{"id":2368,"date":"2017-02-22T01:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2017-02-22T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T01:09:18","slug":"bitter-almonds-were-banned-by-the-us-government-because-they-can-treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/02\/22\/bitter-almonds-were-banned-by-the-us-government-because-they-can-treat-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter almonds were banned by the US government because they can treat cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16730646_970917903039529_507573768607094202_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2369\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16730646_970917903039529_507573768607094202_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>TL; DR Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This appeared in my Facebook news feed yesterday.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the commenters to it, believed this to be true.<\/li>\n<li>A few noted that perhaps this ban was because bitter almonds contain hydrogen cyanide (this is true) but pointed to other &#8220;nuts&#8221; like Apricot pits, that also contain similar levels of cyanide &#8211; and those are not banned. Therefore, say the conspiracy theorists, this poster must be true!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s think about this for a moment: The almond is the &#8220;seed&#8221; or pit of the almond fruit &#8211; but, as with walnuts, there is almost no fruit and no one eats the fruit &#8211; they eat the nut!<br \/>\nPeople eat sweet almonds, not bitter almonds, but sweet almonds and bitter almonds look almost identical. But no one eats &#8220;almond fruit&#8221; &#8211; they eat the nut itself!<br \/>\n50 bitter almonds is said to be lethal\u00a0 &#8211; eating less may merely leave you in the hospital with a huge bill. You would need to eat about 2,500 sweet almonds (which also contain trace amounts of cyanide) to achieve a lethal dose.<br \/>\nSo, does bitter almond treat cancer? Sure &#8211; it kills cancer cells! It also kills all the other living cells in your body too! Sounds like a great treatment for cancer.<br \/>\nThe above poster is scary because so many people believe bitter almonds are just fine &#8211; and believe it might be a cure for cancer if only the darned government had not stepped into stop this miracle cure!<br \/>\n<strong>Text for Search Engines<\/strong><br \/>\nThe bitter almond tree was banned in America in 1995 because it&#8217;s the highest source of Vitamin B17 which prevents &amp; treats cancer.<br \/>\nStill trust your government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitter almonds are indeed a cure for cancer &#8211; they not all kill the cancer cells, they also kill the host (you!) when you eat them. Duh. 50 bitter almonds is a lethal dose &#8211; and they look identical to sweet almonds, which people can safely consume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,26,39,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-fear","category-lies","category-fake-news","category-social-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}