Archive for June, 2011

The papaya is sweet, succulent and when served ripe has custard like taste. That the papaya thwarts cancer cells in the lab makes this an even sweeter choice. Papaya contains anti-oxidant nutrients like beta-carotene, vitamin A and C, flavonoids, folate, B vitamins and pantothenic acid. It also contains small amount of minerals like calcium, chlorine, iron phosphorus, potassium, silicon and sodium.

Papaya Cancer Protection

The Papaya provides a blast of luscious sweetness while delivering powerful immune boosting nutrients. Papaya fights cancer because it has the powerful combination of lycopene, and carotenoids. It has shown promise against hormone related cancers as well as other types. In the case of breast cancer cells research shows it can stop the growth and metastasis process.

The nutrients in papaya have been shown to help prevent colon cancer. Papaya’s fiber is able to bind with cancer-causing toxins in the colon and keep them away from the healthy colon cells. Papaya’s folate, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and vitamin E have each been associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer. These nutrients provide synergistic protection for colon cells from free radical damage to their DNA.

Papaya may reduce a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer. This comes from research published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition.  Men who frequently consumed lycopene-rich fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, apricots, pink grapefruit, watermelon , papaya, and guava were 82% less likely to have prostate cancer than those who consumed the least of these fruits. Drinking green tea while on a diet high in lycopene-rich fruits offered stronger protection. There seems to be a synergistic effect that offers substantial protection.

Papaya and Cancer Research

Scientists at the University of Illinois think this anti-oxidant activity contributes to its effectiveness as a cancer fighting agent. The University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya’s dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors. These include cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas. Researchers in Japan found the mechanisms of action in a type of isothiocyanate found in papaya known as BITC (Benzyl isothiocyanate} that underlies the relationship between cell cycle regulation and appropriate cell demise.

Adding papayas to your diet is a powerful way to ensure you are getting a nutrient-dense fruit that is a rich source of cancer fighting nutrients. The key to health is to get nutriton in and cellular toxins out. It is common sense that what works to protect against cancer are whole foods with a broad-spectrum of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Childhood Obesity is going to become a dominant force and have an impact on health care. There are children as young as ten are doing what teens and adults do in the insane world of weight loss, which is making themselves vomit. This is now becoming a tool for managing weight and eating. With vomiting becoming a tool for weight management we are a culture who lost our way. This is more common among boys than girls, according to a study of nearly 16,000 school children according to a study published by the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

These findings have prompted to issue a warning that self-induced vomiting is an early sign that children could develop eating disorders and psychological problems, such as binge eating and anorexia. They also think that this problem can be tackled by making sure that children get enough sleep, eat breakfast every day, eat less fried food and night-time snacks and spend less time on the computer.

This isn’t a holistic solution. As long as we think Pepsi refreshes, and packaged faux food is fuel for the body then we aren’t going be able to stop the damage. We as a nation have to improve the food supply or childhood obesity will be the number one health concern on the planet.

 A study of 120 schools, carried out for Taiwan’s Ministry of Education found that 16% or the boys made themselves sick, compared with 10% of the girls. America’s food manufacturing is big business and it is reaching foreign soil. When the dust settles we will see a world that depends on fast convenient food. Obesity is becoming a growing problem in industrialized countries, and has just about tripled over the last three decades.

“For example, a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in 2010, found that 4% of students had vomited or taken laxatives in the last 30 days to lose or stop gaining weight. And a South Australian study published in 2008 said that eating disorders had doubled in the last decade.”

The Taiwan study found that 18% of the underweight children used vomiting as a weight-loss strategy, compared with 17% of obese children and 14% of overweight children. Normal weight children were least likely to vomit (12%).

When the researchers carried out an odds ratio analysis, they found that using a computer screen for more than two hours a day increased the vomiting risk by 55%, eating fried food every day by 110% and having nighttime snacks every day by 51%. They also found that children were less likely to make themselves sick if they slept more than eight hours a night and ate breakfast every day. These sollutions will stop childhood obesity from becoming a world wide plague.

Nutrition in pregnancy-sowing the seeds that will produce a strong offspring. It is the time to eat smart. Pregnancy may look like the off-season when it comes to diet. The time a fetus spends in the womb leaves an indelible mark on future health. It is the starting line for future endurance, vitality, and immune function.

Poor Diet Risks

It now has been shown that a poor diet during pregnancy increases the risk of many age related conditions. In other words offsprings pay later for what a mother doesn’t do during gestation. Diet during the critical period of development in the womb shapes the health of the fetus by influencing how the cells in the body age.

It is an established fact that environmental factors interact with genes, affecting how they express themselves. The mother’s diet is an environmental factor that affects and modifies the DNA that regulate how a gene is produced.

Dedicating your life to child rearing begins in pregnancy. The whole story of your child’s development begins in utero. The research, by scientist from the University of Cambridge shows an increased risk of type 2 diabetes to children born to mothers who consumed an unhealthy diet during pregnancy.

“What is most exciting about these findings is that we are now starting to really understand how nutrition during the first nine months of life spent in the womb shape our long term health by influencing how the cells in our body age,” stated Dr Susan Ozanne, the senior author on the paper and British Heart Foundation Senior Fellow from the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge

Child Support Begins in the Womb

Successful child rearing means sustainable good health into adulthood. There isn’t another go-around that will represent the time spend in the womb. The overall health of ones offspring starts with conception. You need to support your child before he or she arrives. The adage mother knows best must start at conception.

This is the time to upgrade your diet. Avoiding the chemicals in a diet made up of carbonated drinks, processed foods and drinks, and even manufactured vitamins is important. What is called safe food additives and colors are indicated in neurodegenerative diseases, accelerated aging, and hyperactivity in children.

Sodium benzoate can damage, and shut down parts on DNA in a cell’s mitochondria. Sodium benzoate is in sodas, lemonade mixes, salad dressing, condiments, and pickles. along with other additives. The consumption of artificial food colors and preservatives can’t be good for the life blossoming inside of you.

When you realize that sodium benzoate is used as an anti-corrosive, automotive engine antifreeze coolant, plastic, and in photographic processing it takes on a new dimension. What belongs in the cleaning industry doesn’t belong in the womb

 Food is The Future

When you eat for two it is a multigenerational endeavor. Ancient Wisdom still stands whole food is what makes a healthy baby materialize. Maternal instinct isn’t enough anymore, knowledge is power. All formulas and food are for two now. The health of your unborn child takes precedence over everything else. Pregnancy is a time to invest in your child’s future, by consuming a diet full of fruits, vegetables, and good quality protein.