Archive for February, 2010

The type 2 diabetes stupid study will get $1.3 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is going to be used to continue with the world’s longest running study on obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Arizona Pima Indians

Obesity and diabetes have been described as the major public health concern of the 21st century says Leslie Schulz, executive dean of Northern Arizona University’s study’s principal investigator. “This study is taking those necessary steps toward finding a way to protect people against these pervasive diseases,” she said.

A related study has shown that Pima Indians in Arizona who have a diet and lifestyle similar to most Americans have a much higher rate of diabetes than the national average: 38 percent verses 8 percent nationally, giving them the distinction of being the most diabetes-prone group in the world.

The Arizona Pima Indians have been genetically linked to a village of Pima Indians living a more traditional lifestyle in a remote, mountainous region of Mexico. A 1995 study of the Mexican Pimas revealed only a rare occurrence of diabetes. Schulz explains that the genetic similarities between the two groups of Pima Indians, along with the contrast in their lifestyles, provides an ideal setting to study the relationship between environmental circumstances and diabetes.

The researchers returned in the fall after 15 years to the Mexican village to study the relationship between the Mexican Pima Indians’ increasingly “westernized” lifestyle and their genetic predisposition for obesity and diabetes.

“Since we were last there, the environmental circumstances of the village have changed,” Schulz says, explaining how the electrical supply to the region has increased, cars have become more prevalent and grocery stores have appeared.

She points out that this changing environment affects non-Pima Mexicans who also live in the village as much as it does the Mexican Pima Indians living there.

“These two groups of people have undergone the same lifestyle changes over the past 15 years but they have different genes,” Schulz explains. “Therefore, we hope to separate out the role genes play versus the role lifestyle plays.”

Question

The researchers are attempting to answer why a person who is genetically predisposed to develop diabetes does not develop it.

ANSWER: GENES AREN’T YOUR DESTINY

Just as genes provide the codes for producing proteins, various chemicals called epigenetic marks sit atop genes and offer basic instructions to them, telling them to switch on or off

Biologists offer this analogy as an explanation: if the genome is the hardware, then the epigenome is the software. “I can load Windows, if I want, on my Mac,” says Joseph Ecker, a Salk Institute biologist and leading epigenetic scientist. “You’re going to have the same chip in there, the same genome, but different software. And the outcome is a different cell type.”

At its most basic, epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation. These patterns of gene expression are governed by the cellular material — the epigenome — that sits on top of the genome, just outside it (hence the prefix epi-, which means above). It is these epigenetic “marks” that tell your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper. It is through epigenetic marks that environmental factors like diet, stress and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes that is passed from one generation to the next.

Save The Money

Save the money, the studies already prove epigenetics is the main factor in gene expression.

The flu pandemic probability coverage is a disaster. After the Swine flu trillion dollar campaign, we now realize that who ever declares a world wide pandemic has to do more than press the panic button.

Swindle 

Most viral threats never materialize or amount to some extra cases of the flu. Since the vaccine manufacturers are behind most of the decision to declare a pandemic. It is hard to know who to believe. This last round of vaccination is now called the Swine Flu Swindle by Dr. Richard Schulze, known as the Herb-Doc.

Health Insurance

This health insurance is not the usually costly type policy, which you may or may not use. The only health insurance protection is one that keeps up your health, by supporting your immune system. Also, have on hand the powerful antimicrobial products that will become your own personal arsenal.

Lab Created

Just about everything can be lab created. Leave it to the laboratory experiments to produce hybrid stains of influenza. Of course these scenarios may never play out, without a helping hand. In laboratory experiments in mice, a single gene segment form a human seasonal flu virus, H3N2, was able to convert the avian H5N1 virus into a highly pathogenic form. The findings are reported the week of Feb. 22 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Some hybrids between H5N1 virus and seasonal influenza viruses were more pathogenic that the original H5N1 viruses.”  ”That is worrisome,” says Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior author of the new study.

Before the current study, hybrid viruses generated in lab studies had always been less virulent than parent strains. However, the new findings raise concerns that H5N1 and pandemic H1N1 viruses could reside in individuals exposed to both viruses and generate an influenza strain that is both highly virulent and contagious.

Bottom line

The bottom line is that we know for a fact that the powers that be expect a pandemic in our future. We are left with two choices, one hope that the drug companies can deliver an effective vaccine . Having seen what they have done in the past makes us leary of this scenario. We can hope, but we also have to be practical and make sure we increase our odds in both prevention, and treatment options.

Botanical

Botanical are powerful and sometimes will protect and treat better than pharmaceuticals. Our newsletter will highlight the best companies and products that will be the most cost-effective alternatives and offer broad spectrum health benefits. Our healing zone newsletter will keep you up to date on what is going on in these times, and how to counteract all the life changing challenges. We will supply the resources for you to make an informed decision on how to protect your family’s health.

Food manufacturers understand the power of the taste of sugar, and use it in developing a product for mass production.

Products

The sugar flavoring is usually hidden in food products. Words like dextrose, cellulose, high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, glucose, fructose, ethyl maltol, mannitol, sucrose, and sorbitol are used on the package.

Artificial sweeteners produce a sugar flavor. Sugar and the taste of sweetness stimulate the brain by activating beta endorphin receptor sites.

Products that can keep you on the sugar Roller Coaster

• Fruit Drinks
• Sugar-cured meats
• Tomato Sauce
• Pancake Mixes
• Breakfast Bars
• Cereals
• Relish
• Tomato Ketchup
• Bread
• Protein powders
• Toothpaste
• Breath mints
• Crackers
• Baby foods
• Pretzels
• Peanut butter
• Fast foods
• Pre-packaged foods
• Yogurt
• Breath mints
• Salad dressings

Deficits

Sugar sets up nutritional deficits. It has the ability to drain the body of vitamins and minerals. The body is not capable of utilizing this refined starch, unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are present.

Sugar taken on a daily basis produces a continuously over-acid condition, and more minerals are required from the body in an attempt to rectify this. In order to protect our physiology, calcium is taken from the places that depend on this nutrient. That is the primary reason that tooth decay and osteoporosis appear.

A general weakening to occurs. Excess sugar affects every organ. Since it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen), the liver’s capacity is limited. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess takes the form of fatty acids. These are stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts, and the thighs.

When these places are filled, fatty acids now find their way to your organs. The heart and kidneys are examples. These organs will not be able to funcion at full capacity, and the body will slow down. Now, all the systems in the body are affected by this reduced ability.

What is Sugar

Sugar is the basic element found in starchy food. Sugar cane contains 14% trace elements, minerals, and vitamins, plus chlorophyll. The sugar we purchase in the store for our consumption is made in a way that is so unappetizing.

Sugar is heated up in chalk-milk, so that calcium and protein are extracted. All the vitamin content is destroyed. In the second phase the sugar in mixed with acid chalk, carbonic gas, sulphur dioxide, and natrium bicarbonate.

Now, the mixture is cooked and cooled off several times. Then it is crystallized and a centrifugalize process is used. It is further treated with strontium hydroxide. It is not finished until it is passed over chalk carbon acid to clean it.

All dark coloring is removed by adding sulphuric acid, and then it filtered. The product’s chemical composition is C12 H22 011, which is now labeled “pure cane” sugar.

The Term Pure

Sugar has an atomic density of 99.4 to 99.5%. This density is usually seen in the category of poison. Sugar irritates the mucous membranes, tissues, glands, blood vessels and intestinal tract. Sugar also paralyzes the intestinal peristaltic functions. Besides all this it destroys brain cells and elevates the temperature of the body.

Using the term pure is like saying we have a lot of pure heroin.

Our Treat

This is our treat, and one that we give to people we love. Our children are bribed and shown love with sugary rewards. Our children will sow the bitter aftermath from our ability to produce a sweet poison.