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Plan to reverse cancer and enjoy a healthy lifespan. 

We are led to believe that there are fast fixes in a package that will correct all problems. It’s a packaged world that have brands competing to boast sales with prescription based appeal. Anything that incorporates droppers, syringes and glass or glass like bottles carry a secondary message which implies the disease you have is going to go away with the use of the contents.

The prescription drugs have a historically disappointing record. They have demonstrated time and time again they have risks that may out weight the benefits. When olive oil is linked with a lower risk of stroke in the journal Neurology, it seems to be a complete surprise to many people. 

Micronutrients

The mechanism for preventing and reversing any condition including cancer resides in our body and in our foods. Deficiencies of micronutrients increase the risk of all age-related diseases including cancer. Resvertatrol shows promise as an anti-aging compound and is the basis for many cancer diets. Now, what that says is programming and extending life comes from the vines, seeds, skin, and leaves of plants.

In the future the differences between pharmaceuticals and plant food will be the way one can naturally restore health while the other masks symptoms by creating new ones. To enable healing the body it has to have the right building blocks, chemo, and radiation aren’t builders, but insidious destroyers of health. Perhaps most disturbing is the failure of these treatments to cure  by restoring the health of the individual.

The new way of thinking is that all disease including cancer is a deficiency state. If that is true we can be sure it isn’t a pill, capsule, chemotherapy, or radiation, but one of micronutrients. Replacing the terminology from degenerative disease to a deficiency disease changes the solutions.

Environment

Cancer is an environmental disease. What that means is the internal terrain is the environment that our cells function in. Cancer cells are dependent on our hormones, nutritional status, and immunity.  Carcinogensis research is the basic laboratory studies aimed at understanding the molecular changes involved in cancer. This means looking at the chemical agents, physical agents, radiation, biological agents such as viruses, and hormones.

The real breakthroughs are already being put into practice. These are interventions that have biological explanations. The biological mechanism for cancer cell growth depends on our immune system, hormone balance, nutritional status, stress level, and other habits.

Anti-Cancer Diet

The main components of an anti-cancer diet are low refined carbohydrates. It is known that a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet has been shown to boost the ability of the immune system to kill cancer cells. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A new study in the July issue of Carcinogenesis  came to the conclusion that a diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastasis, compared with the western way of eating,

Food is a tool that carries with it the ability to help maintain healthy hormone levels, and have anti-inflammatory effects. This is something that isn’t used to any great extent, and yet there is proof that it is capable of restoring health and checking tumor growth. This is true if you use conventional treatment or alternative healing modalities. This is the one factor that puts you in control of your destiny. It’s ultimately lifestyles that set the course for healing and vibrant health. There are specific things that are known to reverse cancer. The next article will talk about them.

Adults with newly diagnosed diabetes are at higher long-term risk of serious liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver failure, according to a research article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Sense and Nonsense

Of course it makes sense that diabetics are at risk for many negative effects from having the condition. The nonsense is thinking that this is a disease. What produced a diabetic state is usually a faulty diet with lots of processed foods, and high fructose corn syrup.

High fructose corn syrup, which some studies have liked to obesity, may also be harmful to the liver, according to Duke University Medical Center research.

“We found that increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD),” said Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Duke University Medical Center.

Her team of researchers at Duke, one of eight clinical centers in the Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network, looked at 427 adults enrolled in the network. They analyzed dietary questionnaires collected within three months of the adults’ liver biopsies to determine their high fructose corn syrup intake and its association with liver scarring.

The researchers found only 19 percent of adults with NAFLD reported no intake of fructose-containing beverages, while 52 percent consumed between one and six servings a week and 29 percent consumed fructose-containing beverages on a daily basis.

An increase in consumption of fructose appeared to be correlated to increased liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD. . Her latest research, published online in Hepatology, goes one step further and links high fructose corn syrup to the progression of liver injury.

“Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is present in 30 percent of adults in the United States,” Abdelmalek said. “Although only a minority of patients’ progress to cirrhosis, such patients are at increased risk for liver failure, liver cancer, and the need for liver transplant,” she explained.

Bad Eating Choices and Risk of both Diabetes and Liver Disease

If you say your bad eating choices are the cause of your poor health you would solve a lot of problems.

Pomegranate protection means that your diet matters. The power of pomegranate is in what it does, preventing or reversing atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries.  Human and animal studies show that pomegranate juice reduces oxidative stress, low-density lipoproterin (LDL) aggregation and oxidation, and reduces the platelet clumping that is associated with arteriosclerosis. By slowing the clumping it stops clots from forming, it  works like aspirin, without the side effects. It also lowers the systolic blood pressure reading.

Pomegranate Power

Part of the power of pomegranate juice is its antioxidant properties. The antioxidant level is 3X more than found in green tea, red wine, blueberries, cranberries and oranges. Antioxidants help guard the body against premature aging, heart disease, alzheimer’s, and cancer. Pomegranate is good for inflammatory conditions. It is used in other parts of the world to keep the look of youth with clear and glowing skin. Pomegranate also supplies you with vitamin C, fiber, and Potassium.

Pomegranate juice seems to destroy cancer cells, while protecting healthy cells. It seems to work on breast cancer cells, and prostrate cancer. There is research that shows consumption of pomegranate juice may protect the neonatal brain from damage due to injury. It improves the amount of oxygen to the heart muscle of people suffering from coronary heart disease. Research has found that eight ounces daily of pomegranate juice improved the amount of oxygen getting to the heart muscle of patients with coronary heart disease (American Journal of the college of Cardiology, (Sept. 2005).  There is some research that long-term consumption of pomegranate juice may help combat erectile dysfunction (Journal of Urology, July 2005). This should not be a surprise because erectile dysfunction is often due to atherosclerosis, and/or blood pressure medication

Research

Research shows that there is a possibility that pomegranate compounds might prevent prostrate cancer or slow its growth. The same holds true for breast cancer, it causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct. Scientists have found inflammation is reduced, and this may help in arthritis. Now we really do not need more studies, what we need is more people using these super foods.

The unique properties are; antioxidant polyphenols, ascorbic, citric, fumaic, and malic acids, essential amino acids, vitamins B and C. One pomegranate has about 40 percent of the recommended daily vitamin C. It also has some vitamin A and E. The power of pomegranate comes from the power of nature. All the laboratories in the world are not going to come up with more beneficial forms of the substances found in fruits and vegetables.