Archive for July, 2010

Reinventing cancer treatment will bring about enhanced health. Identifying what really works for this condition, you have to look no further than your lifestyle. Cancer may be a wake up call that something in your life isn’t working.

Study

A study in which mice were given larger living quarters, more playmates, lots of toys, and an interactive environment shrunk their tumors.

This was reported in an issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. The evidence showed that cancer in treatable by providing an enriched environment, and a strong social network.

Emotional Health

If social connections and emotional state play a role in the formation and remission of cancer, the allopathic treatments are way out of line.

Geneticist Professor Matthew During from The Ohio State University offers powerful new evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state may play a role in cancer.

This makes sense, since our thoughts produce chemicals that have a profound influence on our health.

Observations

These are some observations that were made in the Lab:

What was found is that if you take mice from a nice environment and put them into an even better one their cancers regressed.

Laboratory animals are usually housed in groups of five or so, and are given all the food they want and get to play the whole day.

In this case they were placed in an enriched environment with 15-20 playmates. Then they are provided with more space, toys, and things to do. Their tumors shrunk when they were placed in these new living conditions.

The researches found the animals’ interaction with the environment had a profound influence on the growth of the cancer. The effect was more profound than they thought possible.

We may not be mice, but we all know mind over matter, and the placebo effect. All our body chemistry is influenced by what we eat, think, feel, and our environment.

When During and his colleague Lei Cao placed mice with cancer in that enriched environment, the animals tumor mass shrunk by 77 percent and the volume by 44 percent. On top of that five percent of mice that were given cancer showed no sign of the disease after only three weeks in their new home.

Outside the lab alternative practitioners have seen the exact same things in patients. They have seen cancers disappear when people got rid of what they didn’t want and started doing what made them feel good.

Cancer is Tied to General Well-Being

Cancer is tied to general well-being. It shows that you can’t look at a disease without looking at the whole person. The surgery, chemo, and radiotherapy hasn’t worked well for all the above reasons. You have given people what they don’t want. Making someone feel sick to get better makes no sense.

There has to be a new perception of disease, one where environment counts. Mice may not be humans, but somehow this make sense. If medicine was logical we would be doing everything differently.

Humans are social Animals

Mice are social, and so are humans. This could be another important piece to the puzzle. If fact for humans it is so important that it influences lifespan.

People who have good social ties are shown t o survive longer. This is important in the age of computers, television, and stressed filled work days.

It can be it takes a village to raise a child, and it also takes a village to help you attain a long healthy life. Perhaps, isolation with a combination of toxic treatment isn’t the answer to cancer.

The facts are that low social interaction harms you as much as some nasty habits such as alcoholism, smoking, and not exercising. It is more dangerous than obesity according to some studies.

One of the features of a cancer diagnosis is people may avoid you.. Friends fall away, when they are needed the most. Now, it seems that it helps the patient and the people that keep the friendship strong. Social ties and optimism turn on the longevity genes.

What This Means

What this means is we have been looking in the wrong places for a magic bullet. A comprehensive look at people’s lifestyle is unprecedented. Looking for dysfunction in a cancer’s patient’s life may provide a clue to this condition. Neutralizing the effects of some harmful thoughts is important. You are what you eat, think, believe, and do.

The environment that you are surrounded by has a huge impact on your life. Cancer may just be a sign that things in your life are not working well for you. The best defense is all around you. Your thoughts monopolize and influenced your life.

Thoughts release hormones that impact our health; this means we have to rethink how we approach cancer. What if it isn’t a sentence, but a wake up call?  We need to view this as an opportunity to change our life.

Diabetes type 2 improves with antioxidants from low glycemic fruits and vegetables. A diet rich in natural antioxidants improves insulin sensitivity in insulin-resistant obese adults and enhances the effect of the insulin-sensitizing drug metformin, a preliminary study from Italy finds. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.

“The beneficial effects of antioxidants are known, but we have revealed for the first time one of their biological bases of action-improving hormonal action in obese subjects with the metabolic syndrome,” said principal author Antonio Mancini, MD, an endocrinology researcher at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.

Antioxidants, which are found naturally in fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, include vitamins E and C, selenium and carotenoids, such as beta-carotene. Past research shows that antioxidants can prevent oxidative damage to cells and in some cases also help repair damage.

Mom  Knew

Mom Knew, but the medical community has no idea. But, as everyone discovers sooner or later Mom was right. The medical system is not your salvation, they aren’t capable of anything more than billing you. Your mothers advice was free, when you pay for it, the value seems to increase. Maybe, your mother should have charged you.

Diabetes is Becoming an Epidemic

Diabetes is becoming an epidemic killer, and the only way to be protected from it is on your plate. It is as pure and simple as that. The right food is more potent than the standardized treatments. The ultimate formula to combat this killer is again on your plates. The missing link to all degenerative chronic conditions is the active form of nutrients. These come straight from the garden, Protect your body from oxidative stress with antioxidants.

Appetite

The ultimate challenge for America is to suppress emotional eating, compulsive eating, and overeating. This has become a challenge. Overeating is an epidemic, and combating the causes is next to impossible. Our appetites are set on the food industries standards. Craving for more of there non-nutritious faux foods have been manipulated. This helps pave the foundation for over consumption of both large meals and between meal eating.

To quit eating more than you need or want is a challenge for most people. That is unless they change their diet to a whole food one. This will include plenty of antioxidants. Very few people binge on broccoli, carrots, watercress fennel, cabbage, cauliflower, or even parsley. 

If you pair that up with some protein and fruit you will prevent, stabilize and reduce your need for insulin.

Diabetics low-carb it for results; the proof is in the way it lowers insulin resistance and enables weight loss. A low-carb diet restricts the amount of refined carbohydrates, which alone is worth the effort. The best part it leaves you satisfied. Hunger isn’t your constant companion.

Diabetic Study

Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.

“The typical diet that physicians recommend for weight loss is a low-fat diet,” said the study’s lead author, Raymond Plodkowski, MD, chief of endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolism at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno. “However, as this study shows, not all people have the same response to diets.”

People with insulin resistance, a common precursor for Type 2 diabetes, metabolize carbohydrates, or “carbs,” abnormally, which may affect their rate of weight loss. For them, Plodkowski said, “the lower-carb diet is more effective, at least in the short term.”

Super Booster

This way of eating shouldn’t be thought of as a super booster for accelerated weight loss. For diabetics this would help stabilize and reverse the effects of the condition.

The composition of the low-fat diet was 60 percent calories from carbs, 20 percent from fat and 20 percent from protein. The lower-carb diet also had 20 percent of calories from protein, it had 45 percent from carbs and 35 percent from primarily unsaturated fats, such as nuts. Menus included a minimum of 2 fruits and 3 vegetable servings a day.

The way they did the study was to use a high percent of carbs in the diet. The low-fat diet with 60 percent of the diet in carbohydrates is a study in disaster. Elimination of all refined carbohydrates is really the name of the game. Whole food healthy eating works. A diet high in vegetables and fruit will provide the fiber and some carbohydrates. It is not a matter of low carbohydrates only, it is where are your getting them from.

It is strange how cake, cookies, pie, white bread, white rice, and sugar are called carbohydrates. That would imply that they are food of some sort. This is where the problem  is. A low fat diet consists of low fat dairy high in sugar, and low fat cookies full of sweetners. The truth is it is easier to overeat when presented with these items. They make you hungry and play games with your endocrine, cardiovascular, brain function, and energy level.

Achieving Health

Achieving health the low-carb way is to unleash your internal defenses with plant compounds found in vegetables and fruit, and Omega-3 fatty acids in whole foods such as grass-fed meat.