Blood Cancers and a Whole-food Plant-based Diet

My name is Richard Harding.

I have been a Multiple Myeloma patient for 11 years which was diagnosed when 1 was 60 years old. Twice, 11 years [2014] ago my wife, Ruth, was told that I would not be coming home from hospital.

I have been involved with the teaching and the design of diploma and certificate courses for nutrition for two registered training organisations.

After six years of attempting to obtain compliance, we gave up.

I have a 150 page, 200000 word website advocating a Whole-Food, Plant-Based diets with NO ADDED OILS. No dressings. No olive oil, coconut oil or fish oil. (Very important).

Seventh-day Adventists show that Californian Seventh-day Adventists have a much greater life expectancy and a higher level of health than the average American.

I am not selling anything except for an already proven idea.

The Mater Hospital where I obtain my treatment has 580 patient episodes a month. I am the only person who brings their own reverse osmosis filtered water. Everyone else takes the supplied bottled water that does not even get recycled.

For lunch, the catering supplies ham, salami and beef sandwiches and burgers.

The Featured Posts on the right panel shows a number of webpages that demonstrate the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet.

I have a poster for my website and my book Low-Carbohydrate Mania: The Fantasies, Delusions and Myths at my local organic shop (Organic Feast at East Maitland). Six people have approached me whilst shopping stating that they have cured their “incurable” heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure and Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Two of these people were really angry wanting to know why their highly-paid medical specialists were not able to make any impact on their condition.

There is also a remarkable story accessible by clicking the green “Videos” link that is on the right panel of every page of my website that shows how Katherine Lawrence cured herself of endometriosis in less than 3 months. She noticed a significant improvement in her condition after only a couple days on a strict Whole-food, Plant-diet with NO ADDED OILS.

Professor Stewart Truswell states the my work is “brilliant” – his words. He does not want to get into a public debate that he cannot win.

My reference manager has over 4000 listings with mostly primary journal entries where I have a copy of the article stored on my computer. All my articles are comprehensively referenced.

Another Featured Post titled Deception from The BMJ states that a press release titled “BMJ investigation questions expert advice underpinning new US dietary guidelines” was a fully funded article by Nina Teicholz who was funded by the beef industry.
Deception from The BMJ

My website consists of over 150 webpages and with more than 120,000 words. Most are related to health and nutrition with others relating to the environment, agriculture, philosophy and psychology. Many issues that the ancient Greeks wrestled with are still relevant today.

In The Republic, Book 2, Plato describes a “rustic picture” of a way of life. The inhabitants “spend their days in houses which they have built for themselves; they make their own clothes and produce their own corn and wine. Their principal food is barley-meal and flour of wheat, and they drink in moderation. They live on the best of terms with each other, and take care not to have too many children. […] They will have salt and olives and cheese, vegetables and fruits, and chestnuts to roast at the fire.”

Plato continues that those “who want the comforts of life“, will create a state where “living in this way we shall have much greater need of physicians than before. […] Then a slice of our neighbours’ land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours.”

Some 500 years later, in Plutarch’s Morals. Vol. V, Plutarch writes at great length against the mistreatment, exploitation and killing of animals – “but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”

A 90 page book WHO’s Guidelines for Saturated Fats: Time for an examination of our values is available that examines the role of corporate funding, medical researchers, the media and government regulators collude to ensure that corporate profits are protected at the expense of our health.

A 97 minute movie is also available that shows some of the highlights of the book. Extensive references from peer-reviewed medical journals are included.

There is a lot of information to consider.

Multiple myeloma is one of our most dreaded cancers. It’s a cancer of our antibody-producing plasma cells found in our bone marrow, and is considered one of our most intractable blood diseases. The precursor condition is monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Multiple myeloma is almost always preceded by MGUS. It has a prevalence of about 3% in the older white population.

MGUS does not have any symptoms. If it does progress to multiple myeloma, you only have about four years to live. That is the average life expectancy. One person (such as me) living a lot longer than expected raises the average life expectancy. The actual life expectancy is much less.

There is evidence that myeloma is associated with agricultural and environmental toxins. ¹ ~ ²

“Myeloma patients reported significantly more allergies than controls”, with a relative risk of 3.1 greater than the controls. ³

A “history of agricultural work was associated with an elevated risk of myeloma”, having a relative risk of 2.2 times greater than non-form workers. ⁴

Last updated on Monday 14 September 2026 at 08:25 by administrators

1. Landgren, O. et al. (2015) Agent Orange Exposure and Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance: An Operation Ranch Hand Veteran Cohort Study. JAMA Oncology. 1 (8), 1061–1068.
2. Durie, B. G. M. (2018) The Link Between Toxic Exposures and Myeloma Risk. International Myeloma Foundation. Available from: https://www.myeloma.org/blog/dr-duries/toxic-exposures-unleashed.
3. Gallagher, R. P. et al. (1983) Allergies and agricultural exposure as risk factors for multiple myeloma. British Journal of Cancer. 48 (6), 853.
4. Gallagher, R. P. et al. (1983) Allergies and agricultural exposure as risk factors for multiple myeloma. British Journal of Cancer. 48 (6), 853.