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Mango effects on breast and colon cancers shouldn’t come as any surprise, since all colorful fruits and vegetable have an effect on cell proliferation. What is surprising is that some of the most delicious plant foods can protect and help reverse this condition. What is even more unbelievable is that this easy and enjoyable way of preventing these conditions is not being utilized.

Mango

Mango has been found to prevent or stop certain colon and breast cancer cells in the lab. That’s according to a new study by Texas AgriLife Research food scientists, Kent, Francine, Ataulfo, Tommy/Atkins and Haden, who examined the five mango varieties most common in the U.S.
 
“If you look at what people currently perceive as a superfood, people think of high antioxidant capacity, and mango is not quite there,” said Dr. Susanne Talcott, who with her husband, Dr. Steve Talcott, conducted the study on cancer cells. “In comparison with antioxidants in blueberry, acai and pomegranate, it’s not even close.”

“It has about four to five times less antioxidant capacity than an average wine grape, and it still holds up fairly well in anticancer activity. If you look at it from the physiological and nutritional standpoint, taking everything together, it would be a high-ranking super food,” she said. “It would be good to include mangoes as part of the regular diet.”

Mighty Mango

This is neither modern technology coming to the rescue, or fiction. It is a plan everyday fact that whole foods are the exclusive property of nature. There is nothing that will come out of a lab that will create better health.

The Talcotts tested mango polyphenol extracts in vitro on colon, breast, lung, leukemia and prostate cancers. Polyphenols are natural substances in plants and are associated with a variety of compounds known to promote good health.

Mango showed some impact on lung, leukemia and prostate cancers but was most effective on the most common breast and colon cancers.

“What we found is that not all cell lines are sensitive to the same extent to an anticancer agent,” she said. “But the breast and colon cancer lines underwent apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Additionally, we found that when we tested normal colon cells side by side with the colon cancer cells, that the mango polyphenolics did not harm the normal cells.”

Arsenal

The mango should be added to the arsenal of anti-cancer plants. We get sucked into the concept that if it isn’t from a lab it isn’t effective. Ratcheting up our consumption of plant food will create health. Also, it will help reverse many serious conditions.

The point to remember they will do more trials to see if this is relevant, and proceed to do human tests. That will usually be with a version that comes from a lab, in isolated forms, with higher concentrations.

We don’t need more pharmaceuticals. What we need is to consume more fruits and vegetables.

Lifestyle is the answer to stress. Lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, though that is a big part of the picture. Most alternative physicians are aware that body, mind, and spirit are a package deal when it comes to overall health status.

Keys To Health

Optimal performance is the sum total of nutrition, activity, optimism, and mood.Everything listed for health effects one’s mood. From emotional eating to isolation are indicators of overall survival abilities. All these actions demonstrate immune-modulating capabilities.

 Lethal Dangers

Human studies validate the benefits of social contact. Studies have shown that socially isolated female rats develop a larger number of more aggressive tumors than rats living in a social group. This is according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.

The dramatic increase in mammary tumors among isolated Norway rats – which, like humans, are a highly social species-illustrates how loneliness can be deadly, the authors report in findings to be published the week of December 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“There is a growing interest in relationships between the environment, emotion and disease. This study offers insight into how the social world gets under the skin,” said Gretchen Hermes, first author of the paper and a resident in the Neurosciences Research Training Program in the Yale Department of Psychiatry.

 Stress

Isolation seems to bring with it a stress reaction. Stress is linked to the activation of cancer-promoting genes. Social isolation triggers fear and anxiety. What the study doesn’t do is tie stress to diet. A good diet with optimal nutrition mitigates dangerous stimulus that disrupt the body’s normal biological and psychological equilibrium.

The way the body handles stress is key to the effect it will have. Stress is a fact of life in these times. Not only is the pace of life frantic, but social isolation is more prevalent. The pressures are exacerbated when other factors such as poor health are part of the equation.

A Better Way

Stress can also cause heart rate and blood pressure to increase. There are a number of things that send people to the doctor’s office, which are stress related. You need good cellular energy to deal with something as energy draining as stress. Stress causes a deficit in mitochondrial energy.

Exercise is a stress modifier, but much less publicized is the fact that certain vitamins, minerals are stress busters and mood enhancers. Nutritional strategies are key, and also are other strategies. Overlooked and just as important is something called the biology of belief.

Health, by definition, is the sine qua non (condition) of everything else. It’s all in your head has meaning. Reality is from the Inside out, it’s all in your mind is the truth. It boils down to your interpretation of the world, and that becomes your view. How you experience something is the sum total of what you were taught, past experiences, and your health status.

Meditation, prayer, social interaction will all define your lifestyle, as well as nutrition and exercise. When using rats for models, these are the variables that can’t be part of the equation. However, it shows that isolated rats developed 84 times the amount of tumors as those living in groups. These were also faster spreading than the tumors of the social animals, and were of a larger size.

Environment, Emotion and Disease

To disregard the lifestyle components that affect every aspect of our lives is a formula for disaster. Our environment is more problematic. Emotional health is the ability to cope with the stresses of life. This is where the environment plays a key role. The internal environment must be healthy enough to protect one from the effects of stress from the outside.

Lifestyle is the sum total of nutritional status, activity level, belief system, and outlook. Rats are gregarious and social, and so are humans. So when it comes to health it is the whole package, which is the whole as in holistic. Turning to modern medicine will not get you the answer you need. We are not parts, and systems, we are a whole entity, that needs all parts operational.

Antiperspirants are a potential endocrine disruptor. That is the antiperspirants cancer link. They now suspect this product to have possible links to both breast and prostate cancer. It is suspected as either a causative or contributor agent. This is enough to make anyone sweat who has used antiperspirants regularly. Antiperspirants are considered a drug by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That fact somehow is not mentioned in both both the media and advertisements for the product.

It is classified as a drug because antiperspirants affect a bodily function. It reduces the amount of sweat that reaches the skin. This has a profound effect, the sweat is laden with hormones that are suppose to reach the skins surface and evaporate. Now the hormones remain on and within the skin to be reabsorbed. This is what makes it a potential endocrine disruptor. This is a chronic assault that doesn’t allow the body to function as it is meant to. The reason this is significant is that both prostate and breast cancers are hormone dependent.

Using antiperspirants starts in utero, and continues through the teen years and into maturity. These hormones and pheromones are absorbed back into the system and effects the fetus. Prostate and breast tissues contain both androgen and estrogen receptors. So far the only evidence comes from plotting breast cancer incident and mortality from 74 countries, by antiperspirant use. The trend –lines reveal positive correlations. In African-Americans sweat glands are larger and more developed. This is a protective device, because of the higher heat exposure that occurs in their country of origin.

In our culture we often sweat less, which may not be good for the body. We do less physical labor, and work in air conditioned environments. Sweating is a protective mechanism that is built in for our protection. That is why people use steam baths, and saunas to detoxify the body of impurities. On all levels we are disrupting the natural protection that nature provided for us. We are putting ourselves in harms way by interfering. Thought the evidence for antiperspirants role in cancer is not what you can call a hundred percent conclusive, it is enough to forget throwing caution to the wind.

Placing chemicals that are absorbed in a place that can distribute them throughout the body is probably quite harmful. The question is do we have a choice since we produce sweat. However perspiration is basically odorless. The real odor stems from anaerobic bacteria. These are bacteria that flourish when your body is short on oxygen. The metabolism is the way your body gets rid of waste products. So many times odor is tied to an imbalance in your metabolism.

Toxins are another cause that is overlooked. These are substances that come from food and air that accumulate because the elimination channels are not functioning. The organs of elimination are the liver, kidneys, and colon. Imbalances in nutrition that results in constipation and low levels of magnesium or zinc will contribute to body odor. Peoples body chemistry reacts to a meat, or vegetarian diet and will produce an odor according to what was ingested. There are individuals that cannot metabolize foods containing certain substances. We know that onions, garlic, spicy foods, coffee, and alcohol play havoc with body odors. Rancid fats and oils also cause body odor.

Metabolic dysfunction, emotional stress, diabetes, liver disease, parasites, and fungus change the body’s odor. Antiperspirants are an easy answer to a complex problem. Toxic overload is part of the environment we live in. The real problem is antiperspirants add to this toxicity.

There are many ways to cut down on the use of antiperspirants, the first one is to take responsibility for your health. A person who is healthy is not using medications, and  tobacco, and is eating whole foods. They ingest less toxins, and eat foods high in chlorophyll also know as a deodorizer. The right vitamins and minerals help reduce specific secretions, which can cut down your dependence on antiperspirants. When your metabolism, elimination, circulation system function well, you function well.