan diet, eliminated all refined sugar and processed foods, and began drinking large amounts of vegetable juice. When her tumor returned nine months later, she realized that "diet was not enough" and tried forty different "alternative methods . . . one after the other".

Ten Steps to Fight Cancer

Dr Day developed and promotes the “Ten Steps to Fight Cancer”.

• 1. Proper nutrition - explains what the patient should and should not eat. A diet of fruit, grains and vegetables in their most natural state is recommended – 75% is eaten raw – and excludes all meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, eggs, sugar and refined foods. Elimination of stimulants includes sugar, tobacco, alcohol, street drugs, drug medications, monosodium glutamate, aspartame and other sugar substitutes, and caffeine (which dehydrates the body). When Day was sick, in addition to her vegan vegetarian diet of 3 meals a day, she drank 8 glasses of freshly made carrot juice, 4 glasses of fresh green leafy vegetable juice and 1 glass of fresh orange juice.
• 2. Exercise - we must do exercise which we could enjoy.
• 3. Drink water - the body needs water to transport nutrients to healthy cells and to excrete toxins. There should be a minimum of 10-12 glasses per day. (We lose 10 glasses of water from our body every day, just by living - it is imperative to replace the water losses).
• 4. Sunlight exposure - we need sunlight in order to boost our immune system. An hour a day is recommended in the early morning. (Proper nutrition protects against skin cancer, and sunlight is claimed to actually decrease the size of internal cancerous tumors).
• 5. Temperance - we should avoid our unhealthy habits.
• 6. Fresh air - we need a fresh air environment because cancer grows faster when a person breathes uncirculated indoor air.
• 7. Proper rest at proper time - we have to rest at a proper time as this makes our immune system stronger.
• 8. Stress relief - we have to be relaxed especially after stressful work.
• 9. Attitude of gratitude - think positive and be happy in order to be healed effectively.
• 10. Spiritual benevolence - do what is good not only to ourselves but also to others.

Personal life

Day is married to former California congressman William Dannemeyer.

Criticism

Day's website advertises several health products whereas her other website states "this web site has no advertisers and does not solicit donations, two situations that tend to compromise any Truth-teller".

External links

• Lorraine Day's official website
• Lorraine Day's other official website
• Transcripts of news reports of Zündel hearing proceedings