Cancer Prevention

We do need to change the way we look at cancer and also every other disease that has an impact on people today.  For too long we have held hard to dogma with no hope of changing thinking patterns to ones that might really lead to something beneficial.

In this mode it is exciting to learn of a tremendous new book that is doing just this. 

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer written by Thomas Seyfried PhD, picking up where Otto Warburg left off.

The book is about, as stated by the publisher, "...addresses controversies related to the origins of cancer and provides solutions to cancer management and prevention. It expands upon Otto Warburg's well-known theory that all cancer is a disease of energy metabolism.  However, Warburg did not link his theory to the "hallmarks of cancer" and thus his theory was discredited.  This book aims to provide evidence, through case studies, that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease requring metabolic solutions for its management and prevention.  Support for this position is derived from critical assessment of current cancer theories.  Brain cancer case studies are presented as a proof of principle for metabolic solutions to disease management, but similarities are drawn to other types of cancer, including breast and colon, due to the same cellular mutations that they demonstrate."

This is in line with the work I have been doing for many years based on the work of Dr William D Kelley.  

From the Back Cover

A groundbreaking new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating cancer
Supported by evidence from more than 1,000 scientific and clinical studies, this groundbreaking book demonstrates that cancer is a metabolic disease and, more importantly, that it can be more effectively managed and prevented when it is recognized as such. Moreover, the book provides detailed evidence that the traditional view of cancer as a genetic disease has been largely responsible for the failure to develop effective therapies and preventive strategies.
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease reevaluates the origins of cancer based on the latest research findings as well as several decades of studies exploring the defects in tumor cell energy metabolism. Author Thomas Seyfried is a biochemical geneticist who has been investigating the lipid biochemistry of cancer for thirty years. In this book, he carefully establishes why approaching cancer as a metabolic disease leads to better understanding and management of all aspects of the disease, including inflammation, vascularization, cell death, drug resistance, and genomic instability. In addition, the book explores:

• Origin of metastasis
• New treatment strategies that target tumor cell energy metabolism, including the ketogenic diet
• More effective prevention strategies in light of the metabolic origin of cancer
• Case studies and perspectives from the point of view of physicians, patients, and caregivers

Throughout the book, tables, figures, and graphs summarize key information and clarify complex concepts. In addition, the renowned cancer biochemist Peter Pedersen from Johns Hopkins Medical School also provides a historical perspective on the importance of the information presented in his foreward to the book.
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease is essential reading for all cancer researchers and clinicians as well as public health professionals. By treating cancer as a metabolic disease, the book sets readers on a new, more promising path to understanding the origins of cancer and developing new, more effective strategies to treat and prevent it.

About the Author

THOMAS N. SEYFRIED, PhD, has taught and conducted research in the fields of neurogenetics, neurochemistry, and cancer for more than twenty-five years at Yale University and Boston College. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters and is on the editorial boards of Nutrition & Metabolism, Journal of Lipid Research, Neurochemical Research, and ASN Neuro.

While the book is expensive and large it must be considered a viable resource for people and practitioners alike. 

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Fluoridation - Unethical, Risky, Benefits Doubtful, Poor Most Harmed

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fluoridation is an "unacceptable risk," says Public Health Professor Niyi Awofeso in the Journal Public Health Ethics, August 2012. He writes, "There is insufficient ethical justification for artificial water fluoridation," reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). Awofeso, a University professor in Australia, who published over 70 peer-reviewed academic papers in respected journals, says:

1) No evidence supports the assertion that artificial water fluoridation reduces social disparities in cavity incidence

2) Fluoridation's effectiveness is questionable

3) Poor children are more apt to develop dental fluorosis (discolored teeth)

4) Two potential adverse effects of fluoride, hypothyroidism and bone fractures, have been reported in scholarly journals

5) Fluoridation chemicals (fluosilicic acid) are contaminated with lead, arsenic and mercury, major health hazards for which no safe levels exist.

Awofeso concludes: "It would appear that the effectiveness of artificial water fluoridation in the 21st century is at best questionable, given its fixed-dose medication approach, quality of fluoride used and its adverse impact on calcium metabolism and largely insignificant differences in dental caries experience between areas with artificial water fluoridation and those without."

Awofeso writes: "Rather than addressing the legitimate concerns of the public with regards to the ethics of fluoridation, pro-fluoridation activists dismiss anti-water fluoridation advocates as misinformed trouble makers intent on undermining public health." He speculates that pro-fluoridation advocacy groups won't concede 'victory' to opposing groups, who they deride as ignorant, to save face or that it's the "general inertia with policy disinvestment."

Despite assurances that artificial water fluoridation chemicals, hydrofluosilicic acid, act the same as naturally occurring calcium fluoride, Awofeso explains that calcium fluoride does not inhibit a tooth's calcium absorption but fluosilicic acid does "thus annulling the dental caries prevention effects of water fluoridated with fluosilicic acid." "The increasing prominence of anti-water fluoridation groups globally, greater appreciation of natural and artificial fluoride sources and likely dangers of excessive fluoride consumption among some population(s) necessitate(s) a thorough analysis of the merits of water fluoridation," he writes.

Attorney Paul Beeber, NYSCOF President says, "Fluoridation is a dismal failure and must be stopped. Any official or organization that blindly endorses and promotes fluoridation places children, especially, in harm's way."

Reference: "Ethics of Artificial Water Fluoridation in Australia" Contact: Paul Beeber, JD, NYSCOF President, 516-433-8882 nyscof@aol.com http://www.FluorideAction.Net

SOURCE New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. http://www.FluorideAction.Net PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1oPbG)

Selections from more than 30 articles about fluoride from Natural Health News

Natural Health News: Fluoride and Vaccine Failures

May 02, 2012

I am sure Mary also is blind to the damage caused by fluoride as it is forced on thousands of Washington State citizens without their permission in the form of toxic and heavy metal laden fertilizer waste provided by Cargill.

Dr Paul Connett World's Leading Expert on Fluoride Toxicity

Apr 05, 2011

For example, rodent studies show that fluoride exposure can cause free radical damage to DNA molecules and cells in areas of the brain that are essential for cognition, as well as structural brain changes and phospholipid ...

Natural Health News: Fluoride Risks Hit Supermarket Mag

Jul 08, 2011

Watch for fluoride is prescription drugs like antibiotics (fluorquinolones) and antidepressants (SSRI,SNRI) , as well as others. Many foods like soy and others sprayed with pesticides and herbicides contain fluoride too.

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Better Let Go of that Cell Phone

Opinion: Cell Phone Health Risk?

Security concerns during the Cold War may have led to the generation of misinformation on the physiological effects of microwave radiation from mobile phones.

Natural Health News has over 100 posts about cell phone and health, use our search window to read more...

By Allan H. Frey | September 25, 2012

Recently, Congress tasked its investigative arm, the General Accountability Office (GAO), to consider the health risks of mobile phones and to report back to Congress. While a previous report published in May 2010 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that there was no evidence of increased health risk resulting from exposure to the radiofrequency (microwave) energy emitted by cell phones, the World Health Organization reported the following year that cell phone radiation may be carcinogenic. Also in 2011, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse published a paper in JAMA reporting that 50 minutes of cell phone use by people altered glucose metabolism in the part of the brain closest to where the cell phone antennas were located. This summer, the GAO completed the task and sent a report to Congress stating that the risks were unclear and deserved greater scrutiny from the government.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  “should formally reassess and, if appropriate, change its current RF energy (microwave) exposure limit and mobile phone testing requirements related to likely usage configurations, particularly when phones are held against the body,” the GAO wrote.

The controversy over whether the technology poses a risk to human health is substantial. And while much of science could be considered controversial, what has, and is, happening in microwave research is not a routine scientific dispute. Concerns about the health risks of cell phones, confusion regarding the evidence for or against such risks, and even misinformation in the scientific literature may all be collateral damage of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States. This was a time when the use of microwave-generating equipment, such as radar, was seen by some as critical to the security of the United States, and efforts were taken to ensure that such innovations were not suppressed by findings that suggested such technology to be unsafe.

Hiding data

During the Cold War, a group at Brooks Air Force Base (AFB) was tasked with reassuring residents when the Air Force wanted to install radar (microwaves) in their neighborhood. To meet that responsibility, the Brooks group hired contractors to write Environmental Impact Statements to justify the placing of the radars—an obvious conflict of interest. Even worse, when a scientist did publish findings that might indicate a risk, Brooks selected contractors to do experiments that suggested the scientist’s research was invalid or not relevant to the safety of Air Force radar.

For example, after my colleagues and I published in 1975 that exposure to very weak microwave radiation opens the regulatory interface known as the blood brain barrier (bbb), a critical protection for the brain, the Brooks AFB group selected a contractor to supposedly replicate our experiment. For 2 years, this contractor presented data at scientific conferences stating that microwave radiation had no effect on the bbb. After much pressure from the scientific community, he finally revealed that he had not, in fact, replicated our work. We had injected dye into the femoral vein of lab rats after exposure to microwaves and observed the dye in the brain within 5 minutes. The Brooks contractor had stuck a needle into the animals’ bellies and sprayed the dye onto their intestines. Thus it is no surprise that when he looked at the brain 5 minutes later, he did not see any dye; the dye had yet to make it into the circulatory system.

Another Brooks AFB responsibility that further incentivized the spreading of misinformation was to lead a lab on a classified microwave-bio weapons program. Competition between this effort and the microwave-bio research programs undoubtedly going on in other nations at the time would explain the Brooks group’s attempts to block and discredit unclassified research in the microwave area and the subsequent publication of the results: it did not want advances in knowledge to appear in the scientific literature where the USSR could benefit from it. This is not unlike the recent uproar over whether bird flu results should be published—or even done at all—because of the fear that they may help terrorists develop biological weapons.

Stalling funding

In addition to actively suppressing results of microwave-bio research, the Brooks group also attempted to block funding for such research in the first place—and largely succeeded. For example, after we and others published the first papers in the mid- to late-’70s showing that very low intensity microwaves could open the bbb, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a report, written by a psychologist at a Kansas Veterans Administration hospital who was neither trained nor experienced in research on the bbb, that concluded “…if a real potential for catastrophic effects exists, it would be evident from the research already reported in the literature.” (An original draft of the report also noted that “DOD funding of research evaluating the effects of microwaves on the bbb should be of low priority,” though this statement was removed before the report was released to the public.)

Largely as a consequence of this report, funding for open microwave-bio research in the United States was essentially shut down. Several months after the report was released, I requested renewal of government funding, which in part supported research on the bbb. I received a letter stating that funding would not be granted unless I dropped the bbb part of the proposal. And in a September 1981 article in Microwave News, 2 years later, the editor wrote, “Surprisingly, no new [bbb] work was reported this year.”

Even now, the recent GAO report states, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “is the only federal agency we interviewed that is directly funding ongoing studies on health effects of RF energy (microwave radiation) from mobile phone use.” And the NIH funded only one relevant completed experiment, by an in-house researcher, during the time the GAO did its assessment. For many years now most of the published microwave research—what little that has been done—has been conducted in other countries. And as I noted in a recent paper, many, if not most, of those have been epidemiological studies looking for health problems associated with outdated technologies that are not relevant to the phones used today or that will be used in the future.

Thus, the shutdown of normal open microwave research in the U.S. and the misinformation placed in the literature appears to be collateral damage of the actions of people who saw themselves as fighting a war. And since the research was not allowed to proceed in the normal fashion, we don’t have the set of data needed to determine if there is a health hazard of mobile phone use—and, if so, how serious the hazard is.  This suppression of research has now made hundreds of millions of people subjects in a grand experiment that may involve their health, without their informed consent, and the outcome of which can have substantial medical, legal, and economic consequences.

Allan H. Frey (allan@freys.us) is a semi-retired scientist in Potomac, Maryland, who was Technical Director of Randomline, Inc., a consulting and research firm. Read about more unsavory actions that I and others have observed in my chapter of bioethicist Nicholas Steneck’sRisk Benefit Analysis: The Microwave Case.

SOURCE:  http://the-scientist.com/2012/09/25/opinion-cell-phone-health-risk/

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How to Reduce Cellulite

Cellulite is a problem that most women will experience at particular point in their life. Cellulite occurs when the skin is set above uneven body parts caused by fat deposit that lies beneath it. Usually, cellulite appears as bumpy defects that emerge at a particular body part, such as stomach, buttock, thighs, and hips. There are many cosmetic product manufacturers claiming that their products are able to totally remove cellulite while in fact, cellulite can actually never be removed. You may be able to significantly make your cellulite disappear, but you don’t actually remove it because it can still reemerge after a while. Therefore, when you want to treat your cellulite, you shouldn’t expect total disappearance of your cellulite. Read about cellulite comprehensively and find out what you can do to make your cellulite not very obvious. You can read comprehensive information about cellulite online. This article will only give a brief explanation about how to reduce your cellulte easily and safely.

As mentioned above, cellulite emerges when your body is heavily polluted, especially by excessive body fat. Therefore, the first thing that you should do to reduce your cellulite is by eating healthy food and limiting your consumption of high-fat foods and alcohol. In addition, drink at least eight glasses of water every day so that you can flush all toxins that pollute your body and water your body so that it can regulate more smoothly. You can also remove unwanted fat deposit that causes the emergence of your cellulite by doing regular physical exercises.

In addition to modifying your behavior, you should also undergo cosmetic treatment that helps you reduce your cellulite. You can consult your doctor or dermatologist to find out the best treatment that you can undergo to reduce your cellulite and to restore the smoothness of your skin.

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Why Using Bodybuilding Supplements Is Necessary

There are many reasons why you should use bodybuilding supplements to enhance your muscle building effort. By using bodybuilding supplements, you can prevent your body from suffering fatigue too soon when you are doing your workout. Several bodybuilding supplement products are used to provide you with additional energy. Therefore, you can continue to do your workout without having to worry about losing energy. Of course you can get more energy without using those supplements because foods that you eat have contained necessary amount of energy to fuel your body. However, you should remember that those foods not only contain beneficial substances, but also ones that are considered detrimental to your muscle building campaign. In fact, the amount of harmful substances that those foods contain is often much larger than the amount of beneficial substances that they contain. If you use bodybuilding supplements, you can get necessary amount of energy without having to let dangerous substances enter your body. In addition, the supplements that you take direct the energy straight to your muscles. Therefore, your muscle always has enough energy to grow and to develop.

Bodybuilding supplements are also advantageous because they can reduce your excessive body weight effectively. Because you are not allowing any unwanted substances, including fat, to enter your body when you use those supplements, you can prevent fat deposit in your body from erratically increasing. In addition, because those supplements prevent you from being fatigued, you can do physical exercises that burn your fat more intensively and conveniently.

All supplements necessary for your muscle building program are available for purchase from any bodybuilding stores on the internet. Just search for bodybuildingfactory build muscle by using internet search engine and you can get a convenient access to a store that sells all of those supplements with reasonable price.

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Coping with Your Child’s Drug Abuse

As a parent, we would all want to provide the best for our children. The best schools, peers, and other facilities we think would make our child’s future life more fulfilling and successful. This is why drug abuse is the one of the biggest fear a parent may have. We have heard or even seen teenagers fall prey to addictive substances due to peer pressure or curiosity. With today’s kids, drug use has become more and more prevalent among younger children. Drugs are a parent’s biggest nightmare as they know once your child has fallen under drug abuse; he or she could end up ruining his school work, talents, social life, health, or even life. Many teenagers die yearly because of drug overdose, and no parent ever wants to experience that. 

There may come a time when we would suspect that our children are consuming addictive drugs. Although there are many drugs being exchanged illicitly nowadays, each with differing effects, there are several indicators we can observe which may indicate whether or not our children are on addictive substances. One of the most noticeable changes is an abrupt change in mood or behavior without any seeming cause. He or she may suddenly shift from social to introverted, or become violent or easily irritated without any reasons or underlying problem. Most drug abusers also become easily fatigued.

Should you have any suspicions on whether your children are on drugs, it is best to talk heart to heart with him or her about it, sharing your concerns. If your fears are unconfirmed, a urine test will leave little room for speculation. Knowing whether your teenagers are indeed using drugs as soon as possible is important for fast recovery; the sooner a drug user is admitted into rehabilitation programs, the better of a chance he or she stands in recovering. Should the test comes out as positive, or your child confides to you on his or her drug use,  seek out the aid of drug recovery facilities near you, such as a California drug rehab program. It is important to stay positive during the whole ordeal; support from a loved one can greatly help with relieving someone of a drug addiction.

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At Home Teeth Whitening

Everyone wants a Bright shiny smile. But most of us don't have the money to pay a Boston implant dentist to get new teeth. So what can we do with our natural teeth to make them look better without having to shell out large amounts of cash. Here are a few things recommended by dentists to help your teeth get whiter and stay whiter.

Strawberries

Surprised to see strawberries here? So was I. But apparently they contain a good amount of malic acid which is found in a lot of tooth whitening toothpastes. To make this fruit do work for you, cut or mash it up and let it sit on your teeth for a full minute. Then you can eat the rest and rinse with water.

Lemon Juice

It is common knowledge that lemon juice can lighten hair but apparently it also works for teeth. To use this method, rinse with diluted half water half juice mixture. It is also important to note that you should only do this once or twice a week. The acid in the juice can damage teeth if they are overexposed.

Baking Soda

Tooth paste has had baking soda in it for as long as I can remember. Using baking soda has a double advantage, it works as an abrasive but it also helps neutralize acid and remove stains from tooth enamel. If your tooth paste doesn't have baking soda you can sprinkle it on top. You can also brush with just plain baking soda once or twice a month for added benefit.

Hydrogen Peroxide

Although you don't want to drink this stuff, it is perfectly fine to use it as a mouthwash. Not only does the peroxide help whiten your teeth but it also kills bacteria and freshens your breath. All you need to do is mix a tablespoon of water and a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide and rinse for a full minute. Let it sit for another minute and then rinse.

Whitening Strips

You can find these strips in any drugstore or supermarket around the country. There are numerous brands that each have a product. Each one is a little different as far as what you can do with it, how you have to keep it on your teeth, and how well it whitens. The only way to really determine which product works best for you is to try one.

Trays

Of all these methods, whitening trays are the most effective. They provide quick and lasting results. There are generic versions that you can buy in the store but your best option is to find some Boston dentists and get yourself a custom fitted kit. With a trained professional involved you won't have to worry about overdoing it and damaging your teeth. They will be able to tell you exactly what you need to do to get the results that you want.

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