Ashy Bines – Stop Making Cancer Claims!!

Ashy Bines, a qualified personal trainer, has now made two frightening claims (that I am aware of) with regards to cancer.

Firstly, she made un-educated claims that Bowel Cancer is not genetic and said that she is out to prove that it is not genetic. She may have a large following on social media, but it does not mean she knows what she is talking about in all facets of health and wellbeing. There are reputable websites and organisations such as The Cancer Council and Bowel Cancer Australia that say there are definite links to Bowel Cancer being hereditary. Considering Bowel Cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in Australia, it is incredibly dangerous for someone with such a large following to make such false claims.

This video and a well articulated response to her video by YouTuber “What Mia Did Next” can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9vwutoddh4

Secondly, she has now said that her diet plan has helped cure someone’s cancer. Yes, you heard right, a diet plan apparently curing cancer. I find it appropriate to remind everyone of the Belle Gibson saga and how extremely dangerous it is to even remotely suggest that diet cures cancer, especially when you are selling diet plans. Video can be found on my facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/buttwhysherie/

Diet, in some instances, can help prevent certain cancers, but there is absolutely no scientific evidence based around diet being a cancer cure. None. Prevention and cure are two completely different words.

Ashy has a large following, many of whom are highly impressionable young woman, who may take this “cancer cure” claim onboard and go against doctor’s orders, again, much like the Belle Gibson story.

Ashy is not an oncologist, or a bowel surgeon, nor is she even a qualified nutritionist or dietician, so she should not be making any claims whatsoever that anything cures cancer, especially when she has a hidden agenda of trying to sell you something. It is also somewhat offensive to the scientists that are slaving away every single day trying so hard to find that cure that we are all hoping for.

It has almost been four years since my bowel cancer diagnosis and I am still alive today thanks to surgery and medicine, two treatment methods that are scientifically proven to work. Despite the fact I have been down the cancer path twice now, and have experienced first hand what the body has to endure, I would never openly mislead people nor lead them down a dangerous path of thinking they don’t need to be tested or that they can buy a diet plan and be cured. Unless you are a doctor, you should not be giving out mis-information regarding a huge killer such as cancer.

Ashy please stop, just focus on your fitness and leave cancer to the real professionals.