Could Suzanne Somers actually cause cancer?…

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The Beast – The former actress has one of the nation’s top books, touting secret cancer cures. But these methods, reports Gerald Posner, may actually increase the disease risk. Specifically, Posner reveals how:

•Her book promotes a regimen that many doctors believe causes cancer rather than cures it.
•This regimen might have contributed to her own bout with cancer.
•Several doctors and experts she uses as the basis for her book have medically checkered backgrounds.
•Cancer is a recurring thread and marketing tool for her wide-ranging business interests.
•One outside expert, based on his examination of 30 years of photographs, believes she had plastic surgery, which would undercut her reputation for health through alternative medicine.

Suzanne Somers, who came to fame in the 1970s as the ditzy Chrissy Snow on the iconic Three’s Company, yesterday pulled off the kind of feat generally reserved for the likes of John Grisham and Malcolm Gladwell. She scored her second New York Times bestseller in three years, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors who are Curing Cancer and how to Prevent Getting it in the First Place. Knockout further established the 63-year-old Somers as the high priestess of alternative health remedies.

More than that, Somers has positioned herself, with Knockout, as a messenger with the solution to a top killer in human history. “There are doctors out there who are curing cancer.”