More fat linked to less weight in kids study...
By staff reporter
29/01/2007- Higher intake of fats is associated with lower body weight, says new research from Sweden that offers an alternative side to the role of fat intake in the rise of obesity. The research also correlated higher BMI with higher sugar intake.
Researcher Malin Haglund Garemo, a dietitian from Gothenburg University in Sweden, said that more studies are planned to investigate if obesity was being caused by an early increase in insulin, and not fat.
"Such results would go against the common perception that fat causes increased insulin production as a result of insulin resistance," she said.
The rate of childhood obesity is set to double by the end of the decade, according to recent forecasts by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). The alarming figures on childhood obesity estimate that by 2010 almost 287 million kids will be obese, and the overall obese population could rise to 700 million by 2015.
Garemos dissertation study focused on 182 healthy four-year-olds in Gothenburg and examined eating habits and lifestyles. Twenty per cent of the children were classified as being overweight based on their body mass index (BMI greater than 25 kg per sq. m and less than 30 kg sq. m), and two per cent were obese (BMI greater than 3030 kg sq. m).
"Most of the children in our study come from good socioeconomic backgrounds. If the study had reflected all four-year-olds in Sweden, more children would probably have been overweight," said Haglund Garemo.
Diets, socio-economic, lifestyle and health questionnaires were completed by the parents of the children, and analysis of the children's body build showed that weight increases was a result of the body storing more fat, but those who ate the most fat were not the ones who weighed most. Instead, children who ate less fat had higher BMIs, reports Haglund Garemo.
Startlingly, a fourth of all energy requirements of the children was coming from "junk food" (candy, ice cream, cookies, and sweet beverages), despite the overall energy intakes being in accordance with Nordic nutrition recommendations (NNR 2004).
"Most children had higher intake of saturated fat and sucrose than NNR 2004, while the intake of polyunsaturated fat - especially omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D and iron were lower than recommended in most children," wrote Haglund Garemo.
"Every third child in the study ate far too little unsaturated fat, above all too little omega-3. These children had significantly higher body weight. This supports other studies that show that obese children have shortages of omega-3," she said.
Haglund Garemo also reported that many of the four-year old girls in the study were already displaying signs of the metabolic syndrome, a condition characterised by central obesity, hypertension, and disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism. The syndrome has been linked to increased risks of both type 2 diabetes and CVD.
Indeed, the research indicated that children with the highest insulin levels gained the most weight since birth.
"Risk factors for the metabolic syndrome can be identified already in healthy 4-year olds, especially in girls," she said.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Nutrients in the news this week...
Trans fats linked to infertility, reveals new study...
01/23/2007 - Consuming trans fats could lead to infertility in women, according to new research, findings that are set to place even more pressure on food manufacturers already battling to remove the unhealthy fats from their product formulations.
READ THE ARTICLE
How Much Mental Illness is an Allergy to Caffeine?...
With the upswing of "chemical imbalance" disorders that surfaced in the latter twentieth century, many researchers frantically attempt to unravel the brain's intricate clockworks. In turn, as the number of persons suffering with mental issues mount, it seems that doctors, pressed for time, are quick to refer patients to psychiatrists. Failing to request a medical physical, many psychiatrists hand out medications, often masking the underlying physical problem.
READ THE ARTICLE
Folic acid supplements found to significantly enhance memory function...
NewsTarget) Folic acid supplements can boost the memory and brain power of older people with remarkable effect, a new study published Friday shows. In the study, men and post-menopausal women aged 50 to 70 years old who took daily doses of supplements had the same mental adroitness of people five years younger.
READ THE ARTICLE
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01/23/2007 - Consuming trans fats could lead to infertility in women, according to new research, findings that are set to place even more pressure on food manufacturers already battling to remove the unhealthy fats from their product formulations.
READ THE ARTICLE
How Much Mental Illness is an Allergy to Caffeine?...
With the upswing of "chemical imbalance" disorders that surfaced in the latter twentieth century, many researchers frantically attempt to unravel the brain's intricate clockworks. In turn, as the number of persons suffering with mental issues mount, it seems that doctors, pressed for time, are quick to refer patients to psychiatrists. Failing to request a medical physical, many psychiatrists hand out medications, often masking the underlying physical problem.
READ THE ARTICLE
Folic acid supplements found to significantly enhance memory function...
NewsTarget) Folic acid supplements can boost the memory and brain power of older people with remarkable effect, a new study published Friday shows. In the study, men and post-menopausal women aged 50 to 70 years old who took daily doses of supplements had the same mental adroitness of people five years younger.
READ THE ARTICLE
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Nutrients in the news this week...
Reprint from - Life Extension Update Exclusive...
Broccoli-tomato combo reduces prostate tumors...
A report published the January 15, 2007 issue of the journal Cancer Research concluded that a diet enhanced with tomato and broccoli powder was better than one containing either nutrient alone at shrinking prostate tumors in rats.
Food science and human nutrition professor John Erdman and colleagues at the University of Illinois and Ohio State University conducted the current research on rats with implanted prostate cancer tumors. The animals were divided to receive diets containing 10 percent broccoli powder, 10 percent tomato powder, or both. Other rats received lycopene (the red pigment in tomatoes and other red fruits) or finasteride (a drug used to treat prostate enlargement), or were surgically castrated.
After 22 weeks of treatment, rats who received the combination of broccoli and tomato powder experienced greater shrinkage of their tumors as determined by tumor weight than animals in any other group. Biopsies confirmed the reduction in proliferation in this group compared to the others, with the exception of the castrated rats whose tumor shrinkage approached that of the broccoli-tomato group.
"As nutritionists, it was very exciting to compare this drastic surgery to diet and see that tumor reduction was similar,” stated research team member and report coauthor Kirstie Canene-Adams. “Older men with slow-growing prostate cancer who have chosen watchful waiting over chemotherapy and radiation should seriously consider altering their diets to include more tomatoes and broccoli."
"When tomatoes and broccoli are eaten together, we see an additive effect, Dr Erdman explained. “We think it's because different bioactive compounds in each food work on different anticancer pathways."
"To get these effects, men should consume daily 1.4 cups of raw broccoli and 2.5 cups of fresh tomato, or 1 cup of tomato sauce, or ½ cup of tomato paste,” Canene-Adams suggested.
Other research conducted at the University of Illinois by Dr Erdman’s colleague Elizabeth Jeffrey discovered that sulfur compounds in broccoli enhance enzymes in the body that degrade cancer-causing substances. "For ten years, I've been learning how the phytochemicals in tomatoes affect the progression of prostate cancer,” Dr Erdman stated. “Meanwhile Dr Jeffery has been investigating the ways in which the healthful effects of broccoli are produced. Teaming up to see how these vegetables worked together just made sense and certainly contributes to our knowledge about dietary treatments for prostate cancer."
Life Extension Foundation
Don't Miss Breakfast, it can actually help you lose weight...
Reprinted from - HealthDay News
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
by Felicity Stone
If you're in the habit of skipping breakfast, studies show you should rethink your morning routine. Eating breakfast has health benefits and can help manage your weight, according to Rutland Regional Medical Center in Vermont. Here's what the research indicates:
1. Breakfast is linked to a lower body mass, compared to people who skip the meal.
2. Breakfast is shown to reduce a person's risk of obesity and insulin resistance.
3. Breakfast is one of the few proven strategies to maintaining long-term weight loss.
4. Breakfast is shown to improve grades and behavior among school children.
Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program
Developed by Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Study: Hot chili pepper compound kills cancer without side effects...
NewsTarget) -- Capsaicin -- the compound that makes chili peppers spicy -- can kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells, with no side effects, according to a new study by researchers at Nottingham University in the UK.
READ ARTICLE HERE
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Broccoli-tomato combo reduces prostate tumors...
A report published the January 15, 2007 issue of the journal Cancer Research concluded that a diet enhanced with tomato and broccoli powder was better than one containing either nutrient alone at shrinking prostate tumors in rats.
Food science and human nutrition professor John Erdman and colleagues at the University of Illinois and Ohio State University conducted the current research on rats with implanted prostate cancer tumors. The animals were divided to receive diets containing 10 percent broccoli powder, 10 percent tomato powder, or both. Other rats received lycopene (the red pigment in tomatoes and other red fruits) or finasteride (a drug used to treat prostate enlargement), or were surgically castrated.
After 22 weeks of treatment, rats who received the combination of broccoli and tomato powder experienced greater shrinkage of their tumors as determined by tumor weight than animals in any other group. Biopsies confirmed the reduction in proliferation in this group compared to the others, with the exception of the castrated rats whose tumor shrinkage approached that of the broccoli-tomato group.
"As nutritionists, it was very exciting to compare this drastic surgery to diet and see that tumor reduction was similar,” stated research team member and report coauthor Kirstie Canene-Adams. “Older men with slow-growing prostate cancer who have chosen watchful waiting over chemotherapy and radiation should seriously consider altering their diets to include more tomatoes and broccoli."
"When tomatoes and broccoli are eaten together, we see an additive effect, Dr Erdman explained. “We think it's because different bioactive compounds in each food work on different anticancer pathways."
"To get these effects, men should consume daily 1.4 cups of raw broccoli and 2.5 cups of fresh tomato, or 1 cup of tomato sauce, or ½ cup of tomato paste,” Canene-Adams suggested.
Other research conducted at the University of Illinois by Dr Erdman’s colleague Elizabeth Jeffrey discovered that sulfur compounds in broccoli enhance enzymes in the body that degrade cancer-causing substances. "For ten years, I've been learning how the phytochemicals in tomatoes affect the progression of prostate cancer,” Dr Erdman stated. “Meanwhile Dr Jeffery has been investigating the ways in which the healthful effects of broccoli are produced. Teaming up to see how these vegetables worked together just made sense and certainly contributes to our knowledge about dietary treatments for prostate cancer."
Life Extension Foundation
Don't Miss Breakfast, it can actually help you lose weight...
Reprinted from - HealthDay News
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
by Felicity Stone
If you're in the habit of skipping breakfast, studies show you should rethink your morning routine. Eating breakfast has health benefits and can help manage your weight, according to Rutland Regional Medical Center in Vermont. Here's what the research indicates:
1. Breakfast is linked to a lower body mass, compared to people who skip the meal.
2. Breakfast is shown to reduce a person's risk of obesity and insulin resistance.
3. Breakfast is one of the few proven strategies to maintaining long-term weight loss.
4. Breakfast is shown to improve grades and behavior among school children.
Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program
Developed by Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Study: Hot chili pepper compound kills cancer without side effects...
NewsTarget) -- Capsaicin -- the compound that makes chili peppers spicy -- can kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells, with no side effects, according to a new study by researchers at Nottingham University in the UK.
READ ARTICLE HERE
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Nutrients in the news this week...
U.S. Approves First Drug for Obese Dogs...
THURSDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Recognizing that overeating isn't limited to beings with two legs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug to manage obesity in dogs.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Experts call for vitamin D level hike...
1/12/2007 - The tolerable upper intake level for oral vitamin D3 should be increased five-fold, experts from the US-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has said after a review of the science.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Sunshine, Vitamin D May Prevent Influenza...
Vitamin D, or rather a lack of it, may have something to do with the regular flaring up of influenza in the winter months. A team of Harvard based researchers is "focusing on a provocative new hypothesis that blames annual flu epidemics on something most people don't get enough of this time of year: sunshine", reports the Baltimore Sun.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Obesity – breakfast research points to new opportunities...
/11/2007 - Skipping breakfast and eating more fast food have again been shown to lead to overweight in late teenage years.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Comment: I am especially upset about the FDA approving a diet drug for obese dogs. It's one thing as humans to decide that you want to eat junk food or foods that create weight problems for us, but animals have no choice in the matter. You determine what they eat.
Please understand what dogs and cats should eat, so they do not become obese and need drugs. Shame on us...
DOG AND CAT NUTRITION
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THURSDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Recognizing that overeating isn't limited to beings with two legs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug to manage obesity in dogs.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Experts call for vitamin D level hike...
1/12/2007 - The tolerable upper intake level for oral vitamin D3 should be increased five-fold, experts from the US-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) has said after a review of the science.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Sunshine, Vitamin D May Prevent Influenza...
Vitamin D, or rather a lack of it, may have something to do with the regular flaring up of influenza in the winter months. A team of Harvard based researchers is "focusing on a provocative new hypothesis that blames annual flu epidemics on something most people don't get enough of this time of year: sunshine", reports the Baltimore Sun.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Obesity – breakfast research points to new opportunities...
/11/2007 - Skipping breakfast and eating more fast food have again been shown to lead to overweight in late teenage years.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Comment: I am especially upset about the FDA approving a diet drug for obese dogs. It's one thing as humans to decide that you want to eat junk food or foods that create weight problems for us, but animals have no choice in the matter. You determine what they eat.
Please understand what dogs and cats should eat, so they do not become obese and need drugs. Shame on us...
DOG AND CAT NUTRITION
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Make 2 changes in your dietary habits and lose weight and reduce future disease...
Egg-breakfast fills you up for longer...
05/01/2006 - Starting the day with an egg breakfast instead of another food with the same calorie count is more likely to lead to weight loss in overweight people, suggests new research.
READ ARTICLE HERE
US gets nearly 1/4 daily calories from drinks, report...
1/9/2007 - The results of a recent study on US beverage consumption could highlight opportunities for functional beverage marketers to inject more value-added beverages into a market that has become increasingly saturated with calorie-laden soft drinks.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Less sugary drinks during childhood may cut disease risk...
Symptoms of heart disease and diabetes usually seen in adults are increasingly being found in adolescents according to a longitudinal study, which suggests that reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages during childhood may lessen the risk of chronic disease in later life.
"Research on obesity and associated problems such as hypertension and type-2 diabetes has largely dealt with adults," says Alison Ventura, doctoral candidate at Penn State's Center for Childhood Obesity Research. "But with increasing rates of obesity in children, we are seeing these problems at much younger ages."
READ ARTICLE HERE
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05/01/2006 - Starting the day with an egg breakfast instead of another food with the same calorie count is more likely to lead to weight loss in overweight people, suggests new research.
READ ARTICLE HERE
US gets nearly 1/4 daily calories from drinks, report...
1/9/2007 - The results of a recent study on US beverage consumption could highlight opportunities for functional beverage marketers to inject more value-added beverages into a market that has become increasingly saturated with calorie-laden soft drinks.
READ ARTICLE HERE
Less sugary drinks during childhood may cut disease risk...
Symptoms of heart disease and diabetes usually seen in adults are increasingly being found in adolescents according to a longitudinal study, which suggests that reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages during childhood may lessen the risk of chronic disease in later life.
"Research on obesity and associated problems such as hypertension and type-2 diabetes has largely dealt with adults," says Alison Ventura, doctoral candidate at Penn State's Center for Childhood Obesity Research. "But with increasing rates of obesity in children, we are seeing these problems at much younger ages."
READ ARTICLE HERE
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Weightloss in the news...
FTC fines marketers of weight loss pills ...
WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday fined the marketers of four weight loss pills millions of dollars for making false advertising claims ranging from rapid weight loss to reducing the risk of cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_he_me/weight_loss_pills_7
Study: Weight loss may lower cancer risk ...
ATLANTA - Here's another reason for men to avoid packing on extra pounds over the holidays: A new study has found that losing weight reduces the risk of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061227/ap_on_he_me/diet_prostate_cancer_4
Study: Many kids too fat by preschool ...
WASHINGTON - Far too many kids are fat by preschool, and Hispanic youngsters are most at risk, says new research that's among the first to focus on children growing up in poverty. The study couldn't explain the disparity: White, black and Hispanic youngsters alike watched a lot of TV, and researchers spotted no other huge differences between the families.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_he_me/diet_fat_preschoolers_5
Comment: Please lose weight the right way. 95% of all weight loss programs fail within the first year, and it gets worse from there.
Lose weight by developing long term fat loss and eating that way for life.
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Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday fined the marketers of four weight loss pills millions of dollars for making false advertising claims ranging from rapid weight loss to reducing the risk of cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_he_me/weight_loss_pills_7
Study: Weight loss may lower cancer risk ...
ATLANTA - Here's another reason for men to avoid packing on extra pounds over the holidays: A new study has found that losing weight reduces the risk of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061227/ap_on_he_me/diet_prostate_cancer_4
Study: Many kids too fat by preschool ...
WASHINGTON - Far too many kids are fat by preschool, and Hispanic youngsters are most at risk, says new research that's among the first to focus on children growing up in poverty. The study couldn't explain the disparity: White, black and Hispanic youngsters alike watched a lot of TV, and researchers spotted no other huge differences between the families.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_he_me/diet_fat_preschoolers_5
Comment: Please lose weight the right way. 95% of all weight loss programs fail within the first year, and it gets worse from there.
Lose weight by developing long term fat loss and eating that way for life.
Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program
Developed by Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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Monday, January 01, 2007
Improve your thoughts, improve your life. Change your thoughts, change your life... You are in charge of your future...
Over the past 30 years, I have come to learn about Quantum Physics and how these principals affect our personal life, and our future, when we understand them.
Quantum Physics is the new understanding of what really makes up our world around us. Einstein taught us that E=MC2... In other words, energy is the same as matter and light. Everything in the universe is made up of energy, it's all one big energy field. Below the molecular level of all things, is energy vibrating at different frequencies. Even our thoughts, it appears, are made up of energy and have specific vibrations that are either positive or negative. Thoughts, which are images in our mind, eventually becomes our physical reality. Our imagination is our way of practicing creation. Einstein put it this way, " Imagination is everything, it is the preview of coming attractions." Buddha understood this principal and said "We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world." How then do we make 2007 better than 2006? We begin to think different thoughts, and these thoughts and emotions will attract what we want in our life. We get what we think about most. "Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do,when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." Orison S. Marder ...
The secret to having a better future lies in the Law of Attraction... Here are some thoughts to ponder to make 2007, better.
Quantum Physics is the new understanding of what really makes up our world around us. Einstein taught us that E=MC2... In other words, energy is the same as matter and light. Everything in the universe is made up of energy, it's all one big energy field. Below the molecular level of all things, is energy vibrating at different frequencies. Even our thoughts, it appears, are made up of energy and have specific vibrations that are either positive or negative. Thoughts, which are images in our mind, eventually becomes our physical reality. Our imagination is our way of practicing creation. Einstein put it this way, " Imagination is everything, it is the preview of coming attractions." Buddha understood this principal and said "We are what we think. All that we are, arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world." How then do we make 2007 better than 2006? We begin to think different thoughts, and these thoughts and emotions will attract what we want in our life. We get what we think about most. "Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do,when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire." Orison S. Marder ...
The secret to having a better future lies in the Law of Attraction... Here are some thoughts to ponder to make 2007, better.
- Images in our mind, determine our future
- Imagination, is Image Making - the process of creation
- Thoughts have a magnetic frequency
- Thoughts become things
- We are always in creation mode, whether we know it or not
- What we focus on with thought and emotion, becomes our reality
- If your feeling good, you give off good vibrations
- Circumstances are just your current situation, the result of old thoughts
Dr. Wayne Dyer states in his book, The Power of Intention, that " If we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change." Quantum Physics has proved this to be a scientific fact. " You cannot solve a problem by condemning it". Instead, " You must contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you want to produce".
Here are some video clips from the new movie called The Secret, to help you understand these ideas and to start putting them in motion this year.
Breaking down The Secret by Bob Proctor
Quotations to review from The Secret
The Secret to You - Inspirational
Watch the trailer to the movie The Secret
Also, understand What The True Nature of Reality is with regard to your health from my website.
Happy New Year
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Nutrients in the news this week...
Study links heartburn drugs, broken hip...
CHICAGO - Taking such popular heartburn drugs as Nexium, Prevacid or Prilosec for a year or more can raise the risk of a broken hip markedly in people over 50, a large study in Britain found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_he_me/heartburn_drugs_3
Big bellies tied to greater heart disease risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more your belly sticks out, the greater your risk of developing heart disease, a new study shows.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/hl_nm/heart_disease_obesity_dc
DNA Is Not Destiny...
The new science of epigenetics rewrites the rules of disease, heredity, and identity.
http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-06/cover/
Comment: Drugs that prevent heart burn do that by stopping Hydrochloric Acid levels, which brake down proteins and minerals. Instead of doing this, solve the problem by taking digestive enzymes that contain added HCL and don't eat fats with refined carbs. Belly fat is a sign of Hyperinsulinemia, which is the underlying cause of many diseases as well as obesity. Lastly, the DNA article tells us that what we do today, nutritionally effects offspring yet to be born.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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CHICAGO - Taking such popular heartburn drugs as Nexium, Prevacid or Prilosec for a year or more can raise the risk of a broken hip markedly in people over 50, a large study in Britain found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_he_me/heartburn_drugs_3
Big bellies tied to greater heart disease risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more your belly sticks out, the greater your risk of developing heart disease, a new study shows.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/hl_nm/heart_disease_obesity_dc
DNA Is Not Destiny...
The new science of epigenetics rewrites the rules of disease, heredity, and identity.
http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-06/cover/
Comment: Drugs that prevent heart burn do that by stopping Hydrochloric Acid levels, which brake down proteins and minerals. Instead of doing this, solve the problem by taking digestive enzymes that contain added HCL and don't eat fats with refined carbs. Belly fat is a sign of Hyperinsulinemia, which is the underlying cause of many diseases as well as obesity. Lastly, the DNA article tells us that what we do today, nutritionally effects offspring yet to be born.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Five Keys to Longevity ...
An anti-aging program is true preventive medicine... Here are some key elements to consider.
General good health. This can usually be achieved with some combination of disciplined effort, a healthy diet, regular exercise, and good luck (including a favorable genetic makeup).
Start by understanding what the Ideal Diet for humans is.
Slow down Free Radical activity in the body. Suppressing free radicals can be achieved through good nutrition, including nutritional supplements. I recommend a high potency Multi-Vitamin-Mineral supplement to help control free radicals and keep insulin sensitivity up.
Caloric restriction. This can be achieved by eating less high glycemic carbs that raise insulin and cause an abnormally big appetite. Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program.
Taking specific supplements that have been shown in studies to slow down the aging process.
These are:
Resveratrol. This ties everything together by conferring numerous health benefits. Red wine is well known for its cardioprotective and other health-promoting benefits. Researchers believe resveratrol, which is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and abundant in red wine, is the compound responsible for these benefits. Resveratrol is produced by plants in response to injury or fungal infection. It also protects plants from UV radiation and other harmful substances. Resveratrol is believed to provide similar protective benefits for humans. Its antioxidant activity, or ability to neutralize free radicals (unstable molecules that attack healthy cells and damage membranes and DNA), may account for its cardioprotective effects. Resveratrol appears to promote healthy blood composition and circulation, and may also have anti-inflammatory properties. A recent landmark study from Harvard Medical School, published in the medical journal Nature, found that ultra-high doses of red wine extract with resveratrol allowed obese mice to eat a high fat diet and still live a long and healthy life. Researchers discovered that the liver and other systems in obese mice remained healthy and fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent for those taking a resveratrol supplement.
For more information on this study.
and alpha lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine. Alpha lipoic acid (ALA), known as the "universal" antioxidant, is present in almost all tissues of the body. It plays an important role in generating energy from food and oxygen in mitochondria (the "power plants" of cells). ALA may provide protective benefits against oxidative processes believed to contribute to degenerative diseases and aging. ALA is both water- and fat-soluble, meaning it can easily cross cell membranes, and may provide both interior and exterior cellular free radical protection. Alpha lipoic acid is believed to regenerate itself and other essential antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, and coenzyme Q10. ALA may also increase levels of the antioxidant glutathione, found in the brain. Insufficient levels of glutathione have been linked to the increased risk for certain neurological conditions. ALA may also promote liver health. Acetyl L-carnitine (ALC) is similar in form to the amino acid L-carnitine, and also has some similar functions, such as being involved in the metabolism of food into energy. Studies indicate ALC promotes a healthy nervous system and memory. One of the major causes of aging is the deterioration of the energy-producing components of the cell which results in reduced cellular metabolic activity, accumulation of cellular debris, and eventual death of the cell. One of the most effective nutrients to maintain youthful cellular energy metabolism is Acetyl L - Carnitine, which functions via several mechanisms to protect cells. ALC assists in the transport of fat through the cell membrane and into the mitochondria within the cell, where these fats are oxidized to produce the cellular energy ATP.Acetyl L-Carnitine is absorbed into the bloodstream more efficiently than L-carnitine. It passes more easily through cell membranes, and is utilized more efficiently in the mitochondria of the cell. Read anti-aging webpage.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a health care professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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An anti-aging program is true preventive medicine... Here are some key elements to consider.
General good health. This can usually be achieved with some combination of disciplined effort, a healthy diet, regular exercise, and good luck (including a favorable genetic makeup).
Start by understanding what the Ideal Diet for humans is.
Slow down Free Radical activity in the body. Suppressing free radicals can be achieved through good nutrition, including nutritional supplements. I recommend a high potency Multi-Vitamin-Mineral supplement to help control free radicals and keep insulin sensitivity up.
Caloric restriction. This can be achieved by eating less high glycemic carbs that raise insulin and cause an abnormally big appetite. Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program.
Taking specific supplements that have been shown in studies to slow down the aging process.
These are:
Resveratrol. This ties everything together by conferring numerous health benefits. Red wine is well known for its cardioprotective and other health-promoting benefits. Researchers believe resveratrol, which is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and abundant in red wine, is the compound responsible for these benefits. Resveratrol is produced by plants in response to injury or fungal infection. It also protects plants from UV radiation and other harmful substances. Resveratrol is believed to provide similar protective benefits for humans. Its antioxidant activity, or ability to neutralize free radicals (unstable molecules that attack healthy cells and damage membranes and DNA), may account for its cardioprotective effects. Resveratrol appears to promote healthy blood composition and circulation, and may also have anti-inflammatory properties. A recent landmark study from Harvard Medical School, published in the medical journal Nature, found that ultra-high doses of red wine extract with resveratrol allowed obese mice to eat a high fat diet and still live a long and healthy life. Researchers discovered that the liver and other systems in obese mice remained healthy and fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent for those taking a resveratrol supplement.
For more information on this study.
and alpha lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine. Alpha lipoic acid (ALA), known as the "universal" antioxidant, is present in almost all tissues of the body. It plays an important role in generating energy from food and oxygen in mitochondria (the "power plants" of cells). ALA may provide protective benefits against oxidative processes believed to contribute to degenerative diseases and aging. ALA is both water- and fat-soluble, meaning it can easily cross cell membranes, and may provide both interior and exterior cellular free radical protection. Alpha lipoic acid is believed to regenerate itself and other essential antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, and coenzyme Q10. ALA may also increase levels of the antioxidant glutathione, found in the brain. Insufficient levels of glutathione have been linked to the increased risk for certain neurological conditions. ALA may also promote liver health. Acetyl L-carnitine (ALC) is similar in form to the amino acid L-carnitine, and also has some similar functions, such as being involved in the metabolism of food into energy. Studies indicate ALC promotes a healthy nervous system and memory. One of the major causes of aging is the deterioration of the energy-producing components of the cell which results in reduced cellular metabolic activity, accumulation of cellular debris, and eventual death of the cell. One of the most effective nutrients to maintain youthful cellular energy metabolism is Acetyl L - Carnitine, which functions via several mechanisms to protect cells. ALC assists in the transport of fat through the cell membrane and into the mitochondria within the cell, where these fats are oxidized to produce the cellular energy ATP.Acetyl L-Carnitine is absorbed into the bloodstream more efficiently than L-carnitine. It passes more easily through cell membranes, and is utilized more efficiently in the mitochondria of the cell. Read anti-aging webpage.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a health care professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Nutrients in the news this week...
Dark chocolate beats fatigue, study...
12/20/2006 - Further evidence of the health benefits of chocolate has come to light in a new study – giving manufacturers yet another route into the functional food niche.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72894&m=1NIUD20&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Vitamin D may fight multiple sclerosis ...
CHICAGO - An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than 7 million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the "sunshine vitamin" against MS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_he_me/vitamin_d_ms_1
Weight may be linked to type of bacteria ...
WASHINGTON - The size of your gut may be partly shaped by which microbes call it home, according to new research linking obesity to types of digestive bacteria.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_he_me/diet_obesity_microbes_1
Comment: I do believe there is a connection with Vitamin D and MS. As for the bacteria in your gut effecting weight, this is the first study I have seen on it, but most people could use help with intestinal health because of the over use of anitbiotics. It's worth a shot.
NSI Probiotic 15-35 with NutraFlora FOS (15 strains - 35 billion CFUs per serving - #1 probiotic) -- 120 Vegetarian Capsules
NSI Vitamin D3 -- 1,000 IU - 200 Capsules
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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12/20/2006 - Further evidence of the health benefits of chocolate has come to light in a new study – giving manufacturers yet another route into the functional food niche.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72894&m=1NIUD20&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Vitamin D may fight multiple sclerosis ...
CHICAGO - An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than 7 million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the "sunshine vitamin" against MS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_he_me/vitamin_d_ms_1
Weight may be linked to type of bacteria ...
WASHINGTON - The size of your gut may be partly shaped by which microbes call it home, according to new research linking obesity to types of digestive bacteria.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_he_me/diet_obesity_microbes_1
Comment: I do believe there is a connection with Vitamin D and MS. As for the bacteria in your gut effecting weight, this is the first study I have seen on it, but most people could use help with intestinal health because of the over use of anitbiotics. It's worth a shot.
NSI Probiotic 15-35 with NutraFlora FOS (15 strains - 35 billion CFUs per serving - #1 probiotic) -- 120 Vegetarian Capsules
NSI Vitamin D3 -- 1,000 IU - 200 Capsules
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Friday, December 15, 2006
Nutrients in the news this week...
Bad diets leading to earlier prevalence of metabolic syndrome...
12/6/2006 - Health conditions that were once almost exclusively associated with the elderly are now being increasingly diagnosed in children, according to a new report, which calls for immediate dietary intervention.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72591&m=1NIUD06&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Vitamin K may reverse artery hardening, suggests study...
11/12/2006 - A high-dose vitamin K supplement reduced calcium precipitates associated with hardening of the arteries by 37 per cent in rats, scientists from The Netherlands have reported.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=72666&m=1NIED11&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Resveratrol could counter metabolic diseases, animal study...
12/15/2006 - Resveratrol, the phenolic derivative found in red wine and certain plants, may play a role in protecting against diabetes and obesity, suggest the results of an animal study.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72818&m=1NIUD15&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Resveratrol
Vitamin K2
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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12/6/2006 - Health conditions that were once almost exclusively associated with the elderly are now being increasingly diagnosed in children, according to a new report, which calls for immediate dietary intervention.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72591&m=1NIUD06&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Vitamin K may reverse artery hardening, suggests study...
11/12/2006 - A high-dose vitamin K supplement reduced calcium precipitates associated with hardening of the arteries by 37 per cent in rats, scientists from The Netherlands have reported.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=72666&m=1NIED11&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Resveratrol could counter metabolic diseases, animal study...
12/15/2006 - Resveratrol, the phenolic derivative found in red wine and certain plants, may play a role in protecting against diabetes and obesity, suggest the results of an animal study.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72818&m=1NIUD15&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Resveratrol
Vitamin K2
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Vitamin D news - BIG...
In addition to this study below, Dr. Consuelo Wilkins of the Washington University School of Medicine found that elderly patients with the lowest vitamin D levels were 11 (eleven!!!) times more likely to have symptoms of depression than were patients with the highest vitamin D levels. John Jacob Cannell, MD, The Vitamin D Council...
Vitamin D in the Spotlight
This critical nutrient builds bones, helps fight infection and may protect against some cancers. Do we get enough?
By Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., DR. P.H.
Newsweek
For many years, vitamin D was boring—even to doctors. Because it was considered good for bones and not much else, multitaskers like vitamin A, B vitamins and vitamin E hogged all the press. But recent studies have thrust this long-neglected nutrient into the spotlight. Scientists now think vitamin D may affect everything from diabetes to cancer. They're also finding that many people don't have enough of it.
When vitamin D was discovered a century ago, it solved a major public-health problem: rickets, a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency in which bone development is delayed and deformed. When a synthetic version of vitamin D was added to milk, rickets virtually disappeared, as did any concern about vitamin D deficiency. For most of the 20th century, scientists defined a person's daily requirement of vitamin D—called the recommended dietary allowance, or RDA—as the level needed to prevent rickets. Nearly everyone in the developed world was thought to be taking in a healthy amount.
But new research suggests that the RDA may not be sufficient to protect people against several diseases other than rickets. Studies link low blood levels of vitamin D to type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, colon cancer and even the flu. High levels of the vitamin may help fight HIV infection. And the vitamin's role in bones extends way beyond preventing rickets. Levels higher than the RDA offer older adults protection against fractures, through strengthening muscles as well as bones.
Many people living in this country and northern Europe have levels of vitamin D that are low, based on the latest evidence. Why is that? Unlike most other vitamins, vitamin D is found in only a few foods. Instead, we get most of it from the action of sunlight on our skin. In retrospect, we recognize that rickets became a problem in the early 20th century when increasing urbanization and air pollution in cities caused less sunlight to strike the skin.
A century later, almost every aspect of modern life seems designed to lower our ability to produce vitamin D. Compared with our ancestors, we spend a lot more time indoors, wear more clothes and use sunscreen. If applied adequately to protect against sun-induced skin damage and to reduce the risk of skin cancer, sunscreen lowers the skin's ability to form vitamin D by more than 95 percent. More of us are older and fatter; age and obesity also reduce the amount of vitamin D we produce. An average 70-year-old can produce only about a quarter of the vitamin D of a 20-year-old. Obese people generally have substantially lower blood levels of vitamin D.
No matter what your age or size, the time of sun exposure, the season and geography all affect how much vitamin D you produce. The closer it is to noon, the more vitamin D your skin makes. The angle of the sun is critical, and since that changes with the seasons, vitamin D levels fluctuate drastically. For example, in Boston between November and March, the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is insufficient to produce vitamin D, even with abundant skin exposure on a sunny day. The farther you go away from the equator, the greater the effect. One study found that among white girls in Maine, 48 percent had low vitamin D blood levels at the end of the winter, while only 17 percent were deficient at the end of the summer. Clothing can play a big role as well. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant among women in Saudi Arabia, despite the sunshine, because the traditional clothing nearly completely covers their skin.
Skin pigmentation also affects the way we process vitamin D. Melanin, the pigment that provides a darker tint, acts as a sunscreen, so darker-skinned individuals require at least five times as much sun exposure to form a given amount of vitamin D, compared with a very light-skinned person. Indeed, the majority of African-Americans have low levels of vitamin D.
Finding ways to counteract these barriers to getting enough vitamin D is the next challenge. We have only three ways of boosting our blood levels of the nutrient: increasing sun exposure, increasing our intake of vitamin D-rich foods or taking vitamin D supplements. Because of the risk of skin cancer, getting a lot more sun exposure is not a healthy way to raise blood levels of vitamin D. The only foods with high levels of vitamin D are fatty fish and certain kinds of mushrooms. The other main dietary source is fortified foods: dairy foods (milk has 100 IU per cup), some brands of orange juice and fortified breakfast cereals.
That's why there's growing agreement among experts that a daily vitamin D supplement makes good sense. Among nutritionists working on vitamin D, there is general agreement that the current recommended intake of 400 IU per day (600 for those over the age of 70) is too low, and should be re-evaluated. Most believe that 1,000 IU per day would be a reasonable dose for a typical adult in the United States, and I agree. Certain people might benefit from taking even more, such as those who avoid the sun or live in northern regions. The elderly and African-Americans are especially vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency, and I think supplementation (preferably with the natural form, vitamin D3, cholecalciferol) should be routine for these groups. And even though we need vitamin D, too much can be toxic. The current official upper limit is 2,000 IU, although many experts think this is too low and should be raised, perhaps to 4,000 IU. For comparison, a light-skinned person in a bathing suit can produce more than 10,000 IU with a half hour in the sun. So stay tuned: there is much more to be learned about how this once "boring" vitamin can protect our health.
Stampfer is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor and chair of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
For more on vitamin D from Harvard, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Vitamin D in the Spotlight
This critical nutrient builds bones, helps fight infection and may protect against some cancers. Do we get enough?
By Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., DR. P.H.
Newsweek
For many years, vitamin D was boring—even to doctors. Because it was considered good for bones and not much else, multitaskers like vitamin A, B vitamins and vitamin E hogged all the press. But recent studies have thrust this long-neglected nutrient into the spotlight. Scientists now think vitamin D may affect everything from diabetes to cancer. They're also finding that many people don't have enough of it.
When vitamin D was discovered a century ago, it solved a major public-health problem: rickets, a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency in which bone development is delayed and deformed. When a synthetic version of vitamin D was added to milk, rickets virtually disappeared, as did any concern about vitamin D deficiency. For most of the 20th century, scientists defined a person's daily requirement of vitamin D—called the recommended dietary allowance, or RDA—as the level needed to prevent rickets. Nearly everyone in the developed world was thought to be taking in a healthy amount.
But new research suggests that the RDA may not be sufficient to protect people against several diseases other than rickets. Studies link low blood levels of vitamin D to type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, colon cancer and even the flu. High levels of the vitamin may help fight HIV infection. And the vitamin's role in bones extends way beyond preventing rickets. Levels higher than the RDA offer older adults protection against fractures, through strengthening muscles as well as bones.
Many people living in this country and northern Europe have levels of vitamin D that are low, based on the latest evidence. Why is that? Unlike most other vitamins, vitamin D is found in only a few foods. Instead, we get most of it from the action of sunlight on our skin. In retrospect, we recognize that rickets became a problem in the early 20th century when increasing urbanization and air pollution in cities caused less sunlight to strike the skin.
A century later, almost every aspect of modern life seems designed to lower our ability to produce vitamin D. Compared with our ancestors, we spend a lot more time indoors, wear more clothes and use sunscreen. If applied adequately to protect against sun-induced skin damage and to reduce the risk of skin cancer, sunscreen lowers the skin's ability to form vitamin D by more than 95 percent. More of us are older and fatter; age and obesity also reduce the amount of vitamin D we produce. An average 70-year-old can produce only about a quarter of the vitamin D of a 20-year-old. Obese people generally have substantially lower blood levels of vitamin D.
No matter what your age or size, the time of sun exposure, the season and geography all affect how much vitamin D you produce. The closer it is to noon, the more vitamin D your skin makes. The angle of the sun is critical, and since that changes with the seasons, vitamin D levels fluctuate drastically. For example, in Boston between November and March, the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is insufficient to produce vitamin D, even with abundant skin exposure on a sunny day. The farther you go away from the equator, the greater the effect. One study found that among white girls in Maine, 48 percent had low vitamin D blood levels at the end of the winter, while only 17 percent were deficient at the end of the summer. Clothing can play a big role as well. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant among women in Saudi Arabia, despite the sunshine, because the traditional clothing nearly completely covers their skin.
Skin pigmentation also affects the way we process vitamin D. Melanin, the pigment that provides a darker tint, acts as a sunscreen, so darker-skinned individuals require at least five times as much sun exposure to form a given amount of vitamin D, compared with a very light-skinned person. Indeed, the majority of African-Americans have low levels of vitamin D.
Finding ways to counteract these barriers to getting enough vitamin D is the next challenge. We have only three ways of boosting our blood levels of the nutrient: increasing sun exposure, increasing our intake of vitamin D-rich foods or taking vitamin D supplements. Because of the risk of skin cancer, getting a lot more sun exposure is not a healthy way to raise blood levels of vitamin D. The only foods with high levels of vitamin D are fatty fish and certain kinds of mushrooms. The other main dietary source is fortified foods: dairy foods (milk has 100 IU per cup), some brands of orange juice and fortified breakfast cereals.
That's why there's growing agreement among experts that a daily vitamin D supplement makes good sense. Among nutritionists working on vitamin D, there is general agreement that the current recommended intake of 400 IU per day (600 for those over the age of 70) is too low, and should be re-evaluated. Most believe that 1,000 IU per day would be a reasonable dose for a typical adult in the United States, and I agree. Certain people might benefit from taking even more, such as those who avoid the sun or live in northern regions. The elderly and African-Americans are especially vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency, and I think supplementation (preferably with the natural form, vitamin D3, cholecalciferol) should be routine for these groups. And even though we need vitamin D, too much can be toxic. The current official upper limit is 2,000 IU, although many experts think this is too low and should be raised, perhaps to 4,000 IU. For comparison, a light-skinned person in a bathing suit can produce more than 10,000 IU with a half hour in the sun. So stay tuned: there is much more to be learned about how this once "boring" vitamin can protect our health.
Stampfer is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor and chair of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
For more on vitamin D from Harvard, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
FYI for parents with young children
Received this today from Dr. Garry Gordon MD, by e-mail...
Thiomersal again is being injected into children under 3 years of age in California for largely worthless flu shots so we will have more autism just when it looked as though we had turned a corner. And by now you understand that many children have gene defects that do not permit them to handle any extra mercury particularly when it is injected and there is always a big risk of some thiomersal in the flu vaccines. When will they ever learn?? Read this and don't let them give flu vaccinations to the children of your patients; even the CDC admits the benefits for the children are not there!! Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H) President, Gordon Research Institute www.gordonresearch.com
#1: California officials announce plan to inject infants with mercury-laced vaccinesFriday, November 03, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser (NewsTarget) California health officials announced today that children younger than 3 will be temporarily allowed to receive flu shots containing a mercury-laced preservative called thimerosal, after physicians statewide said mercury-free vaccines were running short. Earlier this year, California passed a state law banning vaccines containing thimerosal from being injected in pregnant women and children under 3 years old, but reports of flu shot shortages have temporarily overruled the law. The exemption applies only to children under 3, and will last six weeks to give the pediatric vaccine maker -- Pennsylvania-based Sanofi Pasteur -- enough time to ship an additional half million doses. "We feel it is important to offer this short-term alternative to parents and health care providers in order to ensure young children are protected from the potentially severe effects of the flu," said Kim Belshe, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in a statement.
Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente, said young children and the elderly are most vulnerable to seriously complications from influenza, and children under 3 who are getting their first flu shots will actually need two doses to receive full benefits. The mercury preservative thimerosal -- which is roughly 50 percent mercury by weight -- has been used in U.S. vaccines since the 1930s to help prevent fungal and bacterial contamination. However, in the 1990s parents and physicians brought awareness to thimerosal's possible link to rising child autism rates. Last year, anti-thimerosal lobbying groups successfully banned vaccines containing the preservative from being given to young children and pregnant women. However, the law can be waived if mercury-free vaccines are in short supply. Four California medical groups -- the California branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Medical Association, the California Academy of Family Physicians and Kaiser Permanente -- recently asked the state to temporarily waive the law after some clinics reported running short of the mercury-free kids' vaccine.
#2 National Autism AssociationA Poisonous Move for Kids by CDC, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/a-poisonous-move-for-kids_b_16899.html
On February 22, CDC announced that it is dramatically expanding America's flu vaccination program to include all children between six months and 5 years and their siblings and caretakers. But, guess what CDC forgot to mention? There is not nearly enough thimerosal-free flu vaccine to go around. Vaccine makers produced fewer than 8 million thimerosal-free flu doses this season, which doesn't bode well for the more than 17 million children designated to receive flu shots under CDC's new protocol. Thimerosal is the mercury-based preservative that has been linked to the epidemic of neurological disorders including speech delays, language delays, hyperactivity, attention-deficit disorder, and autism in American children born after 1989. CDC recommended the removal of thimerosal from children's vaccines by 2001, but most flu vaccinations still contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal in every 0.5ml dose. Under CDC's new recommendations, every American child under five will be injected once each year, with a double dose for first-timers. By his fifth birthday, a child whose parents cannot obtain the child-safe vaccine will have received up to 100 micrograms of thimerosal, which is half ethyl mercury. A recent scientific study indicates that many children will retain the tissue-destroying toxin in their brain and organs for years. CDC has moved aggressively to cut funding and derail follow-up studies that examine the impacts of retained mercury in children's brains.In its announcement, CDC admitted that the health risks from flu to children do not justify the dramatic expansion of the vaccination program. For the first time in history, CDC rationalized the new protocols by arguing that the inoculations will spare parents and the health care industry significant lost work time now spent taking care of sick children. Although framed as a recommendation, CDC's new protocols function as mandates, since they establish the standards of care for the medical profession. Doctors who fall short of that standard are liable if a patient were to die from flu.Since CDC is not requiring production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccines, its expanded recommendations are bound to provoke a scramble among parents, pediatricians and HMOs to get their hands on the limited stashes of thimerosal-free flu vaccines.CDC's new protocols contemplate inoculating 185 million Americans with influenza vaccines. The industry shipped only 81 million doses this year, so even before CDC announced its new requirements, the battle to secure flu vaccines was ferocious. When vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur opened its phone lines to accept pre-orders on January 31, it was flooded with calls from physicians, hospitals and HMOs desperate to reserve vaccines. During the first 30 minutes Sanofi got 40,000 phone calls and over 200,000 calls within eight hours, collapsing its communications system. By week's end it had received 400,000 calls -- more than the company customarily receives in a year.Mercury-free flu shots are in particularly short supply. Sanofi, the only commercial supplier of thimerosal-free pediatric influenza vaccines, produced only eight million children's doses this year. CDC's announcement increases the pool of targeted children by over 11 million kids, ages 2 to 5 years old. Only about one-third of America's children under age five will be lucky enough to get the child-safe vaccines. While CDC's Director of Immunizations Dr. Lance Rodewald assured me he expects no shortage of thimerosal-free vaccine, doctors and medical groups are telling a different story. Those who customarily give their patients only thimerosal-free flu shots are already finding that the industry cannot fill their orders for the 2006-2007 season. Pediatrician Lawrence Rosen, Director of Pediatrics at Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, New Jersey, told us that his eight-doctor family medical practice had been informed by Sanofi that the company was unable to fill his order for next season. "It was like trying to get tickets to a Rolling Stones concert," he said. Sanofi will give him only 300 of the 900 thimerosal-free doses he needs. "The only other shots I can get contain thimerosal, and I'm not going to do that." According to Rosen, the problem is widespread across the country, with very few practices able to fill their orders for flu shots. "The gist is there's not enough safe vaccine. The government wants us to give more shots, but there's no supply. They are leaving millions of kids between the ages of 3 and 5 with no option -- millions of kids. "Sanofi has said that the company was prepared to double production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccine, but that there were no requests from CDC or the State Health Departments that it do so. Indeed CDC has ordered 3.5 million doses from Sanofi for its Vaccines for Children Program, which provides vaccines to economically disadvantaged children mainly in minority communities. Only a fraction of these will be thimerosal-free, according to Rodewald. He refused to disclose the precise number.Why will CDC inject millions of minority kids in America's poorest neighborhoods with poison proven to kill brain tissue and cause learning disorders when child-safe vaccines are available? CDC's spokesperson Glen Nowak explained to me the agency "doesn't have a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines" despite its repeated statements to the contrary since 1999. CDC also admitted it has no efforts underway to further educate the public about thimerosal, or to encourage manufacturers to move more quickly toward 100 percent mercury-free vaccines. CDC's recommendation to vaccinate millions of additional children without assuring any additional capacity of thimerosal-free vaccines is a bad one. It will almost certainly encounter stiff resistance as skeptical parents and pediatricians balk at injecting young children with a known brain poison by order of bureaucrats that they increasingly don't trust.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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Thiomersal again is being injected into children under 3 years of age in California for largely worthless flu shots so we will have more autism just when it looked as though we had turned a corner. And by now you understand that many children have gene defects that do not permit them to handle any extra mercury particularly when it is injected and there is always a big risk of some thiomersal in the flu vaccines. When will they ever learn?? Read this and don't let them give flu vaccinations to the children of your patients; even the CDC admits the benefits for the children are not there!! Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H) President, Gordon Research Institute www.gordonresearch.com
#1: California officials announce plan to inject infants with mercury-laced vaccinesFriday, November 03, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser (NewsTarget) California health officials announced today that children younger than 3 will be temporarily allowed to receive flu shots containing a mercury-laced preservative called thimerosal, after physicians statewide said mercury-free vaccines were running short. Earlier this year, California passed a state law banning vaccines containing thimerosal from being injected in pregnant women and children under 3 years old, but reports of flu shot shortages have temporarily overruled the law. The exemption applies only to children under 3, and will last six weeks to give the pediatric vaccine maker -- Pennsylvania-based Sanofi Pasteur -- enough time to ship an additional half million doses. "We feel it is important to offer this short-term alternative to parents and health care providers in order to ensure young children are protected from the potentially severe effects of the flu," said Kim Belshe, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in a statement.
Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente, said young children and the elderly are most vulnerable to seriously complications from influenza, and children under 3 who are getting their first flu shots will actually need two doses to receive full benefits. The mercury preservative thimerosal -- which is roughly 50 percent mercury by weight -- has been used in U.S. vaccines since the 1930s to help prevent fungal and bacterial contamination. However, in the 1990s parents and physicians brought awareness to thimerosal's possible link to rising child autism rates. Last year, anti-thimerosal lobbying groups successfully banned vaccines containing the preservative from being given to young children and pregnant women. However, the law can be waived if mercury-free vaccines are in short supply. Four California medical groups -- the California branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Medical Association, the California Academy of Family Physicians and Kaiser Permanente -- recently asked the state to temporarily waive the law after some clinics reported running short of the mercury-free kids' vaccine.
#2 National Autism AssociationA Poisonous Move for Kids by CDC, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/a-poisonous-move-for-kids_b_16899.html
On February 22, CDC announced that it is dramatically expanding America's flu vaccination program to include all children between six months and 5 years and their siblings and caretakers. But, guess what CDC forgot to mention? There is not nearly enough thimerosal-free flu vaccine to go around. Vaccine makers produced fewer than 8 million thimerosal-free flu doses this season, which doesn't bode well for the more than 17 million children designated to receive flu shots under CDC's new protocol. Thimerosal is the mercury-based preservative that has been linked to the epidemic of neurological disorders including speech delays, language delays, hyperactivity, attention-deficit disorder, and autism in American children born after 1989. CDC recommended the removal of thimerosal from children's vaccines by 2001, but most flu vaccinations still contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal in every 0.5ml dose. Under CDC's new recommendations, every American child under five will be injected once each year, with a double dose for first-timers. By his fifth birthday, a child whose parents cannot obtain the child-safe vaccine will have received up to 100 micrograms of thimerosal, which is half ethyl mercury. A recent scientific study indicates that many children will retain the tissue-destroying toxin in their brain and organs for years. CDC has moved aggressively to cut funding and derail follow-up studies that examine the impacts of retained mercury in children's brains.In its announcement, CDC admitted that the health risks from flu to children do not justify the dramatic expansion of the vaccination program. For the first time in history, CDC rationalized the new protocols by arguing that the inoculations will spare parents and the health care industry significant lost work time now spent taking care of sick children. Although framed as a recommendation, CDC's new protocols function as mandates, since they establish the standards of care for the medical profession. Doctors who fall short of that standard are liable if a patient were to die from flu.Since CDC is not requiring production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccines, its expanded recommendations are bound to provoke a scramble among parents, pediatricians and HMOs to get their hands on the limited stashes of thimerosal-free flu vaccines.CDC's new protocols contemplate inoculating 185 million Americans with influenza vaccines. The industry shipped only 81 million doses this year, so even before CDC announced its new requirements, the battle to secure flu vaccines was ferocious. When vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur opened its phone lines to accept pre-orders on January 31, it was flooded with calls from physicians, hospitals and HMOs desperate to reserve vaccines. During the first 30 minutes Sanofi got 40,000 phone calls and over 200,000 calls within eight hours, collapsing its communications system. By week's end it had received 400,000 calls -- more than the company customarily receives in a year.Mercury-free flu shots are in particularly short supply. Sanofi, the only commercial supplier of thimerosal-free pediatric influenza vaccines, produced only eight million children's doses this year. CDC's announcement increases the pool of targeted children by over 11 million kids, ages 2 to 5 years old. Only about one-third of America's children under age five will be lucky enough to get the child-safe vaccines. While CDC's Director of Immunizations Dr. Lance Rodewald assured me he expects no shortage of thimerosal-free vaccine, doctors and medical groups are telling a different story. Those who customarily give their patients only thimerosal-free flu shots are already finding that the industry cannot fill their orders for the 2006-2007 season. Pediatrician Lawrence Rosen, Director of Pediatrics at Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, New Jersey, told us that his eight-doctor family medical practice had been informed by Sanofi that the company was unable to fill his order for next season. "It was like trying to get tickets to a Rolling Stones concert," he said. Sanofi will give him only 300 of the 900 thimerosal-free doses he needs. "The only other shots I can get contain thimerosal, and I'm not going to do that." According to Rosen, the problem is widespread across the country, with very few practices able to fill their orders for flu shots. "The gist is there's not enough safe vaccine. The government wants us to give more shots, but there's no supply. They are leaving millions of kids between the ages of 3 and 5 with no option -- millions of kids. "Sanofi has said that the company was prepared to double production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccine, but that there were no requests from CDC or the State Health Departments that it do so. Indeed CDC has ordered 3.5 million doses from Sanofi for its Vaccines for Children Program, which provides vaccines to economically disadvantaged children mainly in minority communities. Only a fraction of these will be thimerosal-free, according to Rodewald. He refused to disclose the precise number.Why will CDC inject millions of minority kids in America's poorest neighborhoods with poison proven to kill brain tissue and cause learning disorders when child-safe vaccines are available? CDC's spokesperson Glen Nowak explained to me the agency "doesn't have a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines" despite its repeated statements to the contrary since 1999. CDC also admitted it has no efforts underway to further educate the public about thimerosal, or to encourage manufacturers to move more quickly toward 100 percent mercury-free vaccines. CDC's recommendation to vaccinate millions of additional children without assuring any additional capacity of thimerosal-free vaccines is a bad one. It will almost certainly encounter stiff resistance as skeptical parents and pediatricians balk at injecting young children with a known brain poison by order of bureaucrats that they increasingly don't trust.
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Certain Fatty Acid May Cut Dementia Risk
Sunday, December 3, 2006
DHA seems to offer protective effect in the brain, researchers report...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter(HealthDay News)
Adding further weight to the theory that fish may be brain food, new research found that people with diets rich in fish have a significantly lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The key appears to be docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid that appears to affect dementia risk and to be important for the proper functioning of the central nervous system. "If you have a high level of DHA, a fatty acid found in fish, it reduced your risk of dementia by about half," said study lead researcher Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, senior scientist and director of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. It's known that omega-3 fatty acids protect the heart and the circulatory system. "Just as fish is good for your heart, it's probably good for your brain as well," Schaefer said. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in DHA. The study findings are published in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology. In the study, Schaefer and his colleagues collected data on DHA levels and dementia in 899 men and women who were part of the Framingham Heart Study. Over nine years of follow-up, 99 people developed dementia, including 71 with Alzheimer's disease. The researchers found that people with the highest blood levels of DHA had a 47 percent lower risk of developing dementia and a 39 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, compared with those with lower DHA levels. Levels of DHA in the blood vary by how much the liver converts alpha-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid, to DHA and also by the amount of DHA in the diet, the researchers noted. People with the highest blood levels of DHA said they ate an average of two to three servings of fish a week. People with lower DHA levels ate substantially less fish, the researchers reported. Schaefer thinks the same benefit can be realized by taking fish-oil supplements. "Everything that we know suggests that supplements would be as effective as eating fish," he said. "Since low fish intake appears to be a risk factor for developing dementia, either eat more fish or use one or two fish oil capsules a day." However, Schaefer added that a randomized clinical trial is still needed to see if DHA really protects the brain from dementia. Martha Clare Morris is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal. "This is the first study to link blood levels of DHA to protection against Alzheimer's disease," she said, adding that recent animal studies have shown that DHA reduces amyloid plaques -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's -- in the brain and also improves memory. "There is a lot of animal and biochemical evidence to support what this new study shows," Morris said. But, she said, she's not sure there is enough data to suggest the value of fish oil supplements. "It looks like the protective benefits from omega-3 fatty acids are at a very low level. There is very little evidence that you get better protection from higher intake," she said. "Whether fish oil supplements are protective is yet to be seen." Another expert thinks clinical trials are needed to see if DHA really protects against Alzheimer's. "This shows in a prospective study that DHA is the only plasma lipid to cut the risk for developing dementia a decade or more later," said Greg M. Cole, a neuroscientist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. This apparent protection is associated with eating fish, Cole said. "Other studies have pointed to fish intake as protective but have been far less clear that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish were the factor associated with risk reduction," he said. "This matters because if it is the fat, you could take fish oil supplements and avoid mercury contamination issues."
BRAIN HEALTH
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DHA seems to offer protective effect in the brain, researchers report...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter(HealthDay News)
Adding further weight to the theory that fish may be brain food, new research found that people with diets rich in fish have a significantly lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The key appears to be docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid that appears to affect dementia risk and to be important for the proper functioning of the central nervous system. "If you have a high level of DHA, a fatty acid found in fish, it reduced your risk of dementia by about half," said study lead researcher Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, senior scientist and director of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. It's known that omega-3 fatty acids protect the heart and the circulatory system. "Just as fish is good for your heart, it's probably good for your brain as well," Schaefer said. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in DHA. The study findings are published in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology. In the study, Schaefer and his colleagues collected data on DHA levels and dementia in 899 men and women who were part of the Framingham Heart Study. Over nine years of follow-up, 99 people developed dementia, including 71 with Alzheimer's disease. The researchers found that people with the highest blood levels of DHA had a 47 percent lower risk of developing dementia and a 39 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, compared with those with lower DHA levels. Levels of DHA in the blood vary by how much the liver converts alpha-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid, to DHA and also by the amount of DHA in the diet, the researchers noted. People with the highest blood levels of DHA said they ate an average of two to three servings of fish a week. People with lower DHA levels ate substantially less fish, the researchers reported. Schaefer thinks the same benefit can be realized by taking fish-oil supplements. "Everything that we know suggests that supplements would be as effective as eating fish," he said. "Since low fish intake appears to be a risk factor for developing dementia, either eat more fish or use one or two fish oil capsules a day." However, Schaefer added that a randomized clinical trial is still needed to see if DHA really protects the brain from dementia. Martha Clare Morris is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal. "This is the first study to link blood levels of DHA to protection against Alzheimer's disease," she said, adding that recent animal studies have shown that DHA reduces amyloid plaques -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's -- in the brain and also improves memory. "There is a lot of animal and biochemical evidence to support what this new study shows," Morris said. But, she said, she's not sure there is enough data to suggest the value of fish oil supplements. "It looks like the protective benefits from omega-3 fatty acids are at a very low level. There is very little evidence that you get better protection from higher intake," she said. "Whether fish oil supplements are protective is yet to be seen." Another expert thinks clinical trials are needed to see if DHA really protects against Alzheimer's. "This shows in a prospective study that DHA is the only plasma lipid to cut the risk for developing dementia a decade or more later," said Greg M. Cole, a neuroscientist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. This apparent protection is associated with eating fish, Cole said. "Other studies have pointed to fish intake as protective but have been far less clear that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish were the factor associated with risk reduction," he said. "This matters because if it is the fat, you could take fish oil supplements and avoid mercury contamination issues."
BRAIN HEALTH
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
Nutrients in the news this week...
Vitamin D deficiency common in IBD kids...
11/29/2006 - Children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and could benefit from supplements to avoid the health problems associated with not getting enough of the vitamin.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72394&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Low selenium, B6 + B12 linked to daily difficulties...
11/29/2006 - Researchers from Cornell University have linked low serum concentrations of selenium and vitamins B6 and B12 to age-related difficulties in conducting in daily activities, leading them to conclude that nutritional status is a key factor in helping people live an active life for longer.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72404&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Berry extracts stop cancer cell growth in the lab...
28/11/2006 - Antioxidant-rich extracts from a wide range of berries, including blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, could inhibit cell growth and spread for a wide range of cancers, researchers from UCLA have reported.
Nutritional Treatments for Cardiomyopathy, CongestiveHeart Failure, and Ventricular Arrhythmias ...
This report will review evidence published primarily in peer-reviewed medical journals outlining the use of nutritional supplements and other dietary modifications to treat cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure (CHF), and ventricular arrhythmias. Some nutritional supplements presented in this report (e.g. Coenzyme Q10, magnesium) have proven so effective they should be considered a mandatory part of any treatment protocol for cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, and/or arrhythmias.
http://www.wellnessreview.com/reports/cardiomyopathy
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11/29/2006 - Children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and could benefit from supplements to avoid the health problems associated with not getting enough of the vitamin.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72394&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Low selenium, B6 + B12 linked to daily difficulties...
11/29/2006 - Researchers from Cornell University have linked low serum concentrations of selenium and vitamins B6 and B12 to age-related difficulties in conducting in daily activities, leading them to conclude that nutritional status is a key factor in helping people live an active life for longer.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72404&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk
Berry extracts stop cancer cell growth in the lab...
28/11/2006 - Antioxidant-rich extracts from a wide range of berries, including blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, could inhibit cell growth and spread for a wide range of cancers, researchers from UCLA have reported.
Nutritional Treatments for Cardiomyopathy, CongestiveHeart Failure, and Ventricular Arrhythmias ...
This report will review evidence published primarily in peer-reviewed medical journals outlining the use of nutritional supplements and other dietary modifications to treat cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure (CHF), and ventricular arrhythmias. Some nutritional supplements presented in this report (e.g. Coenzyme Q10, magnesium) have proven so effective they should be considered a mandatory part of any treatment protocol for cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, and/or arrhythmias.
http://www.wellnessreview.com/reports/cardiomyopathy
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Another cancer linked with reduced vitamin D levels
Life Extension Update Exclusive...
Another cancer linked with reduced vitamin D levels...
Readers of Life Extension Update will recall the September 23, 2006 issue which discussed the finding of researchers from the Moore’s Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego of an association between reduced sunlight exposure and a greater incidence of kidney cancer. Now, in an article that will be published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the UCSD team reports that women exposed to a greater amount of sunlight, particularly ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation, have a lower incidence of ovarian cancer. UVB exposure stimulates the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, however, the vitamin is also obtainable via the diet and/or supplementation.
UCSD School of Medicine professor of Family and Preventive Medicine Cedric F. Garland, Dr PH, and colleagues utilized a database of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence in 175 countries, recently made available from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. By graphing ovarian cancer incidence rates according to latitude, the team was able to demonstrate an association between higher latitudes, which receive reduced sunlight, and ovarian cancer. Additionally, greater fertility rates among women between the ages of 15 and 19, which may be protective against ovarian cancer, were more prevalent in lower latitudes.
“In general, ovarian cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres,” Dr Garland stated. “They were about five times higher in high latitudes, like Iceland and Norway, than in equatorial regions like Asia, South America and Africa. Even after controlling for fertility, the association remained strong.”
“Unlike breast cancer, we have no widely accepted means of early detection or prevention for ovarian cancer,” Dr Garland observed. “This new global study shows a link between deficiency of vitamin D and increased incidence of ovarian cancer, suggesting that vitamin D supplementation may reduce the incidence of this aggressive cancer.”
Approximately 15,300 deaths from ovarian cancer occur in the United States each year.
Learn the latest on vitamin D
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Another cancer linked with reduced vitamin D levels...
Readers of Life Extension Update will recall the September 23, 2006 issue which discussed the finding of researchers from the Moore’s Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego of an association between reduced sunlight exposure and a greater incidence of kidney cancer. Now, in an article that will be published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the UCSD team reports that women exposed to a greater amount of sunlight, particularly ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation, have a lower incidence of ovarian cancer. UVB exposure stimulates the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, however, the vitamin is also obtainable via the diet and/or supplementation.
UCSD School of Medicine professor of Family and Preventive Medicine Cedric F. Garland, Dr PH, and colleagues utilized a database of cancer incidence, mortality, and prevalence in 175 countries, recently made available from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. By graphing ovarian cancer incidence rates according to latitude, the team was able to demonstrate an association between higher latitudes, which receive reduced sunlight, and ovarian cancer. Additionally, greater fertility rates among women between the ages of 15 and 19, which may be protective against ovarian cancer, were more prevalent in lower latitudes.
“In general, ovarian cancer incidence was highest at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres,” Dr Garland stated. “They were about five times higher in high latitudes, like Iceland and Norway, than in equatorial regions like Asia, South America and Africa. Even after controlling for fertility, the association remained strong.”
“Unlike breast cancer, we have no widely accepted means of early detection or prevention for ovarian cancer,” Dr Garland observed. “This new global study shows a link between deficiency of vitamin D and increased incidence of ovarian cancer, suggesting that vitamin D supplementation may reduce the incidence of this aggressive cancer.”
Approximately 15,300 deaths from ovarian cancer occur in the United States each year.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Don't miss this... diet & nutritional supplements shown to impact health for generations...
From (NewsTarget)
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(NewsTarget) Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser...
A mother's diet during pregnancy not only affects her child, but also the child's future offspring, according to a new study from researchers at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. The study's lead author, Dr. David Martin, and colleagues split a group of genetically identical pregnant mice into two groups. The first group was fed a standard laboratory diet, while the second group was fed an identical diet supplemented with folate, choline, zinc and vitamin B12. When the mice in both groups gave birth, the offspring were examined for coat color, and the female babies from both groups were then mated and fed a diet without added supplements. When the offspring gave birth, the researchers found that the original mice's supplemental diet affected the genetic coat color of not only the children, but also the grandchildren. "The idea that some sort of toxin or nutrition could affect not just individuals but future generations is very powerful," Martin said.According to Kenneth Beckman, an assistant scientist at Children's Oakland, the design of the study allowed the researchers to eliminate most uncontrolled behavior in the mice, which led to a more conclusive result. The research -- funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia -- is part of a growing field of research called epigenetics, which examines the long-term genetic effects of the environment. Previous studies in epigenetics have shown that a pregnant woman's environment -- including diet and nutritional supplementation - can influence future generations' risks of breast cancer, obesity and heart disease. According to holistic health author Mike Adams, Martin's research indicates that women who take nutritional supplements and eat superfoods positively influence the health of a number of future generations. "This message is urgent," Adams said. "If we do not make significant efforts to boost the nutrition and dietary habits of young couples who are about to conceive a child, we are creating a multi-generational health burden that will impact individuals, families and entire nations for a hundred years or more."
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(NewsTarget) Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser...
A mother's diet during pregnancy not only affects her child, but also the child's future offspring, according to a new study from researchers at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. The study's lead author, Dr. David Martin, and colleagues split a group of genetically identical pregnant mice into two groups. The first group was fed a standard laboratory diet, while the second group was fed an identical diet supplemented with folate, choline, zinc and vitamin B12. When the mice in both groups gave birth, the offspring were examined for coat color, and the female babies from both groups were then mated and fed a diet without added supplements. When the offspring gave birth, the researchers found that the original mice's supplemental diet affected the genetic coat color of not only the children, but also the grandchildren. "The idea that some sort of toxin or nutrition could affect not just individuals but future generations is very powerful," Martin said.According to Kenneth Beckman, an assistant scientist at Children's Oakland, the design of the study allowed the researchers to eliminate most uncontrolled behavior in the mice, which led to a more conclusive result. The research -- funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia -- is part of a growing field of research called epigenetics, which examines the long-term genetic effects of the environment. Previous studies in epigenetics have shown that a pregnant woman's environment -- including diet and nutritional supplementation - can influence future generations' risks of breast cancer, obesity and heart disease. According to holistic health author Mike Adams, Martin's research indicates that women who take nutritional supplements and eat superfoods positively influence the health of a number of future generations. "This message is urgent," Adams said. "If we do not make significant efforts to boost the nutrition and dietary habits of young couples who are about to conceive a child, we are creating a multi-generational health burden that will impact individuals, families and entire nations for a hundred years or more."
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Financial gain influences critics on vitamin D science...
The following information is from an e-mail I got from the Vitamin D Council written by Dr. John Jacob Cannell, MD. He is an advocate and expert on why we need higher amounts of vitamin D in our diets, and that is recommended by most health experts these days. I am sending this out to show you how and why, critics sometimes argue against vitamin therapy in place of drugs. Vitamin D is one of my favorite choices as a preventative against dying from The Avian Flu, if and when it comes.
Dear Readers:
Michael Stroh, the science writer for the Baltimore Sun, wrote a very good article this morning about the Vitamin D and Epidemic Influenza paper. Dr. Scott Dowell, an infectious disease expert at the CDC, is quoted by Mr. Stroh as saying, if the theory is true, "the potential impact (of vitamin D) would be far greater than the current influenza vaccine."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.flu26nov26,0,3590649.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
On a sour note, a Professor James Cherry of UCLA said we "manipulated the literature" and used "bad" literature to prove our points. I don't know Professor Cherry, but he has insulted me, the co-authors, and the editor of Epidemiology and Infection.
A quick internet search shows that there is a Professor James Cherry at UCLA who has had substantial financial ties to the vaccine industry for the last 20 years. If Professor Cherry read the conclusion of the recent Science News article, he may be aware that his financial well-being is at risk here. In the conclusion of the Science News article, Professor Michael Zasloff was quoted as saying the payoff of vitamin D, might "be amazing. Imagine being able to block the spread of epidemic flu with appropriate doses of this vitamin." Perhaps Professor Cherry is imagining exactly that, and what it might mean to his net worth?
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061111/bob9.asp
If Professor Zasloff and Dr. Dowell are right, vitamin D may have a role in preventing more infections than just influenza. As some of you know, a paper will soon be published in Epidemiology and Infection looking at the association of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (the most common cause of pneumonia in infants and young children) with vitamin D producing UVB surface radiation. Invasive pneumococcal, meningococcal, and streptococcal disease (all of which cause horrendous disease) might be next as all three bacteria are susceptible to antimicrobial peptides and all three diseases are highly seasonal.
If this is shown to be true, Professor Cherry's income from the vaccine industry is certainly at risk. I fear Professor Cherry or others with ties to the vaccine or antibiotic industry will rapidly orchestrate a paper showing two things: one, vitamin D does not help prevent infections, and two, vitamin D is toxic and very dangerous. Perhaps science is not as corruptible as I fear, I hope so.
I do hope Professor Cherry has the nerve to send a letter-to-the-editor of Epidemiology and Infection, showing how we "manipulated bad literature" to prove out points. That would give us the opportunity of producing some of the data we left out for space reasons.
John Jacob Cannell, MD
The Vitamin D Council
9100 San Gregorio Road
Atascadero, CA 93422
Read the many Blogs I have posted on the benefits of vitamin D...
http://www.google.com/custom?q=vitamin+D&sa=Google+Search&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcwiechert.com%3BAH%3Acenter%3BAWFID%3A86defe2653efbb81%3B&domains=cwiechert.com%3Bcwiechert.blogspot.com&sitesearch=cwiechert.blogspot.com
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Dear Readers:
Michael Stroh, the science writer for the Baltimore Sun, wrote a very good article this morning about the Vitamin D and Epidemic Influenza paper. Dr. Scott Dowell, an infectious disease expert at the CDC, is quoted by Mr. Stroh as saying, if the theory is true, "the potential impact (of vitamin D) would be far greater than the current influenza vaccine."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.flu26nov26,0,3590649.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
On a sour note, a Professor James Cherry of UCLA said we "manipulated the literature" and used "bad" literature to prove our points. I don't know Professor Cherry, but he has insulted me, the co-authors, and the editor of Epidemiology and Infection.
A quick internet search shows that there is a Professor James Cherry at UCLA who has had substantial financial ties to the vaccine industry for the last 20 years. If Professor Cherry read the conclusion of the recent Science News article, he may be aware that his financial well-being is at risk here. In the conclusion of the Science News article, Professor Michael Zasloff was quoted as saying the payoff of vitamin D, might "be amazing. Imagine being able to block the spread of epidemic flu with appropriate doses of this vitamin." Perhaps Professor Cherry is imagining exactly that, and what it might mean to his net worth?
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061111/bob9.asp
If Professor Zasloff and Dr. Dowell are right, vitamin D may have a role in preventing more infections than just influenza. As some of you know, a paper will soon be published in Epidemiology and Infection looking at the association of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (the most common cause of pneumonia in infants and young children) with vitamin D producing UVB surface radiation. Invasive pneumococcal, meningococcal, and streptococcal disease (all of which cause horrendous disease) might be next as all three bacteria are susceptible to antimicrobial peptides and all three diseases are highly seasonal.
If this is shown to be true, Professor Cherry's income from the vaccine industry is certainly at risk. I fear Professor Cherry or others with ties to the vaccine or antibiotic industry will rapidly orchestrate a paper showing two things: one, vitamin D does not help prevent infections, and two, vitamin D is toxic and very dangerous. Perhaps science is not as corruptible as I fear, I hope so.
I do hope Professor Cherry has the nerve to send a letter-to-the-editor of Epidemiology and Infection, showing how we "manipulated bad literature" to prove out points. That would give us the opportunity of producing some of the data we left out for space reasons.
John Jacob Cannell, MD
The Vitamin D Council
9100 San Gregorio Road
Atascadero, CA 93422
Read the many Blogs I have posted on the benefits of vitamin D...
http://www.google.com/custom?q=vitamin+D&sa=Google+Search&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcwiechert.com%3BAH%3Acenter%3BAWFID%3A86defe2653efbb81%3B&domains=cwiechert.com%3Bcwiechert.blogspot.com&sitesearch=cwiechert.blogspot.com
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Looking for answers on your health questions?
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Q&A-MAIL is a way for you to have all your questions answered via an e-mail question and answer format. I will take e-mails with up to 3 questions on any personal health issue, and will charge about the same price as a Chiropractic visit, only we call it an Individual Nutritional Adjustment. The cost is $35.00 and is billed online via an e-mail with a PayPal Invoice, that can then be paid via a CCD or Visa/MasterCard Debit. You do not need to have a PayPal Account to participate, you will just receive an e-mail invoice, after I answer the questions, and you will pay via that e-mail. It's that simple... What questions might one ask..." I am thinking about starting a supplement program and wanted to know a good basic program to get started with. My Doctor is working with me on 2 issues... Type II Diabetes and Arthritis. What would you recommend I start taking and what foods should I eat or avoid if any? " Or ... " I currently take these 5 products (list them and let me know how much you take per meal), as my supplemental program, but I just found out I have Bursitis, and was wondering what else I could take, that might support that issue? " Or ... " Here is a list of what I have eaten over the last 5 days, I am trying to lose more weight, (or correct a food allergy etc), what would you do different, if anything, to improve my results? " " I am taking 3 medications. Can you tell me what side effects these might create, and what nutrients these might kick out, so I can work with my doctor to perhaps make some changes, if necessary. ) You get the idea.
I am excited to be able, through technology, to be here for any and all questions anywhere e-mail goes, just remember - no more than 3 questions per e-mail, and make sure you understand that you should be working with a Medical Doctor as well, with any health issue and not just me. I look forward to work with anyone who feels this might be a valuable service.
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How about e-mailing me your health questions? Here's how it works...
Christopher Wiechert's Q&A-MAIL ...
Q&A-MAIL is a way for you to have all your questions answered via an e-mail question and answer format. I will take e-mails with up to 3 questions on any personal health issue, and will charge about the same price as a Chiropractic visit, only we call it an Individual Nutritional Adjustment. The cost is $35.00 and is billed online via an e-mail with a PayPal Invoice, that can then be paid via a CCD or Visa/MasterCard Debit. You do not need to have a PayPal Account to participate, you will just receive an e-mail invoice, after I answer the questions, and you will pay via that e-mail. It's that simple... What questions might one ask..." I am thinking about starting a supplement program and wanted to know a good basic program to get started with. My Doctor is working with me on 2 issues... Type II Diabetes and Arthritis. What would you recommend I start taking and what foods should I eat or avoid if any? " Or ... " I currently take these 5 products (list them and let me know how much you take per meal), as my supplemental program, but I just found out I have Bursitis, and was wondering what else I could take, that might support that issue? " Or ... " Here is a list of what I have eaten over the last 5 days, I am trying to lose more weight, (or correct a food allergy etc), what would you do different, if anything, to improve my results? " " I am taking 3 medications. Can you tell me what side effects these might create, and what nutrients these might kick out, so I can work with my doctor to perhaps make some changes, if necessary. ) You get the idea.
I am excited to be able, through technology, to be here for any and all questions anywhere e-mail goes, just remember - no more than 3 questions per e-mail, and make sure you understand that you should be working with a Medical Doctor as well, with any health issue and not just me. I look forward to work with anyone who feels this might be a valuable service.
Get started now...
Christopher Wiechert's Q&A-MAIL
Personalized Nutrional Evaluations...
We also do personal consultations with clients by phone consultation, along with e-mail, fax & web support, anywhere phones, faxes & e-mails go. Call 800-803-3323 and we will let you know if we can be of help for free, or e-mail us. A complete consultation includes a Comprehensive Computerized Nutritional Evaluation and Analysis by me and costs $125.00 including comprehensive online test.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Health news you should know...
A Bombshell Drops on Cholesterol Medication's Glass House...
It had to happen sooner or later. On October 3, 2006, after extensive review of all studies relating to cholesterol-lowering benefits by statin drugs, scientists reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine pulled the rug out from under the current government-sanctioned cholesterol levels for reducing cardiovascular disease risk. Their conclusion, "current clinical evidence does not demonstrate that titrating lipid therapy to achieve proposed low LDL cholesterol levels is beneficial or safe." This is not a trivial issue. Many billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on the cholesterol drug scam. The health and well being of millions of Americans may have been compromised by reckless lowering of cholesterol, a substance that is vital to health and energy production.
http://www.newstarget.com/021147.html
Consumption of sugar and sugar-sweetened foods and the risk of pancreatic cancer in a prospective study...
Emerging evidence indicates that hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia may be implicated in the development of pancreatic cancer. Frequent consumption of sugar and high-sugar foods may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by inducing frequent postprandial hyperglycemia, increasing insulin demand, and decreasing insulin sensitivity. The objective of the study was to examine prospectively the association of the consumption of added sugar (ie, sugar added to coffee, tea, cereals, etc) and of high-sugar foods with the risk of pancreatic cancer in a population-based cohort study of Swedish women and men.
Conclusion: High consumption of sugar and high-sugar foods may be associated with a greater risk of pancreatic cancer.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/5/1171
Natural Approach to Male Impotence & Sexual Dysfunction...
Learn natural approaches to dealing with this current epidemic.
http://www.cwiechert.com/Impotence.html
Cholesterol and Heart Disease--A Phony Issue...
Blood cholesterol levels between 200 and 240 mg/dl are normal. These levels have always been normal. In older women, serum cholesterol levels greatly above these numbers are also quite normal, and in fact they have been shown to be associated with longevity. Since 1984, however, in the United States and other parts of the western world, these normal numbers have been treated as if they were an indication of a disease in progress or a potential for disease in the future.
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/fats_phony.html
The Myths of Vegetarianism...
Along with the unjustified and unscientific saturated fat and cholesterol scares of the past several decades has come the notion that vegetarianism is a healthier dietary option for people. It seems as if every health expert and government health agency is urging people to eat fewer animal products and consume more vegetables, grains, fruits and legumes. Along with these exhortations have come assertions and studies supposedly proving that vegetarianism is healthier for people and that meat consumption is associated with sickness and death. Several authorities, however, have questioned these data, but their objections have been largely ignored.
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html
What's the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S.?
Not what you think I bet... Doctors & Hospitals
http://cwiechert.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-3rd-leading-cause-of-death-in-us.html
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
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It had to happen sooner or later. On October 3, 2006, after extensive review of all studies relating to cholesterol-lowering benefits by statin drugs, scientists reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine pulled the rug out from under the current government-sanctioned cholesterol levels for reducing cardiovascular disease risk. Their conclusion, "current clinical evidence does not demonstrate that titrating lipid therapy to achieve proposed low LDL cholesterol levels is beneficial or safe." This is not a trivial issue. Many billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on the cholesterol drug scam. The health and well being of millions of Americans may have been compromised by reckless lowering of cholesterol, a substance that is vital to health and energy production.
http://www.newstarget.com/021147.html
Consumption of sugar and sugar-sweetened foods and the risk of pancreatic cancer in a prospective study...
Emerging evidence indicates that hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia may be implicated in the development of pancreatic cancer. Frequent consumption of sugar and high-sugar foods may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by inducing frequent postprandial hyperglycemia, increasing insulin demand, and decreasing insulin sensitivity. The objective of the study was to examine prospectively the association of the consumption of added sugar (ie, sugar added to coffee, tea, cereals, etc) and of high-sugar foods with the risk of pancreatic cancer in a population-based cohort study of Swedish women and men.
Conclusion: High consumption of sugar and high-sugar foods may be associated with a greater risk of pancreatic cancer.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/5/1171
Natural Approach to Male Impotence & Sexual Dysfunction...
Learn natural approaches to dealing with this current epidemic.
http://www.cwiechert.com/Impotence.html
Cholesterol and Heart Disease--A Phony Issue...
Blood cholesterol levels between 200 and 240 mg/dl are normal. These levels have always been normal. In older women, serum cholesterol levels greatly above these numbers are also quite normal, and in fact they have been shown to be associated with longevity. Since 1984, however, in the United States and other parts of the western world, these normal numbers have been treated as if they were an indication of a disease in progress or a potential for disease in the future.
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/fats_phony.html
The Myths of Vegetarianism...
Along with the unjustified and unscientific saturated fat and cholesterol scares of the past several decades has come the notion that vegetarianism is a healthier dietary option for people. It seems as if every health expert and government health agency is urging people to eat fewer animal products and consume more vegetables, grains, fruits and legumes. Along with these exhortations have come assertions and studies supposedly proving that vegetarianism is healthier for people and that meat consumption is associated with sickness and death. Several authorities, however, have questioned these data, but their objections have been largely ignored.
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html
What's the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S.?
Not what you think I bet... Doctors & Hospitals
http://cwiechert.blogspot.com/2005/03/whats-3rd-leading-cause-of-death-in-us.html
Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.
Christopher Wiechert's Healthblogger is for educational or informational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose or provide treatment for any condition. If you have any concerns about your own health, you should always consult with a healthcare professional. If you decide to use this information on your own, it's your constitutional right, but I assume no responsibility.
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