Posted: Nov 13, 2012 7:36 pm
I was reading Dirk Benedict's (Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team) biography on IMDB.com, when I stumbled upon this:
As it's purely anecdotal I don't believe for a second that the diet was the thing that cured him, but has anyone ever read any details as to what actually happened to him? Did he really have cancer?
On a more scientific note: is it possible for cancer to go away without treatment?
While working on Georgia, Georgia (1972) in Sweden, he made the first contact with a macrobiotic diet and changed his eating habits drastically. He was 26 at that time. A few years later, doctors found that he had cancer of the prostate. He refused to accept the usual treatment and moved away to a secluded cottage. Dirk managed to cure himself from cancer by following the rules of his macrobiotic diet. When he got his part as "Starbuck" in "Battlestar Galactica" (1978), the doctors stated that he was in good health.
A prostate cancer survivor. In 1974, medical doctors recommended surgery, but he claimed to have cured his cancer through a macrobiotic diet recommended by Gloria Swanson, his co-star on Broadway in "Butterflies Are Free," and by exercise and fasting. Over a period of 3 years and under the guidance of Michio Kushi, according to his book Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy, beat the cancer. He continues the diet to this day.
As it's purely anecdotal I don't believe for a second that the diet was the thing that cured him, but has anyone ever read any details as to what actually happened to him? Did he really have cancer?
On a more scientific note: is it possible for cancer to go away without treatment?